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Celeb News: '4' Review Thread (74 on Metacritic)
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Really...Rolling Stone...are you serious? 
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Originally posted by Kisuke
Rolling Stone gave '4' 3.5 stars
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Hmmmmm they wrong for that . ...what the **** is wrong with those critics? 
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Originally posted by iBeyoncé.
That must be another case of them changing their scores after the Grammys. |
Yep!
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C'mon guys, it could be worse!
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Originally posted by BeamMeUp
C'mon guys, it could be worse!
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Yeah considering Michael Jacksons last album Invincible got 1 star from them. 
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Originally posted by iBeyoncé.
Yeah considering Michael Jacksons last album Invincible got 1 star from them. |
& the reviews in general are mostly positive.
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I think Soulja Boy got a 1.5 from Rolling Stone, but that was to be expected.
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Na uh, I didn't just read that, Rwollign F'ing stones did not Just give my King a 3.5, Who de **** do they think they is. They betta get ready for the heat.
These people finna try turn me into Laurieann Gibson
Disrespectful ****s
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Wow 1 star for Invicible  , now I understand what people were saying by it had awful reviews and was heavily criticized. Thank God when it was released my dad bought it to us and we appreciated it as the great album it is unaware of all the negativity surrounding it. I remember we put it for every occasions, we always found a reason to play it all loud ,everybody had his fave tracks (mine were Speechless and Lost Children). Oh Sweet memories. 
But yeah 3.5 is not that bad, even though it could have been better.
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the review that will count on metacritic is posted on the website so maybe 4 will get a higher rating...
The Independent Score added to metacritic... Average now 70
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE - Beyoncé "4" Album Review
By Greg Kot
Tribune critic
11:50 a.m. CDT, June 24, 2011
2.5 stars (out of 4)
Beyonce has paid lip service and more in recent years to broadening her musical range. She’s hung out at indie-rock concerts, and this month she headlined the rock-heavy Glastonbury festival in England. In discussing the run-up to her fourth studio album, “4” (Columbia), she dropped hints about mixing genres like a “mad scientist.”
It’s a dilemma that faces every successful pop artist: When you sell as many records as Beyonce has (11 million albums, 25 million singles), does it box you into repeating formulas to keep the franchise rolling? Or do you gain the license to experiment?
Beyonce at least tried to pry open Door No. 2 on “4.” Instead of radio catnip like “Crazy in Love" and "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” she’s made an album heavy on ballads and midtempo tracks. As a singer, Beyonce has never sounded more persuasive or vulnerable. Maybe channeling Etta James in the 2008 movie “Cadillac Records” is starting to rub off, but she makes something out of almost nothing on the opening “1 + 1,” as she rasps, swoops and demands before giving way to an elegiac guitar solo.
Beyonce’s been recording professionally for half her life, though she won’t turn 30 until September, and “4” has the feel of an artist looking back and assessing what matters. Love, she concludes, is “all we’ll have when the world is through.”
On “I Care,” she delivers indignation and beauty in equal measure, nearly spitting out her disgust before scatting alongside a guitar. “Best Thing I Never Had” turns near-disaster into a gospel-inflected kiss-off. In between, “I Miss You” arrives as a low-key breather, easily overlooked with its forlorn keyboard and beat-box chintziness.
The latter is emblematic of the album’s inexplicable inconsistency. She reportedly considered 70-plus songs and hired a variety of collaborators, ranging from Babyface to M.I.A. producer Switch, and yet the album feels skimpy, half-finished. Even a song called “Party” really doesn’t sound like one with its tepid tempo and uninspired cameos from Kanye West and OutKast’s Andre 3000. “Rather Die Young” is little more than a chorus on repeat and “I Was Here” is another toxic string of cliches from songwriter-to-the-stars Diane Warren (“I lived, I’ve loved … I did, I’ve done”).
Beyonce finally puts a bounce in her step with the goofy “Love on Top” and
“Countdown,” and “End of Time” mixes boisterous marching drums, staccato horns and dipping, diving vocals. It’s an all-too-brief glimpse of the “mad scientist” at work. Maybe next time she’ll get in the lab with some better songs.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/...s-topicgallery
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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 - ?
Chicago Tribune - Positive - 63/100
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
POSITIVE - 10, MIXED - 5
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wtf? 
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At least it's 2.5 out of 4 and not 5
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I swear, reading some of the UK's reviews you'd think that there's something innately wrong with singing slow songs, and that commercial appeal is a viable criterion for a "good" album. Either that, or they don't want anyone singing slow songs besides their own Adele. 
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Originally posted by Ðeucés
Really...Rolling Stone...are you serious? |
Some people have said that particular review is the "Album Guide" review...the actual online one that counts for metacritic is yet to be posted.
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Originally posted by DG1
CHICAGO TRIBUNE - Beyoncé "4" Album Review
By Greg Kot
Tribune critic
11:50 a.m. CDT, June 24, 2011
2.5 stars (out of 4)
Beyonce has paid lip service and more in recent years to broadening her musical range. She’s hung out at indie-rock concerts, and this month she headlined the rock-heavy Glastonbury festival in England. In discussing the run-up to her fourth studio album, “4” (Columbia), she dropped hints about mixing genres like a “mad scientist.”
It’s a dilemma that faces every successful pop artist: When you sell as many records as Beyonce has (11 million albums, 25 million singles), does it box you into repeating formulas to keep the franchise rolling? Or do you gain the license to experiment?
Beyonce at least tried to pry open Door No. 2 on “4.” Instead of radio catnip like “Crazy in Love" and "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” she’s made an album heavy on ballads and midtempo tracks. As a singer, Beyonce has never sounded more persuasive or vulnerable. Maybe channeling Etta James in the 2008 movie “Cadillac Records” is starting to rub off, but she makes something out of almost nothing on the opening “1 + 1,” as she rasps, swoops and demands before giving way to an elegiac guitar solo.
Beyonce’s been recording professionally for half her life, though she won’t turn 30 until September, and “4” has the feel of an artist looking back and assessing what matters. Love, she concludes, is “all we’ll have when the world is through.”
On “I Care,” she delivers indignation and beauty in equal measure, nearly spitting out her disgust before scatting alongside a guitar. “Best Thing I Never Had” turns near-disaster into a gospel-inflected kiss-off. In between, “I Miss You” arrives as a low-key breather, easily overlooked with its forlorn keyboard and beat-box chintziness.
The latter is emblematic of the album’s inexplicable inconsistency. She reportedly considered 70-plus songs and hired a variety of collaborators, ranging from Babyface to M.I.A. producer Switch, and yet the album feels skimpy, half-finished. Even a song called “Party” really doesn’t sound like one with its tepid tempo and uninspired cameos from Kanye West and OutKast’s Andre 3000. “Rather Die Young” is little more than a chorus on repeat and “I Was Here” is another toxic string of cliches from songwriter-to-the-stars Diane Warren (“I lived, I’ve loved … I did, I’ve done”).
Beyonce finally puts a bounce in her step with the goofy “Love on Top” and
“Countdown,” and “End of Time” mixes boisterous marching drums, staccato horns and dipping, diving vocals. It’s an all-too-brief glimpse of the “mad scientist” at work. Maybe next time she’ll get in the lab with some better songs.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/...s-topicgallery
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Let me go leave my words with this bitch.
Edit: I just noticed it's out of 4 stars. I give them a pass.
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Originally posted by DG1
At least it's 2.5 out of 4 and not 5
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Maybe next time she’ll get in the lab with some better songs.
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WTF are they trying to say.?
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