What is the most controversial opinion by the melon guy? Pic related

What is the most controversial opinion by the melon guy? Pic related.

I guess giving DAMN a 7 is fine, but he's given much worse albums better scores, like Flower Boy.

Daily reminder that TKOL is one of their best albums.

Well I mean yeah they're both garbage albums.

fuckin narkopop 2/10 because he googled voigt's name once, saw "pop" and expected pop music

flower boy doesn't have a single bad song on it so I think it's 100% deserving of the score he gave it,

Pablo Honey is great. Neck yourself.

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Not exactly, though this does prove how arbitrary it is to "score" an album, let alone any other form of media. You cannot maintain the exact same standards and apply them to each and every single album that is released in a draconian manner - how you rate them will be heavily effected on your perception of the artist, your musical preferences and even the more trivial factors such as your mood and how you listened to the album (there is an enormous difference between listening to an album in the background and concentrating solely on it). Naturally albums that many viewers may consider an 8/10 will not obtain such a score whilst others that are considered "inferior" will be rated higher even if it seems to contradict the reviewer's general outlook and preferences. It wouldn't surprise me if Fantano succumbs to burn-out in the coming months if he hasn't already, and that can heavily effect one's enjoyment of an album. We can only be thankful ultimately that he hasn't been bribed for his reviews (at least as far as one can see, say what you will of his sponsors). That being said it does seem that he's gotten something of a soft/harsh stance against music with no real medium, albums are either "NOT GOOD"/ >3 or otherwise 7s, 8s and so on. It seems that he's naturally became prejudiced towards certain "sounds" so to speak over time (though I wouldn't attribute this to recent success, given how much music he's listened to it is only natural, it'd be far more difficult to enjoy anything of a particular sub-genre if you've already listened to near everything that's been done with it). Nonetheless to continue his YouTube "career" for over five years, manage three channels (one of which does not gain Ad revenue) and constantly feature on other channels is considerably impressive, undoubtedly charismatic and a surefire show of stamina.

Apologies if I've rambled somewhat.

Numerically rating albums is silly. It's just a carryover from the old days of music journalism. Critics like Anthony Fantano and Pitchfork shouldn't be numerically rating albums but instead just exposing people to new albums and artists they might otherwise have missed. A simple favorable or unfavorable rating would suffice.