Celebuzz 'Joanne' Review 'Big Risks, Best Album of Her Career'

[boobtank 9,090]

Rating: A-

'Let’s not beat around the bush: Joanne is Lady Gaga’s best album to date and it’s the album that anyone that has paid attention to her career, beyond the club hits and meat dresses, should have been expecting.

It is also an album that takes huge risks by eschewing popular sounds in favor of analog instrumentation, classic songwriting motifs, and an incredibly varied palette of sonic inspirations, including country, folk, pop, electronic, soul, glam and ’70s rock. Creatively, Joanne’s risks pay off spectacularly. Commercially? That may be another story.

After the perceived failure of Gaga’s last pop album, ARTPOP — which, according to Nielsen, is in fact eligible to be certified platinum in the U.S. with 1.4 million sold (SPS) — Gaga could have (should have, according to some) taken the quickest route to a big, friendly radio hit by appropriating trendy sounds and working with the “right” producers. She did, in fact, record almost a full album’s worth of songs with RedOne, the producer with whom she worked on her biggest hits (“Just Dance,” “Poker Face,” “Bad Romance,” “Alejandro,” and others). This news perhaps fueled expectations that she was planning to return to the big dance-pop sounds of her first several albums. As it turns out, only one of the RedOne tracks, “Angel Down,” makes the final cut of Joanne, and he’s only credited as a co-writer; not a producer. What’s more, “Angel Down” is a ballad — an undeniable highlight of the album, arguably her best ballad ever, and a track with the potential to be a career-defining song — so those crossing their fingers for “Poker Face Redux” are **** out of luck. Everyone else is in for something special.

Gaga has been open about wanting to strip away some of the excesses of her persona in order to get people to really hear her music, a feat which will come easily to fans (at least those who weren’t expecting her to remake The Fame Monster), but not to those who are skeptical of her place in the 2016 pop landscape. She’s also been incredibly vocal about her musical influences since Day One of her career. Though most people are quick to point to Madonna — fair enough, but also: let it go —  Gaga has always been more comfortable citing artists like David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Neil Young, Marc Bolan, and the like as the biggest influences on her artistry. While Gaga previously nodded to those influences in ways both subtle and explicit, Joanne sees her, for the first time on a studio album, outright embracing them while also revisiting the kind of music she made before achieving fame. The result is Gaga’s most timeless and diverse collection yet. This will excite many and disappoint some, but either way, it marks a major turning point in Gaga’s career.'...

LINK: http://www.celebuzz.com/2016-10-20/lady-gaga-joanne-album-review/?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1476979472

[Awrah999 4,239]

Finally an accurate review 

[Gypsygaga1 3,623]

OH LORD YES

[Secret 2,318]

Does this count?

[boobtank 9,090]

That (non-metacritic) acclaim just won't let up. 

[InTraumatica 5,786]

I love "does it count" comments 

[Bloody 64,631]

well deserved 

so glad that they recognize talent 

[Jonathanholland 5,320]

Slay, that's the kind of review I was expecting. Take notes NYT

[DeanWinchester 41,390]

2 minutes ago, boobtank said:

That (non-metacritic) acclaim just won't let up. 

this. At least it's positive and is more accessible to the public through the social media sites.

[2007 5,291]

Hope those good reviews influence the others.

[Voltaire 4,531]

A reviewer who knows their shit and is even connecting dots that I didn't yet. Fantastic. 

[samuelx 1,309]

Women vs women is still a thing to most people these days, equality for women just isn't here yet. It all boils down to this

 

wtf wrong thread

[SlayGagaloo 16,152]

thank to whoever wrote this  

 

[Voltaire 4,531]

"With Joanne, Gaga bravely takes a huge risk: it sounds nothing like anything other popular musicians are making, probably because she’s the only popular artist who could have made it. "

[DeanWinchester 41,390]

1 minute ago, Voltaire said:

"With Joanne, Gaga bravely takes a huge risk: it sounds nothing like anything other popular musicians are making, probably because she’s the only popular artist who could have made it. "