I think I'm really, really,
really going to love this album. Something about the snippets just make my heart sing - I've been chilling out all day trying to gather what I can from the snippets and they just get better with each listen. The lyrics really tap into my psyche, and from what I can hear, the instrumentation and arrangements have never been done by her before. Most of the material off her last albums are designed for the weekend (you could technically pass off almost all of 'ARTPOP' at the club), but there's musical stylings going on here that transcend that. Take
Just Another Day for example, it has the beautiful serendipitous Sunday quality to it. And yet it doesn't seem to lack things that her other albums may have, because tracks like
Diamond Heart and
A-Yo sound like jams.
I don't want to put other work down just so I can uphold this, but tracks like
Venus don't have a very...transcending quality to them. They're (brilliantly) designed for almost exclusive night-time, hyped listening - but 'Joanne' is shaping up to be something different entirely.
I am just...amazed
