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10.0
60110
10.0 |
Daily Telegraph
She’s no longer an ambitious pop star on the make, flitting between her saucy seaside postcard image and blander plans for world chart domination. She’s now a woman driven to tell her own story
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8.5
60363
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Prism shows a more mature side to the singer, an ability to really connect with her experiences whilst still producing absolute pop smashes
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8.3
60305
8.3 |
Billboard
With a string of hit singles under her belt, Perry has aspired to create a multi-faceted full-length and has consummately succeeded
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7.0
60226
7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound
While neither Perry nor Prism push any boundaries for pop music, they certainly raise bars
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6.0
60230
6.0 |
The Arts Desk
As empowerment anthems go 'Roar' is, well, a beast
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6.0
60236
6.0 |
All Music
A tighter, cleaner record than its predecessors -- there are no extremes here, nothing that pushes the boundaries of either good taste or tackiness
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Guardian
Nothing on Prism is exactly sonically adventurous ... but the melodies are significantly stronger than those a similar cast of writers came up with for, say, Jessie J's recent album
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6.0
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6.0 |
Slant Magazine
Another collection of three-and-half-minute potential pop hits that even cynics like this one will find hard to resist
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6.0
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6.0 |
Evening Standard
It’s a formula for chart success – but you can’t help but wish Perry would experiment a little more
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Independent
Largely the entirely predictable modern dance-pop creation you might expect from production-line hit maestros Max Martin and Dr Luke
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6.0
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6.0 |
Time Out
It might be KP’s most grown-up album, but there are still enough pop hooks here for her to hang her entire wardrobe on
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6.0
60109
6.0 |
Rolling Stone
Perry has always done a great job of letting us know she's in on the joke of pop stardom. Sadly, she doesn't always bring that same sense of humor and self-awareness to the joke of pop-star introspection
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6.0
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6.0 |
The Observer
Musically, Prism remains the work of alpha male hit-makers Dr Luke and Max Martin, whose credits are literally too numerous to list. Lyrically, though, it's replete with the California new age lingua franca of self-help, mantras, third eyes, astrology and yogic navel-examining, all wrapped up in the woman-wronged aura of a girl dumped by text message
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6.0
60210
6.0 |
musicOMH
It’s safe and cold where it should have been daring and involving
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5.8
60326
5.8 |
A.V. Club
Neither good nor bad
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5.0
60327
5.0 |
Spin
This is a pivot, this record, and a shrewd one, but "shrewd" and "boring" are not mutually exclusive
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4.2
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4.2 |
Pretty Much Amazing
Prism does have two bright moments of success when everything comes together and we get a glimpse of the better-written album that could have been
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4.0
60501
4.0 |
Q
Teenage Dream star can't leave her juvenile self behind. Print edition only
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4.0
60535
4.0 |
No Ripcord
Falls short of its predecessors in the innovation and charisma departmen
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4.0
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4.0 |
Fact
Perry is probably not an actual idiot, but all those nods and winks and boobie cream guns aren’t fooling anyone – her rhetoric is awful, facile bilge
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4.0
60214
4.0 |
PopMatters
For her fans, it’s exciting. For anyone else, it’s a disappointment
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4.0
60200
4.0 |
Independent on Sunday
One that only devoted followers of Perry’s marital affairs need concern themselves with
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