Born This Way
| Lady Gaga
Born This Way
Born This Way is the second studio album by American singer Lady Gaga, released by Interscope Records on May 23, 2011. It is a follow-up to her internationally successful album The Fame (2008) and EP The Fame Monster (2009). As co-producer of every track on the album, Gaga collaborated with several producers, including RedOne and Fernando Garibay, with whom she had previously worked. She also worked with artists such as E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons and Queen guitarist Brian May. -Wikipedia
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The Rolling Stone
That’s the achievement of Born This Way: The more excessive Gaga gets, the more honest she sounds.
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Billboard
Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" album is her first as an international superstar -- and in her mind, as queen leader to a needy coven of "little monsters," outsiders who for one reason or another don't fit into the mainstream.
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The Guardian
Lady Gaga's relentless, shameless, sledgehammer pop nearly always hits the spot – if you ignore the cheesy saxophones
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NME
Gaga doesn’t know when to hold back – and it’s a damn good thing
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Consequence of Sound
Gone is the hesitant starlet, obsessed with her own newfound fame on The Fame Monster, and in her stead is a very confident pop star who looks well on her way to a long, exciting career.
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AV Music
Born This Way is as ostentatious, referential, and self-indulgent as Gaga herself, dancing right up to the line of self-parody, then spitting on it.
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Dazed Digital
The songs still sound as fresh as they did when it came out, and despite the lack of any obvious pop juggernauts, the album still stands as the best in her back catalogue.
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BBC
Cut away the hype, image and psychobabble and there’s still a great pop album here.
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Slant Magazine
Born This Way will likely be playing on a loop in hell. And all the bad kids... will be dancing to it for eternity.
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Think of it as a great American goose egg out of which now emerges a brave, new super-race of rebel losers...
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The Telegraph
Gaga goes over the top and keeps on going: exhilarating, exhausting blockbuster entertainment
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The Washington Post
Her second full-length album "Born This Way" finds pop's most enthralling figure preening in a maze of drab melodies — gunmetal gray dance tracks that attempt to embrace the freaks of the universe while refusing to get all that freaky.
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Pretty Much Amazing
On it, Lady Gaga has transformed herself from a detached critic of celebrity to pop music’s version of Oprah, a superstar with a megaphone, hell-bent on your personal betterment.
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PopFection
All in all, “Born This Way” has solidified itself as a solid album and also as a career changing one.
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Idolator
Five Years Later, Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’ Is Still An Absurd, Abrasive Achievement
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TIME Magazine
When an artist drapes herself in raw meat, encases herself in a giant egg, wears prosthetic shoulder horns and clip-clops onto the The View in 12-inch platform hooves and bright red fingerclaws, I expect her music to sound as interesting as she looks.
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MTV
Much like her costumes, performances and everything else that is Lady Gaga, critics have noted (and mostly praised) the immensity of Born This Way, while name-dropping Madonna every other review.
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Daily Mail
Verdict: Great pop = with growing pains
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Vox Magazine
For a pop-dance album, it does the trick...
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American Songwriter
What’s most frustrating about this record is not a lack of potential, but an obvious display of it—potential that, hopefully, is a sign of great things to come down the road.
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New Zealand Herald
... the Gaga album definitely has an 80s Madonna-like sound to it and the Jesus theme is a strong part of it too.
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The Quietus
Gaga's status as a pop oddity may have been much of what kept her relevant through her first two albums' song cycles, but her songwriting has almost completely caught up.
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We Got This Covered
Filled with everything from dark and edgy tracks to uplifting sing-a-longs, Born This Way is truly a strong showing not only of Lady Gaga‘s talents as a singer, but her tremendous growth as an artist since the world was first introduced...
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MuuMuse
Born This Way is a winning piece of work, endlessly jubilant and increasingly infectious, and one that ultimately proves convincing enough to allow a song called “Highway Unicorn” to be played with stone-cold seriousness.
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Nathan Jolly Writes
Born This Way is already bigger than merely whether it is ‘good’ or ‘bad’.
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Female Arts
The overall album shows the capability and leadership of Lady Gaga to become the greatest queen of pop.
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GQ
Gaga This, Gaga That. With her new album finally out this week, all anyone can talk about is Lady Gaga. Guess what? Born This Way is pissing us off. Here's why...
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Stuff Fly People Like
... that’s what this album is: purely good music. We copped it. We Like it. Go get it.
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Drowned in Sound
But when Born This Way peaks, it kicks like a diamond studded mule and it’s far far FAR better than even the snobbiest nob would anticipate.
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Pop Dust
Popdust Reviews for All 14 Tracks on "Born This Way"
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Prefix Magazine
From its sound down to its collaborators, art, and song titles, Born This Way is a giant love letter to the music of the Me generation.
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The Pop Break
Born This Way is by no means a heralded return to great pop music, but it’s no doubt satisfactory enough to be out amongst what has already become stale and still be a strong composition that shows further potential down the road.
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METRO
... here’s our track-by-track review of future hits like Americano, Government Hooker and Heavy Metal Lover.
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Express
THERE has always been more to Lady Gaga than meets the ear
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GigWise
If this is Lady Gaga standing on the edge of glory, then she better step back and think if it's really the legacy she wants 'Born This Way' to leave behind.
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Indies and the Underground
Whereas her debut smash The Fame and the follow up EP The Fame Monster dealt with the upside and dark underbelly of celebrity, Born This Way deals in identity, religious metaphors, individuality and letting your freak flag fly.
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Daily Emerald
Diehard Lady Gaga fans will love “Born This Way” for exactly what it is: outspoken, unapologetic dance music. However, those who are looking for the more varied sounds of her previous albums might be disappointed.
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Slate
Her new album takes pop to windswept, end-times heights.
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WBEZ Chicago
That is, “Born This Way” is better than the weekly pop product from the “Glee” factory. But just barely.
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Seattle Pi
The new album opens the doors to a different, but at the same time, a sensitive and still wild Gaga.
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Independent
But the more often she changes, and the broader she spreads her net musically, the less distinctive her art becomes.
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Daily Star
So, to our verdict: fans of cheesy disco, catchy-as-rabies-pop choruses, Euro-trance/vision, stabs of rock and "empowering" lyrics will love it.
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No Rip Cord
She’s taken her eye off the ball somewhat but is likely to get away with it; album #3 could be the one that truly tells us whether Gaga is here to stay.
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Pop Crush
Lady Gaga has finally released 'Born This Way,' and the native New Yorker is packing the dance hits into her third studio album.
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Boston.com
After months of hype, teases, and a handful of singles, Lady Gaga’s new album has arrived — and it’s a letdown, the most deflated moment in pop music this year.
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LA Times
If Gaga had only spent as much time on pushing musical boundaries as she has social ones, “Born This Way” would have been a lot more successful.
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My San Antonio
Lady Gaga goes from mother monster to mediocre
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Bloginity
Born This Way is relatively strong throughout, with less downtime than the average pop album, and furthers the idea that Lady Gaga is on the top of mainstream music right now.
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Treble
There were definitely some interesting things going on but, all in all, the album had some serious issues, especially when it came to sequencing.
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Antiquiet
Unfortunately, Born This Way lacks the pop sensibility that made so many fall in love with Gaga in the first place.
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The Carillon
Born This Way is an extravagant 80s-inspired mess, and its cover is really just another extension of its musical aesthetic.
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The Press of Atlantic City
"Born This Way" is mostly an album about themes that have been written about from the beginning of pop music - love, lust and acceptance.
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Digital Journal
Born This Way was perhaps the most hyped album of this millennium. And, rightly so.
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Ellen Hermansen
This album is dark, and 80s fantastic.
Listeners Reviews
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Born This Way is an iconic album with Lady Gaga speaking directly to her listeners and empowering both them and herself. Like a shrouded hug, this album is both heavy sounding, but delightful. 5/5
By Jasmine J
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