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A concept album is a studio album where all musical or lyrical ideas contribute to a single overall theme or unified story. In contrast, typical studio albums consist of a number of unconnected songs (lyrically and otherwise) performed by the artist. It has been argued that concept albums should refer only to albums that bring in themes or story lines from outside of music, given that a collection of love songs or songs from within a certain genre are not usually considered to be a "concept album."
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Most pop artists (and pretty much most artists in general these days) don't make concept albums. Have any of your faves put out concept albums?
Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
Each song is based in a fear specifically tied to fame. It is also a part of the "ying-yang" of fame, the contrast of her debut album The Fame
Janelle Monáe - The ArchAndroid
An album constructed around a story of an android that falls in love and travels through time. All the songs are connected into one whole story.
Pala - Friendly Fires
An album about the story of a person stranded in a distant island
M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
A two-disc album about a brother and sister communicating with each other through the songs. One disc is the brother, the other is the sister.
I stan hard for it, but where did Janet say it's a concept album?
at Britney Jean being mentioned twice.