Lady Gaga needs no introduction, so let\u2019s just get to the review of her third studio album because it won\u2019t take long.\u00a0 ARTPOP<\/i> is one very strange album, and that\u2019s not always a bad thing, but in this case it is which is a real shame because I have really enjoyed her work over the last few years and was hoping that that enjoyment would last a bit longer. That clearly wasn\u2019t in my stars, though, because there is very little about ARTPOP<\/i> that I like and the things that I do like are hardly memorable anyway. Overall, it just leaves me with a sense of nothingness. <\/p>\n
However, I do like the cover art and the overall approach of trying to make an interesting and multifaceted album. In other words, I admire Gaga\u2019s chutzpah and willingness to always try new things and continue her creative journey in an uncompromising manner. Power to her; I think she\u2019s brilliant and a very solid live performer, but what we have here is just a hot mess of ideas and half-baked ideas that never really reach even a quarter of their potential.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
A contributing factor for this very problem could be the ridiculous amount of people that Gaga commissioned to work on ARTPOP<\/i> with her. It seems as if either she gave them completely free reign on whatever they were working on; either that, or she was so steadfast in her approach that they were unable to bring her around to try different things that may have worked better. More often than not, it just doesn\u2019t seem to be conducive to producing quality and coherent work. <\/p>\n
Not everything about ARTPOP<\/i> is all that bad, though. When it works, it has its moments of sounding like a unique and fun pop album. Those moments are few and far between, but easily the most unique track on the record is the deranged and slightly mental (in a good way) \u201cSwine.\u201d \u201cMary Jane Holland\u201d is completely over the top and stupidly anthemic is its soundscape, but it\u2019s also a catchy pop song that sounds closest to Gaga\u2019s previous album, Born This Way<\/i>. <\/p>\n
\u201cDope\u201d finds Gaga digging deep for an awesome vocal performance of this glorious piano ballad on which she declares, \u201cI need you more than dope.\u201d Going by her performance here, I\u2019m thinking she must need dope a lot! But the rest of ARTPOP just doesn\u2019t cut it. It\u2019s full of annoyingly messy dance tracks (\u201cGypsy\u201d and \u201cG.U.Y.\u201d) and half-baked ambient tracks (\u201cApplause\u201d and \u201cARTPOP\u201d) that just add nothing slightly memorable to the listening experience.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\u201cVenus\u201d is better, but \u201cSexxx Dreams,\u201d \u201cJewels N\u2019 Drugs\u201d and \u201cDo What You Want\u201d are not; in fact, they are far worse. \u201cMANiCURE\u201d sounds like a weak cut from a Shania Twain album of a decade ago and \u201cDonatella\u201d is just Gaga doing Madonna which we have all heard before. <\/p>\n
There really isn\u2019t much more to say about ARTPOP<\/i> other than the fact that I find it a really disappointing experience. But I\u2019m hopeful that Gaga isn\u2019t completely out of ideas and will get it right again eventually.\u00a0 The sycophants (\u201clittle monsters\u201d) of course will love it and there\u2019s nothing wrong with that, but I will say this: they are easily pleased and maybe that\u2019s the problem here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":31747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8455],"rating":[11204],"class_list":["post-43459","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-lady-gaga","rating-rating-c-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=43459"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=43459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}