I feel this album is the final nail in the coffin of her career lol...
I keep seeing articles saying how she's ~finally being her true self~ with this album and I can't disagree more. The entire thing feels disingenuous and all around sloppy (but
especially vocally, which is really bad considering the vocals are pretty much the main... well,
only spectacle in the songs this time around). Not a single song has any commercial potential so I'm not sure what she and her peeps think this is going to do for her aside from ensure the GP will never have a lick of interest in her again?
Her songwriting style doesn't mesh at all with these """serious""" tracks and the lyrics just end up sounding lame. I mean, her lyrics have always been pretty lame, but it's way easier to pass that off when you're singing catchy pop about stupid things.
Most of all... It's just a big mess of tracks and it never takes off or goes anywhere. The album has no idea what it wants to be, which is OK I guess if you're trying to transition and experiment, but the cowboy country thing is SO PAINFULLY FAKE that it makes The Fame-era "I am really really totally 100% this person irl guys this isn't just a carefully crafted pop persona" look like. idk. super duper genuine.
It's just. Nothing about the album feels genuine, and the songs themselves aren't up to standard at all. The total package is a mess. I get why she thinks she needs to tone her image down, I mean it's been obvious since after TFM that she was going to fizzle out sooner or later if she didn't chill out a little. But
you can still do chilled-out pop without these gimmicks.
I'm annoyed of seeing all this praise for her being """real""" and """genuine""" this time around when Joanne is just as fake as her other personas, only difference being it's 180 degrees in the opposite direction.
