From dance-pop she came, and to dance-pop she shall return. Over some dozen years in the public eye and nearly as many personae, Stefani Joanne Germanotta has continually, notoriously tweaked the idea of what it means to be
— an ever-shifting portrait of the artist as meat dress and movie star, jazz baby and torch singer, social media warrior and self-actualization queen., an album also deeply rooted in the euphoric, synth-soaked uplift of ‘80s and ‘90s club culture. Nearly every one of its 13 tracks reaches for a kind of delirious excess: thunderous hard candy bangers designed to press on the brain’s pleasure centers until they submit, again and again, to the replay button.
The record opens on a swell of cinematic strings; a brief, swirling interlude before strobe lights descend on the skittering wonderland anthem “Alice” and the now-omnipresent wallop of lead single “Stupid Love” and its pony-stomping follow-up, the sticky“Free Woman” feels almost subdued in comparison, a midtempo gospel-groove workout spun around a spare keyboard line.
Not all is straight-up ecstasy: the falsetto refrain on “911” — “my biggest enemy is me” — belies its playful, Daft Punk-ish robot funk with darker allusions to manic moods and pharmaceuticals; “Fun Tonight” calls out a lover who enjoys the spotlight too much, maybe more than the love itself.as not just an album but its own planet; a shiny pink space rock populated by kindness punks, or something.
The rare times when things do get legitimately weird can actually be the most rewarding: the simmering bass line and swallowed yelps of “Sour Candy”; a throbbing bilingual duet with K-pop stars BLACKPINK; and “Sine From Above,” which finds Sir Elton John bringing a sort of cracked godfather gravitas to its multilayered mashup of Casio thump, plucked strings, and shuddering drum 'n' bass.
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