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omgggg!!! Anything above an 8 would be excellent from Pitchfork. It would be a coup for Lana Del fucking Rey to get Best New Music.

I wrote a critique of the Variety review and it didn't make it through moderation skdjfksdf

Hate to break it to y'all but the 2014 interview was conducted by Tim Jonze (also of the Guardian).

The score is decided by the editorial team as a whole, so it's still up in the air a bit! Sometimes they publish reviews where the writing and the score barely match

The Guardian and The Observer are two separate newspapers in the UK. The Observer is a Sunday newspaper that belongs to the same organisation as the daily Guardian paper so shares the same website. However, editorially they are separate and Metacritic counts them separately.

Yes. This is a The Observer review.

3.4?!? https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/80132/Lana-Del-Rey-Norman-Fucking-Rockwell/ Petition to replace the staff with that one contributor who gave ha 5

While the Guardian review was a tired take, the Telegraph review was close to being offensively misogynistic. "one-trick-pony". "over-sensitive". "self-absorbed". fuck him.

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Ah, the male ego... if only she would write about that instead of only writing depressing dirges about horrible men

Amen. I'm disappointed that he went for the most tired take possible: "oh, she's just a caricature singing constantly about these bad bad men!". The fact he gave Ed Sheeran's act of terror a 4/5 the other week...

I can't even disagree vehemently with it like I did with the UK papers' reviews; the Variety review is just... so... vapid. It says so little about the actual artistic or musical merits (or otherwise) of the album or the critic's own thoughts (that don't just sound like some bizarre amateurish thesis about 'cult artists') that it's almost impossible to find anything in particular that's it's trying to say. Genuinely one of the most useless album reviews I've read in a long time.

I'm finding it difficult to get any sense of the score of the Variety review: the writer has decided to go down the tired-as-hell path of talking about Lana as a concept, and mostly only describes the sound and quotes some lyrics? There doesn't seem to be an overarching opinion over whether it's a good album or a bad album - just that it's a Lana Del Rey album (which... duhhhh) Looks like we're at the mercy of the intern at Metacritic who has to suffer through these things...

Metacritic-eligible review from Variety https://variety.com/2019/music/reviews/album-review-lana-del-reys-norman-f-ing-rockwell-1203319612/ Metacritic editors will decide on a score from the tone of the review, which I'm reading as mild praise / mixed / ??? "Its 14 songs sprawl across 67 minutes; the tempos are languid; the third song, the epic “Venice Bitch,” is nearly 10 minutes long; and it concludes with three slow piano ballads that, if the album is taken as a whole, drag down its overall score Del Rey always dominates, and like all of her work in this persona, this album is another variation on her theme. She continues to push her troubled, almost comically extreme femme fatale persona even further into outrage (the album’s first lyric is: “Goddamn, man-child/ You f—ed me so good that I almost said, ‘I love you’”) while continuing familiar themes (“Lying on your chest in my party dress/ I’m a f—ing mess”) and even throwing in some hip-hop-influenced wordplay (“Ice cream, ice queen/ I dream in jeans and leather/ Live stream, I’m sweet for you”)."

A positive (but not Metacritic eligible) review from The Atlantic.

75 (based on the recent Mark Ronson and P!nk albums)

Positive thoughts from Interview magazine editors https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/lana-de-rey-normal-fucking-rockwell-interview-editors-review A review (of sorts) from Noisey, incidentally by the interviewer who helped bring about the now iconic statement "Whenever people bring up feminism, I'm like, god. I'm just not really that interested. I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.” https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kxg3/lana-del-rey-norman-fucking-rockwell-review Neither are metacritic-relevant but interesting nonetheless.

Ugh... kinda feared that would be the case. Hoping for a 4.5 or higher.

Scores are weighted according to publication and how they tend to rank releases in comparison to the mean. IMO it might not even drop - I wouldn't count the Telegraph as any sort of esteemed music publication (despite what failed musician Neil McCormick might think) - whereas Sputnik tends to be quite critical in general so may sway more?

It's what human rodent and professional misogynist Alexis Petri dish deserves

It irritates me because it's obvious Petridis's mangled hybrid Gallagher brother-looking ass cherrypicked a selection of lyrics to support his (massively flawed) stance that Lana talks about the exact same themes lmfao

the torygraph is trash anyways I wouldn't have expected anything else from that rag... (also not the TOOL album with 89 on metacritic........... )

I want Alexis Petridis dead

I fucking called it skskskksjss Lana loves to keep us perpetually tortured... “you’ll get closure when ur dead” she said

wow it's been a ride see u in the post-release (and the pre-pre-release )