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Originally posted by eli's_rhythm
BTW was very cohesive. It was just too much. Pure indulgence. She went nuts with the overstimulation--too much going on with the production, the lyrics, the outfits, the videos. Nothing to really latch onto, nothing to impress upon the public. She showed no restraint. There was something very simple and accessible about The Fame era.
ARTPOP has a similar but different problem: it can't decide what it wants to be. Musically, image-wise, whatever. There is no cohesion, that much is true. Very few of the songs sound like they were made for the same record.
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This is true, because she had no theme for this album. The original theme she scrapped, and then she went on a rampage making R&B songs and an entire hodgepodge of songs that had no connection or any real inspiration.
In that sense you're right - for The Fame, The Fame Monster, and Born This Way, she had a vision and a concept and she executed it perfectly. For TF/TFM, she was also able to execute the perfect blend of GP-friendliness and creative vision; for BTW, she didn't pull that off as well, and like you said, lost control. For ARTPOP, she had no vision and no inspiration, and the music she made was good but not at the level it should've been for a Gaga album .
She's been dragged to Hell, skull ****ed by the Devil himself, dragged back to earth with her nails scratching the ground, only to be dragged by her own goddamn fans on her own goddamn website. 
