Lady Gaga
Born This Way

The Little Monsters praise it as a masterpiece of pop music, an album that marks a new era and crowns Lady Gaga as an artist in every sense, a composer of incredibly original and expressive songs... well, there are two possibilities, either they have trash instead of a brain, or they have missed at least 30 years of music history to consider that "Born This Way" is an innovative album.

The work in question presents influences from '80s electronic and pop (also a bit '90s), but adds nothing, in fact, does worse, than what Madonna & Co. had already invented years ago; but Lady Gaga is even capable of copying herself, just listen to Judas to understand that it's a Bad Romance 2.0.

But if you forget The Fame Monster, Judas might be the only appreciable track, it recalls a bit Gaga's style from a few years ago (the one from "Poker Face") that with synthesizers and dark atmospheres was able to produce an original style, albeit very commercial.

Now we face an album of 17 tracks (I challenge anyone to listen to it all in one go) crammed together without any sense or a minimum concept behind them, only potential chart-topping hits that will haunt us for at least 12 months; the music appears very plastic, overproduced, and Gaga's voice, which shows great potential live, is too cold and filtered by a multitude of effects.

A quick look at some tracks: Born This Way seems like a poor copy of Madonna's Express Yourself (and considering the artistic level of Madonna...), Judas I've already said is like Bad Romance, The Edge Of Glory has a very predictable chorus, and finally Americano, a poorly executed mix between Dance and Tarantella, deserves the title of worst episode of the album.

Scheibe, which in German means "shit", even if it would perfectly describe Gaga’s latest work, is the only track that caught my attention, it shows interesting Techno and Trance influences and German lyrics, but it still remains far from being a worthy piece of these genres, a good starting point, nothing more.

Lady Gaga takes a step back compared to her predecessors, "The Fame" and "The Fame Monster" were overall good works, which at least differentiated her from the usual pop bimbos of today, such as Rihanna, Kesha, Katy Perry... Born This Way is simply a self-celebrating, pompous, and decidedly tasteless album.

Don't purchase it in any way, let it be only Darius who wastes his money, goodbye!