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Discussion: ATRL's very own Metacritic - Blackout
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Originally posted by Konichiwa
So are we PM'ing the reviews or posting them here?
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I'd prefer you PM it to me, but if you'd like you could just PM me the score and post your review on here
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UPDATE: Another review for 4 came in and bumped it down to 84 (-1)
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You see this is why we can't give people DAYS to review albums. The thread will go down the forum charts and flop.  We need to move on to TTT much sooner than Noon tomorrow.
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I need to review TTT now 
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Member Since: 2/23/2012
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I've sent in mine
here's the review 
80/100
Favourite Songs:
The Edge Of Glory: Gaga has clearly taken Bruce Springsteen as inspiration (as well as in the wonderful ‘Hair’) in one of the top 10 best songs of 2011. Her song writing does her proud and the saxophone part was great. It was relieving to hear this on the radio at a time when ‘Party Rock Anthem’ was ruling the air waves.
Heavy Metal Lover: The title is sort of an insult to heavy metal but that doesn’t stop this track being a fan favourite. I love the psychedelic feel to it and it is so different to anything I’ve heard before to it.
Bloody Mary: As with Heavy Metal Lover, I love the how creative these songs are and they are quite soothing to listen to among some of the harsher songs such as ‘Government Hooker’ and ‘Judas’.
‘Album of the decade’ it is not, but unlike it’s predecessors, Lady Gaga’s second studio album oozes creativity and imagination, especially in songs such as ‘Schisse’, ‘Heavy Metal Lover’ and ‘Bloody Mary’, these 3 experimental songs show the other pop girls how it’s done and are stand out tracks for me. Her message is clear with the opening two tracks ‘Marry The Night’ and ‘Born This Way’, both songs have a great and uplifting feel to them that they are good album openers .’Americano’, ’Highway Unicorn’ and ‘Judas’ show a more rugged style to her songs, which give a different and unique sound to her album but can be quite annoying at times. Another point is that we can feel Gaga’s enthusiasm, as she puts a lot of effort into singing her heart out, but I feel it may be too much when she is shouting on some of the tracks. Even though ‘Born This Way’ does not behold any massive hits on the magnitude of ‘Poker Face’ and ‘Bad Romance’, she still manages to convert all of her energy, passion and controversy into 61 minutes of pure up-tempo fun.
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On my iPhone so I will PM my review of the songs later. Btw 78/100 top 4 songs in order Bloody Mary Goverment Hooker, Born This Way, and Edge of Glory
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Born This Way
Top three songs:
Judas, Scheiße, The Edge Of Glory
Born This Way is Lady Gagas 2nd LP. It was supposed to be the "album of the decade" but it's not. Well atleast we got the "anthem of our generation", the first single 'Born This Way' (8/10).
Most controversial song on it is 'Judas' but it's a really great song (8.5/10). You don't understand much of 'Scheiße' but it's a funny song and makes you want to dance your butt off. (7.5/10). Then there is the third single of 'Born This Way', The Edge Of Glory. It's one of the slower songs on the album but it's an awesome track if you forget about the video. (9/10).
Overall: 73/100
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I'll start collecting reviews then, I have most of them, should I post the ones that were pm'd to me or no?
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Member Since: 3/27/2012
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Okay I'll update the score for BTW now, reviews will still be accepted even though the scores been announced!
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Originally posted by Giacobbe
I'll start collecting reviews then, I have most of them, should I post the ones that were pm'd to me or no?
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Expose them.
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Final Score
The final score for Lady Gaga's "Born This Way"
The final reviews are Genre: Electronic rock, synthpop, house, techno
Score: 70/100
Reviews: Coming off of The Fame Monster, Lady Gaga had truly one of the most hyped and talked about albums of 2011. That may have been it's biggest downfall. The album is a mix of disco stompers and un-brash electronic concoctions, but ventures into different musical territories on tracks like "Government Hooker" and "Highway Unicorn". Maybe Gaga became too full of herself, or maybe we just set the bar too high, either way it is clear that that majority of fans and ATRLers reactions weren't very positive, but did commend Gaga on doing something none of the pop girls are doing right now. Only time will tell if it remains a staple in Gaga's career.
Top tracks: Edge of Glory, Heavy Metal Lover, Bloody Mary
Universal Acclaim (81-100)
Generally Favorable Reviews (61 - 80)
Mixed or Average Reviews (40 - 60)
Generally Unfavorable Reviews (20 - 39)
Overwhelming Dislike (0 - 19)
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For Talk that Talk, I'll post it here then PM it to you, is that good?
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You should post "based on X amount of reviews it got.... "
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Talk that Talk - 3.8/10
Best tracks - Roc Me Out, We Found Love, Where Have You Been
Rihanna's sixth album (in an almost record time this day in age) seems a bit rushed. It's really no surprise that the album was made in around three weeks. That's not to say inspiration can't come quick, but unfortunately that's not the case with this album. The album's strongest points are the two Euro-Pop tracks, Where Have You Been and We Found Love, which use repetition to prove an emotional point. The other good track, Roc Me Out is actually just a lesser version of Rude Boy - Rihanna's best song. The rest of the album carries out a sort of urban dancepop cliche extravaganza, never quite interesting but never quite terrible (except for the two acoustic guitar driven songs, Farewell and We All Want Love). This album is basically a product of wanting to stay relevant, and while We Found Love definitely gave that to Rihanna, it almost seems as if she's letting her fans down by focusing on quantity over quality.
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Meh, I'll do TTT in a little while. 
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RIHANNA - Talk That Talk
This album is like every album of Rihanna on his structure, it contains pop songs, urban songs, carribean songs, rock-ish influences, euro dance, and Dub influences that she's started to use since Rated R.
So like most of the album of Rihanna, it don't really contain a theme, having a cohesive sound or using deep lyrics. The thing, that I don't really like in that album, it's rushed and we can feel it, by an unfinished Birthday Cake, a tracklist done like a shuffle mode on iTunes.
She gave us, with that album, big anthems, with We Found Love and Where Have You Been, cool Urban songs like Talk That Talk and Cockiness (the ***** Popping Anthem), and make us reminiscent of her early days with Watch n Learn (Music Of The Sun type song), Roc Me Out & Red Lipstick (Rated R).
To conclude it's not really her best album, but she's still improving her game, maybe with some time, she can bring us something really fresh, new and her best album.
SCORE: 69/100
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Where Have You Been, We Found Love, You Da One
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Talk That Talk
70/100
Favourite songs: We Found Love, Watch N Learn, Talk That Talk
Right on the heels of ‘Loud’ (Literally, We Found Love was released while Cheers was still in the top 10) comes Talk That Talk, an album with few highs with the repetitive but infectious ‘We Found Love’ and the catchy ‘Watch n Learn’. I also love ‘Talk That Talk’, the rest is quite good but not great-just a load of catchy hooks with not much else to them (I still like them though). There is some creativity in the form of ‘Birthday cake’ but songs like ‘Where have you been‘and ‘Farewell’ are a bit boring in places. While saying all of this, I still like album and the only song I skip is ‘Cockiness’, but more time and effort spent on this album wouldn’t have hurt Rihanna, but could have been really beneficial to this album.
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40/100
1. Where Have You Been
2. Drunk On Love
3. We Found Love
rihanna's sixth studio album arrives as planned. you'll never be surprised with new Rihanna music because it arrives around Black Friday every year. maybe she should take a break and work on the quality of the music. 'Talk That Talk' is a huge disappointment compared to her previous two studio albums. "Where Have You Been" is the song that saves the album. it's a party anthem that will have everybody dancing. "Drunk On Love" is a beautiful ballad about being in love. "We Found Love" needs no explanation. the rest of the album is extremely lackluster. one of the songs isn't even finished. can you say rushed album? Rihanna's music continues going down the drain. i'm afraid for her next album. she needs to pick it up or she might fall into a stage of irrelevancy.
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