VforVendetta 2,024 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 These articles do justice indeed!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Palutena 3,147 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 4 hours ago, yASSsss said: i'd like to know that too This gif On topic: I love ARTPOP Adoremus in caelum, Palutena. Dea luminis. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yASSsss 35,510 Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 17 hours ago, Lady Palutena said: This gif On topic: I love ARTPOP we should be thankful to @Bloody for giving us this iconic gif Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gagaloo911 12,959 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Sorry if this is posted in wrong section, move if so. Also sorry if AP. I just thought it was a nice and refreshing read with all the hate the album gets. I recommend reading it all as the author makkes some very nice, and great, points. Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP could mean anything, so why has it become codeword for “flop”? There are many reasons why the album’s negative reputation persists, both fair and unfair. Its legacy tainted from the get-go, ARTPOP was never given a real chance to prove itself. But a lot of what was said and is still being said about the album is unfair. I also find it odd that many dismissed the album as an out-of-the-gate disappointment, because it did debut at No. 1, and it did so by selling more copies than Bangerz, Britney Jean, Rebel Heart, Confident, Revival, and any other number of major pop releases over the past two years. This speaks to the larger issue affecting ARTPOP’s legacy: people simultaneously remember the album within its context — the bungled promotional campaign, which I will get to momentarily — and refuse to acknowledge that its context, and not necessarily the music, is what damned it. But most importantly, the album suffered because the music took a backseat to everything else. “Applause” was rush-released after a leak in August of 2013. This brought it out the same week as Perry’s “Roar,” a populist anthem that trounced Gaga’s weird (and wonderful!) ode to fame and fans. After the video for “Applause” was released the following week, we would not see another ARTPOP video until March (!!!) of 2014 (!!!!!) when Gaga released “G.U.Y.” That is, objectively, insane. In short: ARTPOP, the follow-up to Gaga’s multiplatinum smash, Born This Way, produced one proper single. One. So while it would be fair to argue that Gaga promoted the album heavily — performances, social media messages, increasingly out-there and aggressive sartorial choices, naked appearances in performance art films, high-profile beefs — it also stands that it was hardly promoted in any way that actually mattered. People were tuned into the spectacle but not the music. ARTPOP is an album bursting with ideas, some of them brilliant and some only half-formed. Within the confines of 15 songs, Gaga addresses topics as disparate as sexual assault (“Swine”), the artistic process (“ARTPOP”), gender roles (“G.U.Y.”), class satire (“Donatella”), and addiction (“Dope”). No one idea is explored too thoroughly, but they are there: actual ideas, points-of-view. And ultimately, those ideas — that ambition — is what sets Gaga apart from her peers. She may not always hit her mark, but you can always see her pushing herself: to try harder, to say something, to immortalize a message she feels passionate about. The same, I’m afraid, cannot be said of many of her competitors. ARTPOP saw her pushing her “weirdness” to grotesque and often uncomfortable places. That, understandably, turned a lot of people off, including some of her own fans. It’s an album that doesn’t sound much like what other pop stars were making at the time. It’s harder, more aggressive, and trades almost exclusively in rather oblique metaphors. It’s a little bit messy, but it has a purpose. It sometimes bites off more than it can chew. Just like its creator. I’d rather support an artist who swings and misses, one who is so clearly passionate about her own ideas (even the ones she can’t properly articulate), than one who plays it safe, who works with only the goal of creating a hit in mind Read it all here Spill that tea author Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaryJaneHolland 77,348 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 here we go again Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der Meister 3,000 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 It is the wrong section. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariomania1234 11,368 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Nobody over dramatises ARTPOP's underperformance more than Gaga fans. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quasi 10,923 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 I don't understand pineapples, so I don't eat bananas. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJH219 4,448 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Where was the memo that this past week was "Resurrect ARTPOP Week"? 'All our dreams can come true IF we have the courage to pursue them'-Walt Disney Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
djBuffoon 12,115 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Love it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViviLittleM 3 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Wrong section and old. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantomhive 2,030 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 I already posted this last year http://gagadaily.com/forums/topic/168895-two-years-later-in-defense-of-lady-gaga%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98ARTPOP%E2%80%99-celebuzz-article/ In I fly on wings of winter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haroon 49,685 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 @Gagaloo92 Merged your thread here Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
djBuffoon 12,115 Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Nice to see some level-headed support for the album. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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