Lady gaga born this way album review

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Born This Way was a declaration of acceptance, but it’s reception was a strange one, because not everybody accepted the album. It still sold well and it cemented Lady Gaga as a pop fixture (although some would argue The Fame Monster did that). But many weren’t sure how to really take it, making Born This Way the start of a hat trick of albums that would divide fans. The laser focus that seemed to be there for The Fame and The Fame Monster seemed a little bit off, and I think this may have been intentional in retrospect. Lady Gaga came onto the scene as this super polished product, as Lady Gaga. But you can only maintain that for so long. The problem is, what do you do when you have amassed a fanbase on that persona? Born This Way was the start of Gaga wanting to give one thing, whilst many wanted another.Whilst Born This Way wasn’t this drastically different album from The Fame, the singles gave the impression that it was. The lead single “Born This Way” was immediately shat on for sounding like a copy of Madonna’s 1989 single “Express Yourself” (which it does). And the message of the song may have been viewed as a little too normal in comparison to these wildly voyeuristic and exaggerated narratives we got in “Poker Face

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Ten years ago a birth of magnificent and magical proportions took place. Lady Gaga’s pivotal second album, Born This Way, passes its first decade hovering in the musical multiverse this week and I reflect on one of the most fascinating records, and periods, in pop history.

All artists have ‘that’ album – the one which future work is held against, the bar they have set for themselves. It can be as much a millstone as a milestone, and doubtless Born This Way is ‘that’ album for Gaga. Not because it was a unanimous critical success or because it smashed sales records (though it certainly didn’t do too shabbily in either respect) but because it was bonkers, brilliant and blew a hole in pop culture at just the right time. More than anything, because it seemed so completely to say ‘This Is Lady Gaga’.

“The sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be”

What words like ‘pop’, ‘mainstream’ and ‘experimental’ mean with Gaga will always depend on what side of the fence you are sitting on. Her music is generally considered too full throttle, her lyrics too ‘alienating’ and her genre influences too wide for conservatively chart-focused listeners yet she is dismis

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Born This Way

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