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Originally posted by Eric.
That's honestly one of the things that mystifies me the most about the people who dislike the album. Snobs throw around the word 'generic' like it's nothing, but an album that mirrors the sounds they miss is looked down upon. I hope in a not-so-distant future the album is recognized for what it it is: a fantastic and massive pop record.
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I truly believe that Born This Way will be remembered as the album that really set her apart from her contemporaries as an artist. Certainly TF and TFM achieved this to some end, but it was not until BTW that people really realized exactly the extent to which she means business.
The problem with that is that the pop world doesn't like you meaning business. While, like you said, people constantly whine about contemporary pop music being soulless and meaningless and lacking in artistry, all they want is to pelvic thrust at each other on a dance floor or in the car and they'll turn around and bite you the moment you try to fuse your music and other works with something meaningful, something that
matters.
Because, to the world, pop artists are machines, not artists, and machines are meant only to be to serve you and fulfill their purpose as noise machines, and not be living, breathing individuals with thoughts and ambitions and, hell,
talent.
Like you said, though: the world wants one thing, and then when they begin to get it, they shy away from it. They long for the past and fear the abnormal, even when the abnormal represents, in some way, what the past that they envision represented; it's human nature, I suppose.
In any case, though, I think BTW will be remembered, if for nothing else, due to the huge difference of opinions it has invoked. Same thing with Lady Gaga herself, really: Gaga is the kind of artist people tend to have strong feelings for or against, whereas most... other artists (not naming names) people don't bother having strong opinions about either way because they fit perfectly into a predefined mold of what pop music is supposed to be and therefore aren't worth looking twice at.
