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Lady Gaga performs onstage during the MTV Europe Music Awards 2011 live show at at the Odyssey Arena on Nov. 6, 2011 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
You could count on one hand and probably still have some fingers left over the number of pop albums this century that have been as widely and wildly anticipated as Lady Gaga s second full-length album
Born This Way.
Released worldwide 10 years ago this weekend, the album followed two years of Gaga racking up massive hit singles ( Just Dance, Poker Face, Bad Romance ), with accompanying larger-than-life music videos and headline-grabbing live performances that helped cement her as music s biggest new star.
Rolling Stone Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’: Much Better Than ‘Express Yourself’
Rob Sheffield digs into why Lady Gaga’s 2011 single summed up everything gaudy and glorious about the pop star
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Come on, girls! Do you believe in Madonna? Because Lady Gaga has got something to say about “Express Yourself,” and she’s turned Madonna’s fourth-best single of 1989 into her own instant-classic club anthem, “Born This Way.” Except it’s actually much better than “Express Yourself,” because it’s faster, with Gaga chanting “Don’t be a drag / Just be a queen.” “Born This Way” sums up everything gaudy and glorious about Gaga, all her politics and sex and Catholic angst and smeared lipstick, in one admirably compact blast of disco aggression.