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About the early reviews of POP: yes, they -were- very positive, but remember that the herd thinking goes both ways. Oasis' "Be Here Now" had a brilliant 5-star review in the Q magazine before they realised that maybe the album wasn't as good as they made it to be. Which is not to say that a lot of people didn't simply jump on a let's-bash-POP bandwagon; it's just that it's hard to know whether that initial praise was genuine or whether it's nothing but a product of the hype that usually surrounds a work of an artist/band from whom everyone expects nothing less than brilliance.