ARTPOP
by Lady Gaga
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  1. marcmyworks
    Nov 11, 2013
    7
    ARTPOP is not at all a worthless album, but unfortunately due to its hype will more than likely disappoint and ostracize Gaga’s Little Monsters as it lacks enough originality or even weirdness to be interesting.
  2. GabZChris
    Nov 29, 2013
    7
    Reliving the beats and overall experience of the Fame albums, Lady Gaga returns with another dance record that has a fresh take on pop. Her vocals remain prominent on the album, coupled with strong electropop infuses that resemble that of '80s disco and dance pop. She aces with her choices of production collaborations (i.e. DJ White Shadown, Madeon and Zedd), but falls short on her vocalReliving the beats and overall experience of the Fame albums, Lady Gaga returns with another dance record that has a fresh take on pop. Her vocals remain prominent on the album, coupled with strong electropop infuses that resemble that of '80s disco and dance pop. She aces with her choices of production collaborations (i.e. DJ White Shadown, Madeon and Zedd), but falls short on her vocal partnerships. Her collaboration with R. Kelly on Do What U Want (also her 2nd Single) soars beautifully, but her attempt at rap/trap with T.I., Too Short and Twista fails to impress and comes off stale. Some other tracks also tend to have good choruses and catchy hooks, but hinge on being messy and a tad too adventurous, ultimately making a few of them sound like a few songs in one. However, there are plenty of standout tracks that stand a chance at becoming Singles in future. Her self-produced Venus, and other tracks like Swine, Donatella and Gypsy definitely have radio hit potential. The success of or lack of, as some may dispute debut Single Applause resembles that of Bad Romance, and could indicate the direction of the rest of the album. Venus, as well as MANiCURE, could potentially mimic the hits that Poker Face and LoveGame respectively were in the Fame era, although to a lesser extent.

    She does good walking away from the overly complex messages that were imbedded on the Born This Way album, but her classic rocker side still shouts out on this record, discreetly hidden behind the secondary dance pop queen she's supposed to be. Ballads Dope and Gypsy flaunt this potential. The overall flow of the album is, as usual, sleek as it transitions from [experimental] dance to commercial pop to ballads and finally, an apt ending with Applause. Lyrically, she again sways away from the conventional success of clichéd lines, but alienates the general crowd with lyrics that are difficult to relate to and would limit the potential of each track (case in point: Applause). While this album is generally palatable, it really is engineered more for her fans rather than the mainstream audience. It still is a strong album overall, with dance beats that will excite and tease the bass-loving crowds while maintaining the strange unique quality in most of her songs. Worth a full listen!

    Standout Tracks: Venus, Do What U Want (ft. R. Kelly), Swine, Donatella, Applause    … Expand
  3. Iro190688
    Dec 2, 2013
    7
    Lady Gaga has so much to say, but sometimes silence is the best way to express concerns and personal struggles she has dealt with. Pretty weird and sometimes the overall feel is plane. It's still an enjoyable pop record but certainly she promised more than the record she released. "MANiCURE, ARTPOP, Aura and Dope stand as highlights (even though the last one was way better as I Wanna BeLady Gaga has so much to say, but sometimes silence is the best way to express concerns and personal struggles she has dealt with. Pretty weird and sometimes the overall feel is plane. It's still an enjoyable pop record but certainly she promised more than the record she released. "MANiCURE, ARTPOP, Aura and Dope stand as highlights (even though the last one was way better as I Wanna Be With You"… Expand
  4. linikedemarco
    May 21, 2014
    7
    Gaga's unique way of mixing parallel genres proves her denial to be compared with any other pop singer, even though ARTPOP's pretentious nature results in a superficial yet well-structured sequel to Born This Way.
  5. Diamandis
    Dec 30, 2013
    7
    I thought she was losing her creativity but I see she keeps finding freedom in the music and transmitting it to who's listening this album. Some of the lyrics needed to be refined a little more before the album was released. I enjoy this new proposal, it's probably one of the best albums of 2013. Most recommended songs are "Venus", "Do What U Want", "Mary Jane Holland" and "Gypsy".
  6. philosophorse
    Mar 14, 2014
    7
    I love it. Gaga is still in the game, but her songwriting is becoming... brash. "Mercury, Venus, uh-oh!", she chants loudly. It isn't the perfect pop record, certainly far from an artistic one too. But the album shows great promise with songs like Aura and G.U.Y. Mother Monster is far from her fall, but she certainly isn't in best shape too.
  7. happily123
    Jul 8, 2014
    7
    The album is not bad as they say, it's just an amalgamation of various music styles remixed. I confess that it is not the best job of Gaga, but it's not the worst...
  8. guiseppelucas
    Sep 30, 2014
    7
    Quite dissatisfied with the ultimate redundancy of sick beats, but ARTPOP was a reverse-Warholian masterpiece effective enough to bring pop to art and live it together.
  9. LucasBanks
    Feb 9, 2015
    7
    Um álbum,um tanto diferente,com mistura de ritmos,letras,e um vocal no mínimo surpreendente da Lady Gaga,infelizmente o único ponto negativo do álbum é a cantora não estar na sua melhor forma...Tachada como "flopada" e até mesmo "esquecida",Lady Gaga nos dá um albúm experimental maravilhoso,mesmo assim não recebeu os louros do seu trabalho,muito isso devido a má divulgação de ARTPOP,elaUm álbum,um tanto diferente,com mistura de ritmos,letras,e um vocal no mínimo surpreendente da Lady Gaga,infelizmente o único ponto negativo do álbum é a cantora não estar na sua melhor forma...Tachada como "flopada" e até mesmo "esquecida",Lady Gaga nos dá um albúm experimental maravilhoso,mesmo assim não recebeu os louros do seu trabalho,muito isso devido a má divulgação de ARTPOP,ela errou em não divulgar certo,mas enfim um bom álbum...Não é um trabalho inesquecível,mas é bem interessante!… Expand
  10. Ayron_xcx
    Jun 8, 2017
    7
    Melhores músicas ''ARTPOP'' ''Sexxx Dreams ''Gypsy'' ''G.U.Y. ''
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  11. Fakebytswift
    Jun 12, 2016
    7
    Why do I think ARTPOP deserved a Grammy?

    We can say that ARTPOP is a mistake on Gaga's career but it is not. The album was one of the biggest conceptual works of all time. While Gaga was mixing art and pop, people was critizing her Born This Way era. Obviously, it wasn't a perfect album, Gaga focused a lot on the promotional thing, on the promotional singles(Dope and Do What U    Why do I think ARTPOP deserved a Grammy?

    We can say that ARTPOP is a mistake on Gaga's career but it is not. The album was one of the biggest conceptual works of all time. While Gaga was mixing art and pop, people was critizing her Born This Way era.
    Obviously, it wasn't a perfect album, Gaga focused a lot on the promotional thing, on the promotional singles(Dope and Do What U Want(feat R. Kelly), and it actually worked, but the real thing was left behind, the concept of the album wasn't promoted. We had an album inspired by the old Romanticism, the art culture of the 1600's, and she had everything to make the ''album of the millenium'', but everything went wrong.
    Start saying that it didn't had a good debut on the charts, the promotion of the songs was a total mess(DWUW video, for example), and then, the media started a big fight with Gaga, and it will be really hard for her to reborn from the pop culture ashes.

    (And it would have been a big battle on the Grammys with Sam Smith)

    HIGHLIGHTS: Venus, G.U.Y, Sexxx Dreams, Do What U Want, Artpop, Fashion!, Dope, Gypsy    … Expand
  12. Onoros
    Oct 16, 2015
    7
    While it has its weak moments, ARTPOP is another solid addition to Lady Gaga's discography. Sure, it may not meet typical radio-friendly requirements, as her previous efforts, it stills stands out as one of the best pop records of 2013.
  13. Lopesito27
    Jan 23, 2021
    7
    Lady Gaga's Achilles heel is melody and progression, she just seems to rarely get it right. However, when she gets it right, the results are truly impressive, as she's got a really strong and distinct music personality that's never lost even in the worst cuts.
  14. Americarnaud
    May 6, 2016
    7
    Underrated album. ARTPOP is a very good album, but some songs should've been left out: the anticlimatic and incoherent Jewels N Drugs, the boring MANiCURE, the G.U.Y. remix Donatella, and Fashion!, catchy but too long and not interesting enough.
    A good album that stayed in the shadow of an average lead single that set the tone for the album and the future singles. People weren't    Underrated album. ARTPOP is a very good album, but some songs should've been left out: the anticlimatic and incoherent Jewels N Drugs, the boring MANiCURE, the G.U.Y. remix Donatella, and Fashion!, catchy but too long and not interesting enough.
    A good album that stayed in the shadow of an average lead single that set the tone for the album and the future singles. People weren't interested. G.U.Y. or Aura would have been better lead singles and maybe the album wouldn't have been so overlooked. You can find the iconic Gaga weirdness in the brilliant Venus and ARTPOP, the catchy choruses in G.U.Y. and Gypsy, and the great writing in the whole album. All that thrown in a blender with crazy production, heavy beats, makeup, vomit, alcohol, and you find yourself with this great explosive and creative album.
    Lady Gaga remains one of the few pop stars actually interested in making good music, not hits, and she is involved in everything about the album. From the writing to the production, to the directing of the videos, ...
    In short, a good album, that should have been 10 songs long, overshadowed by a messy era which prevented people to actually enjoy the music.
    Best songs: Gypsy, G.U.Y., Aura, Venus    … Expand
  15. LipeFireworks
    Feb 13, 2017
    7
    Amo esse album, Sou KatyCat mas o album é maravilhoso, um dos melhores da carreira dela, Venus, G.U.Y, Fashion pra mim sao as melhores, adoro o album muito bom mesmo
  16. IgorCryBaby
    Dec 24, 2017
    7
    Probably her worst album, but still not bad. It's too noisy for me, but I like songs like Dope or Do What You Want.
  17. BlueDiego
    Jan 1, 2017
    7
    A mix about some good electronic/dance songs like Do what u want, MANiCURE,ARTPOP, a beautiful ballads like Dope and Gypsy with songs absolutelly bad like Donatella or swine. I like ARTPOP, but is'nt the big thing
  18. TheCriticReview
    Nov 17, 2017
    7
    This record is amazing. I can't stand the mixed or negative reviews this album gets when compared to the artistical "crap" that was released by Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus or anybody else. The entire album is written, (co-)produced and "done" by the artist not by a dozen of different songwriters or producers per track.
  19. JhosepKingsley
    Mar 10, 2018
    7
    Artpop is probably the best album by Lady Gaga. A true exponent of electro pop that reflects in a very artistic way the Greek and Roman mythology with enjoyablely danceable sounds. Simply a masterpiece.
  20. Mononoke
    Aug 10, 2018
    7
    Great album, if it weren't for late letter exchanges and the pressure to develop a concept that would give Lady Gaga an image of her oddities in 2010. A pity that her manager destroyed an album with the potential to be successful in 2013 It is not a 10, but it is not a 0.
  21. infsai
    Mar 27, 2020
    7
    Very diversive body of work. Besides pop, there is lots of EDM, some sadness, drugs n' love, and some rapping. It's not as bad that it was described in 2014...
  22. Serchvaz
    Jul 3, 2019
    7
    A good album, but not a masterpiece as gaga's previous albums. It has an excellent sons like applause, Venus, like DWW. But this album doesn't feel like gaga, it takes a step backward with some much electronic..
  23. viniciuspotrich
    May 22, 2019
    7
    Em meio a acertos e erros, ARTPOP é a obra mais excêntrica e audaciosa de Gaga.
  24. heitorlopees
    Jul 24, 2020
    7
    Um ótimo álbum da Gaga, muita gente menospreza o ARTPOP mas ele realmente tem melodias e batidas muito boas.
  25. zinedinrabia
    Sep 5, 2019
    7
    Gaga took upbeat electronic pop to another level with this project
    melodies and beats that get stuck in my mind for weeks
    Aura is a fun playful intro Venus is such a bop i like how she she dived into other genres like the country-ish song "MANiCURE" and the RnB influenced " Do What U Want" Artpop the track is the smoothest most haunting song on the album Applause is definitely my favorite    Gaga took upbeat electronic pop to another level with this project
    melodies and beats that get stuck in my mind for weeks
    Aura is a fun playful intro
    Venus is such a bop
    i like how she she dived into other genres like the country-ish song "MANiCURE" and the RnB influenced " Do What U Want"
    Artpop the track is the smoothest most haunting song on the album
    Applause is definitely my favorite track
    some of the tracks like " Jewels And Drugs" and "Swine" are a little bit questionable but overall it's a solid album    … Expand
  26. joel_tdl
    Nov 21, 2019
    7
    Un disco muy anticipado que no logró cumplir las expectativas. Si bien cuenta con canciones muy buenas (ARTPOP) también tiene varias bastante prescindibles (X Dreams).
    La producción en general no es de mi agrado pues me parece demasiado sobreproducido, lo cual arruina canciones que pudieron ser buenas baladas al convertirlas en intentos de canción de antro.
    Con una producción más ligra    Un disco muy anticipado que no logró cumplir las expectativas. Si bien cuenta con canciones muy buenas (ARTPOP) también tiene varias bastante prescindibles (X Dreams).
    La producción en general no es de mi agrado pues me parece demasiado sobreproducido, lo cual arruina canciones que pudieron ser buenas baladas al convertirlas en intentos de canción de antro.

    Con una producción más ligra y un par de canciones menos Gaga y su equipo pudieron haber logrado un mejor disco.    … Expand
  27. mihcome
    Nov 28, 2019
    7
    É um álbum transcendental, a frente de seu tempo, que vira e mexe aparece em alguma lista nostálgica ou rememorando clássicos de 2013. Acredito que se tivesse sido melhor divulgado e trabalhado teria sido um dos maiores da carreira da Gaga, mas ainda assim conseguiu grandes feitos ditante de pouco ou nenhum investimento da gravadora, com a Gaga ainda sustentando a divulgação final doÉ um álbum transcendental, a frente de seu tempo, que vira e mexe aparece em alguma lista nostálgica ou rememorando clássicos de 2013. Acredito que se tivesse sido melhor divulgado e trabalhado teria sido um dos maiores da carreira da Gaga, mas ainda assim conseguiu grandes feitos ditante de pouco ou nenhum investimento da gravadora, com a Gaga ainda sustentando a divulgação final do disco e clipes, e com toda a bagunça que houve profissional e na vida pessoal da Gaga também durante toda essa era.
    Querendo ou não esse álbum foi um divisor de águas na carreira da Gaga, foi o que fez ela dar uma pausa no pop comercial e best-selling, para ir cantar jazz com o rei dessa categoria, Tony Bennett, depois fez o intimista Joanne. Enfim, mudou totalmente os rumos de sua carreira, vai estar sempre no meu coração e vai ser lembrado por muitos! Sejam fãs, ou haters forçando o "flop" do álbum.    … Expand
  28. Binglei
    Jan 28, 2021
    7
    The name says it all: ARTPOP.
    I still couldn't understand why it flops in the first place
  29. AlistairTun
    Nov 1, 2020
    7
    Our queen, Lady Gaga has amazing albums, but in this case, Artpop is my less favorite.
  30. lvcxsz
    Dec 11, 2020
    7
    As her most experimental album to date, Gaga certainly had her hands full behind the scenes during the process of creating this album. That being said, this album certainly is not her best work, but it's not bad at all. ARTPOP serves as a career highlight because of the pure artistic creativity and innovation exuding behind each and every one of these hypnotically rhythmic EDM &As her most experimental album to date, Gaga certainly had her hands full behind the scenes during the process of creating this album. That being said, this album certainly is not her best work, but it's not bad at all. ARTPOP serves as a career highlight because of the pure artistic creativity and innovation exuding behind each and every one of these hypnotically rhythmic EDM & electro-pop influenced tracks, and with career-defining songs like Gypsy, Dope, and the infamous Applause, Gaga proves that even at some of her lowest points, she's still gonna push through and further prove she's one of the greatest of all time.… Expand
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 30 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 30
  3. Negative: 0 out of 30
  1. Q Magazine
    Jan 7, 2014
    60
    The melodies here are fine, they do a job, but nothing backs up Gag's Warholian rhetoric or scales the barmy heights of Bad Romance. [Jan 2014, p.116]
  2. New Musical Express (NME)
    Nov 26, 2013
    60
    While it’s stronger than the messy ‘Born This Way’, Artpop feels little more culture-quaking than a good collection of fun, silly, well-crafted pop songs.
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  3. Fact Magazine (UK)
    Nov 22, 2013
    50
    This is two albums in a row now that were basically a bit boring, and she needs to sort it out soonish please.
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