![]() ARTPOP has been resurrected, but it never actually died, though it did rebel against all the preset industry standards for mainstream music at the time. Illusion, masks, bareness, posing: all are exercised as ideas, without Gaga really settling on a preference.” Various reviews at the time said that ARTPOP’s message was fuzzy - a seemingly random album, thrown together and tossed into the pop abyss hoping to land, and that for some, failed. In 2013, Kitty Empire wrote in the Guardian: “The bloopy title track boasts the great reveal that ‘my Artpop could mean anything’ and the impression of a pop star scrambling, post-hoc, towards coherence never goes away. Kelly feature that Gaga would later remove from streaming services, not to mention its scrapped Terry Richardson–directed video), this album is the one that day-one fans appreciated, danced to, and exulted in both then and, almost more crucially, now. In November of 2019, Rose Dommu wrote in Paper, “ ARTPOP has been something of a barometer for how invested and well versed Little Monsters are in Gaga’s discography” - a response to a Gaga tweet that same week, in which the pop star claimed, “i don’t remember ARTPOP.” Dommu is right: Despite being widely labeled a critical and commercial “flop” at the time (and despite including an R. And then there are songs like “G.U.Y” and “Applause” - audio feasts that flex the strength of Gaga’s beats their choruses build with futuristic sonics before painting a wild sky of lyrical magic, doing what she does best: tell stories. The bitchy, campy “Donatella” is not just a reference to the Versace designer, but an ode to silliness as well as owning yourself with pride. Her passion and sorrow are exhumed in “Dope,” as Stefani sings about her addictions at the time. It’s also some of the singer’s most revealing work. It’s hot, it’s fashion, it’s robotically synced to Lady Gaga’s artistic intentions. ARTPOP, though, remains one of one in her catalogue - and from the lustful “Sexxx Dreams” to the rawness of “Gypsy,” it epitomizes the mission of its Mother.ĪRTPOP showcases the most extreme, weirdly gobsmacking of Gaga’s creative ability it honors pop music in a way that other albums of its generation do not. Though that’s what Lady Gaga has always done as an artist - she translates emotional labor into better listening experiences her music is spiritual to the point of ecstasy, with lyrics that evoke memories and fantasies of romance or sex or agony. In many ways, the album reinvented electronic-pop music. ARTPOP has, for nearly a decade, occupied a peculiar spot on the pop-disco shelf. Released on November 6, 2013, it surpassed the already-ambitious pop achievements of The Fame (2008) and Born This Way (2011), with an album cover that depicted Lady Gaga, nude, sitting with a blue orb between her legs like the goddess Venus, waiting to watch people fall in love. ![]() ![]() Miss Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta shifted space with ARTPOP. Oh, and this also happened:ĪRTPOP will be released on November 11.Lady Gaga’s most misunderstood album has been resurrected, but it never really died. Give us the demo, Gags!Īnyway, bring on the ARTPOP. This song needed to be really unhinged to work - not delicately sung. Where’s the growling, gritty texture of the demo? I know demo-itis is a tricky bias to overcome (“the original was better!”), but in this case, the original version actually is superior. In fact, the vocals have been re-recorded - and not for the better. To tide us over until November 11, Gagaloo also uploaded the album version of “Aura” in the form of a lyric video for her upcoming silver screen debut, Machete Kills…and it’s sort of a bummer.ĭespite the wave of “This is the real, real version!” blog posts over the past few months, no one actually had the real, real version of “Aura” until now. (Where’s “I Wanna Be With You”? LOL IDK.) Also, please Pop Gods, let “Fashion!” be a reworking of her classic RedOne tune - although it’ll never trump Heidi Montag‘s own version. T.I., Too $hort, and Twista)Īs you’ll remember, Gaga already teased “Aura,” “Sexxx Dreams,” “MANiCURE,” Jewels N’ Drugs,” “ARTPOP” and “Swine” at her iTunes showcase earlier in the year. ![]() After unveiling her wrecking ball-birthing, Jeff Koons-crafted cover for ARTPOP (which is so messy that it works quite brilliantly, actually), Mother Monster/Sister Swine has decided to gift her monsters with the full tracklisting for her upcoming studio album, courtesy of a group of insane stans who sleep outside her recording studio every day. ![]()
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