Yxilon 5,248 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Average scores of some female singers with at least TWO albums processed by metacritic: (reissues, live albums, remix albums, games, documentaries etc are not included)  Fiona Apple 87,5 FKA twigs 87,0 Kacey Musgraves 85,3 Lorde 85,0 Bjork 82,8 Grimes 82,3 Charli XCX 78,2 Beyonce 77,9 Ariana Grande 77,6 Shakira 76,5 Lana Del Rey 75,6 Taylor Swift 75,5 Camila Cabello 74,9 Tove Lo 74,1 Tinashe 73,7 Adele 73,0 Lady Gaga 71,2 Alicia Keys 71,1 Sia 70,8 Dev 70,4 P!nk 70,3 Alessia Cara 70,2 Madonna 69,6 Kesha 69,4 Ellie Goulding 68,0 Carrie Underwood 67,8 Nicki Minaj 67,0 Demi Lovato 66,8 Selena Gomez 66,7 Celine Dion 66,5 Kelly Clarkson 66,4 Rihanna 66,3 Kelly Rowland 66,3 Mariah Carey 66,2 Kylie Minogue 65,4 Avril Lavigne 62,8 Cher Lloyd 62,5 Britney Spears 62,4 Cheryl Cole 60,9 Miley Cyrus 58,6 Meghan Trainor 56,7 Jess Glynne 56,5 Jessie J 54,7 Katy Perry 53,0 Jennifer Lopez 49,1 Iggy Azalea 47,5  Discuss  Spoiler If I forgot someone tell me so I'll edit the post adding her.  Everything could be everything (it could mean anything) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
doppelganger 3,740 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Fiona Apple deserves it though. Every album is a masterpiece. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Kacey and Lorde being right where they belong. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennywise 34,698 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Critics LOVE alternative music and the rest is probably according to how much they pay them to write? Also, someone who only has two albums compared to someone like Madonna with a billion out there shouldn't even be compared at all. YOUR GOD IS NOT HERE MICHAEL NOR WILL HE EVER BE Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennywise 34,698 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Kacey Musgraves is overrated as hell though YOUR GOD IS NOT HERE MICHAEL NOR WILL HE EVER BE Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennywise 34,698 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Lorde deserves at least a 95. Both of her albums are masterpieces. YOUR GOD IS NOT HERE MICHAEL NOR WILL HE EVER BE Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NNES 5,656 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 15 minutes ago, Yxilon said: Jessie J 54,7 Â wtf? why so low? Who You Are was such a nice album... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yxilon 5,248 Posted June 4, 2020 Author Share Posted June 4, 2020 Just now, NNES said: wtf? why so low? Who You Are was such a nice album... Jessie J is an amazing singer and arguably one of the best vocalists of our generation. But her albums sound cheap af, both in production and... let's say cheesy lyrics. Everything could be everything (it could mean anything) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yxilon 5,248 Posted June 4, 2020 Author Share Posted June 4, 2020 12 minutes ago, Pennywise said: Kacey Musgraves is overrated as hell though  13 minutes ago, Pennywise said: Critics LOVE alternative music and the rest is probably according to how much they pay them to write? Also, someone who only has two albums compared to someone like Madonna with a billion out there shouldn't even be compared at all.  I kinda disagree. Kacey is anything but alternative, but her music gets so much praise because of beautiful lyrics and crystalline production. If you do alternative music (and are an independent producer as Grimes or Fiona) you partly deserve recognition for your boldness and your commitment, BUT alternative music can turn out in masterpieces as well as in catastrophies. That's why some alternative albums have been massacred by the critics (see Enya, Miley's dead petz...) Everything could be everything (it could mean anything) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brecht 7 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Camila Cabello 74,9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whtvrman 217 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 2 hours ago, NNES said: wtf? why so low? Who You Are was such a nice album... cause she makes absolute garbage music perhaps Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
freebit 6,069 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Gaga is in a decent place between Adele and Alicia. Though she deserves to be higher, lbr. Some big critics are still so weird about her - the 2020 ARTPOP revisionist praise to drag Chromatica is yet another example of their hypocrisy and general bias.  @ Fiona tho. She deserves every bit of praise IMO. 3 hours ago, Pennywise said: Kacey Musgraves is overrated as hell though Yeah, I don't get her acclaim either, not saying she should be dragged, but her being so high up on the list is baffling to me...but not more baffling than Camilla. For Kacey I think her whole stoner country barbie thing is a thing critics love about her, and reading these reviews, these critics are, at the very least, half influenced by image. No idea why Camilla is so acclaimed though. Even Selena has more interesting music. I'm surprised to see Rihanna so far down the list. I consider her pretty well recieved? But then again, I just learned recently that NYT gave Anti a 50, so surprises all around. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
swakby 4,069 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Madonna's score could be close to 80 if they include her 80s and 90s discography. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
 alsemanche 87,260 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Björk should be higher Soft, soothing, and succulent Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franz Ferdinand 2,359 Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 It's mad funny how critics tend to give great reviews to albums that end up having... no impact. I'm not arguing that some of these (take for instance Fiona Apple or even Lorde) aren't excellent at their craft, but the albums from artists that actually end up changing the musicscape are not usually the most well-received. Obviously, you can't predict how impactful an album is going to be when it's just released, though, but we should keep in mind albums like Nevermind and The Dark Side of the Moon, nowadays hailed as some of the greatest of all time, opened to rather lukewarm reviews when they first came out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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