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Originally posted by TheGreatestThing
While Gaga did come off as pretentious at times in the ARTPOP era, some of the concepts she talked about were really cool.
For instance, "reverse Warholian expedition". Put simply, Andy Warhol was famous for popart, taking elements of popular culture and making them into high art. He took the Campbell's soup can and made an avant-garde art piece of it. What Gaga wanted to do was reclaim the soup can. She wanted to take the popart, pop culture fused with art and creativity, and put it back into pop culture. Hence, ARTPOP and "art is in pop culture in me".
So many neat things like that. It would be nice to observe the era in a vacuum without all the mess, but alas.  |
I've been saying this for at least six months now, but no one seems to care.
The ideas were there, without question - it's just that the execution was a bit off because of all the behind the scenes troubles. I for one definitely appreciate the album and it's era, vacuum or not. Sure, there were a number of errors, and more things than I an count that I wish were done a bit differently, but, obviously, I've learned to look past those things, to take what Gaga said about the album and transpose it to the music and visuals without
Troy's the era's mess getting in my way.
but I'm loving the re-branding. I'm just not really interested.
