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Originally posted by Vertigo Stick
TF sounds dated today because that sound was happening (something Gaga helped) during that period. ARTPOP sounds dated because in 2013 that sound was hot back in 2010. It was dead upon arrival.
That being said I don't think ARTPOP has songs that are unlistenable. As individual songs they're cute, but defintely not worthy of being on album that proclaimed it was the bridge between art and pop. Majority of ARTPOP works best as B-Sides. DWUW may be the only true star on the album. Sexxx Dreams is also a strong contender, witht GUY being the 2010/2011 smash that never happened.
ARTPOP shows that Gaga was either forced into releasing it or she had ran out of ideas. It is much better to think of the album as a pop music parody. I am glad the album album makes you feel this way as I love when music does that.
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I agree about that first paragraph, I actually tried to communicate that in my post but it didn't come across very well. I agree very much so.
DWUW is for sure the best song on ARTPOP (and in my opinion, her best song in general), as is Sex Dreams, the title track, G.U.Y., Venus, Applause, Gypsy and Aura. MANiCURE is great, along with Fashion!, Jewels N' Drugs, MJH and Donatella. Dope and Swine are probably my least favourite on the record but I still love them, I just prefer the live versions most of the time. Also, the album sonically was never meant to present artistic pop music (even though all of Gaga's music is an art form), the art was intended to come from the surrounding campaign, which we saw hints of but since it all went to **** she never had the chance to execute everything properly and show the concept that she explained on the mission statement on July 11th.
ARTPOP becoming so 'watered down' was mostly down to the fans though. Since Marry The Night's top 30 peak, everyone cried out for TF 2.0 and EDM because it was popular while she was working on the album, so she combined these two goals and some urban influences (mostly from Troy's influence) to create the music for the album. She listened to fans so,
so much, I don't think anyone realises. Mindtrappa on PopJustice (who is the admin of OperationGaga) said she was switching between the versions of the songs we got and 'harder' versions through the whole week before she turned the album in, based mostly on the fans outside the studio that she would play parts of songs to and they would give feedback that she would build on.
It's a miracle that she managed to make such a great album out of such ****** circumstance. I mean, if you could have listed things that could go wrong before and during a huge pop music album campaign, most of them went wrong for ARTPOP. And that is awful because through all of the outside noise from Troy and fans telling her what to do, she managed to make a collection of songs that really show her love for pop music and display who
she is, not who the fans are, or what the fame does or means, but who Lady Gaga is an artist, musician, fashion icon, drug addict, "devil-worshipper", lover, female, feminist and most importantly, a human being.
He ruins women's careers.
The artistic masterpieces that could be. 