Talk:XO (song)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Prism (talk · contribs) 16:53, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Prose

Lead section

• "XO" is a song recorded by American singer Beyoncé for her fifth studio album, Beyoncé (2013). (remove recorded and substitute for with from)
• "Ryan Tedder co-wrote and co-produced "XO" with Terius "The-Dream" Nash and Beyoncé with additional production handled by Chauncey "Hit-Boy" Hollis and HazeBanga Music" → "Ryan Tedder co-wrote and co-produced "XO" with Terius "The-Dream" Nash and Beyoncé, with additional production handled by Chauncey "Hit-Boy" Hollis and HazeBanga Music."
• "The usage of an audio sample from Space Shuttle Challenger disaster included at the beginning of the song" (remove included)
• "and was directed" (was is redundant)
• "Upon its release" (this is already written in the critical reception part of the lead, and it isn't essential to the sentence)
• "and praised its happy atmosphere" → ", praising its happy atmosphere"
• "the latter artist" (remove artist)

Production and release

• WP:OVERCITE on the first paragraph (of FN1). Just keep it at the end of the paragraph.
• "whilst" → "while"
• "In October 2013" → "The next month, (...)"
• "the album" → "Beyoncé"
• Repetitive wording: "reported", "reported", "reportedly" (perhaps announced...)
• "contemporary hit radio" → "mainstream stations" (repetition)
• "very explicit and risqué" (some readers may not even know what risqué means, and if it is explicit it's assumed that it's risqué, particularly for CHR. remove and risqué.)
• Place FN10 on the end of the paragraph. Readers can wait for the ref.
• With regards to the lead: There are only references for the US and Italy, so why worldwide in the lead?

Composition

• Does the first sentence need six references? This seriously needs trimming...
• "The song also musically" (remove musically, how could it lyrically contain riffs?)
• Remove "rest of the"
• "compared [...] with" → "compared [...] to"
• 808 & Heartbreaks is actually in singular form... if this is an error from the source, add {{sic}} to Heartbreaks.
• "It has been described as a universal love song which talks about love" You don't say!
• "demands from the listener" (awkward)
• Could you blockquote The 405's quote? It's really hard to read this paragraph.
• I understand why the Sampling controversy part is included here, but you should have this in its own section. The Composition section is big enough.

Critical reception

• Is DJ Booth reliable? (I actually don't know)
• "Philip Sherburne of Spin found "zero-G bounce... which, purely in terms of sonics, makes the most compelling argument for space tourism I have yet to come across".[43]z" → remove the z at the end

Chart performance

• "It spent additional weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 being placed at number 83 in its last week" (add a comma before being)
• "set a peak at number 12" → "peaked/reached/..." How it is right now is a bit awkward.
• What position did "XO" reach the week after the performance? Add it to the section.

Music video

• I don't like the usage of tabloids here. Isn't The Daily Telegraph source enough to say that Beyoncé was filming a video in Coney Island? I don't think mentioning her clothing is necessary...
• "spotted" repeats in the Telegraph sentence

Live performances

• "as a whole" is unnecessary

Charts / Certifications

• Merge those sections

References

• Sometimes they're a bit inconsistent... Only websites should have publishers, while publications' owners are optional. However, if you're going to include them, do that for all printed works.

Everything  Done. DJ Booth is a reliable source, listed by Metacritic for album reviews. Also I did not merge the charts and certifications section as they should be separated. My love is love (talk) 17:40, 26 June 2014 (UTC)