I am really disappointed with Applause. She made such a BIG fuss with it and it proved to be just a ridiculously bland song very similar with everything I hear today on the radio. Even so,I kinda liked the concept and the visual of the video.Now I'm not that anxious anymore for the album,but I still have hope..

She was amazing omg

She brought out Birth of Venus so I'm pleased but it bored me to death.

A lot better than Miley or Perry, but not the best performance she's had.

It was great but not nearly as good as VMA09... The scenario was quite weak and she had so much to do in so little time.

Now THAT was a performance.

Gaga's VMA performance was amazing. I loved the intro as well.

I don't care for the song. She's had much stronger and catchier first singles and I was hoping that trend would continue but I guess not. I didn't like the video either it was kinda cheezy.

Her VMA performance was great. I really love how fun this era sounds.

Finally saw the performance. She owned that stage and everyone in the audience. I love fun Gaga.

The performance was really fun.
I loved the idea of using the styles of all 4 eras to represent herself.And she was really smily all the time *-*

Her body is insane.

Yeah it's almost unbelievable she could get that fit during the recovery of her major hip surgery, on that note, I didn't even saw any scar from that surgery during het vma performace:innocent

Either she covered it up with makeup or she didn't have the surgery, otherwise it's not my problem so long as Artpop sounds decent and not embarrassing.

Rehearsal videos for iTunes Festival, remembering that she'll play 6 new songs with live arrangements (different from the album versions):

SWINE


MANiCURED

Hmm, it's hard to say anything of those songs tbh. I need to hear full versions to have a proper opinion. It's awesome that she sings her new songs for the festival. It's good promotion for ARTPOP. :)

SEX DREAMS

Sex Dreams reminds me of Prince a bit!

I'm looking forward to watching the iTunes festival tbh

all the previews sound bad... but its just a cheap recording... I want to hear the album.

Loving every damn song. So excited for ARTPOP, just wow.

Like Sex Dreams. Pleasantly surprised by Swine - thought it'd be just horrid. But, Jewels & Drugs was just dreadful. I loathe rap/hip-hop music but Gaga couldn't even make a good one. It didn't sound too bad until she started in and it was a lot of the same over and over. Speaking of a lot of the same, MANiCURE was also a huge letdown. The pre-chorus I totally loved, but the chorus is maddening.

Sex Dreams is my favorite from that concert.

Sex Dreams and Artpop are the best songs from the show.

I was pleasantly surprised by the concert. I enjoyed most of the songs, really looking forward to the album! :)

I really liked what I heard!

Just read this interview regarding the new era, what people have been saying about her downfall, and the new album's concept:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/201...finished#story

"For ARTPOP, I, in the most metaphorical explanation, stood in front of a mirror and I took off the wig and I took off the makeup and I unzipped the outfit and I put a black cap on my head and I covered my body in a black catsuit and I looked in the mirror and I said: 'OK, now you need to show them you can be brilliant without that.' And that's what ARTPOP is all about. Because I knew that if I wanted to grow, if I really wanted to innovate from the inside, I had to do something that was almost impossible for me."

OMG RIHANNA AND GAGA MIGHT HAVE JUST RECORDED A SONG TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I never thought I would be saying this, but I am actually growing tired of Gaga. The problem is that everyhting she does is epic, amazing, iconic... Before she releases it. I like her concepts and ideas, but she doesnt seem to know how to work them out good. With The Fame Monster everything was perfect because she wasnt trying to be anything. With Born This Way she tried too hard to create an iconic album and it wasnt as succesful as she expected... With ARTPOP she is talking about art and pop together. And I actually was very excited about it, until the era started. Applause is a great song, but its pretty safe and even basic. The lyrics are too strange, i dont think they even make sense lol. The video is really great, i was expecting some storyline but still amazing. The VMA performance was meh, her vocals werent good, and it wasnt really memorable. And then the iTunes Festival:
1. Aura: Judas was Bad Romance 2.0, and Aura is Judas 2.0. Stil a great song, but nothing too innovative
2. MANiCURE: a fun and catchy song, lets see if the studio version is great
3. ARTPOP: the lyrics are good, and the beat is great, but it reminds me of Love You Like a Love Song by Selena Gomez
4. Sex Dreams: this is a really great track, the studio version is going to be perfect
5. Jewels & Drugs: im probably the only one who likes it lol
6. I Wanna Be With You: 6464658 worse than Princess Die. Its a cute song, but the lyrcis are nothing great
7. Swine: very surprised with it! I like it a lot!
The problem is that even if I like the songs, I was expecting something way better...or maybe different. This is more POPART than ARTPOP. I just want Gaga to stop "trying" tobe iconic and memorable and just focus on her music. I still love her and her music, its just that I would love to be surprised but I cant be if she overhypes everything she does

^I love Jewels & Drugs too, so you're not the only one. :)

Oh yeah, I watched iTunes Festival few days ago. I loved every song except Swine. That song was way too weird for me, but maybe studio version will be better then. Others were pure gold, so I'm more excited for ARTPOP than I was before♥

Aura is nothing like Judas or Bad Romance though
I loved every song so far so I'm really not disappointed musically, but I do wish the VMA and GMA performances had better production, I'm tired of the messy wig/outfit changes.

Also, according to rumors, she'll make an announcement tonight on kissfm

The iTunes festival was great! Got me way more hyped for the album. I enjoyed 6 of the 8 tracks. I was kind of indifferent to Jewels & Drugs, and I Wanna Be With You sounds cheesy and awful. The rest sound awesome! Loving Aura, Sex Dreams, and Manicure especially.

this remix >

I think the first problem is that your expecting WAY too much from her... she's not that good. She goes for shock value which rarely makes any sense.. She's trying to do what Madonna did in the 80's, sadly she (Gaga) just isn't trying to change anything like she (MDNA) was. It's still about the music, but it's not about the change to acceptance of some things (like sex).

Also with artpop, I think you might be missing the concept? Pop music is ART, but more so, art pop is a concept that came from the the 1950's. It was suppose to break all conventions at the time and be so different from what was considered 'fine art'. The concept itself also refers to what ld to that art, not the art itself, which you can see in Gaga's first video, lol.

Also, with the song and lyrics, it makes complete sense if you get the references, if you don't... then you should look them up. The lyrics are like what she is trully feeling about the world around her... it is refreshing to see/hear this in such a way... instead of the age old. "I never asked for this, I never wanted to be this... i just wanted to make music" crap.

http://31.media.tumblr.com/4958c9d2c...hcvo1_1280.jpg

Brb, dying.

Ain't nobody got time for DAT!

I'm every ICON

The Fame y The Fame Monster are only the master of gaga. This new songs sounds so terrible. I hope the other tracks are more electronic.

I did the same thing, Koumori. I was listening to, "Dance in the Dark," and ended up really missing that Gaga.

Just got through Gaga's Itunes fest...
I'm actually pretty impressed with the songs.

Also, I don't know if its just me, but when she is talkng to everyone... she's pulling a really big marilyn vibe.

"Nostalgia's for Geeks." :o

jk :D :D

It's APPLAUSE. :(

FLOPPLAUSE

FLOP SAUCE

Applesauce

Hitpplause

Aura is coming out monday as a promo single for Machete Kills.
She's also revealing the cover of the album.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/53fa0026d...eo3_r1_500.png
http://25.media.tumblr.com/5542531c7...mb8eo2_500.png
http://25.media.tumblr.com/83796e17f...b8eo1_1280.png

I hear tart pop is the only way I can see #IHEARTARTPOP

Oh so the cover involves that Venus painting? It's probably just Gaga's face on her body lol

Im actually kinda surprised people didn't realize that was the look she was going for...
I like Gaga, but you have to admit, she's not that creative.

I read hitplause as hipplause. Poor gaga's hip or whatever she said she damaged.

So the cover is basically the birth of Venus? Now this I like.

It's supposedly a sculpture of her...

Actually, I think she just used the "Birth of Venus" to show how she's gonna reveal the actual cover. Only the white parts are actually a shadow of what's in the cover. You can see LADY GAGA written and she has her legs spread.

The stans have been trying to deduce how it's gonna be:
https://d2g892zuoe3k49.cloudfront.ne.../693598809.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/GL7R9kr.png

I think it's gonna be innovative and I'm glad it isn't another Black/White cover.

Oh my god please no

Welll.... she has the birth of venus behind and didn't she give birth to a new race in Born this way??
-.- Girl done need to tone it down. lol

What can I say, guys, she loves giving birth... lol
But I think it'll be visually pretty. I mean, you can't expect Lady Gaga to put a shot of her standing on the sun as the album cover.
As long as she's beautiful and it doesn't lack colors, I can't complain.

Even in this HORRIBLE picture where she had the hideous hair and outfit, her face looked flawless:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/fc6f7bf12...uk6oo1_500.png

So tired of that damn painting.

Completely random, but does she have heterochromia?

She always manages to look great imo.

I don't think so, her eyes were just affected by the position of the lightening.

I didn't realize it was all over the place but it cant be as bad ass born this way.. lol

Am I the ONLY one who loves n adores this all so far?

Only thing I didnt fall in love with was the S&D song.

ARTPOP cover yooo

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/5175/c9px.jpg


I LIKE

Its Official? :D

I LOVE X10000000000!!!!!! :heart :heart :heart :heart :heart :blove :blove :blove :blove :blove

It's kind of cool how it's a sculpture of her, but like...idk...lol it's so bizarre.

the picture was removed!

^I saved it n posted it on my Facebook page if u wanna look. :)

oh thanks!!

Cover is a mess. Are we in the 90s.

Chica.

Right though. I guess the sculpture is fine, but I could have done without all the shit in the background.

He should have made her into a balloon animal.

Dont know how i feel about it, but it deffinetly looks ARTPOP

The 90's are making a comeback. Sadly, so are JNCOs.

Sadly? The 90's were amazing.
The cover itself is... interesting? I think thats the world I'm looking for.
I neither like or dislike it.

It fits the title perfectly. Its honestly the first of her covers that I want a poster of to plaque mount n hang on my bedroom wall. :heart

Album cover is amazing! Love it.

The 90s had a very unpolished, haphazard way of just throwing shit together and hoping the outcome was good. Like this cover.

I probably would have liked it more, if it was just the pretty statue...but then people would have been giving her shit for making a statue of herself and putting it on a cover and being full of herself. So. Whatev.

At least people like it.

I grew up on n in the 90's and LOVED EVERY MOMENT of it. Even the cartoons were better back then.

And it doesnt seem thrown together. Shes mixing different pieces of famous art and giving it a pop surrounding herself in it. Its perfect.

Also I dont understand the dislike for Applause. I'm still in love w the song.

Oh nooo. No, it wasn't amazing.

Frosted tips? Jelly shoes? Not here for that.

The music was the only good thing to come from that time.

I'm indifferent on the album cover. o_o; Mesmerizing yet odd...

fashion is never good when looking back.
The movies, music, TV shows, comedies... everything was better.
I even think the food was better. :) ahhh the good old days.

Only thing i dont miss about the 90s is old dial up internet n VHS. Aside from that i agree w all that. Even the majority of old video games were better. So Addicting. :heart

GET OFF THE INTERNET I NEED TO USE THE PHONE.

I do not miss hearing that lol

Or Jelly Shoes...and baggy pants. But yeah, there were some parts that I loved when growing up.

That was what I was expecting. Ugh, wasted opportunity. They should have played with colors more.

The cover is OK
Better than BTW.

I think the cover could had been a black hole and still be better then Born this way.
Just sayin.
lol

CRASH BANDICOOT WHERE ART THOU!

to stay on topic: Cover wise for me it's

The Fame Monster (both editions) > The Fame > ARTPOP > Born This Way (deluxe edition) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Born This Way (standard)

Eh. More like *style* is never good when looking back.
idk I can deal with his work and the ball. The rest. Blah blah blah.

I actually think the cover is pretty amazing!

the cover is out already?

yeah hun, it's everywhere, her facebook, twitter, tumblr...

all right just seen it.

... er... I like her hair :laugh

GORGEOUS COVER♥

I love the cover better than BTW

The cover is perfect!

It's better than BTW, but even Sunrise/Sunset covers are better than BTW... so...

I love the album cover. LOVE.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BV_ag3xCEAAWNsx.jpg

I want a wallpaper of the cover. :blove :blove