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Originally posted by toanythingtaboo
Agreed.
A change of tracklist could have improved the perception of ARTPOP. First impressions are everything, and leading with Aura-Venus-GUY was simply not good enough. Not when a lot of critics had already sharpened their claws, and their negativity influenced so many.
We're such an instant, fast-food culture that she needed to impress from the get-go to stand a chance.
Applause, for instance, made creative sense to go last but it could completely legitimately have gone first and started the album on a high.
At the end of the day though, it'd be hard for it not to sound too all over the place because you have the sex songs (Sexxx Dreams, Do What U Want, G.U.Y), the weird songs (Venus, ARTPOP, Aura), the fashion songs (Donatella, Manicure, Fashion!), the drug songs (Mary Jane Holland, Dope, Swine) and then...Gypsy and Applause.
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Originally posted by Whiskey Mouth
This just made me think of Applause opening the album and that would be completely amazing. Even though I think that it would have been hard to make the album seem cohesive either way because the sounds are just all over the place.
I mean, there is no way you can transition between songs without it sounding like an extreme jump. Maybe songs like Do What U Want and Sexxx Dreams would've matched together for their soft R&B melodies and maybe G.U.Y. and Applause around the top of the album to open it in a good note.
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She could've had 6/10 second interludes. Ex: Between G.U.Y. and Sexxx Dreams, have a spoken interlude of her talking gibberish over a transitional beat.
Could've been:
Aura (original Demo version)
Venus (Longer 7 minute version)
G.U.Y.
Interlude
Sexxx Dreams (Swinefest Version)
Jewels N' Drugs
MANiCURE
Do What U Want (Longer Version. One with both her original 2nd vers & R. Kelly's)
Interlude
ARTPOP
Interlude
Swine (Longer. More like Swinefest)
*Partynauseous
Mary Jane Holland (Longer 7 minute version)
Dope
Gypsy
Interlude
Applause
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IMO it would've flowed better like this. Personally, I think Partynauseous would've fit better in there between Swine and MJH assuming the studio version sounds similar to the one played at the artRave. It would've been a 1 - 2 - PUNCH in that order. The bonus version of the album would have Donatella and Fashion!
