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

No surprises so far. But there are definitely a few very interesting and revealing reviews where it feels like the person reviewing the album is quite aware that she's having a moment, ''last laugh'' kind of moment, and they don't want to join in for obvious reasons. Giving this album 3 stars is straight up trolling.

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'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...

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 read the guardian article and i'm obviously biased as a fan but it really pissed me off at some parts. like i get it that her music is not for everyone's taste but i found that review very unprofessional. he could have given it a little more thought and move on from this 2012 mindset where hating on her and claiming that she's shallow is considered cool. that review really stayed on the surface, it sounds like he just put it on as background music and then scribbled down a few things that accidentally caught his attention, added his preconcepcions about her, and then bam! article finished.

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?

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.

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...

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...

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...

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”)."

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”)."

Damn, I would think a B it's at least an 8, more like an 8.5. I guess 7.5 is still a good score, but kinda low at the same time. 

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

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.

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?

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

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

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 

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

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 

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