RYM is very unreliable when it comes to pop imo

edit: in spite of that, I just heard Cheerleader and ain't bad lol

Album Rating: 2.5

rym hasn't been reliable for anything with more than 500 votes for at least 2-3 years now tbh

Album Rating: 2.5

yeah the userbase has been skewing younger and/or worse-taste-having for a while now. kinda sad

Touche, I can see what you guys mean

Album Rating: 2.5

Still can’t come back to this. Worlds was pretty cool for the time but twee Porter is just not on my Wishlist!

Album Rating: 4.0

If we froze RYM scores in 2019, the world would be a better place.



The worst offender is The Black Parade being a 3.84/5 there. Christ, the average ratings on this site are way higher, and we're the one with roots in 2000s pop punk/emo fandom, and it's still lower here!

Album Rating: 2.5

There are a few albums that RYM is rating higher than here these days — Black Rider by Tom Waits among them. Intensely strange, given that Sputnik generally overrates releases by like .5 compared to rym. Interesting to see the tables of elitism turn; where once RYM was undeniably more pole up the ass pretentious than the populist and base Sputnik, I think that’s shifted in the last five years.

What the 'ck are you smoking when you say it's a terrible album and you have to develop a taste for it like Whiskey?! I HATE WHISKEY

Album Rating: 4.5

Nurture is one of the best releases of its year; such a deeply personal cathartic celebration of an album. Sputnik average is too low if anything.