We all mock Lady Gaga for calling Born This Way the "album of the decade", because when it comes to performance, longevity, and sales, Born This Way falters against other powerhouses like 21.
However, allow me to argue this point: When has an album been so anticipated, so hyped, and so overdone like Born This Way has been?
Remember how Gaga was on top of the world during 2009-most of 2010? Everyone was dying to see where this superstar would go next
We were all aching to hear any sort of leak from this album. We would go insane as soon as she released a promo image. For months people speculated about everything this album had to offer, from how the first single would sound (Remember when people thought it would be a ballad?
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), to how much it would sell in the first week (I remember when I thought that 500K was "pushing it").
Born This Way was easily the most anticipated album since I dunno, Justified or Oops or something. I don't know what Duca wants, guaranteed.
So, although Gaga wishes it were the cultural force it could have been, I think we can settle for Born This Way being the most overhyped, rabidly anticipated album of the NOT MILLENIUM BECAUSE OOPS.