- Artist
- Taylor Swift
- Album
- Folklore
Early reviews. Based on 7 critics so far. The Breakdown will settle as more outlets weigh in.
| The gist | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| musicOMH | 5/5 | 100 | “The National's Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver appear on an album that is sad, beautiful, somewhat tragic, a little bit off the wall, but most of all one that feels…” |
| Clash | 9/10 | 90 | “The second to last song on Taylor Swift’s quiet, exquisite album 'folklore' is called 'peace'. A once-vindictive Swift, once at the” |
| Slant | 4.5/5 | 90 | “The album anticipates questions surrounding the singer’s genre bona fides and leans into each contradiction.” |
| Consequence | B+ | 88 | “Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift surprises fans with evermore, a companion piece to this summer's celebrated folklore collection.” |
| Pitchfork | 8/10 | 80 | “Made from afar, primarily with the National’s Aaron Dessner, Swift’s eighth album is a sweater-weather record filled with cinematic love songs and rich fictional details.” |
| PopMatters | 8/10 | 80 | “Tayor Swift's second surprise album of 2020, evermore, solidifies the questions brought up by folklore: how do we consider her work when it's not autobiographical anymore?” |
| Beats Per Minute | 73% | 73 | “Music News, Reviews, Interviews, Videos and MP3s” |
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How the Breakdown works
Every outlet’s score is converted to 0–100 (2/5 is 40, 5.9/10 is 59, a B+ is 88) and averaged. Grades follow the B-Side scale: A is 90–100, B 80–89, C 70–79, D 60–69, F below 60. Critics who liked it is the share of outlets that scored it 75 or higher; the Breakdown shows green at 75 and up, red below. Divisiveness asks a different question: not whether critics liked it, but how close their scores are to each other. Five critics who all give it 50 are Unanimous, even though none of them liked it. The labels run Unanimous, Broad agreement, Some debate, Divided, and Contentious. Replay rate comes from listeners, not critics: yes counts fully, a few tracks counts half, no counts zero. The gist quotes each outlet’s own summary of its review. Scores marked est. come from reviews that publish no number.
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