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Celeb News: ARTPOP Official Reviews: 61/100
Member Since: 8/17/2013
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"at its best, it sounds like it was creatively directed by RuPaul, Dr. Ruth, and Beavis and Butt-Head"
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dragged 
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Where's Rolling Stone their 5* review  |
3*
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Not bad. RuPaul reference tho. 
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Britney's worst album and yet they gave her 4 stars. Never trust RS. NEVER!
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Member Since: 8/3/2012
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That's very generous of them. Although, to be fair, I expected at least 3.5/5 since Rolling Stone is a bit of a joke these days.
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there goes its last hope 
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Gaga wants us to believe the LP was inspired by Marina Abramović, Jeff Koons and Sandro Botticelli; at its best, it sounds like it was creatively directed by RuPaul, Dr. Ruth, and Beavis and Butt-Head
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omgggg
and I am really thinking the album will be around the 60-61 zone when it's all said and done
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OUCH 
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Gaga wants us to believe the LP was inspired by Marina Abramović, Jeff Koons and Sandro Botticelli; at its best, it sounds like it was creatively directed by RuPaul, Dr. Ruth, and Beavis and Butt-Head.
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wait,  all these reviewers have become messy nowadays ......its time to just "stop the drama" and "start the music"
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Member Since: 8/31/2012
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Originally posted by Evangeline
She's not getting a Grammy nod this time.
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Teenage Dream had the same score, with worse overall reviews, and still got several nods at the Grammys
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I guess it was fair 
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Critics really don`t love her this time
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Member Since: 8/3/2012
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Originally posted by VivaLaDaniel
Critics really don`t love her this time
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Or maybe the music is bad? 
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Originally posted by RT Air
Time for critics to grow ears.
#JusticeForARTPOP
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I'd say you got it the wrong way round. The denial is real
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
Teenage Dream had the same score, with worse overall reviews, and still got several nods at the Grammys
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Mumford & Sons just won Album of the Year for Babel with a 63
Grammys are a joke and always been.
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Originally posted by VivaLaDaniel
Critics really don`t love her this time
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It's not like critics hate the album, or are mixed. It's just getting a lukewarm response compared to her past three albums. *shrug*
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ROLLING STONE - Lady Gaga 'ARTPOP' Review
Lady Gaga is at her peak when she's playing the neon queen of all the world's outcasts. And with her constant prodding, her Little Monsters have filled the biggest big tent in modern pop. But in the five years since Stefani Germanotta's arrival, weird has become the currency that overwhelmingly fuels pop culture – from seapunk Tumblrs to American Horror Story. So for Gaga to stay on top in 2013, she has to keep cranking up the cray.
For better and for worse, Artpop meets the mandate. It's a bizarre album of squelchy disco (plus a handful of forays into R&B) that aspires to link gallery culture and radio heaven, preferring concepts to choruses. It's sexual but not sexy, filled with bitchy fashion designers and one-liners like "Uranus/Don't you know my ass is famous?" and "Touch me, touch me, don't be sweet/Love me, love me, please retweet." Gaga wants us to believe the LP was inspired by Marina Abramović, Jeff Koons and Sandro Botticelli; at its best, it sounds like it was creatively directed by RuPaul, Dr. Ruth, and Beavis and Butt-Head.
Artpop opens with four tracks of thumping futuresex/lovesounds where Gaga vows to lay her intentions, and body, naked. She cops a drag queen's arch humor on intergalactic journey "Venus," examines sex and power on gothy grinder "G.U.Y" (which stands for "girl under you"), and woos a lover whose "boyfriend was away this weekend" on the slinky "Sexxx Dreams." Yes, we can read her poker face.
But just as Artpop gets into a groove of high-tech Pop&B, her creative impulses splinter. She plays hook girl for Too $hort, Twista and T.I.'s thugged-up, self-parodic "Jewels N' Drugs" and falls for her own cutesy wordplay on the glammy "MANiCURE." The Rick Rubin-produced "Dope" is a turgid ballad about the slippery slopes of romance and drugs that lunges for Elton John and crash-lands near Meat Loaf.
Gaga's previous albums – 2008's electro-pop romp The Fame and its brilliant follow-up EP, The Fame Monster, and 2011's inventively nostalgic Born This Way – were largely the result of partnerships with producers RedOne and Fernando Garibay. Paul "DJ White Shadow" Blair worked on most of Artpop, but there's a pile-up of names in the credits including Zedd, Madeon, David Guetta, Infected Mushroom and Will.i.am. In the past two years, Gaga has split from her longtime stylist/choreographer and manager and canceled a world tour to recover from a serious hip injury. Could Artpop simply be a distraction obscuring the drama behind the curtain?
Ironically, Gaga redeems the LP with a pair of tracks that strip away the artifice in favor of plain sentiment: "Do What U Want," a spectacularly growly and groovy R. Kelly duet, and "Gypsy," an Eighties-style anthem where Gaga admits her love of performing and love of love often clash. "I don't want to be alone forever, but I love gypsy life," she sings without abandon. Neither track is subtle, but they work because they weren't born from the chilly conceit that art and pop need an arranged marriage to get busy.
RATING: 3/5
60/100 on MetaCritic
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/al...#ixzz2kXbj2sYg
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Time for critics to grow ears.
#JusticeForARTPOP
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Metric isnt errthing 
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It's alright guys, just one critics view. Hold my hand, it's going to be ok 
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Member Since: 11/26/2011
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Any consultation, ARTPOP has a higher user score on metacritic than Born This Way. 
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