.: Review - ARTPOP Part 1 :.

Okay so I might be a bit late (like what 2 weeks after the release of this CD...) but I wanted to do a review of this for a very long time. Before I even rebooted this blog I knew I had to write a review for this CD. Lady Gaga's "Artpop" was released on November 11th, 2013 and I made one of my closest friend come with me on this wild goose chase just so I could get it on the release date (there is not difference between getting it later but I just wanted it) It took us 3 tries before we finally found the CD, we went to Best Buy first to try to find it but apparently since it was "Remembrance Day" they didn't get their stock or shipment yet. So then we went to Futureshop, which to our surprise not really also didn't have the shipment Best Buy = Futureshop. We then sky-trained all the way to Downtown Robsen to the only HMV closest to us to get this baby. Also this review might actually run longer than my normal/ future posts because I will go super in-depth with everything song from this album, which is why I decided to split it up into two parts.

The inside of the CD once you open it up.

So let's give a quick overview of this CD to the people who are unfamiliar with Lady Gaga's newest creation. Right after the fairly successful second CD (Born This Way), Gaga quickly went to work writing new songs for this album. She said in an interview that she basically wrote all the songs while on the "Born This Way" world tour. She was actually almost done this album and was about to release it in early 2013 when suddenly she needed hip surgery due to her injured hip while on tour. This resulted in her cancellation of the other half of the tour as well as the release of the album. (mainly the North American leg of the tour, thank god she broke her hip AFTER she came to Vancouver because I would have been devastated)  While she was recovering from the hip surgery, she decided to go back into the studio and go through each and every song carefully and make sure that every song is "perfect". She cut some of the songs from this album because she didn't feel like it suited the theme. (TEA, Princess Die, Burqa, Ratchet.. etc)

I personally really like most of the songs and below I will write the most memorable line from each song in brackets as well as what I thought about the song as a whole:

I love how Gaga puts lyrics in the album booklet unlike some other artists.

1.) Aura - (I killed my former and left her in the trunk of highway 10) Gaga did state that one of the songs from here would be a continuation of her super successful single 'Telephone" and just from that beginning line I feel like this would be the song. I first heard this song on Tumblr (as a leak) and I instantly fell in love with the chorus as well as the beginning, the beat is just so addictive to listen to over and over again. Aura is one of my favourites from this album for sure.

2.) Venus - (Uranus... DON'T YOU KNOW MY ASS IS FAMOUS?!) This song was suppose to be the second single but then "Do What You Want" took its place because it garnered a lot of praises and attention from fans and critics. I actually felt like this song presents a bit of comic relief from some of the more depressing and darker songs in this album. [Especially when she was reciting the planets in the solar system and joking about her infamous ass]. Honestly the chorus for this song is every bit as addictive as Aura's so how can I not like it?

3.) G.U.Y. [Girl Under You] - (Touch me, touch me, please be sweet. Love me, love me, please retweet) Okay so you know how in every album there is just a couple of songs that don't get you as interested as the other songs? Well this and another song from this album are it, this song has many fans in love but for some reason im not that interested in this song at all...

4.) Sexxx Dreams - (When I lay in bed I touch myself and think of you) Personally I felt like this song has some very boring parts but the chorus gets me everytime. I get so excited everytime just waiting for that one line. Even though I don't really like most parts of this song I must admit that it is rather catchy and I often end up singing to the song in my car. 

5.) Jewels N' Drugs - (Slap honey on your pancake) Okay this song is one of the songs that has the most people featured. (Twista, T.I., Too $hort) This is a very different genre that Gaga is trying out for the first time. She provides the catchy, hypnotic female singing parts while the rest of the other artists featured in this song take turns rapping. I absolutely love this song to death, I actaully have a secret obsession and that is that I love rap music. I love me some Iggy, Nicki, even Azealia. So when I first heard this song during her ITunes music festival I instantly fell in love. The hook and the beat is just incredible. Critics say she isn't bringing anything new to the rap genre with this song, but I personally don't care if it doesn't. Not all of her songs have to be a reinvention of the genre, she can just expand on it. (It's not like Rihanna being featured in many rap songs is bringing anything new either...)

Okay I have to end the review here but don't worry part two of this review will be posted next friday!