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Celeb News: Unapologetic: 61/100 @ Metacritic based on 24 Critics
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Originally posted by RihRihGirrrl
where do you see 88? I see 3.5 out of 5 and Idk if this is their official review cause they didn't even review the album lol
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Originally posted by Fruity
Yeh they haven't reviewed it yet
The 3.5 means nothing, it's just from users of the website
Wondering where his 88 came from too..
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http://www.abload.de/img/01vq68.png
So 3.5 stars = 88.
But yeah I was wrong they really haven't reviewed the album yet.
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Member Since: 9/17/2011
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On my phone so I can't post the link but The A.V Club gave the album a C+ which is a 75....The BostonGlobe also has a favorable review up but it doesn't have a score so idk if it's official
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Doing amazing 
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Originally posted by RihRihGirrrl
On my phone so I can't post the link but The A.V Club gave the album a C+ which is a 75....The BostonGlobe also has a favorable review up but it doesn't have a score so idk if it's official
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C+ is 58 
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Down to 70 with the Chicago Tribune review
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Originally posted by rihannafan
C+ is 58 |
Lol not me using the US grading system
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Member Since: 9/17/2011
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Originally posted by Fruity
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Do publications like The LA Times and the Boston Globe usually put ratings/scores up cause they both have a review up without a score
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Member Since: 4/13/2011
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Originally posted by RihRihGirrrl
Do publications like The LA Times and the Boston Globe usually put ratings/scores up cause they both have a review up without a score
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Metacritic decides the score based on the tone and overall conclusions of the review
It's quite debatable obviously... that LA Times review is almost negative
So these are still to add:
Boston Globe: Favourable
Chicago Tribune: 63
AV Club: 58
LA Times: Very mixed
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Originally posted by Fruity
Metacritic decides the score based on the tone and overall conclusions of the review
It's quite debatable obviously... that LA Times review is almost negative
So these are still to add:
Boston Globe: Favourable
Chicago Tribune: 63
AV Club: 58
LA TIme: Very mixed
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Ok that makes sense
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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Anyway, anything more than 60 would be more than i expected
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- In celebrity annals, few things are more attention-grabbing – or degrading – than working out an abusive relationship in public.
- On Rihanna’s seventh studio album, “Unapologetic” (Def Jam), the singer one-ups the exploitation industry by dueting with her former boyfriend and abuser, Chris Brown, to declare that their tempestuous romance is “Nobody’s Business.” Initial reaction: This dysfunctional couple has turned the track into a sick marketing ploy. You can even dance to it! The production casts the song in strings, piano and a four-on-the-floor kick drum, a canny merger of Chicago stepping music and golden-age house.
- But there’s no escaping that Brown battered Rihanna in an ugly lover’s spat in 2009. He pleaded guilty to felony assault and received probation. Both artists resumed their careers under a microscope, their every word parsed for hints about their relationship.
- Neither performer went away, even for a brief time. Brown maintained a largely business-as-usual distance on albums that continued to sell, and Rihanna churned out annual, even more commercially successful albums and tours. The 2009 “Rated R” album found her by turns defiant, haunted and vulnerable, as personal an album as she has ever made. Subsequent releases found her burrowing deeper into effervescent dance pop, with songs that promised ecstasy on the dancefloor or in the bedroom as escape from the world outside.
- With “Unapologetic,” Rihanna turns contemplative again, enlisting an army of production gurus, song massagers and hitmakers, from dance maven David Guetta to ace R&B songwriter The Dream. As an artist who has sold more than 25 million albums, Rihanna now makes music by corporate committee. She receives not a single writing or production credit on the new album. And yet nearly every song feels like it’s telling her story, painting a larger picture than just the haphazard collection of singles that was “Loud” (2010) and “Talk That Talk” (2011).
- Rihanna hasn’t entirely abandoned hooky, uptempo pop anthems. “Unapologetic” continues her embrace of cutting-edge, Skrillex-era dance rhythms, the squelching synthesizers and wobbly bass lines of dubstep. “Phresh off the Runway,” “Jump” and “Pour it Up” celebrate live-for-the-moment hedonism. But in the context of an album dominated by ballads and at least superficially introspective lyrics, they feel like respites, a chance to get “Numb,” as one song title declares.
- The latter features a disappointing rap cameo from Eminem, who obsesses about his duet partner’s anatomy. Maybe it’s intended as comic relief, because much of “Unapologetic” is a tough listen, ostensibly a pop album from one of the biggest pop stars of our time that’s dark and emotionally complex. Despite what Rihanna claims on “Nobody’s Business,” many of the songs portray a narrator who is troubled, anxiety-ridden, lost. It’s likely no coincidence that “Unapologetic” next slides into what is the album’s emotional centerpiece, “Love Without Tragedy/Mother Mary.” Over a vast, open space of vaporous keyboards and distant factory clang, the narrator sings about a turning point in her life: “Who knew the course of this one drive/Injured us fatally/You took the best years of my life/I took the best years of your life.”
- Talk about a mixed message. Even Rihanna sounds confused. Glancing references to that “one drive” and that night ripple through the album, like an echo that will never fade. The characters in these songs linger in a limbo of mixed emotions, emotionally attracted to a lover and yet uneasy about the next step. In the stripped-bare piano ballad “Stay,” Rihanna sings, “Funny, you’re the broken one/But I’m the only one who needed saving.”
- Fans of celebrity subtext could wallow for months in the hints and allusions. Those who abhor exploitive marketing may be drawn to the songs like a bad car crash. How much of this is Rihanna and how much of it is just a soap-opera steroid, a way to pump up sales? That the question even has to be asked is disturbing.
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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 That review is a bore. Reviewers these days 
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Rollingstone review is out.
They gave her 3,5/5 Stars
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Chris Brown only shows up once on Rihanna's seventh LP, during the defiant "Nobody's Business." But the abusive ex she took back is like a co-writer throughout, sort of the way Germany was a co-writer on World War II: "I was flying till you knocked me to the floor," she sings on "No Love Allowed." Unapologetic's stark, shadowy R&B is confrontationally honest and sung within an inch of its life, whether she's turning a strip-club anthem into a declaration of independence ("Pour It Out") or pleading at the piano ("Stay"). When she sings, "I'm prepared to die in the moment," on "Love Without Tragedy/Mother Mary," a clichéd line pulses with real terror and impossible resolve.
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What a short ass review
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/al...getic-20121120
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Originally posted by truthless
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Yasss a 70. That's good.
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Musicomh gave her a 1 star out of 4... They also reviewed Talk That Talk last year and gave her a 4 star lmao. It's counted to Metacritic it seems...
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The title of Rihanna’s seventh album in seven years, Unapologetic, may be a nod to her self-consciously ‘dangerous’ persona but it is inevitably going to be taken as referring to its heavily-trailed centrepiece duet with Chris Brown. The song, Nobody’s Business, finds Rihanna declaring "You’ll always be mine, sing it to the world" while Brown coos "let’s make out in this Lexus", while both sing that their relationship is "nobody’s business". To fully appreciate just how foolish this is, we have to look at what has led up to it.
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As a record it is not only misguided, it’s dangerous. We should not shy away from that.
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http://www.musicomh.com/albums/rihanna-4_1112.htm
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It is counted. That's a red one. 
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I think it will be between 50-66
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Words can't describe how idiotic this is....God, it's just a SONG 
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