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Celeb News: ARTPOP Official Reviews: 61/100
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Actually, it's her second best alberm. I wish you weren't a hater so you could see the light but I'll let you stay mad. Reviews sometimes don't reflect the quality of the album.  |
What kind of hater goes to Born This Way Ball, and gets into the monster pit 
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What kind of hater goes to Born This Way Ball, and gets into the monster pit |
You apparently. 
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The Observer (UK) - Lady Gaga, ARTPOP Review:
Artpop finds Lady Gaga in an unfamiliar position – on the back foot, flexing hard to keep her dominion over 21st-century pop. On her fourth album, a great many elements are thrown at the wall – a splatter effect of ideas, acrylic digitals and a few rappers – in an effort to re-establish brand Gaga as some luridly necessary cultural force. Preceded by the usual teases and leaks, Artpop arrives on a wave of more unscripted drama too. Gaga performed a new track, Dope, live at the YouTube music awards the other night, weeping what certainly seemed like real tears. Live and on record, Dope is one of the more traditional and rewarding moments on Artpop, in which the former Stefani Germanotta sits at a piano, belting out a love song to her fans. "I need you more than dope," she slurs, plenty of saliva in her throat.
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What the lyric lacks in poetry, it makes up for in believability, partly because the previous song on Artpop is Mary Jane Holland, a track about just how much Gaga values her marijuana, and partly because one of Gaga's strongest assets as a star has been her rapport with the fans – Little Monsters – who consume her stuff. Even more arresting than the tears, though, has been the news that Gaga has parted company with her manager, Troy Carter, whose hand has reportedly guided the business and technological aspects of Gaga's career, not least harnessing Little Monster power into the "likes", retweets and views of the new pop economy. Was he sacked? Did he leave a sinking ship? We don't know, but what is certain is that Applause, the first single, could only manage a so-so No 4 in the US charts, having been thrashed by Katy Perry's Roar, and as a result there's a slightly more frantic air than usual surrounding Artpop, which retrenches hard into club music after the mixed reaction to the rockier Born This Way (2011).
The sad news is that there is no killer blow on Artpop – no Bad Romance, basically – that will automatically glue Gaga to her pedestal. It's no instant classic, then, but neither is it the calamity that some have foreseen, being a typically mixed Gaga outing with some ludicrous highs, questionable digressions (Jewels 'N' Drugs, in which three rappers add little to the mix; or Donatella, a charmless ode to the equally charmless Versace supremo) and plenty of not-unpleasant filler.
All Gaga's talk of art and pop combining in some heretofore unimaginably radical way boils down to Jeff Koons designing the cover, and a track called Venus, which manages to pack in references to the Botticelli painting, outer space and cosmic jazzer Sun Ra (whose song Rocket Number Nine is used as source material, via leftfield French synth-rock act Zombie Zombie). The bloopy title track boasts the great reveal that "my Artpop could mean anything" and the impression of a pop star scrambling, post-hoc, towards coherence never goes away. Illusion, masks, bareness, posing: all are exercised as ideas, without Gaga really settling on a preference.
Some of the most disjointed tracks here make the most sense, perversely enough. Swine, premiered at the iTunes festival in September, remains a landmark collage of a song. There's the initial disgust directed at an abuser, rendered as umpteen pre-choruses, and there's the frenetic and lengthy digital workout, whose relation to the first bit is coincidental, at best, but whose pace is enticing. Swine is Artpop's wow-factor centrepiece, if not its greatest hit.
That would be the genuinely funky Fashion!, one of those rare times when you can actually hear Gaga's penchant for David Bowie in her tremendous, gliding vocal. "I own the world! We own the world!" she declares airily, on Artpop's only real moment of genuine artistic abandon.
RATING: 3/5
60/100 on MetaCritic
http://www.theguardian.com/music/201...-artpop-review
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The Independent On Sunday - Lady Gaga, ARTPOP Review:
What’s in a title? For Lady Gaga and her comeback, a fair bit: responses to her third album may well revolve around how her branding of it as a “reverse Warholian expedition” hits you.
The pitch sounds like a fussy regurgitation of old ideas on the surface, which it is, but erase from existence those pop stars who dressed up cannibalised ideas in fancy togs and pop might be a duller place. This is Artpop’s contradiction: though simpler than its presentation seems to promise, it has enough fun splatter-gunning ideas to make sure some of it sticks.
No one will turn to “Aura” for nuanced insights into gender politics (“My veil is protection for the gorgeousness of my face”), for example, but, as sloganeering (“Dance, sex, art pop, tech”) and Hollywood diva overload go, it proves Gaga can still make a dramatic entrance. Slick and ballistic respectively, prime bangers “Sexxx Dreams” and “MANiCURE” leaven a laboured opening run of songs about sex, performance and revelation. Likewise, the overstated double whammy of the clunking satire “Donatella” and funk-lite “Fashion!” is ameliorated by the latter’s Daft Punk-ish drive.
Throwaways (“Jewels n’ Drugs”) and power-ballad (“DOPE”) digressions weigh heavy on the pacing, but the arch “Mary Jane Holland” and “Swine” occupy livelier turf. So does the title track, which pairs a sleek Eurodisco chorus with a virtual manifesto: “My artpop could mean anything.”
It could also mean nothing, but that’s Lady Gaga for you: contradictory, evasive, often infatuated with her over-egged ambiguities, but not quite predictable enough to dismiss yet.
RATING: 3/5
60/100 on MetaCritic
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...s-8929508.html
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Good lord, Her reviews from the U.K:
Telegraph: 80
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Guardian: 60
Independent: 60
Independent Sunday: 60
Observer: 60
Quietus: 50
MusicOMH: 40
WTF?
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Watch Rolling Stone give her a 60 too.
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Originally posted by YoYo
Good lord, Her reviews from the U.K:
Telegraph: 80
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Guardian: 60
Independent: 60
Independent Sunday: 60
Observer: 60
Quietus: 50
MusicOMH: 40
WTF?
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So it's going down lol?
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Originally posted by Artemisia
a 68? Lmao with how much the monsters were praising this album I would have expected more. I guess she's not that much better than the other girls.
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YOU were PRAISING EACH track from ARTPOP on OperationGaga like STOP sis  stop trying to be something you're not
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60 is 3/5 stars, that's a good score |
That's basically a C-
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That's basically a C- |
What?! Under a 75 was an F at my high school. 
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These reviews are actually quite unsurprising to me, in all reality. The album is nothing groundbreaking. Extremely cohesive and thematic, yes. But not a curveball like her other works have been.
And I believe that's exactly what she wanted it to be, or maybe not, maybe her ideas were fresh but the GP beat her to it.
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The UK are so merciless with their reviews sometimes, it's either they are all against you or with you, with Popjustice being the irrelevant outlier 
A score from 65-68 is fine for her, all her contemporaries have them.
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So we have 5 positive scores and 4 mixed according to metacritic? It's a great score imo. She could possibly reach 70 which would be ideal but a great score non the less
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What?! Under a 75 was an F at my high school. |
Slant's review is the closest to mirroring my thoughts on the album.
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YOU were PRAISING EACH track from ARTPOP on OperationGaga like STOP sis stop trying to be something you're not
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Lmao the only track I praised was GUY and Sexxx Dreams. I have said several times on there that the album ain't that good. Sit.
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Originally posted by lancelovesgaga
YOU were PRAISING EACH track from ARTPOP on OperationGaga like STOP sis stop trying to be something you're not
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Artemisia is one of the most outspoken ARTPOP "haters" on OGG, so I don't know what you're talking about sis.
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Artemisia is one of the most outspoken ARTPOP "haters" on OGG, so I don't know what you're talking about sis.
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Isn't she banned there? If she isn't, my mistake. She's banned so often it's hard to tell.
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she's doing better than i expected
let's hope she listens to the critics and tries harder on her next album 
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The score is quite fair. I don't think it deserves more than a 70.
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I just hope it makes it to 70 
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