ARTPOP

Critic Score
Based on 32 reviews
2013 Ratings: #957 / 1115
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2013 Rank: #381
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CRITIC REVIEWS

83
Pretty Much Amazing

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.

80
Evening Standard

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.

80
The Telegraph

Lady Gaga inhabits many musical guises on her latest album, Artpop – but all of them are great for dancing.

80
Time Out London
Her Ladyship didn’t earn her worldwide superstar status through mere pastiche. The basic elements might not be new, but the triumph of ‘Artpop’ is that it mixes its palette of influences in such entertaining ways.
80
Exclaim!

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.

75
Entertainment Weekly
As art, it falls short when it comes to one basic function: making an impression.
70
AllMusic

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.

60
The Needle Drop

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.

60
Tiny Mix Tapes

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.

60
The Guardian
There's certainly some decent pop on Lady Gaga's new album – but the 'art' part is rather harder to discern.
60
Clash
Not a great pop album, then, but certainly the product of a great pop star.
60
SPIN

The great tragedy of ARTPOP, though, comes from those moments that sound not just flat, but deflated

60
The Line of Best Fit

ARTPOP is possibly Gaga’s least poppy album to date.

50
Drowned in Sound

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.

50
Spectrum Culture
It’s definitely not great art and, for that matter, doesn’t even succeed very well as pop music.
50
Consequence of Sound

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.

43
A.V. Club

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.

40
musicOMH

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. 

40
PopMatters

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.

40
The Arts Desk
Even seasoned with splashes of classical mythology the porno chic wears thin.
TomBejoy
60

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LukasLima
63

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.
Sem dúvidas, "ARTPOP" é um dos projetos mais ambiciosos da cantora, e ela já demonstrava isso, quando ... read more

dn___fdz
80

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.

Algo que es cierto independientemente de la calidad de ejecución de este álbum, es que varías de las propuestas melódicas suenan más experimentales que ... read more

PabloBC
81

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 🔵🔵🔵

gtod
80

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.

lucidreiji
87

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

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Track List

1Aura
3:55
85
2Venus
3:53
87
3G.U.Y.
3:52
88
4Sexxx Dreams
3:34
81
5Jewels N' Drugs
3:48
50
6MANiCURE
3:19
78
7Do What U Want
3:47
feat. R. Kelly
76
8ARTPOP
4:07
80
9Swine
4:28
70
10Donatella
4:24
77
11Fashion!
3:59
78
12Mary Jane Holland
4:37
76
13Dope
3:41
74
14Gypsy
4:08
81
15Applause
3:32
90
Total Length: 59 minutes

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Added on: July 12, 2013