Re: The Official LADY GAGA Mega-thread
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What the fuck is wrong with her eye! haha
A bunch of reviews I found:
a. USMagazine.com : 4 / 5
Lady Gaga's game-changing debut, 2008's The Fame, and its hit-filled add-on, The Fame Monster, ruled. But the phenom's second LP is the one she was born to record. Wildly audacious and arresting (imagine Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and Madonna poured into a sonic blender!), it's equal parts stadium-worthy epic anthems like "Hair" and convention-defying dance-pop. And her hard-core little monsters will eat up the studio version of her live fave "You and I.
b. NME : 8 / 10
Rather than an exercise in hype, what ‘Born This Way’ really is an exercise in the pushing of everything to its ultimate degree. And for all the black, white and silver, it passes that test with flying colours.
c. BBC Music :
Gaga could have filled this album with guest slots from hip names and phoned-in cameos from rent-a-rapper types. But there’s none of that.
It’s a storming collection of high-concept pop brilliance designed to soundtrack every preposterously tremendous Gaga moment for the next 18 months.
Enjoy someone actually putting a bit of effort and imagination back into pop, and keep the sneering and lazy comparisons in check. Not that they can take anything away from what is, simply, a marvellous record.
She’s so far above her chart contemporaries that she’s created her own orbit, around her own world.
d.PopSpecs
PRETTY FUCKING AMAZING.
Lady Gaga has managed to produce her strongest body of work to date. An epic album which will undoubtably sell by the bucketload and cement her position as pop’s most fascinating figurehead.
e.MTV
Lady Gaga's Born This Way Album Is Everything To Everyone
Gaga proves that she is one of the most multifaceted pop stars on the planet. She takes on roughly 750 different personas on the album — throughout the course of 14 songs, she professes to be "a warrior queen," "a soldier," "a winner" (and, later on, "a loser"), "a selfish punk," "a bad kid" and "a degenerate young rebel" (and proud of it), to name just a few. She is also a messiah, an idol, a down-and-dirty homegirl, a lonely girlfriend, a mother, a martyr, a prostitute and a mother superior. Shoot, she even speaks German and Spanish.
And believe it or not, it all works. This is definitely a long player (the shortest song clocks in at a hair under four minutes), but an album this full of songs and ideas should take all the space (and time) it needs. It is epic. It is excellent. It is exactly the kind of album you'd expect the hugest pop star on the planet to make.
But above all, Born This Way succeeds because it is almost always interesting.
f. About.com 5 / 5
She brazenly welds disco to metal guitars embracing all of her musical influences in a mad clash of styles that works more often than not. Born This Way begins and ends with near perfection.
g. Slant Magazine 4 / 5
There's nothing small about this album, and Gaga sings the shit out of every single track. In many ways, Born This Way is akin to The Killers' sophomore effort, Sam's Town: bloated, self-important, proudly American, an exercise in extraordinary excess" and concluding with the sentiment that She's indeed on the edge of glory—that is, she isn't quite there yet, but it's fun, if infuriating at times, to watch her try so devotedly
h.PopJustice 9 / 10
What an extraordinary album
i.The Guardian 4 / 5
Lady Gaga's relentless, shameless, sledgehammer pop nearly always hits the spot – if you ignore the cheesy saxophones.
Lady Gaga can be the most exciting, confounding and mind-bogglingly creative artist on planet pop while still sounding like an early-90s Tampax advert.
j. MIsforMusic 5/5
This is another anthem packed album that only Gaga can deliver, she’s avoided the pitfalls of the ‘second album’, choosing not to be overly confident. Instead she has delved further and has pulled out these iconic tracks that will stay forever with a generation that have welcomed Gaga into their hearts as an iconic, creative figure that only comes every 20 years or so.
k.Telegraph 4/4
Gaga goes over the top and keeps on going: exhilarating, exhausting blockbuster entertainment
My friends are furious. Loving it 
