base talk Times when critics were wrong

[blown away]

Metacritic score: 64 (instead of the 20 it deserves)

 

Metacritic score: 52 (deserved at least 65, definitely more than MDNA got)

 

Metacritic score: 78 (A cute album, but a 78 is a bit much... 66 would've been more appropriate)

 

Any other examples?

 

Spoiler

Let's not turn this into a Britney's/Xtina's whole discography mess 

 

[shookspeare]

electra heart and born to die

[Escape]

OP reported? 

[Timeless]

GUTS metacritic score is way too high.

[scenekiller]

Born To Die, no question

[greeneyedsoul]

52 for Teenage Dream is really not fair nor realistic. 

[Big Bad Wolf]

Obviously Born To Die but Honeymoon too, it’s at least 80+….and NFR deserved that 90.

[RihRihGirrrl]

 

73 for this classic was an abomination....should've been mid-80s at least 

[Cruel Summer]

Evermore being lower than Folklore is propaganda and payola created by Tree Paine to help the latter win AOTY! 

[StonedSoulPicnic]

Quote

 

"If The Hissing of Summer Lawns offers substantial literature, it is set to insubstantial music. There are no tunes to speak of."

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/the-hissing-of-summer-lawns-91109/

 

 

[The Man Who]

It would be simpler to ask when they were right. 

[ohwow]

when they dragged this album through the mud but then retroactively realized it was ahead of its time 

 

 

[MusicLoverDude]

Charlie Puth's Charlie having a 70+ score when most of the songs are immature or bland. 

[ohwow]

4 minutes ago, onapearl said:

/\/\ /\ Y /\ for sure!

recently re-listened to this! so slay, giving 'proto-hyperpop' or 'noise' and just cool.

[Galaxy]

Quote

"Wind It Up" received mostly negative reviews by contemporary pop music critics. Entertainment Weekly's Michael Slezak found the bassline "rubbery" and criticized the song for lacking a melody as well as its reference to Stefani's own clothing line.^[8] Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic stated that the Neptunes had forced the sampling "into one of their typical minimalist tracks, over which Gwen spouts off clumsy material-minded lyrics touting her fashion line and her shape".^[9] Charles Merwin of Stylus Magazine was mixed on the track, writing that "it's preventing something far less interesting from getting played."^[11] John Murphy from musicOMH panned the track as "just horrible, and possibly the worst start to an album this year".^[12] Spence D. from IGN characterized the song as "a bugged out Sound of Music bhangra blitz that sounds like part M.I.A. and part Julie Andrews".^[13]

 

Many criticized the inclusion of yodeling and "The Lonely Goatherd" sample. In a review for Rolling Stone, Rob Sheffield called the track "yodel-trocious" and argued that "the problem isn't the Swiss Miss motif so much as the fourth-rate Neptunes track".^[14] USA Today's Ken Barnes, however, found the track "campy" and "a tacky attempt at sexiness", adding that the combination of yodeling and the interpolation was "awkward".^[17] Alex Miller of the NME also found the song campy, commenting that its "dumb sexual bravado has all the sophistication of a teenage boy's wet dream", and compared the yodeling, interpolation, and "erotic rap" to "a trench foot which screams for amputation from the tracklisting".^[18]

 

Ahead of it's time I fear

[abelfenty]

37 minutes ago, RihRihGirrrl said:

 

73 for this classic was an abomination....should've been mid-80s at least 

73 on Metacritic but Top 10 on the critics decade end aggregate…truly the definition of ahead of its time 

[alfonso12]

Born to die, Vroom Vroom, ARTPOP and Ultraviolence deserved better.

[GraceRandolph]

Some critics bashed Let Her Burn by Rebecca Black for having “generic love songs” but that’s like half of what they usually praise.  

[holyground13]

Kylie Minogue - Impossible Princess

Christina Aguilera - Stripped and "Dirrty"

Janet Jackson - Damita Jo

 

The reviews of these albums were initially quite harsh because each artist was pushing or breaking boundaries in some way during the era. Luckily with time they've gotten reappraisal to some degree and I'd like to think that if they were first released in today's landscape, they'd be better received. 

[zasderfght]

12 minutes ago, alfonso12 said:

Born to die, Vroom Vroom, ARTPOP and Ultraviolence deserved better.

100% agree with Vroom Vroom and ARTPOP. Absolutely not with BTD and Ultraviolence (even though I love Lana). 

[Erreur2 La Nature]

1 hour ago, Avariko said:

OP reported? 

The way every single thread, even the most random news in Celebria get reported... hope the trolls are the ones getting a wp in the end 

 

OT: Most Britney, Madonna, Miley, Katy releases were snubbed by critics and deserved much much better.

[BrokenMachine]

1 hour ago, blown away said:

Metacritic score: 64 (instead of the 20 it deserves)

[pisuke]

Reported for bad taste.

 

MDNA deserved at least a 190 if pop albums nowadays get 90s, 88s and really inflated scores.

 

Same applies to American Life.

 

Erotica deserved better.

 

Stripped too. 

[RideOrDie]

all of lana's discog should have been 90+ on MC 

[Abracadabra]

M.I.A.'s Maya album got a very divisive reception from critics at the time, the album was very bold and polarising in nature so it's not that surprising. But it was actually quite innovative and ahead of its time in terms of the trends that came in later years, so some critics have gone back and reappraised the album.

 

Lana's discography pre-NFR also because critics had such a hate boner for her for years, until she either won them over or they just had to admit that she's a brilliant songwriter who makes great music, and that her musical style and image isn't a shtick or a gimmick. If those albums came out post-NFR they would definitely have had a warmer reception.