The 13th Lady Gaga Thread - ARTPOP is OUT!
 

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ARTPOP

Singles:




ARTPOP - O2 TV ad:

[Oricon first week sales]
1st day: 18,109
2nd day: 10,058

OH SHIT it's out lolol Gonna get it tomorrow

Oh I forgot to say it's not out everywhere, just Japan, some European countries, and NYC (it's an event or something).
Worldwide release is still 11.11 haha

AH LOL thanks for that :)

I'm happy to be a Finn lol. I might get this by Monday♥ Then I will blast the hell out of it for sure. :)

I already got it via iTunes and I don't really like much of it, it's even weaker than it sounded from your critics...

[Oricon first week sales]
1st day: 18,109
2nd day: 10,058
3rd day: 6,351

She's currently #1 with 34,518.

Is the sales consider good for an English language album in Japan nowadays?

Yes it is. I mean, it's much much less than Born This Way sales, but she had promo and a huge lead single back then. She's currently outselling Avril Lavigne, who is huge in Japan, and she will debut at #1, not very common for an english album there. :)

Oh that's cool! Yeah I still remember Born This Way was huge when it released in Japan, but sales changes according to time and promotion too.

If I'm not mistaken Utada's Exodus is still the highest selling English album in Japan? Or the record has been broken?

I don't know, I didn't even know about Utada's record! But it makes sense, the album may be in English but she's a japanese singer, and a very successful one

Wait so the album is coming out worldwide on Monday? I thought American releases in regards to CDs always come out on Tuesdays?

meh whatever so excited to buy this shit. I haven't heard anything except for Applause, Do What U Want, and Venus.

I'm officially disappointed with this album. I like only Do What U Want, Applause, Artpop.

^Same less Applause. The whole thing was a mess, music was generic and out of date sounding and the singing was just terrible - sounded more like yelling in some weird style of rap than singing.

Yes, it is so messy and cheesy compared to her first two albums (which I love btw)

I think I really only like Jewels and drugs. Just because I don't think she's really done a real hip hop song before. Paper gangsta and starstruck kinda played with the idea, but not really. But other than that, I don't really care for the album. :/

So I played venus in the car today and loved it. It's very good and I don't know why people dont like it, and I'm the guy who cares about how a song SOUNDS.

^ I like Venus, but it doesn't flow well and the production is poor.

I listened to this album twice, because at first I thought it was a huge mess. Unfortunately I haven't changed my mind, Artpop IS a mess. It's a decent pop album but anything special neither.

There are some catchy and good tracks though. Venus is my favourite, along with Aura. Too bad the album version sounds so flat compared to the powerful demo version.
Do What U Want and Swine are really catchy as well. And I've been obsessed with Donatella lately, even though it bugs me how Gaga mispronounce Versace :laugh.

[Oricon first week sales]
1st day: 18,109
2nd day: 10,058
3rd day: 6,351
4th day: 5,430
5th day: 5,311

Total: 45,259

Yes! She'll surpass 50k. I hope the album can sell more than 250k overall, considering she usually has a lot of longevity.

If you wanna stream ArtRave: http://www.vevo.com/lady-gaga-artRave
It seems that Gaga will perform the entire ARTPOP starting in 10 minutes.

G.U.Y. is the only reason that I wanted this album to really exist. It's so damn catchy.

Oh she performed only a few songs, almost the same as iTunes festival :(
disappointed even though it was good

I want DWUW to have some nice choreography, especially for the chorus, I don't want her just to walk aroudn the stage every performance... It's like she forgot what makes a performance good. Her vocals are amazing though

Ugh! I really didn't like Venus when it came out but during a walk this evening someone mentioned that a bright star in the sky could actually be the planet Venus and I started singing the entire song word for word because it got stuck in my head xD I had only heard the song twice at that point. Damn good job, Gaga. It may be a mess of a song but it gets stuck in your head quick and won't let go. She's really talented at making the catchiest music, even if it sucks lol.

I GOT MY COPY TODAY! It was the limited edition with the itunes festival DVD, so worth the money! :love

I didn't get my copy yet but it's ok. I can wait a little bit longer♥

[Oricon first week sales]
1st day: 18,109
2nd day: 10,058
3rd day: 6,351
4th day: 5,430
5th day: 5,311
6th day: 5,246

total: 50,505

it may top 60k on the first week.

Its out today in Canada and US!!

Btw, HMV lists a Fan Pack edition in North America that comes with the Deluxe Edition of the album and a tshirt. Does anyone have pictures of this edition? I wanna see the tshirts SOOOOOOO BADLY!!!

I liked the album! It wasn't mind-blowing or anything but Lady Gaga definitely offered up a lot of great music to listen to.

My favorite tracks are "Aura", "Do What U Want (feat. R. Kelly)", "Donatella", "Gypsy", and "Applause". The only songs I don't like are "MANiCURE" and "Swine".

I'm sooo broke til Thursday, so I have to wait til then til I can go get my copy. :(

Wish I could just walk into the store, grab it and say "I'll be back on Thursday to pay you for it" without getting in trouble from Mall Security or the police. LOL

Sexxx Dreams and G.U.Y. grew onto me, and I'm somewhat liking Venus. But Do What U Want is definitely my favorite song on the album.

My friends list on facebook is going crazy for this album.

Perfect album tbh, on repeat for days

ARTPOP is officially #1 on Oricon with 58,493 copies sold on its first week.

I think Do What U Want is my favorite too! Such a flawless song. But all the songs are great tbh, I only skip J&D and sometimes Swine and Dope.

The ARTPOP (Deluxe Edition) Exclusive Japan Press Interview. Just for some reason the Questions are missing for some reason.

^Thanks :D

She obviously refrained from creating songs for the sake of extremely catchy phrases.

The Fame was like... "Papapapaprazzi, popopopokerface, Alealealealealejandro, kindabusy kindabusy tetetetelephone". She did evidently make a step forward. I certainly don't listen to her music but at least I tried her albums once or twice and Artpop definitely differs from her usual works.

YES! :yes I think the main problem for people is that she really, really hyped ARTPOP up to be this massive thing that would change music or something. If you disregard that idea and just listen to the album it's nowhere near as bad as people it out to be. Definitely pleasently surprised with this release :heart

The major problem with the ARTPOP concept is that the art that everyone was expecting to be in the album wasn't. Referencing Greek gods and goddesses isn't exactly that artsy and has been done by a lot of artists in music who didn't claim to be be doing anything groundbreaking. The album is just a nice, but typical EDM album that explores her interests in sex, drugs, and fashion. Same old stuff. Jeff Koons' sculpture of her for the cover art is the only original artistic presence, if any, and don't tell me that's the reverse Warholian she's talking about. I just wish we could get back to the Fame/Fame Monster days...

Oh, and she should abandon rap in her music. Jewels n' Drugs was just.....no.

I agree. It's growing on me for sure but it's very... typical. I hate to be "that fan" but ARTPOP has nothing on The Fame Monster. To me that was Gaga at her most artistic.

So when begins the praise of Born This Way's perfection now that ARTPOP seems to be crap to so many of you? 8D I'm just waiting for that to begin.

As for me, I got ARTPOP today. This album is awesome. The absolute best of 2013 for me♥

Venus > born this way
I think

The Fame Monster > ARTPOP > The Fame > Born This Way

tbh

Well, for me it's The Fame Monster, Born This Way, ARTPOP, The Fame. And I'm pretty sure I'm the only one here who thinks BTW is her #2 best album to date. :D

http://atrl.net/forums/showthread.php?t=459306

y'all better get into this
the meltdowns are immense, but i'm not bothered as i stopped caring about sales a long time ago.
meltdowns start at page 12 by the way

^Those meltdowns are a lot similar than what I've seen here quite often since forever. :D But I don't care for sales. I just enjoy the flawless album♥

exactly, i just can't stand gaga's hype around her releases, it really annoys people who aren't her fans at all.

At this point I don't even care about sales anymore

Some good news: She will be performing on MUSIC STATION on the 29th!

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Kyary and Gaga, seriously? :P It's nice that it will be broadcasted live.

Interesting combo tbh

the album could have been better.
but oh well. A decent album from someone who could be amazing.

Oh, Godga on Music Station? Nice. 8D

Yes its not a bad album the songs are really catchy and fun to jam to. I just felt it was very generic sounding, could have been made by anyone who does EDM and a lot of the compositions sounded unrefined or similar to prior songs she's released.

What I don't like in particular about this "era" isn't so much the music its the stylization that I find very off-putting. The other three albums had such cool avantgarde art concepts this "Artpop" is far from art and a total let down imo I got the impression that it was gonna be pinup girl meets sleek techno kinda thing instead we get homeless person on bath salts. The album cover is just a cropped picture of the birth of venus by Sandro Botticelli with a statue. There's nothing artistic or innovative about that the venus thing is so 2011 come up with something new plz. Her fashion has been atrocious and geekerish very much like a baser would dress and as someone who just wears clothes on a daily basis I find it insulting. To me, this is showing that her "image" was thought up entirely by someone else in her camp and clearly that person is out and she might be too I can't imagine this is clicking with too many people.

ARTPOP the album was meh IMO....although off the album I really enjoyed Do What You Want and ARTPOP....

BUT her SNL performance. Wow. Can we talk about that? If her music career ever dies she could seriously go into acting.

The hype started long ago and to your domain i've already "unliked" gaga on facebook because of her overposting around artpop, but i have my right to say that that annoyed me before. i don't know why you're mad since i'm just stating my opinion around something, it's not like i hate her or else. in fact a like her a lot...


About the album. i think most of the songs are too experimental that i mostly end up liking verses of them rather than the entire thing =\

The tracks i like the most are Venus, Artpop, G.U.Y. and Gypsy ^^

About the MSta performance, well, she's doing the right thing since she's selling good in Japan and this will keep her sales around 15k for the third week on Oricon. TV performances helped Katy last week and Avril this week.

This exactly!

I like experimental sngs but she went to far with this album.

Mostly only the verses are catchy and nice to listen,too!

And her live performances for ARTPOP are really bad vocally.:shakehead

ARTPOP - Oricon

1st Week
Position: #1
Copies: 50,505
Total: 50,505

2nd Week
Position: #2
Copies: 27,837
Total: 86,330

I've always enjoyed her theatrics. She's really fun to watch. Whether it be singing or acting.

I could bet Gypsy will be released as a single. And Mary Jane Holland. That's also a song that could be good single off the album.

And I already passed 250 plays for this album according to last.fm and I'm still thinking ARTPOP is the best thing that has happened in 2013, closely followed by Namie's FEEL. I just love ARTPOP. I can't stop listening to it. All songs are awesome. My top 5 favs are G.U.Y., Sexxx Dreams, ARTPOP, Gypsy and Mary Jane Holland♥

Gypsy is really nice! Hope she releases it as a single. Please no weird pv for this song.

Look forward to checking out the Music Station performance (shame Ayu can't appear with Gaga too)

I'm enjoying Artpop, the title track especially. I'm hoping she releases another music video soon.

Mary Jane Holland is my life atm ugh so good

YAS, YAS, AND YAAAASS

Call me crazy but some of the songs sound so similar to me :laugh
Her and Katy Perry really went with the dance tunes this year

Artpop is one of my favorites too *--* love it.

I actually really love ARTPOP, it's the first Gaga album I've had on repeat when it first came out and I generally like all of the songs on there. The hype Gaga created around it got me really excited and I wasn't disappointed. Although, I think a lot of that is because I've always taken her ramblings of ~*high art in her music*~ with a grain of salt :/ I just enjoy it as regular pop music, plain and simple. I also absolutely LOVE the use of double vocaling she did in most of the songs

ARTPOP - Oricon

1st Week
Position: #1
Copies: 50,505
Total: 50,505

2nd Week
Position: #2
Copies: 27,837
Total: 86,330

3rd Week
Position: #8
Copies: 14,916
Total: 101,246


impressive numbers!!

Too bad her label probably won't let her do that since the GP doesn't like drugs. Those assholes fucked up BTW singles meanwhile Gaga's choices would've been so much better.

ARTPOP is amazing but not album of the year though, more like Britney Jean > PRISM > ARTPOP. And btw wth is she doing in Japan, just get on tour bitch so I can come see you again.

I WANT ONE OMG



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Gagadoll would be so awesome to have in the corner of my room. In that So Happy I Could Die costume from Monster Ball Tour~ ♥_♥

I'm downloading ARTPOP app for iPad btw. It's pretty slow but I guess there's all kinds of new stuff there so it's worth of the waiting♥

actually, tehre is nothing to this app so far.

OMG :love

Please, Britney Jean ain't no album of the year. will.i.am totally fucked up the epicness of Body Ache with that monotonous drop after the buildup instead of expanding on the melody after the ascent.

Alien> Venus> prism
It's how I see it
Venus is one my fav songs of the year
Fashion is my second fave lg song of the year
For the 2.5 people who care XD

I think she's hardcore into drugs :(

Oh, people still talk about Godga doing drugs? I really don't think she does it. I think she just uses drugs as a metaphor as many other bitches do when they sing about being addicted to their lovers and it feels like they're addicted to drugs. Besides, Lana Del Rey uses drugs references all the time in her songs and there's no one calling her a drug user. Weird.

And even I use drugs as a metaphor in my lyrics and I don't use drugs. I never have. I use that word when I write about addictive love or something like that. :p

Yeah, I noticed. -.-' But she also said on Twitter that at some point there will be some unreleased songs from the album so it's a reason enough for me to get it♥

I approve your opinion on Fashion! because it seems to be a song many people hate. I love the feeling of the song, it makes me smile every time I listen to it. And I'm surprised that will.i.am. was actually able to make a song that doesn't sound like his other songs lol. :D

She smokes weed. I'd rather her do that than have a coke habit again.

man. I think im more of a Prism > Britney Jean > ARTPOP.
The gaga is so over rated. I hope she takes a major break soon or people are gonna start hate'n her.

ARTPOP - Oricon

1st Week
Position: #1
Copies: 50,505
Total: 50,505

2nd Week
Position: #2
Copies: 27,837
Total: 86,330

3rd Week
Position: #8
Copies: 14,916
Total: 101,246

4th Week
Position: #10
Copies: 15,253
Total: 116,499

Queen.

Lady Gaga doing a track-by-track review of her latest album "ARTPOP".
Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7Voaj0xzpc


The interview is really good,she explain to us the meaning of all her new songs. Regarding the song DOPE she really talked about her addiction on drugs that was starting to mess up with her life. So sad :(...

Yes I know it's very shocking to hear her say that right?

I already saw her talking about that before performing DOPE at her ARTPOP release party:(

So LG is charging $35 for attendance to her concert.
Grant price but she costs as much as kyary pamyu pamyu now >_>

for 35 bucks I would go.

Me too
I like BudgetGa a lot more tbh.

The explanation for "Dope" from that interview really makes me appreciate the song a whole lot more.

What I dont get is how you make a song like Dope and talk in every interview about how you changed that and how you did it for those who love you, and then release a song like Mary Jane Holland which basically talks about how funny smoking weed is

i loved it, thanks a lot.

So i got my tickets to Gaga live in Philly so excited since I got very good tickets close to the stage.

Just like Rihanna's last album, unapologetic (which also had only 2 good songs on it), too much weed also made Gaga release her worst album ever. The two main singles are the only listenable songs, the rest is crap expelled from her bowels. I thought Born this way was a little freaky with the whole religiosity, but I was able to enjoy it more, but this album is just a waste, fArtPoop. She was able to make such catchy songs, but now some rappers scrape the board with a hard chalk and she thinks she made music with it. No art and no pop. She definitely surpassed the Born This Way remixes album in ammount of horrible music.

^ that was harsh, but true....

Naw, Artpop turned out to be a great album. I agree that Unapologetic was a pile of shite though.