For once, Gaga’s quotidian performance-art stunts can be heard in the sound of her music: ARTPOP brims with blindingly vivid, jubilantly executed, idiosyncratic pop.
At 15 tracks, it’s too long and too stodgy. A more rigorous editor would have trimmed the interminable title track and the feeble duet with R. Kelly, Do What U Want. But at its best, ARTPOP is an exhilarating musical bungee jump.
Lady Gaga inhabits many musical guises on her latest album, Artpop – but all of them are great for dancing.
ARTPOP is a dynamic, memorable album that, while it fails to unveil the girl behind the aura, reveals a performer who finally sounds as invested in her art as she is in her image.
The concept is artful and logical, yet ARTPOP never insinuates or settles in the subconscious; it always assaults, determined to make an impression even when all it has to say is that it doesn't have much to say.
Art Pop is easily Lady Gaga's most eccentric and colorfully produced album yet. However, she still doesn't go far enough to keep her very radio-friendly band of pop interesting for an entire album--especially when it comes to lyrics.
Regardless of its unjustified aspirations, the album does feature a sizeable portion of well-composed, well-produced pop songs, which run the gamut from summery Eurodance (“Fashion”) to anthemic rock-lite (“MANiCure”), and which do more or less what would’ve been expected of them if it hadn’t have been for the unfortunate title.
The great tragedy of ARTPOP, though, comes from those moments that sound not just flat, but deflated
ARTPOP is possibly Gaga’s least poppy album to date.
Whether you’re an excitable tweenybopper, a hedonistic club-thumpin’ 20-something, or someone who usually listens to post-ambient quasi-retro dronecore and is frankly out of his depth reviewing such a prominent mainstream record, ARTPOP is a decidedly patchy ‘Just Dance’-less disappointment.
That refusal to experiment as wildly as she once did reads as fear, and a pop star who’s afraid ends up sounding like the once-weird Lady Gaga does on ARTPOP: boring and normal.
For as flamboyant as she is, Gaga’s never lacked sincerity; ARTPOP’s lack of substantial personal connection and its tenuous grasp on reality makes it a tough record to like.
ARTPOP strikes all the right poses for Lady Gaga’s vociferous fanbase to proclaim it as a work of genius. Taken in a wider context, however, it’s a depressing testament to how moribund pop music is at the moment.
With Artpop, Gaga sounds confused, disengaged, and at its worst, just downright bored. She’s never been one to give us the generic, but for all its lofty ambitions, Artpop never rises above the level of sideshow curiosity, lost in its own sense of meaning and self-importance.
Lady Gaga tenta soar "inovadora" em seu álbum "ARTPOP", mas infelizmente falha miseravelmente. Gaga vinha do ótimo "Born This Way", e a expectativa de todos sobre seu próximo projeto era grande, após o êxito e aclamação do anterior, porém ficou só na expectativa mesmo.
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El tercer proyecto discográfico de Lady Gaga lleva al extremo la extravagancia por la que se reconocía de manera auténtica, plasmando esa originalidad hasta en el más mínimo detalle de ARTPOP, consolidándose como su lanzamiento más incomprendido y polarizante.
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1. Aura | 8.5/10 🔵
2. Venus | 10/10 🔵🔵🔵
3. G.U.Y. | 9.5/10 🔵🔵
4. Sexxx Dreams | 7/10
5. Jewels N' Drugs (feat. T.I., Too $hort & Twista) | 7.5/10
6. MANiCURE | 7.5/10
7. Do What U Want (feat. Christina Aguilera) | 8/10 🔵
8. ARTPOP | 8.5/10 🔵
9. Swine | 6/10
10. Donatella | 8.5/10 🔵
11. Fashion! | 7.5/10
12. Mary Jane Holland | 7.5/10
13. Dope | 7/10
14. Gypsy | 8.5/10 🔵
15. Applause | 10/10 🔵🔵🔵
Some really high highs and a couple low lows on this album. But this was probably Gaga’s most interesting and daring album and I still had this on repeat when it came out. Can’t deny, a couple songs didn’t age as well as others and Jewels and Drugs is one of her worst songs if not her worst.
Aura - 10
Venus - 8
G.U.Y. - 8
Sexxx Dreams - 9
Jewels N' Drugs - 8
MANiCURE - 9
Do What U Want - 10
ARTPOP - 8
Swine - 8
Donatella - 8
Fashion! - 8
Mary Jane Holland - 9
Dope - 9
Gypsy - 10
Applause - 9
1 | Aura 3:55 | 85 |
2 | Venus 3:53 | 87 |
3 | G.U.Y. 3:52 | 88 |
4 | Sexxx Dreams 3:34 | 81 |
5 | Jewels N' Drugs 3:48 | 50 |
6 | MANiCURE 3:19 | 78 |
7 | Do What U Want 3:47 feat. R. Kelly | 76 |
8 | ARTPOP 4:07 | 80 |
9 | Swine 4:28 | 70 |
10 | Donatella 4:24 | 77 |
11 | Fashion! 3:59 | 78 |
12 | Mary Jane Holland 4:37 | 76 |
13 | Dope 3:41 | 74 |
14 | Gypsy 4:08 | 81 |
15 | Applause 3:32 | 90 |