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Celeb News: PITCHFORK ignores "Born This Way"
Member Since: 11/6/2009
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Originally posted by longjohn9898
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Originally posted by longjohn9898
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Thanks! I also added reviews from Us Weekly (4/4) and All Media NY (Positive)
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![Alexz](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ec20fb7f.gif) These reviews.
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Member Since: 8/10/2010
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It has a ****ing 77 because of the stupid 40 Sputnik score.
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Metacritic assigned BBC reviews a 90.
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Originally posted by Monster
It has a ****ing 77 because of the stupid 40 Sputnik score.
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It should go up because they didn't include The Telegraph which was a 100 and The Guardian which was 80
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Member Since: 6/1/2010
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It's going to fluctuate between now and next week. This album will probably get 20+ reviews. So, it will either go down or up when more reviews come in.
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nj.com (positive)
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/musi...ay_review.html
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Yet the final contrast with "Femme Fatale" is the most important one. Whatever vocal acrobatics Britney Spears had at her disposal on "Oops... I Did it Again" and "Toxic" have been left behind in the locker room. Gaga, by contrast, hits the mats with a triple backflip, and the floor exercise doesn't end until the music stops. She remains the best and most flexible singer on the pop charts, and she's a generous one, belting through "Born This Way" (the album, not the single) like a kid at an audition convinced that she's positively going to die if she doesn't get the part.
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The mean of all metacritic score so far: 78.3
It will go up.
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Originally posted by Haus of Wilke$
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Which makes "Born This Way" an interesting contrast to the other major pop release of 2011: Britney Spears' "Femme Fatale." On that sleek, automated set -- as impersonal as a business handshake and about as emotional -- the star barely shows up. She's a brand name attached to high-tech, super-modern, forward-looking productions, feeding her vox into a giant processor and drifting off to narcotic slumber. Almost everything about "Born This Way" looks back to the '80s, and there's nothing sleek about it: it keeps popping out at you like a whack-a-mole, or a jack-in-the-box with a busted lid. Spears' album is infinitely replayable, but leaves the listener with fleeting impressions; once heard, "Born This Way" is not likely to be forgotten. Only an intrepid pop warrior or a hopelessly smitten Little Monster is likely to sit through this experience many times.
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
It's going to fluctuate between now and next week. This album will probably get 20+ reviews. So, it will either go down or up when more reviews come in.
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Kanye had close to 45 critics for MBDF so I'd expect at least 40.
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Im hoping she at least matches TFM's Score ![Duca](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRL_Smilies_All/atrlers/duca_zps480ab501.gif)
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Which ones of the ones listed in the original post are being counted for metacritic?
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I hope she finally snatches that Universal Acclaim wig on metacritic. A 90 from RS would really help.
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Originally posted by KanYe!
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If she gets like an 8.3+ from PitchFork I will be stunned.
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Originally posted by The Independent (UK)
Album: Lady Gaga, Born This Way
(Rated 3/ 5 )
Reviewed by Andy Gill
Friday, 20 May 2011
First things first: that cover is simply awful, its adolescent heavy-metal imagery – "ride me, wild one!" – effectively destroying in a single stroke Lady Gaga's methodically built reputation as a serious style icon with an intelligent grasp on her own visual presentation.
What was she thinking? And given that she employs an entire backroom team of visual stylists, the Haus of Gaga, to furnish the rapid turnover of her public images, were they all on vacation when the decision was taken?
Or is it just part of some cunning plan to broaden her appeal even further, co-opting yet another subculture that has so far proven resistant to her ever-changing charms? In interviews, she comes across as clearly obsessed with her own ubiquity: she takes genuine pride in being top Twitteree, in having 30 million Facebook friends and a billion YouTube views, in being the highest-grossing this, the most popular that. So even though she's sold 22 million albums and 69 million singles with the techno-pop of The Fame and The Fame Monster, it's entirely plausible that she should hunger insatiably for more, more, more recognition, in whatever style comes along.
She's already recorded a country version of "Born This Way", for instance. And certainly, while large parts of this album follow the tried and trusted pumping mega-crunch strutting techno-disco manner we're used to, there are some clear incursions into more mainstream "rock" areas: Clarence Clemons, for instance, is drafted in to bring that big E Street Band bombast to the climactic "The Edge of Glory", while both "Bad Kids" and "Electric Chapel" feature standard chugging metal guitar riffs and flashy guitar breaks. And her best vocal delivery is reserved for "Yoü and I" [sic], where the power-chords and "We Will Rock You" clap-beat groove add up to her straightest rock performance. Elsewhere, "Americano" has a sort of all-purpose Latin/Gallic offbeat, "Scheiße" is sung partly in German, and "Bloody Mary" features monkish vocoder-chanting that recalls Romanian techno-classicist Enigma. Mark my words, by this time next year she'll be singing in Mandarin and Urdu, with ethnic instrumentation to match.
"Bloody Mary" (about Mary Magdalene) is one of several religious-themed indulgences of her Messianic tendency, along with "Judas", but the album's main theme is, again, the fascination with identity that can be traced back via Michael Jackson, Madonna and Grace Jones to David Bowie. The anthemic "Hair" is her equivalent of David Crosby "letting my freak flag fly", tonsure as a statement of rebellious individuality; and of course, there's the title-track itself, a call-to-arms for adolescent outsiders fixated upon appearance. The irony being, of course, that she is probably the most assiduous, serial self-alterer in pop history – the last thing that Lady Gaga wants, one suspects, is to remain exactly the way she was born. But the more often she changes, and the broader she spreads her net musically, the less distinctive her art becomes.
DOWNLOAD THIS Born This Way; The Edge of Glory; Hair; Americano
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...r-2286399.html
This is included in metacritic. I don't particularly care for this review, I feel like it's lacking actual critique.
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http://www.metacritic.com/music/born...critic-reviews
I don't understand, they updated and added the mixed Independent review, but they won't add The Guardian or The Telegraph which came out first (being at 80 and 100 respectively and both being recognized by Metacritic)
Hopefully they're just slow in updating lol
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Originally posted by KanYe!
http://www.metacritic.com/music/born...critic-reviews
I don't understand, they updated and added the mixed Independent review, but they won't add The Guardian or The Telegraph which came out first (being at 80 and 100 respectively and both being recognized by Metacritic)
Hopefully they're just slow in updating lol
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They didn't add MTV's really positive article either. (I'm not sure if that goes up also though)
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