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Celeb News: PRISM Reviews: 61/100
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It'll be up twice on metacritic. One may be called Independent on Sunday. They always do this.
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wow
the score is holding up better than I anticipated
and we still have Billboard to look forward to 
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Most of the reviews thinking U was for Russel and Spiritual about spirituality 
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Jahn threatened to vandalize TinyMixTapes on Twitter and the critic who will be reviewing PRISM for the site responded to him by saying that he adores Katy and also PRISM 
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I wonder how much they will give Prism? They hate pop girls. 
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There aren't many excellent reviews, but we are hear to change that.
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"This Moment" is easily the best song Katy Perry has ever done. It's an anthem song like "Roar," only more risky with better lyrics. The upcoming single "Unconditionally" is both soothing and heartbreaking. Perry gives a four-star vocal performance here and it will easily be her next number one single.
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Those who just saw the movie "Gravity" will like Perry's relaxing space sounds, which are especially evident on "Legindary Lovers," "Ghost," and "Double Rainbow." Some of the songs are definitely the type that are great to listen to after the party when listening to "Walking on Air," one of the best EDM songs released this year.
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In a year with disappointing music from pop's former female stars Lady Gaga and Britney Spears, it's refreshing to see Katy Perry not try so desperate to be relevant. Even when she's not at her best, Katy Perry is very sincere -- this is a quality definitely missing from pop music these days.
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The examiner is an amateur mess, does it count towards metacritic? 
Edit: http://www.examiner.com/music-in-tulsa/angela-cheng
An actual mess
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The Observer (Guardian on Sunday)
http://www.theguardian.com/music/201...y-prism-review 60
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It's hard to make Lady Gaga look like an underdog. But that's the uncommon position in which California songstress Katy Perry – nee Hudson, briefly Brand – finds herself. Back in August the two singers' new singles – Roar by Perry, Applause by Gaga – came out the same day. The clash was unscheduled, forced by leaks, but the victory was unambiguous. In that first week, Roar (an anthem of female empowerment throughout which Perry's breakup from Russell Brand throbs like a bassline) trounced Applause (a club-facing meditation on the fan-fame helix) by a factor of more than two to one. Perry's last album, 2010's Teenage Dream, sent five singles to the US No 1 spot, the first for a female artist in 53 years. Gaga's Born This Way didn't; but then her first album, The Fame, basically rebooted the entire music industry back in 2008/9.
Now it's third album time and both singers are re-arming in block capitals. There may be a cordon sanitaire of three weeks between Prism, Perry's album, and Artpop, Gaga's, due out on 11 November, but battle is joined once more. Having only heard a handful of Gaga's new tracks live it would be wrong to start second-guessing Artpop here. But you suspect that Perry's Prism – a record so female it should be subtitled "You go, girl" – might soak up autumn-to-Christmas sales better than a concept album about pop itself.
Musically, Prism remains the work of alpha male hit-makers Dr Luke and Max Martin, whose credits are literally too numerous to list. Lyrically, though, it's replete with the California new age lingua franca of self-help, mantras, third eyes, astrology and yogic navel-examining, all wrapped up in the woman-wronged aura of a girl dumped by text message. Divorce can do terrible things to people, even pop stars. By the Grace of God – a kind of vulnerable yin to Roar's righteous yang – is the album's closing confessional. It starts off with just piano, vocals and a line about Perry's Saturn returning. Ghastly mid-tempo beats find her on her bathroom floor, contemplating suicide. From the title on in the track is ridden with cliche, but one line sings out, casting Perry as Everywoman, blaming herself when cads go wrong: "We were living on a fault line/ And I felt the fault was all mine." You can't quite hear the stampede for gin and chocolates, but this is where the readers of women's mags hop on board, empathising furiously.
Many of these more, ahem, contemplative songs may be thin on Perry's former playfulness and long on the stuff of Eckhart Tolle, but a kind of girly simpatico sustains them and transfers easily to the stronger tracks, where Perry's back in the game.
Leaving aside Unconditionally, the ungainly, adverbial power ballad in which Perry's fondness for musician John Mayer might be writ large, these are a hoot. Walking On Air is a hilarious 90s-house throwback ("You're giving me sweet, sweet ecstasy," Perry sings). Birthday is another metaphor-happy period piece (70s funk, via 80s pop) in which coitus is confused with birthday cake. Legendary Lovers, meanwhile, has something of Bollywood in the production; a pounding anthem that flattens the jungle around it like a herd of elephants.
This Is How We Do may be a half-rapped, faux-urban west coast pose, but it's a sequel of sorts to both California Gurls, and Last Friday Night (TGIF), Perry's previous party-hearty mega-hits. Eyes dried, shades back on, Perry is hanging with her homegirls. They're on the prowl for tacos and "hotties", "sucking really bad at Mariah Carey-oke". They understand her, and they're washing that man right out of her hair.
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That second review by the Independent is a damn mess. I know that phrase is overused on this site, but this is the first time I've ever actually said it. The part about "Love Me" and Russell Brand couldn't make it more obvious that the reviewer's opinion was influenced by her personal life. S*** like that should never matter since the review is supposed to be about MUSIC. I've been a fan of Katy for a long time so obviously I'm familiar with the Russell thing, but I wasn't thinking of him when I was listening to that song. It was one of Katy's only songs that has ever made me cry since it was so touching, with the "I'm going to love myself the way I want you to love me" lyric. I was thinking about my own life and how much the music applied to me and had a great message.
Not going to lie, I've lost a bit of respect for them. I can't see them as credible when they let things like that influence their opinion about an album.
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Yikes.
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there's still Billboard who's most likely gonna give her a favorable review and ny times?
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so just because a site praised the musician that you're so pressed about and dragged your fave, they're an amateur mess? MESS!
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there's still Billboard who's most likely gonna give her a favorable review and ny times?
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That quote is from her Billboard cover story
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Instead of the dark opus Perry had imagined, "PRISM" reveals the singer/songwriter at her most empowered: This is today's pop queen doing what she does best-uplifting anthems with sticky-sweet choruses and an unexpected emotional kick.
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the independent one doesn't count i think 
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the independent one doesn't count i think |
the other guardian review doesnt count either. they already gave her a 60. they posted two reviews
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metacritics? idgaf.
my own taste is infallible.
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