CRITIQUE – The American star released the big artillery with her first album of original songs since 2020. A lively disappointment.
Lady Gaga fans were looking forward to this album. Do you think! Their idol had not offered new songs since the year of confinement. Five terrestrial years, an eternity in matters of pop. In the meantime, the star distinguished herself in the cinema. After A Star is Born In 2018, we were able to see her on the poster for international superproduction House of Gucci as in the credits of Joker madness for twoa bitter failure at the box office. Worse, the album she drew from this experience, Harlequinhad notoriously disappointed his admirers.
Today, Gaga intends to find her title of Queen of Pop with this new album which, according to her, marks the return to the sound of her beginnings. A form of retropedage that disappoints those who thought that the musician was going to continue in a more intimate and acoustic direction. It will therefore be the big artillery, far from its duets with Tony Bennett or the Country Folk foray into A Star is Born. Here again, the mass argument is that of the streaming figures for the first extracts from the album, which have phenomenal scores, which ensures this disc to reach an extremely wide audience.
If Madonna herself has found similarities between her work and that of her youngest, the latter has not yet found her Mirwais, the genius capable of providing her with pieces as interesting as implacable. Lady Gaga has renewed a familiar team, Michael Polansky, Andrew Watt and Cirkut. These have not gone to it, using all the strings available.
We are looking in vain for a somewhat new production idea, or subtlety in this martial and exhausting disc. Fans, visibly very conservative, will certainly find rejoicing material, but all this sounds dated. Lady Gaga remembered Michael Jackson, but it is unfortunately more to Bad that Off the Wall What is his new disc looking like, moreover far too long: 14 titles. Admittedly, that is not as much as The Weeknd, but it has with the latter the common point of having worked with French people. When the Canadian offers himself justice services, the Italian-American diva collaborates with Gesaffelstein on no less than three songs from his new album. Perhaps it would have been better to give him the production of the whole album? We now know that Lady Gaga has a soul but she seems to have sold it to the devil solely for the purpose of selling records. It’s very sad.