Okay, so this review is from The Times newspaper (very high-culture newspaper). You can't access it unless you have a digital membership, or buy the newspaper, so I've typed it out for you guys.
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It's fair to say Lady Gaga likes singing about sex. "Do you want to see me naked, lover?" she asks on Aura, the opening track on this, her fourth album. "Touch me! Touch me! Touch me!" goes G.U.Y., while Sexxx Dreams remains, resolutely, about dreaming about sex. Now 27 - and the second most influential person of the decade, according to Time magazine readers - Gaga has never been lewder or louder. The music is exhausting: harsh synth and bass riffs that recall the club behemoths Nero and, on the pulverising Swine, a noise like dragging a knife over a draining board. The first half is so hyper, there is little nuance or, indeed, the rise and fall essential to achieving a high in dance. Yet days after listening, I was still humming the songs. The vast choruses of Venus and Applause. The excellent, Killers-like soft rock of Gypsy. The theatrics of the piano ballad Dope, where Gaga auditions for the lead in a musical of Elton John's life, and wails loopily about love and drugs. ARTPOP vies with Kanye West's Yeezus to be the most sonically assaulting mainstream album of the year. Gaga remains pop's most ridiculous, restless female. And that's before we get onto the clothes.
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They made ARTPOP the 'Album of the Week'. This was another review from a different section/day of the same newspaper:
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It's a wonder you can hear Lady Gaga's third album over the sound of knives being sharpened. Listen to it, though, and the impression is not of a pretentious diva who's lost it but of a woman who has channelled a turbulent few years into a rather fine record. Aura and Applause are among the most energising dance-pop ditties on her CV while Swine, which she has hinted is about an abusive relationship, is an epic riposte of woozy vocals and the fabulous hook "You're just a pig inside a human body."
4/5 stars
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This newspaper usually looks down on pop music/Lady Gaga, and reviewed BTW quite mediocre.
. This better not be her first studio album to not hit #1 in Canada.
I hope SNL is killer though.
Did the monster's suddenly get lives?
I listen to it everyday now. 
