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Discussion: ATRL's very own Metacritic - Blackout
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Member Since: 12/26/2011
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92/100
Top 3 tracks: Roman Holiday, Whip It & Marilyn Monroe
I think this album is great all around, it's an album full of at least Top 40 hits. The lyricism is the only thing that is really disappointing mainly since we know what she's capable of. The album has songs you can listen to in any mood, sad, mad, happy etc. I love it 
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Member Since: 4/18/2012
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Score: 62/100
Top 3: Roman Holiday, Whip It, Come On A Cone
Review: With her sophomore album, Nicki serves fist-pounding beats and hard rap verses on a single disc. Divided into two halves, the first half Rap/ R&B and the second made into a colorful Pop confection, Nicki truly tried to deliver to her fans in every aspect. However, the album as a whole feels disjointed with the two seperate genres forced to be with each other. At first listen, her Pop songs sound similiar to each other, while Whip It recycles a verse from **** U Silly. But, Nicki is able to truly shine with her hip/ hop tracks, mixing in Mixtapenika for her older fans. Overall, while the album feels like it was thrown together with no plan, and the genre hopping can be confusing, each track is able to deliver in its own way.
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Member Since: 12/1/2011
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do i need to message my score?
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Member Since: 10/28/2011
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Originally posted by jose168
PMSL OK HERE WE GO
PF:RR - 30/100
Where do i even start, this album is nickis attempt to appease both her urban (whats left of it) crowd and her new found pop fan base. Unfortunatelly the urban half of the album seems half assed while the pop half is just every single predictable pop formula from the past 2 years regurgitated over and over in an attempt to get a hit. Not cohesive at all, the album passes for humor at best.
Top tracks - Roman reloaded, beez in the trap, whip it
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Originally posted by Glam
At first sight I thought this was gonna be 0.7/100  but I guess that makes it 7/100.
Mine: 55/100
Best tracks: Roman Holiday, Roman Reloaded, Marilyn Monroe.
Roman Reloaded is off to a great start with the masterpiece that is "Roman Holiday" and the hype seems to be worthy when tracks like "Beez in the trap" and even "Champion" with the good sis Chris Brown kick in. Worth noting at this point that none of these are her best rap material but it is still infinitely better than what's down the road. The trinity from hell Pound The Alarm, Whip it and Automatic make you pound your head against a table while these J-lo rejects succeed at nothing but induce you migraine. There are some quality tracks after that like Marilyn Monroe and Stupid Hoe. Screw that Va Va Voom and Starships mess. |
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Originally posted by jose168
do i need to message my score?
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Yes!
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Member Since: 3/22/2012
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This is gonna go by fast so can we do Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection next?
I hope people wont attack her, I mean, some songs on there are actually really nice...please listen to it before you rate if we do it (cause I know a lot of ATRL'S don't even listen to the album before judging, then again I only listened to 15 songs off PF:RR  )
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Member Since: 3/27/2012
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Originally posted by jose168
do i need to message my score?
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yes please!
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Member Since: 2/17/2012
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wait even if you posted here you have to message your score? Or is that just for 4 and Electra Heart now?
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Member Since: 1/2/2012
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Score: 78/100
Stand-out Tracks: Right By My Side, Champion, Marilyn Monroe
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Nicki Minaj's sophomore album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, which is preceded by 2010's Pink Friday, is a combination of many, entirely different genres. The first nine tracks on the album are predominantly defined by hip-hop/rap with a few pop ("Roman Holiday") and R&B ("Right By My Side") influences. There are also many guest features in the first half of, that range from the usual features like Lil Wayne and Drake, to newcomers such as 2 Chainz. While the lyrics aren't stellar compared to previous songs, she does succeed at creating solid rap songs that satisfy her urban audience. The album makes an unexpected turn beginning with track 10.
Tracks 10 to 14 are virtually indistinguishable, all radio-friendly, electro-pop songs. However, track 15, "Marilyn Monroe" is a mid-tempo pop ballad that definitely shines through in the midst of the all of the electro-pop songs preceding it. The next two songs, "Young Forever" and "Fire Burns" are both up-tempo pop songs. "Gun Shot" is an up-tempo hip-hop song, while "Stupid Hoe" is a bouncy, nonsensical diss track. The deluxe edition of the album contains three extra songs. The first is "Turn Me On", a dance collaboration with David Guetta, with Nicki heavily-autotuned and primarily in singing mode. Also included are "Va Va Voom" and "Masquerade", both hip-pop songs.
Overall, the album combines hip-hop, rap, pop, dance, R&B, and house to make an album is distinctively Nicki. However, the album lacks effective transitions between its rap and pop halves, rendering the album in a seemingly inconsistent, "messy" state. In addition, the dance-pop tracks "Starships", "Pound the Alarm", "Whip It", and "Automatic" lack any innovation or originality, while the lyrics and some of the production is disappointing.
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Member Since: 3/27/2012
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If you post it on here thats fine, it's just nice to give you guys a little surprise with the score so it's unexpected!
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Member Since: 2/20/2012
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How long will the reviews for Nicki be open?
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Oh wait, you know what we should do, Kelly Clarkson's 'Breakaway'! It, for some annoying reason, doesn't have a Metacritic score. So it'd be nice to give it one
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Member Since: 3/27/2012
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Originally posted by chilicheese01
How long will the reviews for Nicki be open?
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I'll let it go for 20-25 seeing as how its been open for 5 mins and theres already 10 reviews, so you best be getting yours in quick sis!
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Member Since: 10/30/2011
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Originally posted by Giacobbe
If you post it on here thats fine, it's just nice to give you guys a little surprise with the score so it's unexpected!
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I'll pm you next time then
Worth noting that I like Nicki and I tried to give her some praise
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Originally posted by chilicheese01
How long will the reviews for Nicki be open?
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DO IT! people are trying to drag her -_-
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Member Since: 10/30/2011
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Originally posted by BLaCKPoWeR
ReDone
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Member Since: 6/1/2011
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75/100
The album needed more hiphop tracks, a female rapper should not have more pop songs, than hiphop songs. Let alone having 4 lackluster, and 3 lackluster hiphop songs. Production could have been better, so could have been the lyricism. BUT....some of the pop songs, are better than most pop songs being put out by these pop stars.
The fact that her out of my mind verse, slays mostly every song, lyrically on the album..is disappointing.
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Member Since: 3/9/2011
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Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded - 19/100
Top Tracks - None
This album is Ms Minaj's failure unfortunately. The production is below average, and her vocals are on par to Britney Spears FF. On top of that all the songs are awfully generic and uninteresting. She's better off going back to rap.
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Member Since: 3/27/2012
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Originally posted by Bandrew
DO IT! people are trying to drag her -_-
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The reviews haven't honestly been awful, its closer to the meteacritic score than I would have thought, its not just stans that review you know
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Member Since: 3/22/2012
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Originally posted by B94
Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded - 1/100
Top Tracks - None
This album is Ms Minaj's failure unfortunately. The production is below average, and her vocals are on par to Britney Spears FF. On top of that all the songs are awfully generic and uninteresting. She's better off going back to rap.
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Originally posted by Giacobbe
The reviews haven't honestly been awful, its closer to the meteacritic score than I would have thought, its not just stans that review you know
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....Close to a 60?
It needs to be 45, someone drag her
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