It really wasn't THAT popular. It'll probably be her last platinum album ever though.
ruthless lol
She will rise again tho
she's ready
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ruthless lol
She will rise again tho
she's ready
ruthless lol
She will rise again tho
she's ready
Here for it if she can deliver another Candyman.
Wafflecakes
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Wasn't even close really. Which is the funny part.
She hasn't been a big part of pop culture in most of our adult lives.
I blame the fact that people can't say or spell her Latina last name right so it doesn't show up in search hits.
there is no denying her impact and influence in the real world
Wafflecakes
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TBH you might have a point there. I actually misspelled it the first time I did the search.
I doubt it would make a massive difference though.
I love how you haters are also ignoring the fact that Beyonce was polling JUST AS LOW during her B'Day era. Just a refresher: B'Day sold more than both "I Am..." and "4" (almost 3 times the sales of 4), AND had twice the number of singles as Back to Basics.
All that effort, and Bey was just as "irrelevant" as Christina during her "era for old people."
All that effort, and Bey was just as "irrelevant" as Christina during her "era for old people."
Poor Xtincta. Irrelevant since before the invention of the internet as we know it today.
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you know i dont think i mentioned the incident even though i wanted to... but....
she still slays the charts and is on a world tour so idc
Poor Xtincta. Irrelevant since before the invention of the internet as we know it today.
I see you left Belly out of the equation. Which is fitting, since most of the populous has, too.
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Already clocked.
Already clocked.
Your frantic damage control bears as much relation to reality as your fave does to relevance
Soulscribe
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I wonder how Rihanna's search results would look if Chris Brown was never in the picture at all. I'm pretty sure every major story with her is related to him in some capacity.
God I remember 2006 so well. Alternating between B'Day and Back to Basics during my Christmas break. Good times. <3
Hope to be doing that with ARTPOP and 5 this Christmas. If they come out.
God I remember 2006 so well. Alternating between B'Day and Back to Basics during my Christmas break. Good times. <3
Hope to be doing that with ARTPOP and 5 this Christmas. If they come out.
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Not even The Voice, her features, getting periods, or becoming a walrus couldn't help her.
The Aguilera misspelling thing probably is a good point though, which is sad.
I see you left Belly out of the equation. Which is fitting, since most of the populous has, too.
that retina resolution
How is it frantic tho when the tea is right there?
Y'all can hate on B'Day all you want, but it was undeniably one of Bey's BIGGEST eras. She had 438743433 singles out, was still capable of scoring #1s on her own, was touring, getting sued for plagiarism left and right, and basically EVERYWHERE. And if she was polling just as low as Christina back then there's clearly something wrong with Google's formula.
And im right yet AGAIN BDay remains her best album and era. You Beyst stans keep trying it with 4getable
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Wafflecakes
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I see you left Belly out of the equation. Which is fitting, since most of the populous has, too.
The two are very comparable if you look at a rational/reasonable time period.
(Threw some 1D members in there for the lulz.)
Oh sorry you're right yeah, I should be taking the words of people who hate 4 over the aggregated opinions of people who review albums for a living.
No you should be taking the IMPACT and SUCCESS as something that matters the mosT
The buying public matters
Wafflecakes
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One could argue that every purchase is a review since people found the product worth buying.
Wafflecakes
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Yeah, I was just about to mention this. ;_;
No you should be taking the IMPACT and SUCCESS as something that matters the mosT
The buying public matters
No.
Soulscribe
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The Abnominable Snowman didn't answer my questions 
Inquiring minds need to know ;___;
Inquiring minds need to know ;___;
Isn't it weird though that you invariably get clocked by Metacritic and you also have an army of reasons not to use it?
Wafflecakes
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Yeah.
Though he would have been #1 even without it. He has always been the most popular member of the band among the general public.
I don't see how any of this invalidates the arguments against metacritic, tho...
The Abnominable Snowman didn't answer my questions
Inquiring minds need to know ;___;
Such a tease. ;____;
Is he considered the leader of the band? I've always pictured Zayn as the leader, but maybe that's just fanboy bias.
Wafflecakes
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Metacritic is a flawed metric, but it is still a valid one imo.
Never understood the hate that reviews and meta sites received.
I don't see how any of your arguments, from the delusional—#higherstandard—to the mundane—their proprietary weighting system—is supposed to be a knockdown argument against using it as a rough guide to critical acclaim though. I'm not seriously going to debate a 3 point difference on Metacritic, but the fact that it is at least up there with B'Day should be used as a rough indicator of its quality.
4 is not the musical trainwreck that the h4ters paint it to be. End of. Case closed. It is law. If you don't like it, that's your problem.
Wafflecakes
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Meh. If there is a leader it would be Harry.
I really don't believe that there is one though. I think that they know that even the concept of a leader is essentially a death sentence for groups.
We've been over this. I don't think it's completely invalid. But I definitely do think it's invalid as a means to compare artists to each other, especially over time. Too many variables that just don't sync up for that to work.
I don't see how any of your arguments, from the delusional—#higherstandard—to the mundane—their proprietary weighting system—is supposed to be a knockdown argument against using it as a rough guide to critical acclaim though. I'm not seriously going to debate a 3 point difference on Metacritic, but the fact that it is at least up there with B'Day should be used as a rough indicator of its quality.
4 is not the musical trainwreck that the h4ters paint it to be. End of. Case closed. It is law. If you don't like it, that's your problem.
...who's arguing 4 here right now? I'm just talking about metacritic. You mad about something, Godel?
And those arguments are pretty valid criticisms of review aggregates. Don't pretend as if I'm the only person who has ever questioned them. There's just so much that isn't fairly weighted. If you want to judge an artist's quality against your own perception, sure. But to use metacritic as even a rough guide to compare artists and say, "so-and-so got a higher ranking on metacritic, that makes them better" is just silly. There's just too much up in the air--which sites are counted, who did the reviews at those sites, their specific rubric, social context, etc...
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It wasn't shade, I am genuinely baffled at your lack of knowledge. Ignorance of someone so iconic as Kylie and extolling Justin Bieber's acoustic album on the same page?
You sound like someone trying to jump on a bandwagon after watching Paris is Burning for the first time, nagl.
The Abominable Snowman
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I dont have any inside knowledge. The songs have audio signatures so if anyone does leak it they'd probably lose their jobs. I just asked someone I Twitter-know and they sent me an email with the songs and they begged me to not share lol. So other than that ... I know nothing.
Kelly Rowland has been confirmed as a judge
one seat left open now
Oh.
I wonder if she's going to push her album back. It comes out this summer, but X-Factor airs in the fall.
Wafflecakes
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I am 95% sure I have seen you compare Xtina's album sales from 2000 to Kelly's 2005-today.
Reviews vary over time, but not nearly as much as album sales have.
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