"Lady Gaga is back to pop"? Question is... has she ever abandoned pop? Seems to me like a statement based more on commercial success/relevance than sound itself. My hope was that Mayhem would represent a great and bold step in Gaga's discography, and even thought the first tracks appears to lead in that way, she quickly return to a safe space and familiar sounds with the excuse of "experimenting with genres" as if one wasn't enough to fulfill a 1 hour record. It ... read more
There are a few songs from miss Jlo that I like very much, but never enough to sparkle any desire to go over her albums, so this is my first rodeo. I was really expecting this to be a tragedy, however what I got was some fun songs here and there and some other so practical that are even hard to say anything. It's not groundbreaking (as you would expect from Jlo), but could've been a lot better if she had pulled out these repetitious speeches about how much she loves Ben Affleck.