PEDRO98 1,003 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Another review not actually reviewing the music Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah X 5,250 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 "Now she sounds like she's just trying too hard." HAHA. She made ARTPOP and people said she tried too hard. Now she toned THE F*CK DOWN and people still say it's trying too hard. HA!!!!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantina 3,357 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Honestly,i wouldn't be surprised if half of these reviewers were die hard pop 12 year olds who if they don't get their daily dosage of "hits" like Closer and "Rise" they will succumb to their husk and start bashing away at everything that moves! Until then, this is Elvira saying unpleasant dreams. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackwillow 2,200 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Monsters you know what to do Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlepotter 75,147 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 I'm so ashamed to admit this, but these reviews are ****ing getting to me. I feel like crying and screaming because this is just so unfair and keeps getting worse and worse. What are they even thinking?! chaeri pls Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stef 61,598 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Lady Gaga is all about reinvention: piano-pounding rocker, Euro-disco anti-diva, art-pop whirlwind, jazz vocalist — she's done them all in a career that spans less than a decade. Now comes her latest remake: the retro stylist of "Joanne" (Interscope). She's teamed with one of the most traditional of the 21st century pop hitmakers, U.K. producer Mark Ronson, whose work with Amy Winehouse ("Rehab") and Bruno Mars("Uptown Funk") stamped him as the go-to guy for making classic sounds (Motown soul, '70s funk) resonate for a new generation. Gaga embraces that past as well: Its sounds, its look (check out that vintage Cosmopolitan profile she casts on the album cover), even its values. "I confess I am lost in the age of the social," Gaga sings. Huh? Here's an artist who owned social media for a years with 64 million Twitter followers. Her career has been predicated on playing roles, wearing masks (and outrageous outfits), flirting with and injecting pop tropes with steroids even as she was undermining them. On her first batch of singles and videos (from the self-referential "Poker Face" to "Bad Romance"), she commented on and subverted pop currency even as she racked up No. 1 singles. And she made it look easy. But when her ambitious but flawed 2013 album, "ARTPOP," failed to live up to commercial expectations, she reversed course and teamed up with Tony Bennett for "Cheek to Cheek," a 2014 album of jazz duets. It was a move designed to reaffirm Gaga's musical bona fides, reframing her as a class act with a big voice that could hold its own next to one of the great vocalists of the 20th century. "Joanne" represents Part II of that image makeover, though anybody who's been paying attention already knows that Gaga has never been anyone's pop puppet. She's a songwriter-musician-producer-singer who would've been right at home in any number of genre pockets, and "Joanne" could be seen as Gaga's personal take on classic rock, soul and country. She offers a hint of the possibilities on "Diamond Heart," which builds off some of the stylistic mashups of "ARTPOP" by blending rock drumming and EDM-style dance flourishes. Gaga sings about powering through childhood traumas, but her vocals come off as labored, as if the musical gymnastics can somehow transform the track into the anthem it never quite becomes. The title track offers another personal snapshot, a sparse ballad named after Gaga's late aunt and muse. With its hand percussion and subtle string accompaniment, it offers a potentially radical direction that the album might've pursued more fully. But much of the rest comes off as a bland series of collaborations with A-list artists who just blend in rather than stand out. Beck brings a Latin feel to "Dancin' in Circles," but it's as a limp as the "let's funk downtown" lyrics. Florence Welch sounds strangely muted on the '70s soul duet "Hey Girl," in which the two protean singers tiptoe around each other over a refashioned "Bennie and the Jets" keyboard line. Gaga mashes up blues and hip-hop on the sassy "A-YO," but her flirtation with contemporary country is decidedly mixed: a sturdy power ballad "Million Reasons" that sounds like it would play in Nashville, and the embarrassing hoedown "John Wayne," which piles on the bad-boy-goes-to-the-rodeo cliches. Gaga doesn't fare much better when she furrows her brow and tries her hand at social commentary: "Come to Mama" sounds like a show-tune version of a Bruce Springsteen song, complete with cheesy saxophone, and urges, "Stop throwing stones at your sisters and brothers." On the somber "Angel Down," the singer declares, "I'm a believer, it's chaos, where are our leaders?" It's a question Gaga might ask herself. Once a step ahead of everyone else in recalibrating what it means to be a pop artist, she made her appropriations and reinventions look like fun. Now she sounds like she's just trying too hard. Sound off, gurlies, drag ha read ha slay ha etc, I'm gonna take a nap Greg Kot is a Tribune critic. 'Joanne' Lady Gaga 2 stars (out of four) Signature loading… 👹🖤 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Surrealist 27,470 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Greg Kot. Kot means excrement in German. Coincidence? I do not think so. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fingerella 3,170 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Just another rat Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squeeshy Keety 9,908 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Inb4 Billboard saves us They / Them 🏳️🌈 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARTPOPSYCHOLOGY 6,270 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 The angel down line made me stop reading. Really? These reviewers don't understand the essence of Gaga and veer away from investigative journalism to quickly do their job and listen to the album once. Why not maybe look at what she's saying in interviews about the songs? The themes? To look at her Twitter followers after the "I confess I am lost in the social." So because someone has 64 million followers, it means their automatically into social media and love it? Ugh. So annoying. I'm more disappointed at Rolling Stone. Their review was 90% positive yet gave it 3.5/5 which is only a half a star more than they gave ARTPOP. I think Gaga is polarizing and unfortunately will never be looked at on any deeper level from anyone other than us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke78619 23,356 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 15 minutes ago, MaryJaneHolland said: I guess you cant get high reviews, unless you're irrelevant indie artist or Beyonce Can we bring these emoticons back legendary insta: good_lukeing | I have nothing else to promote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaryJaneHolland 77,348 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Just now, monster78619 said: Can we bring these emoticons back legendary it's back gurl, check the emotes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melibi 414 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Gonna quote this from the i-D piece for these garbage reviews: "The problem with female power in celebrity is that a lot of men can't deal with it." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crystalline 993 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 Kinda agree tbh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan 20,740 Posted October 21, 2016 Share Posted October 21, 2016 At this rate Emotion is going to do better than Joanne http://www.metacritic.com/music/e-mo-tion/carly-rae-jepsen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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