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Originally Posted by js_surrealism
^^ That's a fair point of view, although it's strange that you would disregard all the work she's done in the past 3 years, doing jazz standards with Tony Bennett and performing at the Oscars. Anyone who's tuned in would know that she's done a lot more than just that EDM sound in her first 3 records, and that she's taken her identity more definitively to 'musicianship' of late.
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Her work with Tony Bennett was never really positioned as the definite follow-up to the previous album - to me, it was clear that it was a side-project/endeavor. A big part of it is the fact that there has been multiple sources and reports throughout the past year or so that her next album would be somewhat of a "return to form," music wise. It's no doubt that the Lady Gaga "image" was present in Artpop and Born This Way, but the music suffered. It was reported that she had gone back to working with Red One, and the interviews he gave said he was really excited about the projects they worked on together, and that he really tried to recapture the magic they historically made as a duo in the studio for this next endeavor of hers. I read that in the beginning, she was very obedient (perhaps not the right word, but what I mean is she didn't put up a fight) to Red One's suggestions, but as she grew as a star, she was less receptive to Red's input, and working together became more of a challenge for the both of them. In my mind, RedOne was the visionary, and Lady Gaga was just his protege, so I never really considered myself a "fan" of Gaga, I considered myself a fan of the works she was releasing at the time, which is entirely different. But people tend to feed into the star - they attach their admirations to the person that they see, and fail to recognize the creator behind the sound itself. Which is fine because that's how the industry has always worked, but it's frustrating having this mentality that others don't necessarily have, and being stuck to endure it. I think being a fan of electronic music for ages has made me this way, as the releases they put out are crafts of their own, with various vocalists, so the angle from which you come to appreciate them is very different than the angle from which the general public comes to appreciate a pop star.