For example, this Meg album got a 90+ score on metacritic. how is this possible???

yet you got projects like FHD 2014 and Rodeo having average reviews on metacritic even though they’re loved by the public

Making a good album.

S*** like your example just an outlier imo

Make good product...

and pay the reviewers dummy

political correctness and if you can be used for political currency

Maybe Meg album actually pretty good to the reviewers

letting good music speak for itself, no media stunts

only 4 reviews chill

Actually make it sound like you put effort and passion tthough it

Tpab got a 96 Kendrick ain’t pay no critics

actually this is a far better answer

Which artists do you think pay critics?

Being a consistent artist like Kendrick or Danny Brown or being someone who protected by PC Culture.

Tbh you really can't tell. It might not be the artists themselves but their labels. A lot of shady things do happen in the entertainment industry

Rhymes with Keg

industrializing the concept of artistic critique means that critics are now less interested in the actual criticism of art and more the survival and growth of their critic business, which means critical thought can be tainted in the name of business growth

this is a bad thing

probably newer pop artists who need the publicity from the more “legitimate end” of the fanbase industry

So projects that don’t get acclaim from critics are trash?

Hell no. 50% of the albums I like don't get any critical acclaim

Partake in an Illuminati sacrificial ritual at Pitchfork's headquarters

Pay up

Make a good album

Most of the time s*** that gets good reviews tends to be good music

Doesn’t mean that you’ll automatically like it just like a bad review doesn’t mean you’ll automatically dislike it

really depends, sometimes publications place their bets on certain groups so that if they blow up they reap a lot of the success by proxy

one example that comes to mind rn is Pitchfork and Slums

realistically it's just making a great album. There's a few albums that get overrated when they ride the zeitgeist, but that's not typical.