I was a casual listener from the start, stayed up for the first time to check out the Alejandro mv, started lurking GGD during BTW, but my standom wasn't complete untill the pre-ARTPOP era started. All the anticipation, all of the speculation; it was so intense and when ARTPOP finally came out, it was like a gift from the heavens. I never really understood why this album/era was so engaging to me. I mean: a lot of ppl were complaining about how the execution was kinda messy and the record was to