I will never understand 80% of her appeal :/
Meh, another reviewer saying this album is what they expected from her (i.e. pop music that's catchy, go figure) but didn't have the fire of Born This Way, an album that was so fiery that that same reviewer probably hated it when it came out too. She's going to get the catch-22 treatment this era at the end of the day; when she establishes her style as straight up pop, she's criticised for establishing versus treading new grounds. Except she's never treaded new grounds. All her music has been a similar style (Born This Way strafed a few times but generally still in the same tableau) but I think the title of album insinuated something more transformative than what we actually got. This person complains that "ARTPOP" is exactly what she's been doing up til now, then criticizes the album for being exactly what she's been doing up til now. Isn't that point? "ARTPOP" is exactly what she's been doing and this album exemplifies it. It's not meant to be a transformative album so much as an establishing album... at the end of the day Gaga is about catchy pop music, you've all complained that she strayed away from that in the last era, so this time she'll give you what you asked for: music similar to my first album + EP. It's classic Gaga. What moniker describes Gaga's essence more than "ARTPOP"?
It's like "why is this album JUST a bunch of pop songs?".... well, because that's what she was asked to make. Everyone shat on her for trying to do more, so she listened. I think there are too many people who want drastically different things from her, and in misunderstanding her ambitions assumed that her brand of music was some sort of revolutionary medium. It isn't. She's a well-spoken artist with catchy pop music.
