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Poll: Are you glad ARTPOP happened?
View Poll Results: Are you?
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Yes, I'm a pressed hater and wanted to see her flop
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14.19% |
Yes, we got some great songs and videos
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53 |
34.19% |
Yes, cause it humbled her and taught her that she will only slay if she makes good music
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44 |
28.39% |
No, delete it fat
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23.23% |
Member Since: 8/1/2012
Posts: 15,843
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Originally posted by Rihinvention
3rd option. She needed to be knocked off her pedestal. Her ego was getting too big. Hopefully she'll come back with an album full of #1 hits and pop classics.
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This
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 3,262
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Venus, X Dreams, G.U.Y, Donatella, Applause, Aura, DWUW, Swine, Dope, MANiCURE, MJH, ARTPOP are the total BOPs for me, I really do think it's her second best album.
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Member Since: 1/7/2014
Posts: 4,510
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It was entertaining to watch everyone bandwagon for it, only to drag it once it didn't perform as well as anticipated.
ATRL can be so messy and transparent.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 16,371
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The album wasn't panned, it got mixed reviews. It has a 61 on metacritic, which is low for Gaga, but mixed overall, not negative. The album was expected to be a blockbuster seller like all her other releases, and it wasn't. A lot happened between BTW and ARTPOP, including 2.5 years of no new material and a lot of time out of the spotlight following the cancellation of the end of her tour.
The album was messy, not awful. She tried a lot, maybe too many things, and it ends up being a bit convoluted (despite the shorter run time of the album overall compared to her others). The campaign became a mess right around the release week when she split with her manager and her MV wasn't fit for release leaving her sophomore single in limbo. She wound up have to just leave the promo campaign after The Voice performance because she couldn't take all the negative press that seemed to enjoy kicking a popstar that once ruled the world. Madonna fans (and a minority of others to be fair) began trolling any articles with comments sections to berate her which only fuelled the click-bait bad press online. Billboard literally had to shut down comments on their site for articles for over a year.
End result: 2M albums sold, a 4M single (with her biggest US radio numbers), a 2.5M single without a video and a bomb single released months later. Add an $88M tour. Even at her "rock bottom" Gaga didn't do half bad by regular standards.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 6,304
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Selling over 2 M WW, having a sold out tour and Top 5 hits hardly can be called dark times. Plus ARTPOP was a step into a right direction after the huge mess that BTW caused.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 27,490
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Not, really.
The era was a mess,we've had some great music and great videos but the era as a whole was such a let down
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 15,734
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Yes!!
Applause, vma's, iTunes festival , dwuw, the videos, the ****ing ARTRAVE>>>>>
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 14,321
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Yes, for tracks like Do What U Want and for the drama
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Member Since: 8/6/2012
Posts: 8,639
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Originally posted by NX127
Very.
The album is fantastic, and G.U.Y. is one of the best videos of all time
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Member Since: 8/6/2012
Posts: 9,171
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No. Artpop was really bad era with bad songs. I wish it was just an EP like The Fame Monster with DWUW, G.U.Y, Venus, Artpop and maybe Applause. Most of people hate on BTW, but I think it's her best album overall.
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Member Since: 2/2/2014
Posts: 5,381
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I'm indifferent to the handling of ARTPOP. I'm not about to discard of her after all the hard work she has put into her career to get to where she is, the tireless fighting for LGBT rights, etc just because an album 'under performs', but at the same time, I was glad to see the bandwagoners jump ship.
So in the end, ARTPOP humbled Gaga and possibly has renewed her fighting spirit and we shed a number of annoying, messy bandwagoners. It's all good.
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Member Since: 12/16/2008
Posts: 59,380
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She needed and her stanbase as well. It was more like a reality check and it worked to get rid of fake stans as well.
Hopefully she learned the lesson.
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Member Since: 2/12/2012
Posts: 27,814
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So many lies on first paragraph.
1. Gaga obviously wasn't trying to overshadowed Katy's. It's way around.
2. Didn't knew that getting 61 is considered as Critically Panned.
3. Although, it didn't hit platinum yet, but selling around 800k is great. I'm pretty sure the shipment is already at 1M in US
4. It flopped didnt sent Gaga into depression, who the **** told you that? it was her long time and best friend manager, Ugly Troy, who decided to leave her.
5. At least, G.U.y. had reached 100M stream which is so cool and great.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 56,234
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I like to pretend it never existed tbh. It's been so long since her last album Born This Way and her last single You and I.
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Member Since: 4/3/2014
Posts: 6,577
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Originally posted by wesleywalrus
First off, Katy tried to overshadow Gaga. Gaga was set us up for release for like 2 months and a week and a half before, she decides to release Roar a week before Applause.
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I'm glad it happened because it was simply an era, kinda ****** era, but would you rather wait 4 years for new music, or 2?
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The delusion Roar was released 2 days before the official date, Applause was released a whole week before, guess who tried to overshadow who
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Member Since: 7/22/2012
Posts: 4,176
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I use a couple songs but still... NO
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 9,799
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No. It was so frustrating to stan for her during that messy era. So damn stressful.
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Member Since: 4/30/2011
Posts: 21,827
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Yeah, it was quite a good album. The iTunes Festival was a true career highlight in my opinion, I loved everything about it.
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Member Since: 2/12/2012
Posts: 27,814
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Quote:
Originally posted by alex_katycat
The delusion Roar was released 2 days before the official date, Applause was released a whole week before, guess who tried to overshadow who
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No, henny. Gaga already stated that Applause was set to be released on 26th Aug along with video. Katy only hyped it for a while. But once the date for releasing Applause was set, it's no coincidence that Roar was set to released 2 weeks earlier before Applause.
But then Roar got leaked 2 days before official release, right? Unfortunately, Applause got leaked 2 weeks earlier before official release and her team decided to push it one week earlier. Gaga and her team are not that stupid enough to overshadow Katy.
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Member Since: 3/21/2012
Posts: 4,807
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I always think it's funny when people say that ARTPOP was rock bottom for Gaga. I mean, how successful do you have to be for an album that sold 2 million WW, had a global top 10 hit, another minor top 20 hit and an almost 100 million grossing supporting tour to be "rock bottom"?
Anyway, I don't mind ARTPOP. It's just there for me, it gaves us some amazing songs and videos. I also feel like it's gonna help LG5 in the long run.
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