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Originally posted by suburbannature
It may not be a commercial success, but I can see it garnering critical acclaim. It shouldn't be compared to Artpop for that reason. The latter was both a commercial and critical failure.
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You haven't even heard the album and making assumptions due to your bias against Gaga shown around the fourm.
The only song from R8 that has gotten some level of critical acclaim is FFS. BBHMM and AO had quite the opposite reactions, Venus and DWUW (the second and third cuts from the album) got more acclaim then them two songs.
Acclaim for artists in the top top teir of the mainstream is mostly false and based off of popularity/ media perception. If you are liked, you are of acclaimed, if not, you get panned. This has even happened with Rihanna, when Una (an album that is usually referred to as her best album/ in her top 3 best albums by most people) got panned just because she featured Chris Brown. Acclaim in the mainstream really isn't a thing.