As I read a lot more reviews on music, I start to notice how other people give their ratings. I have noticed that a lot of them completely ignore the bottom half of the scale, giving average albums and songs a 7/10 and way more 10/10's than are needed. Because of this, I decided to just make a page that explains my scoring system.
0- WHY DID YOU MAKE THIS? There is something very wrong with this song and it needs to rethink itself.
1- TRY AGAIN. There isn't even a direction for it. There is no mark for it to even miss.
2- I DON'T UNDERSTAND. Songs that completely miss the mark and are terrible will fall here. I don't really ever find myself thinking that a song is a 2/10, but you never know.
3- I UNDERSTAND, BUT... This really is just when I can see a hint of what the song could be and what it wanted to be, but it misses the mark. Is it bad, necessarily? No. Well, sometimes. Read the actual review for reasons.
4- BELOW AVERAGE. This song has a lot of potential and I want to like it, but it fails to either do something big right, or a lot of little things right.
5- AVERAGE. This is the middle of the road. If I give something this rating, it means exactly that. It is average. Nothing makes it stand out too much in either direction.
6- ABOVE AVERAGE. I like it. There are lots of things the song did right. A good album will get this rating while a decent song will receive it.
7- EXCEPTIONAL. This is amazing and I want to listen to it more. An album with this score would be considered an 8.5-9/10 on other people's reviews.
8- AMAZING. These are the songs I love to talk about because they are only missing one or two bits to push them to almost perfection. This is a really really good score to get
9- ALMOST PERFECTION. A lot of the songs that most people would consider 10/10 will fall into this category. Unless I can say for certain that it is a 10/10, it is going to go in here.
10- PERFECTION. It is rare that I give this rating, but it's self-explanatory. This is a song/album that has no flaws, or the flaws that are there somehow help the song.