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.
That's album sales, not reviews.
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That's album sales, not reviews.
Wafflecakes
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My guess is they bring over one of the past UK judges for the last seat.
These deceptions. Album sales are FAR LESS relevant when comparing artists from different eras than reviews. Far less reliable as well.
Your lack of integrity is showing.
You cannot reasonably argue that you CAN compare album sales from different eras while also arguing that you CANNOT do so with reviews.
Kelly Rowland has been confirmed as a judge
one seat left open now
Hopefully Simon made the right choice with the final seaT.
Someone else mentioning 4 was the context for my bringing it up in the first place though.
I'm not saying you're the only person who has ever questioned them. I'm saying you get continuously clocked by them and you hate them. I'm sure it's just a coincidence though, and you'd still hate Metacritic even in the parallel world where your fave does have a 60%+ career average.
I get that this can happen sometimes. But if Artist A consistently clocks lower averages than Artist B over albums released years apart, I think there comes a point where you can no longer lean back on the excuses of reviewers that hate your fave or their being held to a higher standard or whatever. Ditto if Artist C has clocked consistently 50%-60% averages across all their reviews. They're just not a top-tier musician. That's okay, not everyone is a Robyn. And, especially in pop music, individual tracks can be more important than albums. Gods Aloud would be iconic for their string of incredible singles even if their albums weren't all that great. Ditto for Rihanna. I agree completely with PopJustice's point that for most of our faves, their Greatest Hits will be the best album they ever release.
Soulscribe
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Don't all songs pre-leak have audio signatures though? I assumed that the process was to try and delete the audio signatures before uploading them publicly so that the source can't be traced, meaning all songs go through that process.
Anything else you're willing to tell us about the songs?
Hopefully Simon made the right choice with the final seaT.
not going to say something until there is confirmation
For US Xfactor?
Ble$$, Kelegendria Rowland was one of the best judges to ever hit Xfactor UK. Would MUCH rather have her back than more Sherzinger
Billboard Music Awards Score Highest Ratings in 12 Years
http://www.billboard.com/articles/e...usic-awards-score-highest-ratings-in-12-years
The Billboard Music Awards had a viewing audience of 9.47 million, a 28 percent spike over 2012's audience of 7.4 million viewers, Nielsen reported. The show was No. 1 Sunday night in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic, pulling in 4.6 million viewers in the age group.
It's the highest ratings for the BBMAs in 12 years. Combined with the season finale of "America's Funniest Home Videos," ABC won the night with an overall rating of 3.1 in the 18-49 demo. All other networks were below 1.8. All numbers are part of Nielsen's "fast national ratings"; final numbers will be released later today.
In terms of the demo, the same number of people between the ages of 18 and 49 watched the Billboard Music Awards as last week's finale of "American Idol."
The night's other music program, "ACM Presents: Tim McGraw’ Superstar Summer Night" on CBS, was watched by 6.2 million viewers, with an audience of 1.53 million in the 18-49 group.
The demographic numbers for programs in May are important as they are used to establish advertising rates in the coming season.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/e...usic-awards-score-highest-ratings-in-12-years
Wafflecakes
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Forgot about Hilary.
She will certainly be the last judge assuming she doesn't ask for too much $$$.
1. Can we talk about the #SELFCLOCK of the Fatters' jubilation over Xtincta's weight returning to levels below the morbidly obese? I've never seen the little periods express this level of joy over her own music. I always had suspicions that the cornerstone of their stanning was devoid of audio stimuli and entirely in the field of visual stimulation, but I never expected them to provide evidence of this behaviour point-blank.
Speaking of audio stimuli, what a peculiarly loud backing track, though I can see why it was very necessary whenever a chilling-croaking noise would blast through the speakers during an ad-lib that had gone unfiltered by the studio-corrected backing track. NO TEA NO SHADE in the following sentence, but how is her voice worsening so precipitously?
2. Squint's worth to society has finally been revealed:
GOD BLESS HER.
3. La Niña need only look as far as the parasite clinging to Pitbull's wrinkly balls to witness what will become of his career if he keeps being a PUBLIC CUNT. He has less than a year left of the word teen being appended to his age and thus a quickly expiring youth card as an excuse for his obscenities.
4. TEARING UP MY LARYNX SCREAMING AT MIGUEL. #DEATH #LITERALLY?
5. Matthew Weiner seems to have foreseen the ensuing #MESS of these awards and scheduled a fittingly messy episode for the same night. BREATH-LESS.
Is there anything else that I've missed?
Speaking of audio stimuli, what a peculiarly loud backing track, though I can see why it was very necessary whenever a chilling-croaking noise would blast through the speakers during an ad-lib that had gone unfiltered by the studio-corrected backing track. NO TEA NO SHADE in the following sentence, but how is her voice worsening so precipitously?
2. Squint's worth to society has finally been revealed:
GOD BLESS HER.
3. La Niña need only look as far as the parasite clinging to Pitbull's wrinkly balls to witness what will become of his career if he keeps being a PUBLIC CUNT. He has less than a year left of the word teen being appended to his age and thus a quickly expiring youth card as an excuse for his obscenities.
4. TEARING UP MY LARYNX SCREAMING AT MIGUEL. #DEATH #LITERALLY?
5. Matthew Weiner seems to have foreseen the ensuing #MESS of these awards and scheduled a fittingly messy episode for the same night. BREATH-LESS.
Is there anything else that I've missed?
If anyone lives in NY and wants to see the #Queen live for her GMA performance on the 24th you can get your free tickets from ticketmaster. 
See you there!
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004AB0E8198EF3
See you there!http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004AB0E8198EF3
Wafflecakes
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@Koo
Go INNNNNNNNNNNN!
Damn..... I really need to move. I only get to see a couple decent concerts a year.
I wanna see Mimi.
Go INNNNNNNNNNNN!
If anyone lives in NY and wants to see the #Queen live for her GMA performance on the 24th you can get your free tickets from ticketmaster.
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004AB0E8198EF3
Damn..... I really need to move. I only get to see a couple decent concerts a year.
I wanna see Mimi.
...???
You keep bringing this back to Christina as if my dislike of metacritic is derived from their dislike of Christina. This isn't the case at all.
A) I have other faves that have beter metacritic scores.
B) None of my arguments against metacritic originated with me or were based on their assessment of Christina Aguilera. Christina could cease to exist tomorrow
Hush, Koodo
hush, Mumei
C) NONE of my arguments have anything to do with any one particular artist.
In fact, now that I think about it, the only reason Christina keeps coming up here is because I criticize your general use of metacritic and YOU constantly bring her into the discussion.
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Really tho, this Google tea means nothing. Why would people be searching Gaga when she has been literally making an effort to fall off the face of the Earth for the past 4 months?
<+)O Robido O(+>
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Unless they're buying concert tickets.... right?
It felt as if Weiner came into my house and injected a cocktail of hallucinogenics directly into my jugular.
Wafflecakes
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No one is using Google to shade Gaga. Of course she would be down between albums.
It is those who are ALWAYS on the bottom that should feel shame.
... But I'm on your side?
I haven't got anything more constructive to add because you pretty much nail it. If I were having a serious discussion about which of two artists has a higher quality output I wouldn't rely on Metacritic.
Addressing the jabs at your fave and not the content of your post.
Lets back up a second.
I brought up 4 because it was accused of being a worse album than B'Day. I posted the Metacritic tea to demonstrate that it clearly is not, because its Metacritic score is in the same neighbourhood (higher actually).
Your attacks on Metacritic in the past have tended to revolve around two poles. Firstly you have general critiques of the system itself (okay, maybe Dub Salsa wasn't a big deal when Album A dropped, or maybe the EW review of Album B was skewed by it being reviewed by a known hater). But the whole point of Metacritic is that it aggregates so that those kinds of errors are smoothed over in general. Yes, there are blips here and there. But if Artist A registers 80 career average and Artist B registers 50 career average, I don't think it's unreasonable at all to conclude that probably, Artist A's output is simply of a higher quality.
The second have tended to be defences of your fave in particular wrt reviewers: that she is held to a higher standard (she is not), that the media in general hates her (they don't), etc.
Now, as I see it you have two plausible responses. The first is to become a kind of artistic value relativist: there really is no such thing as good or bad music, only opinions, so it's really actually kind of meaningless for A to post higher scores than B—that just means more people preferred A's music, but that doesn't mean anything about its quality. The second is to accept that Metacritic actually is a decent barometer of quality. Flawed, yes. Fallible, yes. There's lots of things it can't tell you (see below). But as a general indicator, it's adequate. After all, what else are you going to use?
I wouldn't rely on Metacritic to tell me who is better out of, say, Britney or Xtina (partly because I already know: Britney, obviously), but I do think that as a general guide you could do worse.
Metacritic is impotent to tell you about Rihanna's quality, for instance. Rihanna is probably the best singles artist in the game: I wouldn't tell people to go and listen to her albums if I wanted to convince them of her quality. I'd get them to listen to her singles. Metacritic can't tell you that, for one. It also can't tell you that Bey is the best live artist in pop music.
Thank Fuck Koo exposed the fatters. I find it so odd that they're so happy their fave is no longer plus sized and is only averagely sized. I guess they're thankful for small miracles. And the complete lack of commentary on the voice of this generation needing a backing track that puts most pop stars to shame.
But I guess they felt that moment, at least for a bit.
But I guess they felt that moment, at least for a bit.
Apologies. I'm just so used to shade from you...;___;
Oh please.
Am I happy Christina is losing weight? Yes. Just as the Army was happy when their fave lost weight.
But there's PA-LEN-TY of tea of me stanning Christina in general. Peep the tag.
Fighters are clearly praising because she's accomplishing something she wants (and looks HAWT, to boot).
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Soulscribe
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Yeah, that backing track put even Rihanna to shame.
I wonder why she okay'd that. Must be a confidence thing?
Wafflecakes
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I think getting a solid performance out on the stage was the #1 priority. I imagine you are correct in that it was about building her confidence.
Not going to complain about it unless it is the start of a trend for her.
Huh?
I think you took my talking about TOUR REVIEWS that Beyst Stans keep posting for Tour Gross receipts. I never said anything agains that. Just reviews.
Funny but Rihanna isn't even someone who egregiously overuses backing tracks. Much to our chagrin, she chooses to sing LIVE.
Nice try tho. It would bother me if my fave had the title of "the voice of the generation" tho. Yours does. And she needs to use a backing track. Goodbye.
It's convenient that people will suddenly accept that Feel This Moment is Legendtina's song instead of Pitbull's to fit their argument. But hey, the back track was loud, and people were still getting their life.
Another win for the Legend.
Wafflecakes
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Give me a break. I have watched multiple youtube concert videos where you could see her stop singing for a moment and you could barely tell the difference.
She has improved lately with Diamonds and Stay, but she has a LONG track record of abusing backing tracks.
<+)O Robido O(+>
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Huh?
I think you took my talking about TOUR REVIEWS that Beyst Stans keep posting for Tour Gross receipts. I never said anything agains that. Just reviews.
I wasn't singling out you specifically. There's an overarching theme here in regards to the number of people who see you on tour vs the number of people who buy your records.
Looking at iTunes, it seems the viewing public only felt the other Pitbull song that night.
Wafflecakes
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Tour grosses are perfectly legit receipts imo.
The only time (most) people speak out against them is when stans use them simply because their fav has no recent album/single/chart receipts to speak of. Ideally an artist will have both.
It WAS strange.
I feel like Christina was either not aware of it, or wasn't aware it would be as prominent as it was. I say that because she spent so much of the performance singing ad libs while the track was going and purposely being out-of-sync with it. There were even several points where it seemed like she was attempting to harmonize with it. You don't do that if you're trying to hide behind a backing track, and Xtina knows that. She's lipped before.
She was treating the back track like it was a backup singer.
The same thing happened with her Moves Like Jagger performances. They know the Legend deserves the grandest entrances.
Looking at iTunes, it seems the viewing public only felt the other Pitbull song that night.
It actually went up about 8 spots after last night's performance.
I can't at you reversing every xtina gif x_x
Looking at iTunes, it seems the viewing public only felt the other Pitbull song that night.
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Robyn stans should just realize that she aint about dat life anymore.
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I hope Arte is readY
Wafflecakes
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So shady.
On another note. As our resident Girls Aloud stan would you mind posting a short list of their "must have" songs? I have been considering getting into that, but I have no idea where to start.
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