That's unfortunate. If the album is filled with more "Anything Goes," then certainly that score is warranted. ICGYABL and NB were both pretty good though, so I'm hoping the rest of the album is more along those lines.
This won't get great reviews. It will be interpreted as a safe christmas gift option for grandparents. Not being pop does not innately mean it will be respected. As much as he's doing the most, Brando's prediction of around 65 will probably be correct, but I'd be delighted to be proven wrong.
I feel more indie reviewers will be more negative along the lines of 'let's trash this and make out that we know a lot about jazz hurr hurr' whereas more mainstream-oriented publications will give it moderate scores centred around 'oh **** Lady Gaga can belt out jazz songs'.
Perched for SPIN, Pitchfork, The A.V. Club, Consequence of Sound, and Drowned in Sound.
Not a fan of PopMatters, but I know they will drag this as well. Their scores are so erratic and unpredictable, but this seems like the kind of album that they would drag.
Wow, Alexa sounds like a total bad name i would not want to place. I will give her that she is right about anything Goes being vocally weird but Nature Boy and I can't give you anything are really really strong and done well.
It's the oldest trick in the book: Past-prime pop singer attempts to boost his or her relevance in the face of dwindling sales and hastily changing trends by commissioning the help of a hotter, more bankable artist. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga's Cheek to Cheek is the latest product of such a collaboration—except I'm not referring to the octogenarian Bennett, who, after 60-plus years in the business, is selling more albums than ever before, but to Gaga, whose free-fall from the upper echelons of pop has been as precipitous as her rise was meteoric.
Perched for SPIN, Pitchfork, The A.V. Club, Consequence of Sound, and Drowned in Sound.
Not a fan of PopMatters, but I know they will drag this as well. Their scores are so erratic and unpredictable, but this seems like the kind of album that they would drag.
Perched for SPIN, Pitchfork, The A.V. Club, Consequence of Sound, and Drowned in Sound.
Not a fan of PopMatters, but I know they will drag this as well. Their scores are so erratic and unpredictable, but this seems like the kind of album that they would drag.
I don't think Pitchfork will touch it. They only reviewed The Fame Monster. AV Club probably will review it, not too sure on the others.
Inb4 they review Gaga instead of the album, just like how they did with ARTPOP.
"... the problem is that Gaga has ditched pop music and went to make a jazz album with Tony. CTC 1/5"
"... this past March Gaga performed her hit single Swine at the SXSW festival, and during the performance, her friend, Millie puked on her some coloured milk. And we didn't like the performance. CTC 0/5"
"... ARTPOP was a flop. CTC 2/5" "Cheek To Cheek doesn't sound like The Fame Monster. CTC 2/10"
I'm not ready.
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It's the oldest trick in the book: Past-prime pop singer attempts to boost his or her relevance in the face of dwindling sales and hastily changing trends by commissioning the help of a hotter, more bankable artist. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga's Cheek to Cheek is the latest product of such a collaboration—except I'm not referring to the octogenarian Bennett, who, after 60-plus years in the business, is selling more albums than ever before, but to Gaga, whose free-fall from the upper echelons of pop has been as precipitous as her rise was meteoric.
Can anyone spot the difference? Like, what an absolutely awful review... unprofessional and unnecessary for sure.
Like, what an absolutely awful review... unprofessional and unnecessary for sure.
