Dec 18, 2017 (Excluding SSLP as it's not rated) 1. MMLP 2. TES 3. MMLP2 4. Encore 5. Revial & Recovery - tied 6. Relapse I think Revival will end up on about 70 once more reviews are in. Tough to say though, I'm seeing a new review every day... one terrible, one great. It's very mixed and split.
Dec 18, 2017 Funny that you made that post just now, because I wanted to make a similar thread just 5 min before you posted it, but changed my mind and deleted it. Anyway, this was the screenshot I made for it: Metacritic User Score Ranked by the user score it is by far the worst album. There is no real split in reviews. Yes, there might be some biased / positive reviews by fans, or sites with an agenda (or a Stan as a reviewer), but this album gets pretty unanimously destroyed and called a destaster in publications around the world. Who selects which reviews count into the metacritic rating? Sites like the WaPo write "Eminem sounds alive" in the title - probably only because the CEO of Amazon bought the paper some months ago and Em's album generates a lot of money. I wouldn't be surprised if those two UK newspapers who gave it a 8/10 where probably paid off by Interscope.
Dec 18, 2017 He the sequel got a higher rating than encore, relapse & the re-up... Shows ratings mean nothing.
Dec 18, 2017 Interesting. Nah there is a split man. Rolling Stone gave it 3.5/5. That's not a GREAT score - great is 4 or 5, but it's pretty good. Above average. Telegraph and others gave it like 4/5 and s---... Many new ones haven't been factored in yet - but if you Google Revival Review in news you'll see what I mean. It's almost like a split 50/50 between some saying 'Eminem on top form' and others saying 'Eminem is lost' type of thing. The difference is that the negative reviews for Revival... I think there's more and they're harsher.
Dec 18, 2017 .. but interestingly the split is mainly there if you check English reviews only.... I've checked French/German/Spanish reviews and have not found one over 60%. It's is called a desaster, uninspired, a „Clusterfuck“, inacceptably bad, even his worst project ever, etc. I haven't come across a single German review that's even remotely positive. (Zeit, Spiegel, Welt, Tagesspiegel, Rappers.in, musikexpress - all completely destroyed it). I'm wondering why that is? I guess politics could also be one reason. While internationally all of Eminem's attempts at being political on this album are seen as a failure, some English reviews that I read where celebrating them. I found that very weird. It's very shallow and a missed change. He had the attention of the media, he made that cover and then he even presents the weak "Almost Home" with a insecure cop-out in the intro "you don't need to agree with me on this one".
Dec 18, 2017 Hmm. Interesting. I mean, language could be one aspect... like, obviously if English is not your first language - you will hear the music in a different way, like, I don't know as I don't speak another language... but maybe the musical flaws ; as in, the lack of cohesion and how f----- up all that s--- - is even more apparent, as the language is a secondary aspect subconsciously. Not that the raps or language matter less, but I can't imagine you could possibly hear the raps of a second language the same as your first language, so I'd imagine that has something to do with it? I don't think it's the politics to be honest. Em had a lot of politics on MMLP and TES and they're universally praised. I think it's all about the music and the feel the album leaves you with. And Revival is a mess.
