boy I think that I'm in with you
got me doing silly things when it comes to you
boy I think that I'm in with you
got me telling all my friends how I feel for you
“This is the reverse of Warhol,” Gaga recently told an interviewer. “This is the reverse of the soup can, this is art imprinted onto pop culture.” A pop album that truly tried to democratize the avant-garde would have been a great idea, but “Artpop” isn’t it. Gaga doesn’t have a lot to say about culture, except in the most cartoonishly broad strokes. Everything is burned down to its most obvious, tired signifiers: Versace, Warhol, Louboutin, Jeff Koons (the latter being Gaga’s fellow high-toned kitsch enthusiast, and the album’s cover artist). It doesn’t say much for “Artpop” that its avant-garde touchstones haven’t been avant since the Clinton administration.