Rolling Stone: 3/5 for Love For Sale

[Dennis 8,391]

Their review is positive, but somehow they only gave it 3/5? This is really sad. Is Jazz not given high scores?

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/lady-gaga-and-tony-bennett-love-for-sale-1234339/

[holy scheisse 21,703]

Agreed it was only average for me

[spector 1,902]

the closing line reads as, "As for Bennett, well, retiring from live performance at 95? He’s never going to make it in this business with that attitude." the ****? the author's last name is gross—how fitting. 

[James Gibson 3,439]

that last paragraph was disrespectful yeah

[Ziggy 10,773]

I think 3/5 makes sense. It’s a solid album skewing a bit more positive. 4/5 is good, 5/5 is outstanding so I think by that metric, this is a very nice rating especially bearing in mind that they aren’t really reinventing the songs here. They’re solid, straight covers that are very nice.

[voltron92 2,109]

What a weirdly written article. Here it is to save you a click (and all those ads).

 

"There are moving May-December relationships and then there is the pairing of paisans that is 95(!)-year old croon-king Tony Bennett with 35-year old pop powerhouse Lady Gaga, a superhero team-up that has produced another album of rock-solid takes on the American songbook. 

Their 2014 standards collection Cheek to Cheek was a tenderhearted hit that allowed Bennet to break his own record for oldest act with a number one album and enabled Gaga to apply her seemingly boundless theater-kid enthusiasm to songs generations of theater kids have long worshipped. Here, the duo take on classics by Cole Porter, reigning GOAT of the Tin Pan Alley poets. Bennett’s recent Alzheimer’s diagnosis gives the collection a poignancy that was absent from Cheek to Cheek. Love For Sale has been billed as their final collaboration.

Over traditional arrangements suitable for both supper club and Radio City, Bennett sings such standards as  “I Get a Kick Out of You” (the first single), the title track and “It’s De-Lovely” as if he was born this way. The band mostly sticks to Big Band brassy ladled with string syrup; “Let’s Do It,” a Gaga solo vocal that threatens to go full New Yawk on the chorus, folds in a brief organ run, while the guitar solos on “Dream Dancing” and “Just One of those Things” give the melodies very polite pokes.

Gaga, cheeky as ever, drops in a verse about a tattoo at the end of “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” and almost runs away with a downright zippy opening to “Night and Day” before it resolves into swell romance.

For Gaga, who belts away with joyful verve, this album (like Cheek to Cheek) points the way to a classicist (or maybe even Vegas-centered) musical future her fans probably didn’t considered when they were blasting “Poker Face” out of their parents’ Toyotas. As for Bennett, well, retiring from live performance at 95? He’s never going to make it in this business with that attitude."

Spoiler

 

[ConnorFilm 7,047]

RS also gave C2C a 3/5. If the first album has a 64 on Metacritic I seen this getting around a 70 since she’s a bit more respected now in the industry

[ConnorFilm 7,047]

The Financial Times gave the album a 5/5! It doesn’t count for MC, though. :-/

[Bradley 57,642]

As for Bennett, well, retiring from live performance at 95? He’s never going to make it in this business with that attitude.

This seems like a sarcastic comment written out of a humorous intention (cause obviously Tony has already made it in the business, and is seen as a legend), although I should say it worked out terribly.

[Pennywise 35,841]

6 minutes ago, spector said:

the closing line reads as, "As for Bennett, well, retiring from live performance at 95? He’s never going to make it in this business with that attitude." the ****? the author's last name is gross—how fitting. 

That's... a joke. A bit tasteless considering how he HAD to retire, but a joke nevertheless. 

[Admin 24,441]

7 minutes ago, spector said:

the closing line reads as, "As for Bennett, well, retiring from live performance at 95? He’s never going to make it in this business with that attitude." the ****? the author's last name is gross—how fitting. 

It's a joke, they are praising him

[BleepBloop 10,316]

6 minutes ago, spector said:

the closing line reads as, "As for Bennett, well, retiring from live performance at 95? He’s never going to make it in this business with that attitude." the ****? the author's last name is gross—how fitting. 

Do you know what sarcasm is? He’s pretty much commenting on how Tony’s 95 and is only retiring NOW. 

[Dojo 19,365]

tbh this seems generous 

[Mister G 10,121]

Gaga already stated that Cheek to Cheek wasn’t her last Jazz album, and ARTPOP wasn’t her last pop album. Here we are with Chromatica, Dawn of Chromatica and now Love For Sale. While I can appreciate the formality of these reviews offering broader perspective seen in the industry as a whole (for anyone concerned with that 3/5 rating), I encourage members on here and listeners to go in with their own take and not let the perception of others cloud their judgment.

[ANTI WP 19,799]

11 minutes ago, holy scheisse said:

Agreed it was only average for me

Just now, dojo said:

tbh this seems generous 

You guys listened to the album already ?