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Discussion: MC: 68 | Joanne Review Thread | 22 Reviews
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MC: 68 | Joanne Review Thread | 22 Reviews
Counts for Metacritic
Joanne
Pretty Much Amazing - B+ = 83
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Joanne still represents a striking course correction for Lady Gaga. By abandoning the dance club for the dive bar, she may have tossed aside her status as a pop star once and for all. But Gaga has emerged as something better and truer.
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http://prettymuchamazing.com/reviews/lady-gaga-joanne
Telegraph UK - 4/5 = 80
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With big songs and big production, Joanne certainly sounds like the business. Yet while its modernity is expressed by mixing and matching genres or adding digital zing to familiar tropes, for all its bravura exuberance and pop slickness it is old fashioned to its core. Put it this way: Robbie Williams would be pleased as punch with this album, Drake and Rihanna … not so much.
When you go to extremes of image, decking yourself out in meat dresses and lobster hats, perhaps the boldest makeover left is to actually take off the mask and appear as yourself. Lady Gaga, it turns out, is an old-fashioned rock and roll showgirl at heart.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/wha...a-rock-and-ro/
The Line of Best Fit - 7.5/10 = 75
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It's not a perfect record and finds Gaga pulling in so many different directions, but these are songs tied together by a common feeling. There is so much warmth here, so much that's human, and a lot to love.
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https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/rev...dy-gaga-joanne
The A.V Club - 7.5/10 = 75
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Joanne may not become the multiplatinum blockbuster Bella Donna was, but the record absolutely feels like Gaga is once again on an upward trajectory.
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http://www.avclub.com/review/lady-ga...-joanne-244616
Rolling Stone - 3.5/5 = 70
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Joanne is Lady Gaga's best album in five years, since the disco-stick hair-metal manifesto that was Born This Way.
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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/al...joanne-w446032
AllMusic - 3.5/5 = 70
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Where previous Gaga albums were high-wire acts, Joanne is decidedly earth-bound, a record made by an artist determined to execute only the stunts she knows how to pull off.
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http://www.allmusic.com/album/joanne-mw0002982993
Los Angeles Times - 3/5 = 60
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Working together, they [Mark Ronson, Beck, Father John Misty and dudes from detail-obsessed rock bands like Queens of the Stone Age and Tame Impala] assemble some gorgeous pieces. ... Yet other songs, for all their vivid sonic color, lack strong stories.
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...nap-story.html
Exclaim - 3/5 = 60
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The album's peaks offer compelling paths forward for Gaga--the country balladry of "Million Reasons," the slinky pop of Florence Welch duet "Hey Girl"--but a dearth of memorable melodies makes Joanne's restlessness often feel aimless.
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http://exclaim.ca/music/article/lady_gaga-joanne
Spin - 3/5 = 60
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It’s understandable that Joanne finds Gaga performing authenticity, if only because it’s the strongest way to convey artistic evolution to the masses in 2016. The image here--the illusion, really--is as imperfect as it is meticulously rendered.
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http://www.spin.com/2016/10/lady-gag...-named-joanne/
The Guardian - 3/5 = 60
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Joanne stumbles a bit, and will be received with bafflement by everyone other than hardcore Little Monsters, but you can’t help admiring her boldness.
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...ani-germanotta
Independent UK - 3/5 = 60
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Since Artpop, Lady Gaga’s musical career has tended towards retrenchment. The Cheek To Cheek duets album with Tony Bennett established her credentials as a “proper” singer; and now this Mark Ronson-co-produced effort effectively abandons the electropop dance arrangements of Artpop in favour of more stolidly rockist fare, as if pursuing rock’n’roll authenticity. And to a certain extent it works, especially when Josh Homme’s on hand to lend gritty riffing and imaginative lead lines to some tracks: his spiky but fluid breaks on “A-Yo” and “John Wayne” are undoubted album highlights. Sadly, the bombastic orchestral stomper “Perfect Illusion”, a much-anticipated collaboration with Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, is less impressive, just stridently dull; while the peace plea “Come To Mama”, co-written with Father John Misty, is a big, sax-seasoned anthem in the Spector/Springsteen stops-out style.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...-a7369836.html
Slant: 3/5 = 60
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Although Joanne lacks the indelible pop hooks that those two influences [Elton John and Prince]--not to mention Gaga herself--are famous for, the album is more sonically consistent and thematically focused than the singer's last solo effort, the regressive Artpop.
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http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/r...dy-gaga-joanne
PopMatters: 3/5 = 60
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Even if Joanne fails to connect with you emotionally, it’s nonetheless the album that will make fans and observers once again rethink what they know about the daring diva. Make no mistake: even with all her extracurricular endeavors paying off cultural dividends, Gaga’s greatest achievement is yet to come, and Joanne, flaws and all, feels like the necessary step to get there.
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http://www.popmatters.com/review/lady-gaga-joanne/
Chicago Tribune: 2/5 = 50
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Once a step ahead of everyone else in recalibrating what it means to be a pop artist, she made her appropriations and reinventions look like fun. Now she sounds like she's just trying too hard.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...21-column.html
New York Times: 2/5 = 40
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While Joanne is elemental, nothing about it is bare. Instead, it’s confused, full of songs that feel like concepts in search of a home, small theater pieces extruded from other imaginary productions and collected in one miscellany bin.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/ar...ga-joanne.html
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let me get out of here while I still can
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Ready for the "If the album didn't include x and y it would've gotten 90+ on MC"...
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The Monsters told me it was gonna get only 5/5s tho? 
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The album is bad imo, I don't expect a high score.
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But while she may have eschewed the outlandish costumes for now, Gaga has merely replaced them with a different kind of pretense.
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Well, they gave Lemonade 3.5/5 so I don't believe them.. 
Anyway, waitng for more reviews! It deserves a 80. Nothing below 75.
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not you getting this thread with that sig 
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hahaha who reported this thread? I bet HDD thread will be reported too
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Ruthless, less score than they gave to artpop. I sense an upcoming meltdown. Hope I'm wrong.
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 they were generous imo, the album is very bad
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How are they reviewing it when the full album, the deluxe, isn't even out yet?  Losers.
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Very generous of them.
But hey, here we go. Monsters expect 85-95 range.
I predicted yellow zone. Early to mid 60s max. Let's see.
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Quite a generous score for how hard they dragged her to be honest
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Who cares. The album is great and I'm still buying it soooo
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