Posted August 14, 20223 yr OOOH it's Pitchfork's Sunday review!!! Brilliant timing for the tour (even though it's not part of it lol) Really good review too https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lady-gaga-artpop/
August 14, 20223 yr Author One thing though: I have always understood that the FFT comment is about Amy Winehouse considering the person she is talking to played in her band.
August 14, 20223 yr Author As far as the mainstream pop goes, these are equivalent of 9s @1558700482893422593
August 14, 20223 yr Going to read the full review later when I have time but that score seems about right! A very divisive album, I'm intrigued to see what they say about it.
August 14, 20223 yr The review is brilliant! This moment I really felt: The album plays with the friction between vulnerability and persona, object and agent, trauma and ambivalence and the closing remarks on 'Dope': When she endeavors to reveal how hard it has been to survive and begs to be loved clean on the piano ballad, “Dope,” she herself becomes the reference. Reminiscent of The Fame Monster’s “Speechless,” a self-described “plea” to her father about his drinking, and a suggestion of what was to come on the gritty Joanne, she sings achingly for forgiveness from her loved ones around whom she’s smoked herself numb. The confessional is too dark to be a stripped-back breath, but it does reveal that Lady Gaga’s best when she’s centering herself. :wub: I also like how it references the fact it's a less-polished, precursor to Chromatica! Both show similar pain and angst but one is in your face and abrasive, the other more polished and refined.
August 14, 20223 yr Author Yep, it's one of their most spot-on reviews ever I think! Of course would've given at least 8 but it's about right considering her other albums.
