It has been obvious that Lady Gaga merely uses her 2008 The Fame obsession theme, The Ms.Beautiful, Dirty Rich look, as her accession to the viewpoint where she can express herself to the pop world. It is not hard to feel rather back-stabbed if you once got caught in that look. On the standing point where every single step is noticed, making an exotic moves might get you off the window, so Lady Gaga has to make sure everyone is watching from her side. Hence the overloaded promo during these past three months, through the abundance interview, promo shows, plus resurrection of GAGAVISION-- the inch-by-inch album revelation hot served for little monsters.
Somehow, her information in the promo are sometimes misleading. Sending her remixed track played in the fashion show, calling her album "Best Album Of The Decade" or "Avant-Garde Art Pop", cast a lot lime light from critics. But it is rather painful to see the final product is driven by overproduced sound by DJ White Shadow, repetitive themes on both lyrics and musical structure. This time she pulled out all of her guts in her profound writing ability, focus more on self-appriciation, religion, love and life. Most obviously she has to make sure everyone gets the message. By making the entire album in sheer Techno-Pop, once again, she take a huge step ahead of other mainstream pop rivals. The good thing is the whole planet is following her now.
Insteresting Tracks:
Marry The Night
A grand opening sublime, begins with melancholic synthesizer and breaks down into tribal-techno. This is a good choice for opening track and yet produces an overwhelming anticipation on the nexts.
Government Hooker
This track premiered on Thierry Mugler fashion show. I remember when it amazed me of how she literally pushed the boundaries on pop music. The final version isn't that much different from the fashion show version. Nothing special except I could hear
Crystal Castles - Air War playing inside.
Scheiße
This track tends to have a stand-out musical structure and of course, different language. But still the sounds are from one of her reoccurring techno-attempts. It is fun to listen to but if you prefer pure techno then let's just stick to DJ White Shadow remix.
You & I
Finally some space for her vocal talents! This is hand-down the best track of the album. A Lady Gaga album cannot complete without an innocent and personal track like this. This is an easy down-the-road Elton John vibe soft rock track that you will love, if you are the fan of her old songs such as Speechess.
The Edge Of Glory
The uplifting Cher style swings us back to the taste of late 90s that influenced throughout the track. With the background story of her grandfather, the lyrics urges us to to enjoy live by praising death and a bit of saxophone solo sends chills down little monsters' spines.
"The Best Album of Decade"? No. "Avant-Garde Art Pop"? Nice try. "Strong and Liberating"? Not enough. Although none of these titles should be officially claimed, since the album somehow mainstream (despite the album cover lol), It is good to see an artist with strong ambition being the huge driving force to drive her fans once she reached her solid ground. However, being limitless is a good but at least one should learn to hold back. Next time try something minimal.
