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Earth is a drag.
Unrest is a constant, though it ebbs and flows like water.
When the tide is high, the value of music is to remind us of what ties us together.
Gagas art makes the personal political and the political personal.
Three years later,Chromaticaoffers a flight to a whole different planet.
Shes a straight shooter; every line aims for the jugular.
Some are maybe too on the nose, likereadings from a Lady Gaga lyric generator.
Its not necessarily a crime to sound too acutely like yourself.
Im still something if I dont got a man.
Shes sharing wisdom gleaned in soul-searching therapy but trying to make it universal.
Sometimes that leads to euphoric expressions of self-sufficiency like Free Woman.
Paradoxically, the moreChromaticaplays ball with modern sounds, the less potent it is.
She doesnt seem to want to be.
She doesnt have to be.
When it tries to settle into 2020, it comes out sounding like 2017.
Sour Candy was dragged online for sounding like Katy Perrys Swish Swish.
Plastic Doll sounds like one of the peppier moments from Taylor SwiftsReputation.
The production on Fun Tonight is too tame for the vocal.
