Selena Gomez's Revival is a 74, higher than any of Mariah Carey, Katy Perry, Britney, Michael Jackson, most of Beyonce's (just except ha magnum opus, ST), Adele's 19 album (21 has 76).....
Examples: Katy and Taylor make the exact same music, both bad singers, both songwriters and Taylor gets the praise.
Another one: Rihanna and Beyonce make the exact same kind of music, none of them is a songwriter or has another contribution rather than recording the tracks, yet the critics praise Beyonce a lot more
The higher ones are usually some indie albums and reviewed the least so if they got some publication reviewing their album, most likely those reviewers are already following their genre or other artists already and are probably biased somewhat in their grading systems. And given their fewer number of reviews the critic consensus is goingt to be bound by luck that they don't have reviewers who are not attracted to their kind of sound and rview it unfavorably.
Most commercial artists are going to get lower scores because most publications are gonna cover it which will pribably lead to a variety of opinions.
Selena Gomez's Revival is a 74, higher than any of Mariah Carey, Katy Perry, Britney, Michael Jackson, most of Beyonce's (just except ha magnum opus, ST), Adele's 19 album (21 has 76).....
Sis, metacritic only counts post-2000 album scores. Mariah and Michael's best albums were released last century.
Honestly I have never heard an album that got an 80+ score that didn't in some way or another deserved its score even when I personally didn't like the album.
When you don't like an album you can still appreciate it from an objective point of view for its experimentation,lyricism or personality.
The fact that people think music quality is "completely subjective" is complete ********. You can LIKE certain type of music more than other but quality is no that subjective.
There are certain factors critics take into consideration, lyrics, cohesiveness, etc.
Panned albums are generally all over the place, with bad lyrics, 0 substance or message to get across. Just because you "bop to them" or you like them doesn't mean they are quality music. Sorry.
Examples: Katy and Taylor make the exact same music, both bad singers, both songwriters and Taylor gets the praise..
In what world is Katy's music like Taylor's? Taylor was making country music her entire career and critics always praised her because of her good writing skills and that's why they praised 1989 as well.
Metacritic just counts the reviews. Blame the critics, not metacritic.
Or blame your faves for not making a quality work. I agree with metacritic like 80% of the time, but i don't use reviews to judge if one album is good or not. That's my taste.