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Celeb News: Warrior Reviews | 74/100 | 16 critics
Member Since: 8/4/2012
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Complete & Utter DEATH @ anyone who says that Warrior sounds like Animal and or Cannibal.
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Originally posted by Vin
Ke$ha Christ delivers the best pop album of the year, and critics agree.
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WE NOT IN THE SAME THREAD SIS!!
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Member Since: 6/18/2012
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She deserves a high score, Warrior is perfection minus Wonderland 
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Member Since: 9/13/2011
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The metacritic score was shaping up to be in the 70s until The Guardian with all their pretentiousness came long.
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Member Since: 8/22/2011
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Member Since: 4/24/2011
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Originally posted by Thaye
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I think Digitalspy and drownedinsound do.
Lemme check.
EDIT: drownedinsound only. It's weird since I think Digital Spy is big.
Also, Drowned in Sound gave her double the score they gave for Animal 
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Consequence of Sound
Country Weekly
Delusions of Adequacy
DJ Booth
Drowned In Sound
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Entertainment Weekly
Exclaim
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Member Since: 8/22/2011
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Well, I guess we should be glad the Examiner isn't in this list. That pressed woman's review was rather distasteful and absurd.
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Member Since: 12/12/2008
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damn uk critics will drag this to hell
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Member Since: 4/24/2011
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Anyone else kinda anxious for Slant? I feel they might either pan her or praise her 
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Member Since: 4/24/2011
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Member Since: 3/27/2012
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She still has a good shot at a good 70-78 score IMO
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Member Since: 7/22/2010
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I agree with The Guardian. Dirty Love is actually genius but most of the rest of it leaves me cold.
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Member Since: 7/9/2010
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The Guardian remains pressed. This album is 80%+ material.
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Member Since: 12/3/2011
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She has a metacritic page now: http://www.metacritic.com/music/warrior/keha
They're missing the reviews by BBC Music, RS, and DrownedInSound.  I guess the RS one isn't actually published yet. For the sake of accuracy, I'll take the RS review out of the original post and make it align with MC.
New reviews that will count for Metacritic eventually:
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3/5
It’s always tricky when top-40 pop stars incorporate “what they really listen to” into their music. For glitter queen Ke$ha, this means not only adopting a hard-drinkin’, hard-screwin’ classic rock attitude, as she did on her debut, but also lifting her no-guitars ban, with help from the Black Keys’ Patrick Carney, the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne and the Strokes’ Julian Casablancas and Fabrizio Moretti.
Wisely, Ke$ha’s producers ditch the grab-bag approach in favour of coherency. Bluesy rock flourishes are sparingly deployed among the glistening synths to avoid alienating pop purists and fans of her goofy phrasing. See hooky lead single Die Young and the perfectly ridiculous piss-up C’mon. So although the new direction isn’t revolutionary, it’s natural enough and distracts from some of the filler.
Only Wanna Dance With You is not only one of Ke$ha’s best but contains the most memorable Strokes riff in ages. Coyne-produced bonus track Past Life is a complete departure into outer space, while Iggy Pop duet Dirty Love is a watered-down dance-rock retread of his Peaches collaboration, Kick It.
Top track: C’mon Kevin Ritchie
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Ke$ha's trademark trashiness is disturbingly infectious.
Back in 2009, when she released her debut single TiK ToK, Ke$ha presented herself as wilfully trashy. Here was a pop singer who'd inserted a dollar sign into her stage name and sang about brushing her teeth with a bottle of whiskey.
However, her debut album Animal turned out to be against-the-odds enjoyable. It matched hooks with humour, and made the most of pop's new obsession with heavily Auto-Tuned vocals. Ke$ha may have been silly, but she wasn't stupid.
Even so, it's perhaps surprising that she's showing signs of artistic growth. Like her debut, Warrior is a collection of shamelessly commercial electro-pop, but on several songs, Ke$ha works in her love of 1970s rock. Lead single Die Young begins with the sound of an acoustic guitar, while Thinking of You mixes punky riffs with her usual synths. She even drafts in Iggy Pop for a ridiculous duet called Dirty Love.
It's one of several welcome surprises on the album. Love Into the Light is a smoky 1980s-style slowie with drum sounds perfect for the Cadbury's gorilla. Only Wanna Dance With You sounds like Ke$ha covering a Strokes single, and even features two members of the New York indie band – for a supposedly low-rent pop singer, Ke$ha has a lot of trendy mates. Meanwhile, Wonderland is a country-tinged ballad which proves she can sing without Auto-Tune.
Perhaps inevitably, several tracks feature the dreaded dubstep breakdown, surely 2012's most overused trend. And more troublingly, one or two songs sound very similar to recent hits by Katy Perry, with whom Ke$ha shares a producer (Dr Luke). But taken as a whole, this is another surprisingly enjoyable album from a pop singer who has managed to broaden her approach without losing her USP.
In fact, Ke$ha's trademark trashiness is still disturbingly infectious. It's hard not to smile when she sings about getting it on with a ghost, or rhymes "sabre-toothed tiger" with "warm Budweiser". However, even Iggy Pop has no answer to Ke$ha's strangest come-on from their flirty duet: "Champagne tastes like p*** to me."
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Drowned in Sound:
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8/10
There are nuclear bombs with more subtlety than Ke$ha. High goddess of bombast, queen bee of the obnoxious, debut album Animal was greeted with equal amounts love and disgust from music fans of all genres. Is she manufactured, or all her own creation? Deadly serious with her unbrushed hair, facepaint and failure to 'sing pretty', or playing a gigantic joke on us all? Becoming such a polarising figure was undoubtedly a huge achievement for Ke$ha, an artist utterly determined to get up the noses of absolutely everyone who might have beef with a young woman talking about drinking, partying and sexing it up. In public. The horror.
This refusal to apologise for behaving like a human being is written all over Warrior's 'Love Into The Light'. With its "I'm sorry but I am just not sorry, 'cause I swear and 'cause I drink", it's as close as Ke$ha is ever likely to get to 'We Are The World', kicking off with what sounds like the drum beat from 'Another Day In Paradise' before blowing up into a stormy anthem. Yes, Ke$ha has produced a song accurately described as 'anthemic', helped along by Pop God Greg Kurstin; and frankly, it's stunning. Unexpectedly, Warrior's slower, party-comedown, vocally-driven moments – yes, there are large swathes of this album not featuring That Sort Of Gnarly Rap Thing - are frequently its highlights. There’s a deep structural knowledge of pop on display, without which this album, rammed with sonic mash, would disappear into a black hole of insanity.
Naturally, this being a party album on a mission, the uptempo numbers are still pounding attention grabbers. ‘Thinking Of You’ informs a crappy ex-boyfriend that "I'm over it so suck my dick"; it’s Ke$ha’s version of ‘Single Ladies’, with hard guitars, drunken 'this is what you're missing' phone calls, and what sounds like Discovery-era Daft Punk riffs in an utterly mental middle eight. And ‘Supernatural’, an end-of-night dirty poppers-out tune, talks about, er, raising the dead through the process of getting rodgered but good. I do not think you would find this kind of séance on Most Haunted.
There's much to be said for Ke$ha's willingness to experiment with everything, up to and including hitherto unexplored corners of the kitchen sink. There's Animal’s scuzzy synthpop, classic rock, EDM and, on occasion, dubstep. In ‘Crazy Kids’ we get all the above with bonus cut-and-paste points, completely changing between genres like a light switch.
'Dirty Love', a firm attempt at channelling a classic rock stomper, sees Ke$ha in full on rock chick mode. That said, listening to her singing "I just want your dirty love" to Iggy Pop is to lean on the very edges of squicksville. More immediately winning is 'Only Wanna Dance With You', featuring The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas and Fabrizio Moretti, possessing a guitar line that would have little problem fitting in on Is This It.
There are times when it all goes overboard, certainly. Sometimes there’s too much overindulgence, a random hook too obviously crammed in for the sake of being contrary. But it's difficult not to admire the sheer ambition in throwing together clashing instruments, pop hooks, often whole genres in something Dalí would probably dismiss as 'too outré'. Pushing the boundaries in this way is exactly what pop music, in all its genre-thieving, structure-hijacking glory, should be doing. Producers Dr. Luke and Max Martin, noted pop legends both, deserve credit for creating something probably unrepeatable, that nonetheless everyone will be scrambling to rehash. While Ke$ha is vomiting her entire record collection over the mixing desk, they stand toe to toe with her, coordinating the lunacy while never once giving the impression of reigning in the songstrel.
There will be many who absolutely hate Warrior, with its insistence on turning the volume up to 12 and wallowing in baser joys. There will be people who won’t even listen to it because it’s Ke$ha, and frankly that’s their loss. Others will love it for its balls-out attitude, seen not nearly enough from any artist nowadays let alone a female pop starlet, and willingness to fall on its face in search of something new. It's undeniably ******* insane, but Warrior is never dull, always fun, and frequently a thrillingly unpredictable ride.
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Member Since: 6/16/2006
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this album is what pop music is all about. Any score below 70 would be a damn shame.
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Member Since: 3/20/2010
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Originally posted by Vin
Ke$ha Christ delivers the best pop album of the year, and critics agree.
...Vin |
Sure, Vin, sure
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Member Since: 7/21/2012
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Does under the gun count for metacritic? They gave her a 9/10
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Member Since: 2/12/2012
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65 is exactly where I want it to be.
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Member Since: 8/29/2011
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it's going to be a struggle to finish above 65, I just hope it doesn't fall too far below
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