Spin.com ranked Born This Way as one of the best albums of 2011 thus far.
One of the year’s most anticipated pop events, Gaga delivers a gloriously weird album, applying her ’80s pastiche to throbby grooves and sentimental tunes that’ll pierce the hearts of both Little Monsters and heartland moms. The 25-year-old proves she’s also evolving into our most surreally brilliant star. The proof? Closing track “The Edge of Glory,” which sounds exactly like its title, uniting all of Gaga’s contradictory impulses in an ecstatic, anthemic, five-minute lunge to the finish line.
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