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Because it's not doing anything right. It doesn't serve any purpose.
There's no high art to be found on ARTPOP. There's no true experimentation to be found on ARTPOP. Many (including me) would say those two points don't matter so long as there's good, fun, accessible pop music on the record, the kind Gaga has made herself known for with tracks like Bad Romance and Paparazzi, but there's none of that either. It really is a disaster.
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Time Out: Lady Gaga – 'ARTPOP' Album Review
A homage to great pop that's great in itself
Lady Gaga’s long-awaited third album is largely a tribute to the old masters. Not of art, but of pop (though ‘Artpop’ evidently doesn’t split hairs over the difference). Here, rather than beating an entirely new drum, Gaga is tipping her meat hat to a line-up of previous greats.
But her Ladyship didn’t earn her worldwide superstar status through mere pastiche. The basic elements might not be new, but the triumph of ‘Artpop’ is that is mixes its palette of influences in such entertaining ways. Madonna and Bowie are the constant inspirations: from the ‘Holiday’-aping ‘Fashion!’ to the cosmic pansexual playfulness of ‘GUY’ There are plenty of dance bangers, of course, but thankfully Gaga has mined their beats from the golden era of French house – Justice’s synths, for example, are all over tracks including the teasingly tipsy ‘Sexxx Dreams’.
The low points in ‘Artpop’ come when the Lady loses faith in her own-brand nostalgia: the world music silliness of ‘Gypsy’ is almost slayed by its ugly chart-dance excesses, while ‘Jewels N’ Drugs’ is an embarrassing attempt at trap music. Overall, however, this excellent if slightly sprawling LP reminds us how much Lady Gaga knows about classic hooks, high camp and huge choruses.
RATING: 4/5
http://www.timeout.com/london/music/...p-album-review
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The Evening Standard: Lady Gaga: ARTPOP – Album Review
This exhilarating musical bungee jump is the true sound of 2013, says John Aizlewood
n the five heady years since her debut album, The Fame, the former Stefani Germanotta has transformed herself from a Madonna wannabe into a global force (she has 40 million Twitter followers, whereas Madonna reaches just 200,000 hardy souls), but if Lady Gaga’s recent X Factor appearance is any yardstick, she still craves attention like a bolshy but insecure teenager.
Much rests on ARTPOP, and for the most part it delivers. It’s as annoying, frustrating and contradictory as its author but it’s also as brilliant, provocative and as thrilling as she can be.
At 15 tracks, it’s too long and too stodgy. A more rigorous editor would have trimmed the interminable title track and the feeble duet with R. Kelly, Do What U Want. But at its best, ARTPOP is an exhilarating musical bungee jump.
Built around stentorian keyboards, clattering electro-percussion and thumping backbeats, it’s constructed to soundtrack hair-waving, body-shaking routines at stadium shows. The startling opening triumvirate barely pause for breath as Gaga asks, “Do you want to see me naked, lover?” (no thanks, dear), on Aura, while Venus takes its lyrical cue from Europe’s The Final Countdown before she simpers “touch me, touch me” like Samantha Fox did back in 1986.
Strangely, for one so supposedly keen on empowerment, she’s a curiously submissive lyricist, whether suggesting “do what you want with my body” on Do What U Want or wailing that “I need you more than dope” on DOPE. She’s much more intriguing on the shark-eyed, rueful Fashion! and on the standout Swine, where she declares “I’m just a pig in a human body”. She has something to say: exactly what it is remains tantalisingly elusive, beyond her not entirely surprising admission on the poppy Applause that “I live for the applause”.
The only real change of pace is DOPE, where Gaga becomes a torch singer in search of a torch song, but ARTPOP is the true sound of 2013: impossibly busy, overflowing with ideas and in love with the idea of being loved.
RATING: 4/5
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/m...w-8920243.html
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Idolator Lady Gaga – 'ARTPOP' Album Review
In 2009, when “Just Dance” rose to the top of the singles chart, we desperately needed Lady Gaga. America hadn’t embraced a pop musician this brazen and flamboyant since Madonna (not to mention Boy George). Quite simply, the scrappy, self-made New Yorker with her dance-meets-glam-rock jams provided the perfect escapism for the recession-weary, music-loving public.
Just four years later, however, Gaga is a much different artist than the aspiring superstar who gave us the disco-pop of “Summerboy” and Bowie-as-Ziggy-Stardust pastiche “Brown Eyes” — tracks off The Fame that sound downright quaint compared to the jagged and spiky production on ARTPOP (out today, November 11).
Gaga’s third studio LP (sure, okay — let’s just go with the notion that the brilliant The Fame Monster is not a full album) states its case up front: If The Fame was about ambition and Born This Way was about acceptance (plus, you know, mermaids with green hair, government hookers and heavy metal lovers), ARTPOP’s opening number asks us if we’re ready to see “the girl behind the aura, behind the curtain.”
Lyrically, Gaga delivers on the insights. And, unsurprisingly, there’s not really much here that we haven’t heard from the singer’s predecessors in pop and rock over the years — tales of sex, love, drugs and Donatella. Melodically, though, with the exception of woefully out-of-place hip hop headscratcher “Jewels N’ Drugs,” ARTPOP is Mother Monster’s most cohesive work to-date. It’s here that she finally cements her “sound.”
Upon first listen — or even second — the employment of EDM throughout ARTPOP comes dangerously close to miring the whole thing down in a sloppy heap of overproduced mess. But you have to hand it to Gaga’s knack for savvy songwriting — those choruses chainsaw through the album’s flaws and rise like cream. “Aura,” “Venus,” “G.U.Y.” and “Sexxx Dreams” kick it all off like four relentless sucker punches to that part in the head where our craving for addictive pop is generated.
Said sex and drug references run amok on ARTPOP, as Gaga clearly tosses any hangups about being a “role model” for her younger Monsters out the window. “I lay in bed and touch myself and think of you,” she confesses on the not so subtle “Sexxx Dreams,” which, as mentioned, is one of the album’s standouts. Later, on the equally straightforward “Mary Jane Holland,” the singer declares, “When I ignite the flame and put you in my mouth, the grass eats up my insides and my brunette starts to sprout.” Not even the piano ballad “Dope” is without mention of intoxicating substances, as, of course, the title implies: “Been hurtin’ low from livin’ high for so long,” she laments, before offering, “Toast one last puff and two last regrets, three spirits and twelve lonely steps up heaven’s stairway to gold.”
The album’s centerpiece is “Do What U Want,” an unlikely duet with R. Kelly that succeeds in combining funk and ‘80s synth flourishes while still managing to sound timeless. With its harmonies and impeccable ad libs from both vocalists, the song is one of Gaga’s greatest compositions to date — one that also allows Robert Kelly the perfect vehicle for reminding us why he became one of R&B’s brightest stars two decades ago.
Quickly, back to “Jewels N’ Drugs”: WHAT THE HELL IS THIS DOING ON THE ALBUM? Okay, moving on…
While the first half of ARTPOP finds Lady Gaga driving through EDM territory, the record winds down with a bit of a throwback. “Mary Jane Holland” sounds like a first cousin of Born This Way’s “Heavy Metal lover.” Likewise, the upbeat, curiously sweet “Gypsy” is the twin sister of “The Edge Of Glory.” (It’s probably no coincidence, then, that the latter track was co-written by longtime Gaga collaborator RedOne.) The album closes out with its lead single, “Applause” — a song that, let’s face it, plays like a retread of the best bits from 2009 chart topper “Poker Face.”
At this point, the innocence Gaga displayed on The Fame and The Fame Monster is clearly a thing of the past. ARTPOP‘s greatest achievement is showing us a more focused artist than the one behind previous, all-over-the-place effort Born This Way. She might not have nailed it 100% this time around, but now more than ever, Lady Gaga has found herself on the right track.
Pops Like: A bible for weekend nightcrawlers doubling as Paris runway music.
Possible Future Singles: “Gypsy” would be the safest choice here, but why not throw caution to the wind and select the randy “Sexxx Dreams”?
RATING: 4/5
http://www.idolator.com/7492792/lady...p-album-review
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The Arts Desk: Lady Gaga: ARTPOP – Album Review
Can the queen of pop's latest match her spectacular media presence?
Lady Gaga is many times more imaginative, intriguing and entertaining than her pop peers. Rihanna, Katy Perry, Ellie Goulding, Rita Ora, Jessie J, Miley Cyrus, et al - she beats the lot of ‘em, hands down. It’s always a pleasure when she arrives back into the fray, when she starts courting the media for her latest project. Her world is informed by avant-garde art, extreme fashion, literature, underground gay culture and much more. She martials it into a mesmeric melee of narcissism, performance art and high kitsch (ARTPOP’s cover, for instance, was created by Jeff Koons). What’s more, while she has her panel of advisers – Haus of Gaga - she seems very much her own woman rather than acting as a flesh-candy cash cow for some cynical, male backroom team.
Thus it gives me no pleasure to report that her third album is her weakest. Where her last one, Born This Way, rode in on a wave of Teutonic techno spliced with ace synth-pop on nuggets such as “Judas” and “Americanos”, ARTPOP bangs relentlessly but lacks tunes. There’s also a tedious obsession with submissive sex. Even seasoned with splashes of classical mythology the ****o chic wears thin on songs such as masturbatory fantasy “Sexxx Dreams” or “G.U.Y.”, with its repeated wish “to be the girl underneath you”. And then there’s the single “Do What You Want” which requests we “do what you want with my body” and features the biggest sleaze in pop, R Kelly. Of course, being Gaga-land some of this can be read as coded messages regarding her relationship with fame and the media. Unfortunately, whatever it is, it’s not hugely memorable.
There are moments when she lights things up. The Joan Jett-goes-to-G.A.Y. pumper “MANiCURE”, the funk-step bounce of “Fashion!”, the stomping camp Versace tribute “Donatella”, the preposterous B-movie electro-pop epic "Aura", and the magnificently disdainful “Swine” with its refrain “I know, I know, I know, I know you want me/You’re just a pig inside a human body, Squeal-ah, squeal-ah, squeal-aaachhh, you’re so disgusting.” Overall, however, there’s little pacing and variety. Both her previous albums have been patchy but fun. This one, despite the presence of a crunk apocalypse, featuring hip hop stars TI, Too Short and Twista, and a Rick Rubin-produced piano ballad, just doesn’t quite get away with it.
RATING: 4/10
http://www.theartsdesk.com/new-music...dy-gaga-artpop
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Yeah, ARTPOP is likely to stay in the 60's. Real question is, will ARTPOP peak in the low 60's or mid 60's?
62-65 seems reasonable.
I'm signing off, ATRL is going to be messy for awhile. Dragging metacritic score and regardless of what the sales are for her first week, there will also be dragging.
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Because it's not doing anything right. It doesn't serve any purpose.
There's no high art to be found on ARTPOP. There's no true experimentation to be found on ARTPOP. Many (including me) would say those two points don't matter so long as there's good, fun, accessible pop music on the record, the kind Gaga has made herself known for with tracks like Bad Romance and Paparazzi, but there's none of that either. It really is a disaster.
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Isn't Gaga one of your favorite artists? It makes zero sense that you loved her before ARTPOP and now you can't stand her new songs.
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Honestly though... it really is because this is her weakest album that this album is getting panned...
I mean, when I can only listen to 5 songs off an album? Thats kinda really dissapointing...
I might drag gaga a lot, but I do listen to her a lot more then I admit...
Even with born this way, I like like 8-10 songs for quite a while before I got bored with them.. But this one legit has no swing to it like the other albums has. The Fame might have some fillers, but this album has so many songs that had so much hype, but basically became fillers.
The album deserves to be panned, I just don't understand why nobody else really agreed with me...
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Not surprised it's this low, I think it's her worst album. At first I thought it was on the same level as BTW and TF, but the more I listen the worse it gets. And I'm a huge Gaga fan.  I feel like the whole thing about "bringing art to pop" came back to bite her too. Still I love DWUW, G.U.Y., Applause, Gypsy, MJH, Sex Dreams, and Aura. But even when you compare these songs to the highlights from her past albums, they aren't quite on par.
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Ugh I had a feeling this would be her worst reviewed album but I thought it would be high 60s. If this falls below 60
I hope the reason Rolling Stone is taking a while with their review is because Interscope is finalizing that payola deal for 5 stars 
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I think one of those obsessed monsters needs to dig up old posts. I bet so many people are now turning on ARTPOP because of the reviews 
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Isn't Gaga one of your favorite artists? It makes zero sense that you loved her before ARTPOP and now you can't stand her new songs.
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Because her new songs don't match up to the quality I knew her for. How can anyone with a straight face say that any track on ARTPOP is as solid as tracks like Bad Romance, Monster, So Happy I Could Die, Heavy Metal Lover, Scheiße, Bloody Mary, etc.
I mean it's shocking how poor the music on ARTPOP compares to her previous work.
I still like her. Her old work hasn't disappeared. I'm just very disappointed.
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Time Out: Lady Gaga – 'ARTPOP' Album Review
A homage to great pop that's great in itself
Lady Gaga’s long-awaited third album is largely a tribute to the old masters. Not of art, but of pop (though ‘Artpop’ evidently doesn’t split hairs over the difference). Here, rather than beating an entirely new drum, Gaga is tipping her meat hat to a line-up of previous greats.
But her Ladyship didn’t earn her worldwide superstar status through mere pastiche. The basic elements might not be new, but the triumph of ‘Artpop’ is that is mixes its palette of influences in such entertaining ways. Madonna and Bowie are the constant inspirations: from the ‘Holiday’-aping ‘Fashion!’ to the cosmic pansexual playfulness of ‘GUY’ There are plenty of dance bangers, of course, but thankfully Gaga has mined their beats from the golden era of French house – Justice’s synths, for example, are all over tracks including the teasingly tipsy ‘Sexxx Dreams’.
The low points in ‘Artpop’ come when the Lady loses faith in her own-brand nostalgia: the world music silliness of ‘Gypsy’ is almost slayed by its ugly chart-dance excesses, while ‘Jewels N’ Drugs’ is an embarrassing attempt at trap music. Overall, however, this excellent if slightly sprawling LP reminds us how much Lady Gaga knows about classic hooks, high camp and huge choruses.
RATING: 4/5
http://www.timeout.com/london/music/...p-album-review
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The Evening Standard: Lady Gaga: ARTPOP – Album Review
This exhilarating musical bungee jump is the true sound of 2013, says John Aizlewood
n the five heady years since her debut album, The Fame, the former Stefani Germanotta has transformed herself from a Madonna wannabe into a global force (she has 40 million Twitter followers, whereas Madonna reaches just 200,000 hardy souls), but if Lady Gaga’s recent X Factor appearance is any yardstick, she still craves attention like a bolshy but insecure teenager.
Much rests on ARTPOP, and for the most part it delivers. It’s as annoying, frustrating and contradictory as its author but it’s also as brilliant, provocative and as thrilling as she can be.
At 15 tracks, it’s too long and too stodgy. A more rigorous editor would have trimmed the interminable title track and the feeble duet with R. Kelly, Do What U Want. But at its best, ARTPOP is an exhilarating musical bungee jump.
Built around stentorian keyboards, clattering electro-percussion and thumping backbeats, it’s constructed to soundtrack hair-waving, body-shaking routines at stadium shows. The startling opening triumvirate barely pause for breath as Gaga asks, “Do you want to see me naked, lover?” (no thanks, dear), on Aura, while Venus takes its lyrical cue from Europe’s The Final Countdown before she simpers “touch me, touch me” like Samantha Fox did back in 1986.
Strangely, for one so supposedly keen on empowerment, she’s a curiously submissive lyricist, whether suggesting “do what you want with my body” on Do What U Want or wailing that “I need you more than dope” on DOPE. She’s much more intriguing on the shark-eyed, rueful Fashion! and on the standout Swine, where she declares “I’m just a pig in a human body”. She has something to say: exactly what it is remains tantalisingly elusive, beyond her not entirely surprising admission on the poppy Applause that “I live for the applause”.
The only real change of pace is DOPE, where Gaga becomes a torch singer in search of a torch song, but ARTPOP is the true sound of 2013: impossibly busy, overflowing with ideas and in love with the idea of being loved.
RATING: 4/5
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/m...w-8920243.html
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Idolator Lady Gaga – 'ARTPOP' Album Review
In 2009, when “Just Dance” rose to the top of the singles chart, we desperately needed Lady Gaga. America hadn’t embraced a pop musician this brazen and flamboyant since Madonna (not to mention Boy George). Quite simply, the scrappy, self-made New Yorker with her dance-meets-glam-rock jams provided the perfect escapism for the recession-weary, music-loving public.
Just four years later, however, Gaga is a much different artist than the aspiring superstar who gave us the disco-pop of “Summerboy” and Bowie-as-Ziggy-Stardust pastiche “Brown Eyes” — tracks off The Fame that sound downright quaint compared to the jagged and spiky production on ARTPOP (out today, November 11).
Gaga’s third studio LP (sure, okay — let’s just go with the notion that the brilliant The Fame Monster is not a full album) states its case up front: If The Fame was about ambition and Born This Way was about acceptance (plus, you know, mermaids with green hair, government hookers and heavy metal lovers), ARTPOP’s opening number asks us if we’re ready to see “the girl behind the aura, behind the curtain.”
Lyrically, Gaga delivers on the insights. And, unsurprisingly, there’s not really much here that we haven’t heard from the singer’s predecessors in pop and rock over the years — tales of sex, love, drugs and Donatella. Melodically, though, with the exception of woefully out-of-place hip hop headscratcher “Jewels N’ Drugs,” ARTPOP is Mother Monster’s most cohesive work to-date. It’s here that she finally cements her “sound.”
Upon first listen — or even second — the employment of EDM throughout ARTPOP comes dangerously close to miring the whole thing down in a sloppy heap of overproduced mess. But you have to hand it to Gaga’s knack for savvy songwriting — those choruses chainsaw through the album’s flaws and rise like cream. “Aura,” “Venus,” “G.U.Y.” and “Sexxx Dreams” kick it all off like four relentless sucker punches to that part in the head where our craving for addictive pop is generated.
Said sex and drug references run amok on ARTPOP, as Gaga clearly tosses any hangups about being a “role model” for her younger Monsters out the window. “I lay in bed and touch myself and think of you,” she confesses on the not so subtle “Sexxx Dreams,” which, as mentioned, is one of the album’s standouts. Later, on the equally straightforward “Mary Jane Holland,” the singer declares, “When I ignite the flame and put you in my mouth, the grass eats up my insides and my brunette starts to sprout.” Not even the piano ballad “Dope” is without mention of intoxicating substances, as, of course, the title implies: “Been hurtin’ low from livin’ high for so long,” she laments, before offering, “Toast one last puff and two last regrets, three spirits and twelve lonely steps up heaven’s stairway to gold.”
The album’s centerpiece is “Do What U Want,” an unlikely duet with R. Kelly that succeeds in combining funk and ‘80s synth flourishes while still managing to sound timeless. With its harmonies and impeccable ad libs from both vocalists, the song is one of Gaga’s greatest compositions to date — one that also allows Robert Kelly the perfect vehicle for reminding us why he became one of R&B’s brightest stars two decades ago.
Quickly, back to “Jewels N’ Drugs”: WHAT THE HELL IS THIS DOING ON THE ALBUM? Okay, moving on…
While the first half of ARTPOP finds Lady Gaga driving through EDM territory, the record winds down with a bit of a throwback. “Mary Jane Holland” sounds like a first cousin of Born This Way’s “Heavy Metal lover.” Likewise, the upbeat, curiously sweet “Gypsy” is the twin sister of “The Edge Of Glory.” (It’s probably no coincidence, then, that the latter track was co-written by longtime Gaga collaborator RedOne.) The album closes out with its lead single, “Applause” — a song that, let’s face it, plays like a retread of the best bits from 2009 chart topper “Poker Face.”
At this point, the innocence Gaga displayed on The Fame and The Fame Monster is clearly a thing of the past. ARTPOP‘s greatest achievement is showing us a more focused artist than the one behind previous, all-over-the-place effort Born This Way. She might not have nailed it 100% this time around, but now more than ever, Lady Gaga has found herself on the right track.
Pops Like: A bible for weekend nightcrawlers doubling as Paris runway music.
Possible Future Singles: “Gypsy” would be the safest choice here, but why not throw caution to the wind and select the randy “Sexxx Dreams”?
RATING: 4/5
http://www.idolator.com/7492792/lady...p-album-review
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The Arts Desk: Lady Gaga: ARTPOP – Album Review
Can the queen of pop's latest match her spectacular media presence?
Lady Gaga is many times more imaginative, intriguing and entertaining than her pop peers. Rihanna, Katy Perry, Ellie Goulding, Rita Ora, Jessie J, Miley Cyrus, et al - she beats the lot of ‘em, hands down. It’s always a pleasure when she arrives back into the fray, when she starts courting the media for her latest project. Her world is informed by avant-garde art, extreme fashion, literature, underground gay culture and much more. She martials it into a mesmeric melee of narcissism, performance art and high kitsch (ARTPOP’s cover, for instance, was created by Jeff Koons). What’s more, while she has her panel of advisers – Haus of Gaga - she seems very much her own woman rather than acting as a flesh-candy cash cow for some cynical, male backroom team.
Thus it gives me no pleasure to report that her third album is her weakest. Where her last one, Born This Way, rode in on a wave of Teutonic techno spliced with ace synth-pop on nuggets such as “Judas” and “Americanos”, ARTPOP bangs relentlessly but lacks tunes. There’s also a tedious obsession with submissive sex. Even seasoned with splashes of classical mythology the ****o chic wears thin on songs such as masturbatory fantasy “Sexxx Dreams” or “G.U.Y.”, with its repeated wish “to be the girl underneath you”. And then there’s the single “Do What You Want” which requests we “do what you want with my body” and features the biggest sleaze in pop, R Kelly. Of course, being Gaga-land some of this can be read as coded messages regarding her relationship with fame and the media. Unfortunately, whatever it is, it’s not hugely memorable.
There are moments when she lights things up. The Joan Jett-goes-to-G.A.Y. pumper “MANiCURE”, the funk-step bounce of “Fashion!”, the stomping camp Versace tribute “Donatella”, the preposterous B-movie electro-pop epic "Aura", and the magnificently disdainful “Swine” with its refrain “I know, I know, I know, I know you want me/You’re just a pig inside a human body, Squeal-ah, squeal-ah, squeal-aaachhh, you’re so disgusting.” Overall, however, there’s little pacing and variety. Both her previous albums have been patchy but fun. This one, despite the presence of a crunk apocalypse, featuring hip hop stars TI, Too Short and Twista, and a Rick Rubin-produced piano ballad, just doesn’t quite get away with it.
RATING: 4/10
http://www.theartsdesk.com/new-music...dy-gaga-artpop
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m b v by My Bloody Valentine
R Plus Seven by Oneohtrix Point Never
Aleph by Gesaffelstein
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Monomania by Deerhunter
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How is BTW better than ARTPOP? Government Hooker, Scheiße, Bloody Mary, Heavy Metal Lover, The Edge Of Glory and maybe Marry The Night were the only really good songs on there to me.
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Almost every thread on this site is for anyone to post it's just that some people shouldn't post at threads where they add nothing to the conversation anyway.
Also, I happen to like Madonna more than Gaga since I've been a Madonna listener and admirer longer than Gaga.
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Because her new songs don't match up to the quality I knew her for. How can anyone with a straight face say that any track on ARTPOP is as solid as tracks like Bad Romance, Monster, So Happy I Could Die, Heavy Metal Lover, Scheiße, Bloody Mary, etc.
I mean it's shocking how poor the music on ARTPOP compares to her previous work.
I still like her. Her old work hasn't disappeared. I'm just very disappointed.
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It doesn't make sense to me because one of the main arguments I hear is that she didn't evolve and the songs are too similar to her old ones. Then how can people that were obsessed with this bitch before dislike the new songs if allegedly she didn't do anything different? ESPECIALLY when everyone was saying that after BTW she needed to tone it down and go back to her usual self. Don't you realize people are bashing it for the sake of it?
I think some people are just wanting to jump ship cause ARTPOP isn't getting good reviews or a lot of hype (sales).
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Because her new songs don't match up to the quality I knew her for. How can anyone with a straight face say that any track on ARTPOP is as solid as tracks like Bad Romance, Monster, So Happy I Could Die, Heavy Metal Lover, Scheiße, Bloody Mary, etc.
I mean it's shocking how poor the music on ARTPOP compares to her previous work.
I still like her. Her old work hasn't disappeared. I'm just very disappointed.
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I have to agree that this album doesn't have those standouts, DWUW is a standout to me though. This album as a whole is way better than BTW IMO, but her best hits in a way are behind her.
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