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Celeb News: ARTPOP Official Reviews: 61/100
Member Since: 1/8/2011
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Artpop sees Gaga going harder, louder, funnier—more extreme—in the hopes of selling millions.
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Member Since: 8/28/2012
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Originally posted by Ri_Ri_Rock
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Only an album seller
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So everything we got so far is positive?
Hopefully it's an indicator of what's to come with the official reviews.
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Member Since: 8/10/2010
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The Standard UK
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In the five heady years since her debut album, The Fame, the former Stefani Germanotta has transformed herself from a Madonna wannabe into a global force (she has 40 million Twitter followers, whereas Madonna reaches just 200,000 hardy souls), but if Lady Gaga’s recent X Factor appearance is any yardstick, she still craves attention like a bolshy but insecure teenager.
Much rests on ARTPOP, and for the most part it delivers. It’s as annoying, frustrating and contradictory as its author but it’s also as brilliant, provocative and as thrilling as she can be.
At 15 tracks, it’s too long and too stodgy. A more rigorous editor would have trimmed the interminable title track and the feeble duet with R. Kelly, Do What U Want. But at its best, ARTPOP is an exhilarating musical bungee jump.
Built around stentorian keyboards, clattering electro-percussion and thumping backbeats, it’s constructed to soundtrack hair-waving, body-shaking routines at stadium shows. The startling opening triumvirate barely pause for breath as Gaga asks, “Do you want to see me naked, lover?” (no thanks, dear), on Aura, while Venus takes its lyrical cue from Europe’s The Final Countdown before she simpers “touch me, touch me” like Samantha Fox did back in 1986.
Strangely, for one so supposedly keen on empowerment, she’s a curiously submissive lyricist, whether suggesting “do what you want with my body” on Do What U Want or wailing that “I need you more than dope” on DOPE. She’s much more intriguing on the shark-eyed, rueful Fashion! and on the standout Swine, where she declares “I’m just a pig in a human body”. She has something to say: exactly what it is remains tantalisingly elusive, beyond her not entirely surprising admission on the poppy Applause that “I live for the applause”.
The only real change of pace is DOPE, where Gaga becomes a torch singer in search of a torch song, but ARTPOP is the true sound of 2013: impossibly busy, overflowing with ideas and in love with the idea of being loved.
ARTPOP is released on Monday November 11.
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Member Since: 6/17/2012
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I'm hoping it gets a 70+, really worried
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Member Since: 6/16/2010
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I'm glad other people realize Fashion! and Donatella are not up to her standard, especially Fashion!, the only truly bad song on the album for me.
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Member Since: 8/28/2012
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Much rests on ARTPOP, and for the most part it delivers. It’s as annoying, frustrating and contradictory as its author but it’s also as brilliant, provocative and as thrilling as she can be.
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What kind of bipolar review
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Reading the reviews so far, it seems like they're all liking the album but not wanting to actually admit it. They can't write a praise without following it by an off topic bash.
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Member Since: 5/4/2011
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They seems kinda positive... I was worried.
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[QUOTE=Almighty Gaga;17594116]
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Much rests on ARTPOP, and for the most part it delivers. It’s as annoying, frustrating and contradictory as its author but it’s also as brilliant, provocative and as thrilling as she can be.[QUOTE/]
What kind of bipolar review
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Reading the reviews so far, it seems like they're all liking the album but not wanting to actually admit it. They can't write a praise without following it by an off topic bash.
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Well they gave it 4 stars out 5. So it's great
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Member Since: 4/8/2012
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Final score will higher than 75.
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Member Since: 8/28/2012
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Originally posted by Almighty Gaga
Well they gave it 4 stars out 5. So it's great
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Oh I didn't see that. That's really good for such review.
Hopefully official reviews are as generous
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Member Since: 8/29/2011
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nobody post Examiner reviews, they are user submitted. anyone can post a review there.
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Member Since: 11/10/2009
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The Atlantic review.
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Member Since: 1/1/2013
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I added The Standard UK and The Atlantic reviews to the OP
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Member Since: 8/9/2012
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Stan wars and pop culture fun aside, The Examiner reviews are truly disturbing.
Aside the fact that it's user submitted like YouTube, Gaga's reviews are submitted by a fake account (unsurprisingly, owned by a Madonna fan) and they frequently post unprofessional, hate filled reviews on EVERYTHING she does. Let's not pretend there's any ethical journalism on that site.
I will never understand how a pop star influences this much hate in someone. Hate that's usually reserved for someone who murdered your pet or keyed your car.
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Member Since: 4/21/2011
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Member Since: 12/27/2011
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Get that acclaim, sis!
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Member Since: 8/10/2010
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Originally posted by BTrisc
The Atlantic review.
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The Atlantic is literally a couple floors down from where I work. I will drag a bitch in person if I have to.
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Member Since: 6/19/2012
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A lot of the 'reviews' in the OP aren't reviews
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Member Since: 8/28/2012
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Originally posted by Boop
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I see some pressed in the comments
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I also can't figure out if The Atlantic review is meant to be positive or not
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Member Since: 12/27/2011
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Gaga’s obsession with fame, fashion, pop history, and her own cult of personality may be off-putting to many, but it results in music that is increasingly distinct and sui generis. Even though she puts up a front of being an untouchable pop deity, her music overflows with the humanity of someone who is unafraid to be vulnerable and ridiculous. Her refusal to compromise and monomaniacal commitment to living in a permanent imperial phase is genuinely inspiring, especially since it’s increasingly disconnected from a need for the market to validate her success. Gaga makes her own reality, and even if this album flops horribly, she has created a world in which she will always be a superstar.
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/lady-gaga-artpop
Really good review from Buzzfeed.
Obviously it wont count towards Metacritic but a review is a review.
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