Gaga’s intentions are good, results not so much
Although Gaga’s decision to get personal lyrically on her new album has some gripping results, musically “Joanne” finds the New Yorker spreading herself a little too thin and wide. Throughout the 11 tracks, Gaga variously pitches herself as a modern Darlene Love (“Come to Mama”), reimagines Elton John’s “Bennie and the Jets” with Florence Welch (“Hey Girl”), and on the woeful misfire “Dancin’ in Circles,” she clumsily muscles in on the grim re