[Almighty Gaga]

Ugh why don't they add Chicago Tribune and Boston Globe. It'd be 70+ by now.

Let's mass e-mail them again

[LadyGagaStan93]

Originally posted by Meowster

Well.. to put it in perspective, Barbra Streisand, probably the biggest music and film legend in the western world's latest album has a metascore of only 55. This seems pretty good to me in comparison.

True! I wonder why Barbra's is so low though. Is she having much of the same issues where all of the positive reviews are not being taken into account on Metacritic?

[Eeveelution]

Wow, Acclaim to Acclaim alright.

[LadyGagaStan93]

By looking at some other pop metacritic pages there are tons of other sites that still can put up a review for the album but whether they do or not is the issue.

[tittieslap]

Shouldn't Allmusic be reviewing this?

[Skywalker]

Originally posted by LadyGagaStan93

True! I wonder why Barbra's is so low though. Is she having much of the same issues where all of the positive reviews are not being taken into account on Metacritic?

They only gave her nine or ten reviews so probably not much more will be added for C2C.

[Rusty]

It's rising, relax guys they'll count reviews for a couple of weeks, right?

[Almighty Gaga]

What's NY Daily News?

But yas, a 80, and up to 67

[HausOfA-M]

Originally posted by Mecano

Great to read someone with actual facts and with 0 anger. Most of the real Bey fans have this as her worst album, but the fact of having If I Were a Boy, Single Ladies and Halo was enough for the GRAMMYs.

Her wins were 'cause she was the it girl during those days, and the GRAMMYs (contrary to what some people believe) factors IMPACT and acclaim, not only acclaim, most of the time.

My comment was just 'cause it's annoying to see that monsters haven't learned nothing and with just a little spark of hope (the irrelevant reviews that don't count for MC), tend to start being super arrogant again.

Being realistic, it's almost sure that this album will be nominated in some small categories for the next grammys, and it will have more to do with Tony than GaGa.

That's fair.

I cringed everytime I saw people expecting a 90 Metascore from this

[Skywalker]

ddd but why won't they add the Chicago Tribune's rave? They must be having issues coming up with the score.

[Kayhan]

Still a 65 for me



EDIT: Just appeared

[HausOfA-M]

If they add NY Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Boston Globe it is an easy 70+ (even factoring the 60 from All Music).

[pablozedd]

67 here.
It could climb at least to 70s.

[Skywalker]

I don't think we'll be handed any more curve balls. I think we're in the clear, the worst is over, BB and RS got their anger out of the way. Now we can focus on reputable upcoming reviews.

[HausOfA-M]

Anyway, the fact no professional critic rated it less than 60/100 shows how much of a joke that Slant review was (if we needed any confirmation).

[Bang Up]

Originally posted by Eeveelution

Wow, Acclaim to Acclaim alright.

Positive:

80 - New York Daily News
80 - The Guardian
Positive - Chicago Tribune
Positive - Boston Globe
100 - Cultnoise
91 - News Day
90 - Renowned For Sound
90 - Cleveland
80 - Pop Sun
80 - Daily Mail
80 - The Times
80 - Female First
80 - Digital Spy
75 - USA Today
Positive - India Ever Day
Positive - MTV
Positive - Wall Street Journal
Positive - Classica Lite
Positive - Dispatch

Mixed:

60 -Billboard
60 - Rolling Stone
60 - All Music
Mixed - San Francisco Chronicle

Negative:

40 - Slant
40 - London Evening Standard

Originally posted by Meowster

ddd but why won't they add the Chicago Tribune's rave? They must be having issues coming up with the score.

Could it be they're waiting for the reviewers to e-mail them back? Them adding the NY Daily News reviews makes me think they're in the process to add the others.

[pablozedd]

Originally posted by Bang Up

Positive:



Mixed:



Negative:



Acclaim 2 Acclaim is real.

Are these all elegible??

[bluth]

I doesn't so matter much about the publications that don't count for metacritic. They're still publications that people read and as long as they stay predominantly positive they should help interest

[Bang Up]

Originally posted by pablozedd

Are these all elegible??

It doesn't matter if they count for MC, acclaim is acclaim. C2C is receiving mostly acclaim from critics all around the world.

[Moonchild]

Originally posted by tittieslap

Shouldn't Allmusic be reviewing this?

They did. It was 3/5, so just hope Metacritic forgets to add it.

Originally posted by Rusty

It's rising, relax guys they'll count reviews for a couple of weeks, right?

Genre(s): Pop/Rock

Wtf? What kind of Best Rock Video teas?

I'm still placing my prediction in the 64-67 range. I sincerely hope it hits the 70's, but I'm going to err on the side of caution for now and keep my prediction as it is.