As Gaga continued to build on her dance pop style with Born this Way and eventually ARTPOP, the musical climate had already shifted for her target demographic, teens and young adults.Īs the wacky Gaga aesthetic dimmed down, the more serious, angsty aesthetic began to rise. With the former, Gaga brought 80’s Europop and dance pop back into the mainstream: she created the standard that the pop acts of the time, like Ke$ha or the Black Eyed Peas, strived to meet. The album ARTPOP was released on November 11, 2013, where music was a very different thing than it is today, and different from what it was in 2008 when Gaga’s Just Dance and Poker Face catalyzed her rise to superstardom. It was just released in a time where it wasn’t appreciated. And it’s not a bad album, far from it actually. In my opinion, however, ARTPOP, generally and semantically, is underrated: I think it is Gaga’s most personal album that just has an out-of-the-box, playful presentation. One criticism reads that Gaga’s, “skills as a wordsmith seem to have peaked around the time she penned the line ‘bluffin with my muffin’” and that “‘Artpop provides enough clunkers to supply several monster truck rallies.” Unfortunately, audiences and critics alike did not have the enthusiasm for the 2013 successor ARTPOP that they did for Born this Way.ĭespite ARTPOP debuting at number one on the Billboard Charts, it’s first week sales of 258,000 copies (a 75% decrease from that of Born this Way) that lost Interscope Records $25 million in promotion costs and poor critical reviews gave it its nickname, “ARTFLOP.” The critical consensus around ARTPOP was that it lacked meaningful depth, was messy in its composition, and ultimately, was a let down. It was only logical that critics and the world at large expected another indisputable hit of an album for Gaga’s third project. The famous magazine Rolling Stone placed it at #484 in their famous “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” list. Arguably, her legacy lies in her 2011 sophomore album, Born this Way, and in the song of the same title, immediately becoming modern day’s most prominent LGBTQ+ anthem.īorn this Way went on to sell over a million copies in the first week, reached number one in twenty-seven countries, and was a critically acclaimed success for Gaga. Lady Gaga, one of the biggest female acts of all time, is known for her catchy pop hits, over-the-top fashion wackiness, and her versatility in music and media.
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