Biggest mistake during ARTPOP era?

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3 hours ago, Ricardo said:

I still believe the biggest mistake of the ARTPOP era was not releasing the album a year earlier. EDM à la Avicii and Zedd was huge in 2011–2012. Gaga chose to go the BTW route instead of embracing EDM, and by the time ARTPOP came out, everyone was already over it. I think that's why the album was so underappreciated. It was basically like, “Oh, another pop star doing EDM" 

i’ve always agreed with this take. i think people claiming ARTPOP was “ahead of its time” sonically are doing a good bit of revisionism and looking at it through rose colored glasses. aspects of the era were ahead of its time perhaps, but not the music itself like, at all, in my opinion. and i do love the album 

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Neutering Aura in the final version 

not including Brooklyn nights on the album 

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Let’s get one thing straight. The biggest mistake was Jewels ‘N’ Drugs. 

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dwuw should have had a music video

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Featuring all those male prefomers was such a bad choice along with destroying Auras vocals compared to the demo she leaked when it comes to the album itself. And I agree with some who say it came a year too late, if it came at the intended time it would have been far better received and fresh, but at that point the EDM wave was kinda withering down. 

I also didn't get the disappearing act for a few months, but I guess she had to gather her points to be able to move forward witn the era after her manager dropped her. Overall i feel like all that kinda went wrong was more the management rather than her poor choices, because she was doing all she could to make it grande and gr8!