Observer: ARTPOP was a tour de force from start to finish
A Joanne diss piece that turns into a rave for ARTPOP halfway through. But where the **** were you in 2013, Dan Weiss?
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The best we can hope for is that her possibly disenfranchised monsters rediscover Artpop instead, her endlessly thrilling 2013 fun-house mirror of a third album, whose critical and commercial performance could be summed up as Chartflop.
Artpop was Gaga’s too-close-to-the-sun album even though she is the sun. It was over-the-top by design à la Michael Jackson’s Dangerous or Madonna’s Erotica, sharing Jackson’s explosion of genre and the Madonna’s preoccupation with sex, both qualities that exhaust pop fans, but shouldn’t.
A tour de force from start to finish, Artpop was likely damned by its release at the height of the her overexposure, so we focused on its flaws: a burqa strip-show fantasy of a leadoff track considered more misbegotten than bold (“Aura”), the usual fame-obsessed lyrics now considered more ******* than campy, and the curious decision to give R. Kelly carte blanche on “Do What U Want,” as in “with my body.” (A surgery-themed, Terry Richardson-helmed video was wisely scrapped.) The album cover was hideous. And the first single, “Applause”, underwhelmed pop radio, failing to make the awkward syntax of “live for the applause-plause” into trash-gold the way her career pinnacle “Bad Romance” did for “Gaga ooh-la-la.”
Nonsensical rambling about how 'good' it is to be such trash music.. I don't get.. whatever
No one asked him to review Artpop
It's an editorial piece. They're entitled to share their opinion as they see fit & if you don't like it, you don't have to read it. Accusing strangers of substance abuse problems because you don't agree with them is just
