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Celeb News: ARTPOP Official Reviews: 61/100
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nnnn expose him. 
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That explains the musicOMH.com review |
It's sad because it's true
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From the absolute slayage in 2009-2010 we have come to "Struggling singles and a tour canceled". 
Let me leave before a new meltdown hits me
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Mess shouldn't each body of work be critiqued as a stand alone project? Why do they keep mentioning BTW? This is why I have NEVER used critics or read an album review until now.
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I kinda agree with the review. Lyrics and over production will be pointed out in every review. I'd wish someone would strictly monitor her lyric writing from here on
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From the absolute slayage in 2009-2010 we have come to "Struggling singles and a tour canceled".
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Its always monsters like you...
1. She broke her damn hip.
2. Shes only struggling with singles because she needs to rebuild her image.
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The Telegraph: Lady Gaga, Artpop, review
Lady Gaga inhabits many musical guises on her latest album, Artpop – but all of them are great for dancing
With her playful, planet-sized ego fully engaged, Lady Gaga gives a shoutout to the rest of the solar system on her third proper album, concluding with the playground naughtiness of “Uranus! Don’t you know my ass is famous?”
Well, yes, we had noticed. Even people with zero interest in pop music know that the 27-year-old Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta) is a phenomenon. After a decade of dressed-down celebrities in skinny jeans and Ugg boots, we were hungry for pop stars that could be spectacular, and her barmy outfits certainly brighten up our newspapers.
But while the window dressing’s always been fabulous and there have been some terrifically catchy pop hooks along the way, much of her music has sounded generic, with her strong voice sometimes lacking a distinct personality. And the thought of yet another album themed around her own stardom (after Fame and The Fame Monster) wasn’t promising. Can she really have anything fresh to say about it?
After more interviews in which Gaga claims she wants to “revolutionise” pop, the fact she’s made an album that’s designed, quaintly, to be played from start to finish will amuse fans from the pre-digital era. But from the predatory opening footsteps of the first track to the block chord blast of lead single Applause, it’s clear that it’s more fun to abandon any plans to analyse what Billboard describes as Gaga’s “lofty ideas” and instead, to quote her first hit, Just Dance.
Musically, there’s a lot going on: it’s like wandering drunk around a vast, labyrinthine club, and peering into a disorienting series of darkened rooms in which she tries on various musical genres as if they were hats. She doesn’t do anything wildly original with them, but she has fun.
There’s a queasily heightened American rave beat on Mary Jane Holland, while the industrial hip-hop grind of Jewels and Drugs (featuring T.I., Too $hort and Twista) opens with an orchestra tuning up. The ballad Dope pushes this combination further, with big, showstopping vocals joining a deep, squelchy electronic bassline.
The most interesting song, Aura, involves some moreishly twanged middle-eastern strings. Here she sings about an enigmatic pop star who wears a “burqa for fashion/It’s not a statement, as much as just a move of passion.” Her trademark repeated syllables (“aura-ra-ra”) mingle with empowering assertions of control: “I am not a wandering slave/ I am a woman of choice”. But her resolve weakens on the trancey refrain, as she asks: “Do you want to see me naked, lover? ... Do you want to see the girl who lives behind the aura?” It’s here that I start to think even Gaga herself believes the aura – the clothes, the clever sonic shapeshifting – is more interesting than what lies beneath.
But maybe that hollowness is part of what makes this album so great for dancing. Gaga doesn’t really inhabit any of these poses. She sheds them like skins, leaving a cool trail for her warmer blooded fans to slip into.
RATING: 4/5
80/100 ON MetaCritic.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/m...op-review.html
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Not a mark under 50. I'm worried.
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Metacritic should review these reviews before they count it in though.
I really can't at musicOMH's review, they are reviewing Gaga, not the music.
Whatever...
She has tons of haters now.
Rise ARTPOP Rise!
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Lady Gaga, Artpop, review
Lady Gaga inhabits many musical guises on her latest album, Artpop – but all of them are great for dancing
With her playful, planet-sized ego fully engaged, Lady Gaga gives a shoutout to the rest of the solar system on her third proper album, concluding with the playground naughtiness of “Uranus! Don’t you know my ass is famous?”
Well, yes, we had noticed. Even people with zero interest in pop music know that the 27-year-old Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta) is a phenomenon. After a decade of dressed-down celebrities in skinny jeans and Ugg boots, we were hungry for pop stars that could be spectacular, and her barmy outfits certainly brighten up our newspapers.
But while the window dressing’s always been fabulous and there have been some terrifically catchy pop hooks along the way, much of her music has sounded generic, with her strong voice sometimes lacking a distinct personality. And the thought of yet another album themed around her own stardom (after Fame and The Fame Monster) wasn’t promising. Can she really have anything fresh to say about it?
After more interviews in which Gaga claims she wants to “revolutionise” pop, the fact she’s made an album that’s designed, quaintly, to be played from start to finish will amuse fans from the pre-digital era. But from the predatory opening footsteps of the first track to the block chord blast of lead single Applause, it’s clear that it’s more fun to abandon any plans to analyse what Billboard describes as Gaga’s “lofty ideas” and instead, to quote her first hit, Just Dance.
Musically, there’s a lot going on: it’s like wandering drunk around a vast, labyrinthine club, and peering into a disorienting series of darkened rooms in which she tries on various musical genres as if they were hats. She doesn’t do anything wildly original with them, but she has fun.
There’s a queasily heightened American rave beat on Mary Jane Holland, while the industrial hip-hop grind of Jewels and Drugs (featuring T.I., Too $hort and Twista) opens with an orchestra tuning up. The ballad Dope pushes this combination further, with big, showstopping vocals joining a deep, squelchy electronic bassline.
The most interesting song, Aura, involves some moreishly twanged middle-eastern strings. Here she sings about an enigmatic pop star who wears a “burqa for fashion/It’s not a statement, as much as just a move of passion.” Her trademark repeated syllables (“aura-ra-ra”) mingle with empowering assertions of control: “I am not a wandering slave/ I am a woman of choice”. But her resolve weakens on the trancey refrain, as she asks: “Do you want to see me naked, lover? ... Do you want to see the girl who lives behind the aura?” It’s here that I start to think even Gaga herself believes the aura – the clothes, the clever sonic shapeshifting – is more interesting than what lies beneath.
But maybe that hollowness is part of what makes this album so great for dancing. Gaga doesn’t really inhabit any of these poses. She sheds them like skins, leaving a cool trail for her warmer blooded fans to slip into.
RATING: 4/5
80/100 ON MetaCritic.
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This is by which publication?
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Oh god thank you. It must not carry much weight at all if it only made it go down a little bit. 71 is the same as Born This Way and The Fame. 
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The Telegraph. It counts for Metacritic. 
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The Telegraph: Lady Gaga, Artpop, review
Lady Gaga inhabits many musical guises on her latest album, Artpop – but all of them are great for dancing
With her playful, planet-sized ego fully engaged, Lady Gaga gives a shoutout to the rest of the solar system on her third proper album, concluding with the playground naughtiness of “Uranus! Don’t you know my ass is famous?”
Well, yes, we had noticed. Even people with zero interest in pop music know that the 27-year-old Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta) is a phenomenon. After a decade of dressed-down celebrities in skinny jeans and Ugg boots, we were hungry for pop stars that could be spectacular, and her barmy outfits certainly brighten up our newspapers.
But while the window dressing’s always been fabulous and there have been some terrifically catchy pop hooks along the way, much of her music has sounded generic, with her strong voice sometimes lacking a distinct personality. And the thought of yet another album themed around her own stardom (after Fame and The Fame Monster) wasn’t promising. Can she really have anything fresh to say about it?
After more interviews in which Gaga claims she wants to “revolutionise” pop, the fact she’s made an album that’s designed, quaintly, to be played from start to finish will amuse fans from the pre-digital era. But from the predatory opening footsteps of the first track to the block chord blast of lead single Applause, it’s clear that it’s more fun to abandon any plans to analyse what Billboard describes as Gaga’s “lofty ideas” and instead, to quote her first hit, Just Dance.
Musically, there’s a lot going on: it’s like wandering drunk around a vast, labyrinthine club, and peering into a disorienting series of darkened rooms in which she tries on various musical genres as if they were hats. She doesn’t do anything wildly original with them, but she has fun.
There’s a queasily heightened American rave beat on Mary Jane Holland, while the industrial hip-hop grind of Jewels and Drugs (featuring T.I., Too $hort and Twista) opens with an orchestra tuning up. The ballad Dope pushes this combination further, with big, showstopping vocals joining a deep, squelchy electronic bassline.
The most interesting song, Aura, involves some moreishly twanged middle-eastern strings. Here she sings about an enigmatic pop star who wears a “burqa for fashion/It’s not a statement, as much as just a move of passion.” Her trademark repeated syllables (“aura-ra-ra”) mingle with empowering assertions of control: “I am not a wandering slave/ I am a woman of choice”. But her resolve weakens on the trancey refrain, as she asks: “Do you want to see me naked, lover? ... Do you want to see the girl who lives behind the aura?” It’s here that I start to think even Gaga herself believes the aura – the clothes, the clever sonic shapeshifting – is more interesting than what lies beneath.
But maybe that hollowness is part of what makes this album so great for dancing. Gaga doesn’t really inhabit any of these poses. She sheds them like skins, leaving a cool trail for her warmer blooded fans to slip into.
RATING: 4/5
80/100 ON MetaCritic.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/m...op-review.html
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YAS, snatch those negative points quick from OMH.
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Originally posted by DG1
The Telegraph: Lady Gaga, Artpop, review
Lady Gaga inhabits many musical guises on her latest album, Artpop – but all of them are great for dancing
With her playful, planet-sized ego fully engaged, Lady Gaga gives a shoutout to the rest of the solar system on her third proper album, concluding with the playground naughtiness of “Uranus! Don’t you know my ass is famous?”
Well, yes, we had noticed. Even people with zero interest in pop music know that the 27-year-old Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta) is a phenomenon. After a decade of dressed-down celebrities in skinny jeans and Ugg boots, we were hungry for pop stars that could be spectacular, and her barmy outfits certainly brighten up our newspapers.
But while the window dressing’s always been fabulous and there have been some terrifically catchy pop hooks along the way, much of her music has sounded generic, with her strong voice sometimes lacking a distinct personality. And the thought of yet another album themed around her own stardom (after Fame and The Fame Monster) wasn’t promising. Can she really have anything fresh to say about it?
After more interviews in which Gaga claims she wants to “revolutionise” pop, the fact she’s made an album that’s designed, quaintly, to be played from start to finish will amuse fans from the pre-digital era. But from the predatory opening footsteps of the first track to the block chord blast of lead single Applause, it’s clear that it’s more fun to abandon any plans to analyse what Billboard describes as Gaga’s “lofty ideas” and instead, to quote her first hit, Just Dance.
Musically, there’s a lot going on: it’s like wandering drunk around a vast, labyrinthine club, and peering into a disorienting series of darkened rooms in which she tries on various musical genres as if they were hats. She doesn’t do anything wildly original with them, but she has fun.
There’s a queasily heightened American rave beat on Mary Jane Holland, while the industrial hip-hop grind of Jewels and Drugs (featuring T.I., Too $hort and Twista) opens with an orchestra tuning up. The ballad Dope pushes this combination further, with big, showstopping vocals joining a deep, squelchy electronic bassline.
The most interesting song, Aura, involves some moreishly twanged middle-eastern strings. Here she sings about an enigmatic pop star who wears a “burqa for fashion/It’s not a statement, as much as just a move of passion.” Her trademark repeated syllables (“aura-ra-ra”) mingle with empowering assertions of control: “I am not a wandering slave/ I am a woman of choice”. But her resolve weakens on the trancey refrain, as she asks: “Do you want to see me naked, lover? ... Do you want to see the girl who lives behind the aura?” It’s here that I start to think even Gaga herself believes the aura – the clothes, the clever sonic shapeshifting – is more interesting than what lies beneath.
But maybe that hollowness is part of what makes this album so great for dancing. Gaga doesn’t really inhabit any of these poses. She sheds them like skins, leaving a cool trail for her warmer blooded fans to slip into.
RATING: 4/5
80/100 ON MetaCritic.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/m...op-review.html
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YASSSSS Rise artpop rise this is just the beginning!
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yasss Telegraph negate that crappy musicOMH review 
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The Telegraph. It counts for Metacritic. |
Isn't this rating better than their BTW rating?
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YAHOO! OMG (UK) - Album review: Lady Gaga paints an electronic listening experience with ARTPOP
This week marks the release of Lady Gaga's third studio album ARTPOP. Has the kooky pop star's latest release lived up to its expectations?
Described as 'The album of the millennium' by the singer herself, ARTPOP is a declaration of artistic freedom and an experimental release that sees Lady Gaga dabble in and out of genres while blending in elements to create a new electro listening experience for her Little Monsters.
Often branded as the 'unusual one' out of the pop diva roster that dominates today's music scene, Gaga seems to be completely comfortable with her position in the industry on ARTPOP and for those who are hoping for rehashes of hits found on her earlier releases; The Fame and The Fame Monster, you're not getting any of those on ARTPOP as this was clearly not her intention with the project.
In 2012, Gaga was quoted in an interview with MTV stating that the album would lack the sense of maturity that dominated the lyrical content and themes of 2011's Born This Way.
In the interview Gaga said: "I feel that when I wrote Born This Way, I demonstrated a sense of maturity, I feel that, on the next album, there's a lack of maturity, it's a tremendous lack of maturity or sense of responsibility."
So, is the album really the album of the millennium? Objective I'm sure, but it's still a good effort which exhibits Gaga's versatility as an artist and displays her different range of musical influences.
I've hand picked the standout tracks from the album that hooked me upon the first few spins on my iPod. Check out my mini-review below!
'Applause' the lead single from the project opened to a lukewarm reception from critics with some feeling the song was slightly generic and a little empty. The song was described as a 'kiss-off to critics' by the singer herself on Twitter who then described the lyrical content as her independence as an entertainer and how it separates her from the average celebrity.
I personally enjoy the energy the song exudes; it's a light pop listen with a catchy hook which you need sometimes.
'Do What U Want feat. R.Kelly' on this song, Gaga teams up with the King of R&B- R.Kelly for the ultimate urban listening experience; a side which we're not used to hearing from Gaga's usual pop catalogue. The song sees Gaga sing lines such as: ''You can't stop my voice / 'Cause you don't own my life / But do what you want with my body."
In short, the singer is telling the world they can do what they want with her body (and she is referring to her previously publicised weight gain as well as other public ridicule) but you cannot stop her voice while she protects her heart from emotional damage. This is probably one of my favourites on the album; I loved her vocal delivery and the message of the song.
'Sexxx Dreams' pretty self explanatory based on the title, clearly Gaga is having naughty dreams about her desired lover but it was nice to hear her deliver a set of softer and a more subtle set of vocals on this particular song and it seems to be a fan favourite at the moment too.
'Aura' is a cool dance track in which Gaga quizzes ''Do you want to see me naked lover, do you want to see the girl who lives behind the aura?'' backed by a trance-type electro beat the song is sure to be a club hit and I'm expecting to see a high energy visual to accompany the up-tempo number.
'Fashion!' credited as one of the most captivating figures in fashion hailing from the music industry, Gaga pays homage to the fashion industry on this particular track. This is more of a feel good song, it's more about the confidence you should feel in your own clothes and I can definitely see it serving as runway music for haute couture fashion shows.
Without giving too much away, ARTPOP is not The Fame by any means, which isn't necessarily a bad thing; actually it's kind of a great thing. It means that Gaga is focusing more on her own artistic vision and the direction she would like her future projects to head in as opposed to following radio trends.
With that being said, the album was missing a few things for me and the two major ones I could point out whilst listening was the lyrical content which for me, was slightly uninspired and at times a little dreary and the lack of instant catchy hits that were found on her previous albums.
ARTPOP is an enjoyable listening experience and I respect Gaga's approach to trying to add a fresh approach to her music, regardless of what her critics may have to say about the album; it caters to the needs of her many Little Monster's and I'm sure it's the type of album they have been waiting to hear from their idol for a very long time.
Overall rating: 3/5
http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/news/album-r...104100617.html
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Metacritic isn't everything.
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BTW got the same rating.
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