Eight Hundred and Forty Finally Debut

The comprehensive media evaluation is only a reference number after all. There are countless high-quality and low-quality works of art, and vice versa. Works with low artistic evaluation but winning the market are also seen everywhere. It is really difficult to find a perfect balance between business and art. many.

"Nine" won an evaluation of 84 points among professional media, which is a solid step for Atlantic Records; and the public evaluation has also brought good news.

Five past eight!

On professional review websites, the majority of experienced music lovers gave this album a score of 8.5!

As a horizontal comparison, the score of "seven" is 8.8. What does this mean?

"Seven" has a higher score in the minds of professional media, reaching the 90th level, but the evaluation in the hearts of the public is slightly lower, at the second half of the 80th level; "Nine" has reversed its position, and the professional media hates Iron is not made into steel, but the public gave it a higher evaluation. Even though the super high expectations affected the score to some extent, it still won the hearts of more general public in the end.

With subtle differences, you can feel the difference in treatment between the two albums.

But what exactly does this mean?

To put it bluntly, in the commodity society, after all, sales volume is an unavoidable link. Perhaps sales figures are not the most important criterion for success or failure, but they are definitely one of the criteria that cannot be ignored.

After the one-million-level sales broke out in the first week, the entire music market was boiling. There was a little surprise, but there was also a little excitement and anticipation, and then all eyes were focused on the music market for the next week. because--

Here comes Pharrell Williams.

It is true that Farrell is not Justin Timberlake. It can be seen from previous forecasts that professionals predict that Farrell's album sales will be at the level of 250,000 to 300,000. Er also showed the arrogance of swallowing mountains and rivers like a giant crocodile.

but!

One day the king exploded first and broke the balance, so is it possible for Farrell to also explode?

After all... In the past year, Farrell has exploded three times in a row.

Objectively speaking, the cooperation between Farrell and Daft Punk is highly anticipated, but the final popularity of "Lucky" still broke everyone's expectations; and the popularity of the two songs "Blurred Lines" and "Happy" The degree is earth-shattering accident,

An accident within an accident, everyone was stunned.

So, by analogy, does Farrell's album also have the potential to be an upset? Thinking about it seriously, Farrell has already released three legendary classic singles in a row, and the sales of the album will explode. It is not impossible, right?

So, people began to eagerly look forward to——

Waiting and waiting, curious and curious "One Day King vs Pharrell-Williams 3.0", finally debut!

March 21, Friday.

Farrell's second studio album "Girl" is officially released!

From the producer list and song list, you can feel Farrell's ambition and full of confidence. The album only includes the first track "Happy", and does not include "Lucky" and "Blurred Boundaries" lazily. Song to create topics, other songs are all new creations of Farrell.

At the same time, Farrell invited a series of heavyweight singers to join in, Justin Timberlake, Daft Punk, Alicia Keys and Miley Cyrus, all of which are the hottest of the moment Singers, star-studded!

And Farrell is responsible for all songwriting and post-production of the entire album, doing all the work in one hand. As the hottest producer in the world in the past year, Farrell's dedication to the album is undoubtedly a highlight.

On the first day of the album's release, it attracted immediate comments from 36 media, and the discussion heated up even more than "Nine", and then attracted 16 follow-up comments from the next day. The attention of 12 professional media has undoubtedly become the most high-profile album in the past two years——

Even Beyoncé and Justin Timberlake are slightly inferior.

However!

The album "Girl" did not get a higher evaluation. The general opinion is that Farrell is a little tricky, repeatedly using the retro rhythm and blues elements of the 1970s, injecting simple, rough and catchy rhythms, repeatedly Constantly repeating itself, even without any breakthrough in arrangement, after experiencing the great success of "Lucky" and "Blurred Lines", "Happy" can already feel Farrell's complacency in creating the cover——

Undoubtedly, "Girl" is a fast-moving album, with superficial nympho taste and vulgar taste, catchy melody and straightforward lyrics. From the beginning of creation, it is expected that the public will quickly like and quickly discard the reaction. There is nothing profound and does not need to go deep Excavation, although the production lineup is luxurious, but the works are all pleasant ditties.

The most regrettable thing is that after the retro spark of working with Daft Punk faded, Farrell still didn't want to break out of his comfort zone.

The above is a professional music review from "Rolling Stone". They gave it a score of 75, which is not high, but not low.

The view of "Rolling Stone" can represent the mainstream view. FMCG is the positioning of the album "Girl". From a "commodity" standpoint, the album is above average, but that's about all there is to expect.

In the end... sixty-seven points, the results of the media's comprehensive evaluation surprised everyone!

At this time, people remembered that Farrell, like the king for a day, was under tremendous pressure of expectations. The explosive success of three consecutive singles is definitely not something that anyone can do. "Character" The magazine even hailed Farrell as a new generation of male god, comparable to Justin Timberlake's status, and it triggered countless discussions on social networking platforms.

Coupled with the fact that Farrell didn't release the album until eight years later, the expectations were even higher.

To be precise, the professional media has higher expectations for One Day King, while the general public has higher expectations for Farrell, which is why people are so looking forward to the duel between the two singers.

It is precisely because of this that the media comprehensive review gave a harsh evaluation of 67 points, and compared with the professional media, the general public is even more "disappointed".

It's three past six.

Although the comprehensive media evaluation was far lower than expected, the media lamented after seeing the public evaluation of 6.3 points, how big the deviation of the expected value is.

According to common sense, the album "Girl" pays more attention to popularity. While being "slobbered" by professional media, it should get more affirmation from the audience, just like "happy"; but the public will not buy it this time. They said that the "girl" did not meet expectations and they couldn't like it.

Relevant feedback information such as "forget it after hearing it", "no memory point", "lifeless" and so on are overwhelming on social networks, and the audience candidly express their dissatisfaction and regret.