[D/X]

Originally posted by DG1

METACRITIC SCORES:
Consequence of Sound - Positive - 90/100
BBC Music (UK) - Positive - 80/100
HOT Press - Positive - 80/100
Sputnik Music - Positive - 80/100
Entertainment Weekly - Positive - 75/100
Slant Magazine - Positive - 70/100
CokeMachine Glow - Positive - 70/100
NY Magazine - Positive - ?
Guardian (UK) - Mixed - 60/100
NOW Magazine (Canada) - Mixed - 60/100
The Telegraph (UK) - Mixed - 60/100
New Musical Express (NME) (UK) - Mixed - 40/100
The Independent (UK) - Mixed - 40/100

Consequence = 90/100

Mixed but never negative.
Still I don't care for their rates, they are good for receipts.

All I know is that 4 is one of the best albums ever released.

[satellites.™]

To be fair, Adele has some 60s too from American Reviewers and UK.

[satellites.™]

Oh yeah and that 90 put us at a 67 or 68 score, if we keep getting positive reviews we might see a 70 soon.

[skyler]

Originally posted by Mean Trees

The UK reviews did nothing but review her image, how much money she made and one even went as far to bring up the Gaddafi mess smh. Who knew the UK was that petty. :-/

they mean :-/

[Kisuke]

Rolling Stone gave '4' 3.5 stars

[Shame♥]

Originally posted by Kisuke

Rolling Stone gave '4' 3.5 stars

How predictable.

[Kisuke]

[Tinker]

but they gave I Am the same grade. This album is so much better than I Am

[satellites.™]

[Shame♥]

Originally posted by satellites™

[DG1]

METACRITIC SCORES:
Consequence of Sound - Positive - 90/100
BBC Music (UK) - Positive - 80/100
HOT Press - Positive - 80/100
Sputnik Music - Positive - 80/100
Entertainment Weekly - Positive - 75/100
Rolling Stone - Positive - 70/100
Slant Magazine - Positive - 70/100
CokeMachine Glow - Positive - 70/100
NY Magazine - Positive - ?
Guardian (UK) - Mixed - 60/100
NOW Magazine (Canada) - Mixed - 60/100
The Telegraph (UK) - Mixed - 60/100
New Musical Express (NME) (UK) - Mixed - 40/100
The Independent (UK) - Mixed - 40/100

[satellites.™]

Rolling Stone is so backwards its not even funny.

DIL: 2½ stars
B'Day: 3½ stars
IASF: 4 stars

[satellites.™]

Originally posted by DG1

METACRITIC SCORES:
Consequence of Sound - Positive - 90/100
BBC Music (UK) - Positive - 80/100
HOT Press - Positive - 80/100
Sputnik Music - Positive - 80/100
Entertainment Weekly - Positive - 75/100
Rolling Stone - Positive - 70/100
Slant Magazine - Positive - 70/100
CokeMachine Glow - Positive - 70/100
NY Magazine - Positive - ?
Guardian (UK) - Mixed - 60/100
NOW Magazine (Canada) - Mixed - 60/100
The Telegraph (UK) - Mixed - 60/100
New Musical Express (NME) (UK) - Mixed - 40/100
The Independent (UK) - Mixed - 40/100

If she gets a 90 anything, anywhere else it will be the first time in her career she's had two on one album.

[DG1]

Originally posted by satellites™

Rolling Stone is so backwards its not even funny.

DIL: 2½ stars
B'Day: 3½ stars
IASF: 4 stars

IASF got 3½ stars as well... That's all they give her

[Deuces]

Originally posted by satellites™

Wow. Some critics are really feeling this album

[BnPac]

Originally posted by Brooke-lynn

IRISH TIMES -


When Beyoncé Knowles killed off her alter-ego Sasha Fierce last year it probably didn’t carry the same import as David Bowie doing for Ziggy Stardust in 1973, but in both instances the motivating factors were the same: a signal that fresh musical ground needed to be turned. 4 , then, is a bold musical statement, even if you can’t escape the feeling that her label took control of the second half of the album to try and rein in the giddy adventurousness of the first half for the sake of radio play.

Vocally Beyoncé is on her very best form on the single-in-waiting, Start Over , but for all its sense of not conforming to expectations, there is a pall of self-consciousness hanging over some of the tracks here. Lock her in a room with Rick Rubin for the next one, I say. See beyonceonline.com

Download tracks: I Care , Start Over , Countdown
RATING: 4/5

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...299491372.html

I guess this one doesn't count.

[Drais.]

A score of 72 this early is good.

[satellites.™]

Originally posted by DG1

IASF got 3½ stars as well... That's all they give her

I just went to Rolling Stone and saw 4 stars. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/beyonce

[Drais.]

Did they really give Sasha 4 stars & 4 3 1/2? Chhhhhhhhhhhh

[Callisto.]

Originally posted by satellites™

I just went to Rolling Stone and saw 4 stars. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/beyonce

That must be another case of them changing their scores after the Grammys.