Talk:King of America/GA1
GA Review[edit]
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Reviewer: BennyOnTheLoose (talk · contribs) 22:16, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
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Copyvio check
- I reviewed the top few matches found using Earwig's Copyvio detector - all sources of 15.3% or more. No concerns. Matches are attributed quotes, titles, or phrases acceptable per WP:LIMITED.
- No issues around close paraphrasing from the offline sources I reviewed.
Images
- No licence issues. FUR provided for the album cover. Image of Burnett is relevant. Caption and positioning are fine, and ALT text is provided.
Background and development
- Spot check on
so the music itself would "shine through...unadorned"
- source has "allowing the tenderness in his music to shine through relatively unadorned"; any reason not to use the "relatively"?
- Re-added
- Spot check on
he stripped the songs of the "musical kinks" and made the words clearer: "I started thinking more about the songs and much less about the records. It became clear to me that I had to write very, very simple songs.
- no issues
Recording
- Spot check on
Over half of the final album's songs were completed in three days
- not quite, per the sources used. Thomson has "Almost half the album was recorded in the first three days;" Hinton has "they cut half the album in three days".
- My bad. Changed to 'About half' as a good in-between
Music and lyrics
- Should "Americana" be capitalised? It is at Americana (music).
- Done
Compared to the studio-driven production of Costello's previous albums,[25][32] King of America features a mostly acoustic sound...
- isn't it something like "In contrast to..."?
- Fixed
O'Riordan received a co-writing credit on "Lovable"
- almost sounds like the credit wasn't deserved. Maybe just use ""co-wrote"?
- Done
is a slower piece
- slower than what? Maybe just "slow"?
- Done
"suffer from self-delusion".
- if this is a direct quote, attribut it to Perone.
- Done
Some commentators interested its inclusion as a possible restatement of the shedding of the Elvis Costello persona
- is it "interpreted" rather than "interested"?
- Yep, fixed
Featuring Jo-El Sonnier on accordion, Perone describes the song as an "easy-going country-Cajun hybrid ballad"
- not sure that stating this with "Featuring Jo-El Sonnier on accordion," quite works.
- Fixed
Packaging
- Spot check on
s "sardonic and knowing"
- no issues a crowd speckled with rhinestones
- typo!
- Fixed
Commentators at the time found his look both "ridiculous" and "serious", both of which capture the spirit of the material itself
- sounds like individual commentators found it both ridiculous and serious; is that the meaning intended?
- Yep, slightly reworded
destroys the premonitions set by Costello's previous cover arts
- "preconception" and "art"/"earlier album covers"?
- Fixed
- Spot check on
The latter nickname was given to Costello by his former producer Nick Lowe due to his tendency to frequently break guitar strings
- no issues
Release
- Spot check on
The label reportedly refused to release the album without including the Costello name
- OK
Critical reception
his best album since Trust (1981) and Imperial Bedroom (1982).
- doesn't quite read right given that they were released in different years, and the following sentence talks about an even earlier album.
- Shortened to "best album in several years"
- As there is only the one subheading in this section, maybe rename the section and lose the subheading?
- That's a holdover from expansion before I added the legacy heading, my bad.
- Spot check on
"still this blighted isle's finest songwriter, a force who, at his best, is simply beyond peer".
- source has "still this blighted isle's finest songwriter, a force, who at his best, is simply beyond peer" (i.e. a comma is in a different place)
- Fixed
Legacy
- You could wikilink to Brill Building (genre)
- Was not aware that was an actual genre; that let's us ditch the quotes around it!
- Spot check on
criticisms of Costello during this time, ... all rooted in King of America,
- reads like the criticisms are rooted in King of America. Might need to be expanded a bit, something like "could all be dated back to King of America"? (I expect you can come up with a better wording.)
- how about "originated on"?
- You could wikilink Spin (magazine) at the first instance.
- Added
Reissues
- Spot check on
Sheffield called the reissue superior to the original album
- OK, given his comments that three named tracks "didn't make the cut, but they should have" for the original.
Track listing / Personnel / Charts / Notes
- Personnel - is the small text appropriate where used? (It may be, I haven't checked guidance or precedents.)
- Fixed
- Best to re-use the Melody Maker ref for note c
- Fixed
Sources
- As a general comment, not related directly to this nomination, you might be interested in getting hold of Griffiths, Dai (2008) Elvis Costello.
- Sources all look good.
Infobox and lead
- Both look good.
Great work, zmbro. I've been waiting for this to appear at GA! Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 14:38, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
- BennyOnTheLoose All set. Thanks for the kind words and picking this up so quickly! :-) – zmbro (talk) (cont) 17:30, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
- I'm passing the article for GA as I'm satisfied that it meets the criteria. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 23:40, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.