“If I could just heal my dad, then maybe I might heal someone else,” she said recently. Lady Gaga - Joanne › Customer reviews; Customer reviews. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. In Joanne, her first solo record since ARTPOP, Gaga continues this trend. Martin, and more couldn't stop watching 'The First Time' With Jamie Foxx and Dominique Fishback Peaches Calls for Systemic Change in Rebellious New Single ‘Flip This’‘Freedom-Loving People’: Behind the Scenes at That Controversial Smash Mouth Show in South DakotaWhat Is #SaveTheChildren and Why Did Facebook Block It?Drummer Chris Slade on His Years With AC/DC, the Firm, David Gilmour, and Manfred Mann For the first time, she’s made an album using not much more than the resources that predate her stardom: the big, clear voice and life-as-she-sees-it honesty.
I kinda figured this would be a good candidate for vinyl. I absolutely loved her dance-pop albums "The Fame", "The Fame Monster", "Born This Way" and "Artpop" so my expectations were high. It works best when Gaga gets some grit into the songwriting, especially the hands-down highlight “Sinner’s Prayer,” a faux-country family melodrama where she wails, “I don’t wanna break the heart of any other man but you” – it’s her kissing cousin to Beyonce’s “Daddy Lessons.” She co-wrote it with Father John Misty – bet he’s the one who added those Gaga gets understated production from Mark Ronson and guests like Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker or Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, who adds guitar to “John Wayne” and “Diamond Heart.” There’s no move to the dance floor – the nearest she comes is “A-Yo,” a taste of Motown handclaps and dirty talk, or “Dancin’ in Circles,” a reggae ode to she-bopping co-written by Beck that sounds like a No Doubt cover band who’d call themselves Spiderwebs or Hella Good. It shows you do not need a dance-pop album to drop in public taste. It's more mature and refined. 4.5 out of 5.