- Artist
- Taylor Swift
- Album
- The Life of a Showgirl
Based on 9 reviews from outlets we track. Scores run 48 to 90.
| The gist | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| PopMatters | 9/10 | 90 | “Taylor Swift and Max Martin reunite for The Life of a Showgirl, a scattershot collection of pop bangers and meditations on fame that captures the zeitgeist.” |
| Riff Magazine | 9/10 | 90 | “Taylor Swift turns up the pop on “The Life of a Showgirl,” her 12th studio album and a return to a more upbeat sound.” |
| Consequence | B- | 81 | “For an album called The Life of a Showgirl, Taylor Swift's 12th studio record doesn't have too many theatrics, but it does have some solid songs.” |
| musicOMH | 3/5 | 60 | “Guaranteed to be one of the year's biggest pop records, the follow-up to The Tortured Poets Department nevertheless sounds like an artist on autopilot” |
| Clash | 6/10 | 60 | “Taylor Swift – consummate showgirl that she is – is fresh off the press from the most immense tour in musical history, yet is still capable of heading” |
| Pitchfork | 5.9/10 | 59 | “Read Anna Gaca’s review of the album.” |
| Spectrum Culture | 50/100 | 50 | “Not even a raft of dick jokes can salvage this largely joyless collection of factory-grade tunes from an increasingly overworked star.” |
| Slant | 2.5/5 | 50 | “The album finds Swift making a purposeful shift in her persona.” |
| Beats Per Minute | 48% | 48 | “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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