Cinny said:

bunnyscotcooper said:

WAIT, NO JANET? THIS GONNA BE BORIING

Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She hasn't had a great song since the All For You era.

This is a wholly disappointing album. In a couple of weeks I might consider picking it up in the Used CDs section.

ID she is more busy concentrating on being naked...The closest I'd buy her CD if she just plays paino and sings.

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It's her best album.

mjforever said:

SchlomoThaHomo said:

mjforever said:

It's her best album.

Glad I'm not the only one. I've never been into a Gaga record like I'm into this one. That synth groove that kicks off Do What U Want is sick AF.

YES x infinity!

Hudson said:

Cinny said:

Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She hasn't had a great song since the All For You era.

Also:

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Janet is my favorite artist of all time but I don't agree. The closest she has come to greatness in the last 10 years is "Make Me".

Lady Gaga

Artpop

[Interscope ]

1½ stars (Out of four)

For all of Lady Gaga’s pretension otherwise, musically, most of her new “Artpop” sounds like something Miley Cyrus would be comfortable with. If you dress up mainstream pop in a weird leather hat and stuff a gag-ball in its mouth, that doesn’t make it dangerous and groundbreaking.

The big problem with “Artpop” presaged the album’s release date by weeks, and like most problems these days, it had its genesis in social media. Through Twitter, Gaga proclaimed the unreleased record to be “the album of the millennium,” a collection that would attempt to reconcile the worlds of art and pop. This is akin to a novelist doing an advance interview for his book in which he proclaims it to be “the great American novel.”

Reconciling art and pop might be a noble idea. But David Bowie already did it. So did Roxy Music. Come to think of it, so did the Beatles. So what will be Gaga’s great contribution to the struggle between creativity and commerce? Apparently, self-conscious stabs at the avant-garde tossed into the mix with standard, often trite, pop claptrap.

“Artpop” is less about balancing the inspired against the banal and more about celebrating the things its creator appears to be obsessed with – sex, fame, fashion and Lady Gaga. The album opens with “Aura” and finds Gaga cooing, “Do you wanna see me naked, lover?” which comes across as about as sexy as a trip to a health clinic for an STD checkup. “Detached” doesn’t even come close to covering it – Gaga sounds positively absent.

“G.U.Y” is a sleazy slab of Euro-disco that sounds an awful lot like Madonna. The lyrics are embarrassingly bad – we learn that “G.U.Y.” stands for “girl under you,” and even before we can stop groaning over that one, Gaga hits us with “Touch me, touch me, don’t be sweet/Love me, love me/please retweet.” Yep. That happened.

“Swine” is straight Euro-EDM, though its intentionally “arty” midtune breakdown suggests that it wishes it was something more. “Donatella” is a tribute to Donatella Versace, and it sounds a lot like Moon and Frank Zappa’s parody “Valley Girl.” Gaga is trying to be funny, but since we don’t necessarily share her obsession with glitz and glamour and wealth, it comes across as pretentiously in-jokey.

This is all bad – very bad. But it’s nowhere near as bad as “Fashion!,” a Will.i.am-produced catastrophe that apparently intends to be Bowie’s “Fashion” and Madonna’s “Vogue” mashed into one mess. (Bowie for art, Madonna for pop. Get it?) This is lowest-common-denominator pabulum, but oddly, it’s one of the more enjoyable tunes on “Artpop,” because it seems the least self-conscious. Catchy, throwaway dance-pop seems to be what Gaga does best.

Despite Gaga’s insistence otherwise, even after the release of her “album of the millennium,” art and pop remain unreconciled. “Artpop” largely fails as both.

– Jeff Miers

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Co-sign the boldfaced. The underlined quote is just funny.

Hudson said:

Janet is my favorite artist of all time but I don't agree. The closest she has come to greatness in the last 10 years is "Make Me".

I love that soundtrack ballad "Nothing".

I'm feeling VENUS and MANICURE too. These songs are the shit.

ROLLING STONE review of ARTPOP

*** out of ***** stars

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.

No RedOne = her weakest album. He produced her best songs in the past IMO.

SEANMAN said:

Hudson said:

She hasn't had a great song since the All For You era.

Also:

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Hudson won't listen. You have to be brainwashed to believe she had no good songs since 2001!

Xibalba said:

Well, that was thoroughly underwhelming

When I first saw this I couldn't help but laugh out loud

Gunsnhalen said:

Despite not really being a fan Fame Monster was alright. And am i the only one who really liked this track?



I thought Do What You Want had the same kind of vibe.

You're not the only one, I really liked this one, too. Keyword is LIKED. I can't believe this woman is so pretentious and full of herself and she can't even produce a solid album. She has no true legacy to boast about, yet she boasts. I'm listening to MANiCURE right now, and I think The Ting Tings want their schtick back. BOOOO BITCH!

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The Ting Tings? I guess there's a reason no one's ever heard of them.

Adele recently Tweeted her love for ManiCure:

"MANiCURE is the best"

SEANMAN said:

The Ting Tings? I guess there's a reason no one's ever heard of them.

Adele recently Tweeted her love for ManiCure:

"MANiCURE is the best"

Uh, really, never heard of them?

It's like Gaga with a pulse

^^Yeah, really never heard of them. Like, REALLY. But, you are comparing them to someone who has the #1 album all over the world, so

JoeBala said:

ID she is more busy concentrating on being naked...The closest I'd buy her CD if she just plays paino and sings.

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I think GaGa has started this whole "naked+blue sphere" pics thing as a campaign to "seduce" the male hetero/lesbian audiences (myself included lol), so yes: I've bought the album out of testosterone, but surprisingly I think it's lighter/funnier/better than Born this Way; it may not have classic songs like Pokerface or Bad Romance, but as far as 2010s pop goes, this album is G-O-O-D

She said a couple months back via twitter that she doesn't do music 4 the charts, when people were pointing out that Applause underperformed on those (I know, it peaked at 4, but still everyone were expecting more). Then, when DWUW was released as a promo single and topped the iTunes charts in 80+ countries, she changed plans 4 the second single, that was supposed 2 be "Venus", because of that...in other words, she's so full of shit!

go2theMax said:

She said a couple months back via twitter that she doesn't do music 4 the charts, when people were pointing out that Applause underperformed on those (I know, it peaked at 4, but still everyone were expecting more). Then, when DWUW was released as a promo single and topped the iTunes charts in 80+ countries, she changed plans 4 the second single, that was supposed 2 be "Venus", because of that...in other words, she's so full of shit!

It was her record company that nixed the plans for VENUS to be the second single when DWUW did so well on the iTunes charts, not her.

SEANMAN said:

go2theMax said:

She said a couple months back via twitter that she doesn't do music 4 the charts, when people were pointing out that Applause underperformed on those (I know, it peaked at 4, but still everyone were expecting more). Then, when DWUW was released as a promo single and topped the iTunes charts in 80+ countries, she changed plans 4 the second single, that was supposed 2 be "Venus", because of that...in other words, she's so full of shit!

It was her record company that nixed the plans for VENUS to be the second single when DWUW did so well on the iTunes charts, not her.

Nope! She was questioned by the fans about that and she said it was her call..it's on her twitter account.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/5770533/lady-gagas-do-what-u-want-change-up-the-big-bet-on-her-r-kelly

also, halfway on this page has the twitter: "it is not the labels decision. It is a beautiful thing to evolve into a new genre, I've worked hard to be seen as a musician."

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/5770533/lady-gagas-do-what-u-want-change-up-the-big-bet-on-her-r-kelly

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