Whenever we review something, we decide how it is on the basis of stars. And we expect the same when we read a review. But I still do not prefer to give star ratings to my music reviews (many times I don’t rate even movies with stars, but I do not have a problem with that, and sometimes I do rate movies with star ratings).
I have got suggestions from some of my readers that I should give star ratings to my album reviews. But somehow, I do not feel like doing that. Here are my reasons for that.
Firstly, I feel that every song is a different song and so I do not put ratings for entire albums, as I feel individual songs get lost if there are good songs in bad albums.
For example, if a 2 star album has a 5 star song, there is hardly a chance many people will get to know about it
To try and reduce the burden though, I write about what songs one should try while summarizing every album n u can find every song’s name in bold in the review. So u can just read the Summary n get to know about the album.
Also, mostly my n public’s reaction depend a lot on the expectations from an album. This relativity cannot be adjusted with stars as the star rating has to be similar throughout a platform.
Basically, stars give a quick idea of things, but they fail to reach the motive of this blog in many ways. Hence, I avoid stars.
I just want u to read three or four sentences’ summary to know about an album. I hope u would understand what I am trying to do and cooperate with that.
Thanks for the visits, appreciations, comments and suggestions. Keep visiting the blog and loving it.
Tags: Blogs, Music Review, star rating
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“For example, if a 2 star album has a 5 star song, there is hardly a chance many people will get to know about it”
I totally agree with you. This a very valid point!!!
@Abhijit
Thanks sirjee.
Your welcome buddy! I also see that you don’t ridicule or lambast music as such! You have a peculiar decency in your reviews which is very nice to see! Keep it going! My best wishes are with you!
“For example, if a 2 star album has a 5 star song, there is hardly a chance many people will get to know about it”
I m also agree with u.
but i have a suggestion.
u may give an album FROM and TO ratings
for example,
if 1 song in the album can b rated 2 stars
and 1 song can b rated 5 stars,
than the for the whole album u may give ratings as : from 2 to 5
@Nikunj
Thanks a lot for the innovative suggestion. I really liked it. I’ll think more and probably I’ll try it.
Thanks a lot again.
Exactly, if there are star ratings and by chance if they are low- I don’t even care to read the rest of the things.