Born This Way
There’s always been a disconnect between Lady Gaga’s outsized visual presence and the fairly safe club music of her first album, The Fame. The transitional EP The Fame Monster closed that distance considerably, and on her sophomore full-length, Gaga’s musical ambition finally catches up to her persona. Born This Way…
Not long into the ceaseless promotional parade for Born This Way, Lady Gaga’s second full-length record and easily the most anticipated record of the 2010s, a certain sense of inevitability crept into play.
No one in the world of pop is more talked about than Lady Gaga and as a result ‘Born This Way’ comes under a heavy weight of expectation.
<p>It's disco-pop with a message as Lady Gaga channels the American dream, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong></p>
The singer's sophomore effort will likely be playing on a loop in hell and all the "bad kids" will be dancing to it for eternity.
Lady Gaga's relentless, shameless, sledgehammer pop nearly always hits the spot – if you ignore the cheesy saxophones, writes <strong>Tim Jonze</strong>