Medusone | ARTPOP was not "ahead of its time" (and that's okay!) @medusonegirl | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
ARTPOP is a decade old now so here's a rant I didn't plan on making until a few weeks ago.

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Sources/ Further Reading:
Lady Gaga Flies (Sorta), Sings, and Vogues at Multimillion-Dollar ‘ArtRave’ – Spin
spin.com/2013/11/lady-gaga-artrave-artpop-review

Lady Gaga's artRave: The Beginning of the End of the Extravagant Album Launch? – Pitchfork
pitchfork.com/thepitch/132-lady-gagas-artrave-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-extravagant-album-launch

Lady Gaga's ARTPOP Pop-Up Store: Art Or Commerce? – Forbes
forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2013/11/11/lady-gagas-artpop-pop-up-store-art-or-commerce/?sh=66c095c32d64

Lady Gaga’s Art Rave — a Pop Artist in Search of Something Bigger – Vulture
vulture.com/2013/11/lady-gaga-art-pop.html

Lady Gaga's flying dress offers vision of how "we may all travel in ten years time"- Dezeen and Mini Frontiers
dezeen.com/2014/04/14/movie-studio-xo-lady-gaga-flying-dress-volantis

Did Lady Gaga's ARTPOP Actually Flop?
pitchfork.com/thepitch/142-did-lady-gagas-artpop-actually-flop

Vevo could have been ‘an existential threat’ to YouTube, but YouTube won in the end – Vox
vox.com/2018/5/24/17390756/vevo-youtube-video-apps-existential-threat

Reflektor, Year Zero, and a Brief History of the Elaborate Album Rollout – Pitchfork
web.archive.org/web/20131021211451/pitchfork.com/thepitch/108-promo-campaigns

Popping the Drop: A Timeline of How EDM’s Bubble Burst – Pitchfork
pitchfork.com/thepitch/1086-popping-the-drop-a-timeline-of-how-edms-bubble-burst

Landfill Futures: Is The EDM Bubble About To Burst? – The Quietus
thequietus.com/articles/13249-edm-video-games-industry-collapse-deadmau5

Dance Dance Revolution: How EDM Conquered America in the 2010s – Pitchfork
pitchfork.com/features/article/2010s-reverberations-of-edm-skrillex-zedd

Chapters
00:00 artFLOP
12:45 BOULANGERIE
23:07 we all need to STAY ON THE GROUND
34:57 well, she's a person
41:11 My Magna Carta Holy Grail could mean ANYTHING
58:26 uh oh... the art police is here
01:09:46 explicitly twisted thinking
01:18:05 more Lady, less Gaga
01:21:02 Lady Gaga: Actual Patient
01:36:58 I believe she's somewhere...