Talk:Black Widow (Iggy Azalea song)/GA1

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Reviewer: Prism (talk · contribs) 16:23, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Lead and infobox

Prose

""Black Widow" is a song by Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, included as track on her debut studio album, The New Classic (2014)." — This reads peculiarly, and not in a good way: perhaps subtituting "included as track on" with "from" would be a better option?
"comprises of a" — remove 'of'; usually 'comprised' is used for introducing a list... how about "includes" or "features"?
Now that I took a better look at the lead I don't really like the way it's organized... How about:

[...] It was written by Azalea, Katy Perry, Sarah Hudson, Benjamin Levin and duo StarGate; the latter also produced the song. The track is influenced by snap and trap genres, containing an onimous steel drum rhythm, heavy bass and a sparse beat. Its composition has been the subject of music critics' comparisons to Perry's "Dark Horse" and other StarGate productions, some of which have been negative. Other journalists, however, praised its beat and Azalea and Ora's vocals. [the rest can stay still]

You don't talk anything about how Azalea got the song, its recording, etc when plenty of that information exists in the Background section.
"At the time of the album's release" → "Upon the album's release"
"the track's beat" → "its beat"
The first sentence of the second paragraph runs on forever.

I've re-written the entire lead as per your advice! I hope it's okay now!

Background

Prose

"asked Perry to promote" → "asked Perry if she could promote"

Done

"Perry's frequent [...]" → "the latter's frequent [...]"

Done

Break the text in two paragraphs, with the second starting on "On 4 June 2013"

Done

"Azalea then approached Perry about "Black Widow", asking, "Hey, Katy, why don't you let me take this and do something for it? I have an album that's just about to drop. And I would love to see it kind of come out for the world to hear ASAP," which Perry then agreed to." — paraphrase the quote

Done

"Perry after party" — "Perry's after party"

Done

repetition of "with the assistance of"

Done
References

Gigwise isn't reliable.

Why not?
Style

Move the quote to stay at the right of the second paragraph I asked you to space out.

Done

I'll do a copyedit of this section soon.

Composition

Prose

Clarify the capitalizing part...

Actually I was stuck on stating this with encycolpedic style. What I'm trying to say is, the song builds and builds without blowing up and exploding. The sources use "blowing up" and "exploding" and I found that encyclopedic.

Review history

Everything else is fine! :) prism^△ 16:23, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Prism: Thanks so much for the review, I've done everything except remove Gigwise as it's the first time I've heard that they're unreliable?—Cool Marc 12:03, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]