You must not have heard, I'm in a committed relationship with BabyCantYouSee. He treats me right and he knows my value, unlike you. No shade, just my opinion.
Sinister better recognize asap before I turn up and that is not a good sight.
Freakum Dress vs SOS Baby Boy vs Watch N Learn
Deja Vu vs Don't Stop The Music
Check On It vs Pon De Replay
Run The World (Girls) vs Hard Partition vs What's My Name Drunk In Love vs Numb
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Dangerously in Love vs Good Girl Gone Bad B'Day vs Rated R (both are kind of bad though)
I Am... Sasha Fierce vs LOUD 4 vs Talk That Talk BEYONCE vs Unapologetic
Hm, you know what's interesting -- they always say the "music use to be so much better" thing, so I actually put that to the test, just comparing 2 years currently. Metacritic scores for the top 20 selling albums in 2005 and 2015 that had metacritic scores (just a few from each year didn't). Since Metacritic is an overall gauge of what the professional critics are all saying, combined.
2005:
50 Cent - The Massacre: 66
Eminem - Encore: 64
Green Day - American Idiot: 79
Mariah Carey - The Emancipation of Mimi: 64
Gwen Stefani - Love. Angel. Music. Baby.: 71
Destiny's Child - Destiny Fulfilled: 52
U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb: 79
Usher - Confessions: 71
Coldplay - X&Y: 72
The Game - The Documentary: 72
The Killers - Hot Fuss: 66
The Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business: 48
Kanye West - Late Registration: 85
Ludacris - The Red Light District: 70
Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying: 61
Snoop Dogg - R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): 63
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams: 58
System of a Down - Mezmerize: 85
Nelly - Suit: 62
Dave Matthews Band - Stand Up: 63 Score: 67.55
2015:
Taylor Swift - 1989: 76
Beyonce - BEYONCE: 85
One Direction - Midnight Memories: 59
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2: 72
Lorde - Pure Heroine: 79
Luke Bryan - Crash My Party: 56
Katy Perry - PRISM: 61
Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour: 62
Imagine Dragons - Night Visions: 53
Eric Church - The Outsiders: 82
Coldplay - Ghost Stories: 61
Kelly Clarkson - Wrapped In Red: 73
Barbra Streisand - Parters: 55
Ed Sheeran - x: 67
One Republic - Native: 65
Miley Cyrus - Bangerz: 61
Drake - Nothing was the Same: 79
Pharrell Williams - G I R L: 67
5 Seconds of Summer - 5 Seconds of Summer: 65
Jason Aldean - Old Boots, New Dirt: 54 Score: 66.6
Apparently, mainstream music is just about the same quality as of 10 years ago -- according to the critics themselves.
I'll expand on more years (hopefully 2000-2015 each year, but 2000/2001 seem to have no metacritic scores available for most of the top sellers) and make a thread out of it.
Hm, you know what's interesting -- they always say the "music use to be so much better" thing, so I actually put that to the test, just comparing 2 years currently. Metacritic scores for the top 20 selling albums in 2005 and 2015 that had metacritic scores (just a few from each year didn't). Since Metacritic is an overall gauge of what the professional critics are all saying, combined.
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2005:
50 Cent - The Massacre: 66
Eminem - Encore: 64
Green Day - American Idiot: 79
Mariah Carey - The Emancipation of Mimi: 64
Gwen Stefani - Love. Angel. Music. Baby.: 71
Destiny's Child - Destiny Fulfilled: 52
U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb: 79
Usher - Confessions: 71
Coldplay - X&Y: 72
The Game - The Documentary: 72
The Killers - Hot Fuss: 66
The Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business: 48
Kanye West - Late Registration: 85
Ludacris - The Red Light District: 70
Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying: 61
Snoop Dogg - R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): 63
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams: 58
System of a Down - Mezmerize: 85
Nelly - Suit: 62
Dave Matthews Band - Stand Up: 63 Score: 67.55
2015:
Taylor Swift - 1989: 76
Beyonce - BEYONCE: 85
One Direction - Midnight Memories: 59
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2: 72
Lorde - Pure Heroine: 79
Luke Bryan - Crash My Party: 56
Katy Perry - PRISM: 61
Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour: 62
Imagine Dragons - Night Visions: 53
Eric Church - The Outsiders: 82
Coldplay - Ghost Stories: 61
Kelly Clarkson - Wrapped In Red: 73
Barbra Streisand - Parters: 55
Ed Sheeran - x: 67
One Republic - Native: 65
Miley Cyrus - Bangerz: 61
Drake - Nothing was the Same: 79
Pharrell Williams - G I R L: 67
5 Seconds of Summer - 5 Seconds of Summer: 65
Jason Aldean - Old Boots, New Dirt: 54 Score: 66.6
Apparently, mainstream music is just about the same quality as of 10 years ago -- according to the critics themselves.
I'll expand on more years (hopefully 2000-2015 each year, but 2000/2001 seem to have no metacritic scores available for most of the top sellers) and make a thread out of it.
I don't think it means quality hasn't declined. I think it means that critics rate music relative to the standards of the time.
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