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Celeb News: PITCHFORK ignores "Born This Way"
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Originally posted by Haus Of Navin
A MESS 
These are both in my Top 3.
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well they suck 
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Originally posted by benzene_dream
I use them as examples because they're often used as foils against the girls who make "cheap pop music."
Underground artists are different. Janelle can score high critically right now, but I'd bet any amount of money that the second she goes slightly commercial (if she ever does) she'll fare much worse.
Even Amy, with that acclaimed album, barely cracked 80.
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Shakira gets the critical acclaim too actually.. although her latest only had 5 reviews, it scored like 89. And another one 79. I think artists seem to get the good reviews when they showcase that they have such superior writing abilites that they can really tear the songs apart and go crazy, like Kanye, Shakira, Amy (a little bit), Gaga, and so on.. it removes them from the artists that seem very commercial like Rihanna, Beyoncé, Katy and so on. (i like all of them)
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I would've discarded "Bad Kids" and "Highway Unicorn..."
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same here
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RS gave the same score for BTW and FF 
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They are scared of the fans.
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Guess they're both good.
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Well, Metacritic updated her with a 74 for the day. They didn't add Telegraph's 100 to the total.
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And, unfortunately, their article is the highest result under "Lady Gaga" on Google News.
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I ****ing hated that game. 
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I bought this **** years ago and haven't been able to play it to this day. 
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Music Rooms (Positive): http://www.musicrooms.net/rock-and-p...ck-review.html
"All in all, on first listen the album is good, as noted with the songs used in promo being the most memorable, but the more you listen to it, you realise that the album is so much more than just good. Gaga has created something close to perfect and her reign as the most exciting performer in pop looks set to continue for some time to come."
Suite 101 Pop Music (Positive): http://www.suite101.com/content/albu...is-way-a371693
"'Born This Way' is Lady Gaga's strongest, most cosistent album to date, combining retro and contemporary sounds brilliantly."
Hit Fix (Somewhat Positive): http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/the-beat...-born-this-way
"Somewhere, there’s a shriveled, dried-up husk of what used to be Lady Gaga. That’s because every bit of her creativity, talent, and—more than anything else — her ambition has been poured into giving birth to her new album, “Born This Way,” out May 23."
The Music Network (Positive): http://www.themusicnetwork.com/revie...born-this-way/
"Born This Way contains revolution, feminism, endless artistic wanderings, cutting end production and dance-trends zoned in from every hip hub across earth. Gaga wants to be Bowie, she wants to be Madonna, and she has embedded herself into the pop culture pantheon at a quicker rate than anyone in recent history. This album will break sales records, it will spawn as many singles as songs and it will see Gaga continue her uncharted hurtling into the pop-stratosphere."
I don't think any of these are major music publications so they probably don't count towards Metacritic but I thought I would post them anyway. Overall, as a fan, I don't need critical response to validate my opinion that this is a superb album, but it's nice to see that Gaga is getting recognition from most reviews for, despite being controversial and polarizing, still making great music. 
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You knew it would come to this. After months of hype, teases, and a handful of singles, Lady Gaga's new album is upon us -- and it's a letdown, the most deflated moment in pop music this year.
With "Born This Way," which will be released on Monday, Gaga truly has become the blueprint for a modern pop star. Everything on the album is meant to be consumed as one download at a time; if you add up the moving parts, you'll get a clutch of songs bound together by nothing more than the same release date.
"Born This Way," Gaga's second full-length album and follow-up to 2009's "The Fame Monster," bludgeons you with its excesses, borrowing heavily from '80s arena rock and dance beats from '90s techno. With 14 songs clocking in at an hour, it's an album that doesn't know its own hulking weight. (The deluxe edition, whose cover is pictured above, swells to 17 songs, plus a bonus disc of remixes.)
Of course, it's never enough to judge Gaga simply by the music. At 25, she sees herself as something greater than a pop star. She's a performance artist, and there's more to her than meets the ear. No matter how banal a single is -- and "Judas" is Gaga at her most tepid -- it'll come fully equipped with an epic video, an outlandish costume, a fleeting bit of controversy that gets us talking the next morning.
Let's give credit where it's due: Much of "Born This Way" sounds distinctive and more expansive than Gaga's previous work. An industrial grime coats "Heavy Metal Lover," and you won't be forgetting this risqu� zinger anytime soon: "I want your whiskey mouth/ All over my blond south."
The album comes alive with surprises, too. Clarence Clemons, the saxophonist for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, imbues "The Edge of Glory" with unexpected grace. On "Americano," in which Gaga romances a girl she met in east LA, she mashes up electro-tango and flamenco guitar for a pan-Latin pastiche.
Gaga mines her usual themes -- acceptance, tolerance, religion, sex -- but the songwriting feels thin, especially when buried under the layers of bombast. Nuance is her enemy on this album. Her championing of underdogs and outsiders has always been noble, but a slogan doesn't equal substance, as "Bad Kids" points out.
Not that Gaga will go down as the great lyricist of her time, but at least her previous hits stuck in your brain for their playfulness. There's something fun and frivolous about how her choruses roll off your tongue like clever wordplay.
There's hardly anything carefree on "Born This Way." It's astonishing how seriously Gaga takes herself on "Hair," an ode to self-empowerment that dares you not to laugh during its chorus: "I've had enough/ This is my prayer/ That I'll die living/ Just as free as my hair." She's so invested in the words that she transforms them into something approaching gospel fervor.
As her live performances have proved, when Gaga tones it down, she's often devastating. On "You and I," which fans first heard as a poignant piano ballad during her concerts, fabled producer Robert "Mutt" Lange fleshed out the song with Queen's Brian May on electric guitar, stadium-size drums, and supple back-up vocals. Oddly enough, with some tweaking, it would make a fantastic single for country radio.
"Bloody Mary" trims some of the production fat, and even with its pseudo-religious premise ("I won't cry for you/ I won't crucify the things you do"), it's refreshing to hear Gaga retreat into the song's sensuality.
It's one of the few moments that digs deeper and compels you to think about something besides the dance floor. For any other pop star, dancing would be enough. For an artist as self-aggrandizing as Lady Gaga, "Born This Way" is disappointing. Depressing, even.
By James Reed
Globe Staff
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You forgot the second part. 
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There's hardly anything carefree on "Born This Way." It's astonishing how seriously Gaga takes herself on "Hair," an ode to self-empowerment that dares you not to laugh during its chorus: "I've had enough/ This is my prayer/ That I'll die living/ Just as free as my hair." She's so invested in the words that she transforms them into something approaching gospel fervor.
As her live performances have proved, when Gaga tones it down, she's often devastating. On "You and I," which fans first heard as a poignant piano ballad during her concerts, fabled producer Robert "Mutt" Lange fleshed out the song with Queen's Brian May on electric guitar, stadium-size drums, and supple back-up vocals. Oddly enough, with some tweaking, it would make a fantastic single for country radio.
"Bloody Mary" trims some of the production fat, and even with its pseudo-religious premise ("I won't cry for you/ I won't crucify the things you do"), it's refreshing to hear Gaga retreat into the song's sensuality.
It's one of the few moments that digs deeper and compels you to think about something besides the dance floor. For any other pop star, dancing would be enough. For an artist as self-aggrandizing as Lady Gaga, "Born This Way" is disappointing. Depressing, even.
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You forgot the second part.
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Thanks. 
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