Bit mad at this
Slant Magazine review. But still, 3 stars isn't bad (and this probably skews the low side of the reviews).
Once again, these
music reviewers criticise something about her persona and then use that to discredit the album, which is just poor journalism in my opinion.
Case in point:
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Lady Gaga is a pop star of the Glee generation. She doesn't do subtle. Whether she's singing standards with Tony Bennett, paying tribute to David Bowie at the Grammys, or playing a riot grrrl in the music video for her single “Perfect Illusion,” the effect is that of a musical theater kid trying on costumes she found in the high school storage closet, not a chameleonic performer flexing her innate versatility.
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“Young wild American/Lookin' to be somethin'/Out of school go-go'n/For a hundred or two,” she sings on “Diamond Heart,” the opening track of her fifth album, Joanne. The problem with this rags-to-riches narrative is that the school in question was New York University (and a private school on the Upper East Side before that), and her stint as a go-go dancer was, by her own account, more of an anthropological experiment than a means of survival.
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While she may have eschewed the outlandish costumes for now, Gaga has merely replaced them with a different kind of pretense.
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All are perhaps valid points worthy of inclusion if you're an essayist or writing a think piece, but this is an
album review y'all. For those wondering how this translates to meteoritic, it gives it a 60 (a good score) and on average, this publication grades 8.3 points lower than other critics. In terms of pop albums, the same writer gave Lemonade a 70 and that reached 90+ on metecritic I think.
And she looked amazing. 
I brag about finding just dance on myspace 
There's goes an easy high score.
