[BAYAR]

best thing to come out in 2013 was not avril

charli xcxs debut was...



yeezus also a good pick

[TheEdgeOfGaga]

To be honest, Avril's self titled is really underrated. Theres a couple songs on there that i can live without but overall, it's great!

[Sunshine.]

Gaga is talented, but she's not a musician. She's an entertainer and as such she needs trends to follow. That was the problem w/ ARTPOP. She stayed w/ a dying trend.

What trend can she possibly hop on now?

[Ramos]

Bad Blood is slaying so ****ing hard

The radio updates are literally 4m+ every day and it's still PERCHED on iTunes.

It could actually go back to #1 in like 2-3 weeks.

[B-Luke]

Fun Fact: Jason Derulo has 3 albums peaking at #13 in Switzerland. Everything is 4! King of being stable.

[Ramos]

Originally posted by Sunshine.

Gaga is talented, but she's not a musician. She's an entertainer and as such she needs trends to follow. That was the problem w/ ARTPOP. She stayed w/ a dying trend.

What trend can she possibly hop on now?

She's an all around ARTist. Musician is included in it.

[MrPeanut]

Originally posted by Nicole

Not too bad! http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jurassic_world/



Kim K is more talented than Gaga. Their main objective is the same: get attention, be famous. Gaga even gave that embarrassing “Sociology of Fame” interview. Kim mastered the art of fame and surpassed Gaga at the one thing that matters most to Gaga.

Nicole plz.

You're gonna confuse people again.

[Skywalker]

PPL always talk about Poker Face and Bad Romance but this is still played more than either of those.

[RihannasVeryOwn]

Originally posted by Vine101

Well she's the same person who designed jewelry for Claire's

How anyone can see her as anything more than a joke is beyond me

[B-Luke]

https://twitter.com/kimkardashian/status/1572632015

[BobBertran1992]

Tove Lo in Barcelona, let me buy a ticket

[Nialler]

This is so underwhelming. Where are some decent trashy summer bops?

[Nicole]

I actually never really read the ZITPOP reviews until now.

So many good points

Barely-there concepts have been bolted onto Gaga’s work since her straightforward debut, yet it was after the world-conquering success of Bad Romance and its parent EP The Fame Monster (one of the best pop records of recent years) that they started to overshadow the music. Second album proper Born This Way was a laboured blend of ’80s stadium-pop and European EDM which sank beneath a grating appropriation of victimhood; it ended its run with struggling singles and a tour cancelled.

Spot on.

If Gaga initially seemed to understand what had gone wrong, promising that ARTPOP would be “fun” and relatively unadorned, the official album announcement hilariously promising a “reverse Warholian expedition” rather suggested otherwise. Lead single Applause confirmed the worst, its addictive retro sound and soaring chorus being eclipsed by arduously self-involved lyrics which offered little to listeners.

Ouch but true.

She stamps her authority on a pop landscape where the catatonic Britney Spears is viewed as ‘legendary’ and our most successful stars sing a revolving door of Dr Luke/Max Martin/Calvin Harris/David Guetta hits. In this context you need only make the right noises to be viewed as a cut above – it’s telling how frequently you see Gaga referred to as our most ‘interesting’ pop star.

Does Gaga deserve praise for making an effort and avoiding the ready charms of Dr Luke and co? She most certainly does – but this doesn’t make ARTPOP a good album. It’s time for a rethink.

So true, the competition is a bunch of assembly line hoes but she still can't keep up

Yet if she understands how to be viewed as an artist, Gaga lacks confidence in pop as an art form in itself, seeming unable to let a song breathe and instead overbearing it with very deliberate efforts to be seen as a ‘proper artist’. Throughout ARTPOP signifier upon signifier is piled on top of sometimes brilliant melodies, failing on the more basic level as engaging pop music. One of her early statements was that ‘pop will never be low-brow’, a suggested understanding that the simple pleasures of pop songs like (for example) Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe or Gaga’s own Poker Face were a powerful and admirable art form in themselves. With ARTPOP, however, it instead seems that Gaga thinks pop needs to be smothered in the language and aesthetics of more traditional art forms in order to have ‘value’.

And here the critic delivers the fatal final blow.

http://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/lady-gaga-artpop

Literally all things I've said.

RIP, hack.

[BabyCantYouSee]

Originally posted by B-Luke

https://twitter.com/kimkardashian/status/1572632015

All pretty girls are.

[MrPeanut]

Originally posted by Meowster

PPL always talk about Poker Face and Bad Romance but this is still played more than either of those.

I hear PF the most.

[Guero]

So which Monster pissed Nicole off this morning?

[Sunshine.]

Originally posted by Ramos

She's an all around ARTist. Musician is included in it.

Not sure why people keep doubting my opinions (which are closer to fact)... dd
I don't like it, but I have a gift. Sometimes it's a curse. Being so analytical and right.

We all know how I was right about Rih from like months before FFS.
Well I was also right about Gaga and the problems plaguing her career before Applause.

1 Month Before Applause

Originally posted by Sunshine.

I feel sorry for Gaga. I see her more as a Marilyn Manson than a Madonna. She kind of incurred a serious problem when she decided to go the "little monsters" route with BTW.

Now she has to live up to the Gaga world she's created and please her Little Monsters, it's just going to shun the public away even more. Lady Gaga is a character artist. She's 100% image. Like Marilyn Manson, she's created a character as an artist she has to be for the rest of her career. She's going to run out of ideas.

Artists like Madonna and David Bowie are artists who play characters on their albums, at the end of the day Madonna is Madonna, David Bowie is David Bowie. Lady Gaga and Marilyn Manson would be like if David Bowie had originally called himself Ziggy Stardust from the get-go and had to base his music off of the character Ziggy Stardust from the themes to the fashion, e.t.c.

Madonna and Bowie can be anything they want on an album, that's why they're known for re-invention. Lady Gaga and Manson really can't re-invent their character, it's the reason why she runs the risk of limiting themselves to a niche role in music.

Originally posted by Sunshine.

Didn't Gaga barely outsell Katy last era in album sales? I think they were both in the ballpark of 6 mil, right?

Thinking Gaga is untouchable up against any of the pop girls today is outdated. It's not The Fame Monster era anymore. The anticipation for ARTPOP isn't anywhere near the anticipation for Born This Way.

3 Months Before Applause

Originally posted by Sunshine.

I'm afraid for Gaga. Her last project was so polarizing and her main demographic is the fickle pop base.

[BobBertran1992]

The only Gags song I've heard this year on the radio is Born This Way

[BabyCantYouSee]

The last Gaga song I heard on the radio was DWUW back in 2013 when it was about to smash.

[2AM]

Originally posted by Meowster

PPL always talk about Poker Face and Bad Romance but this is still played more than either of those.

Her best single STILL.