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Lady Gaga to release second ARTPOP album
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 21 November 2013
Oh great, Lady Gaga has said that she’s planning to release a sequel to her ‘ARTPOP’ album, employing the Justin Timberlake theory that putting out two albums full of music of wildly varying quality is better than just putting together one really good album.
Speaking to MSN, she said that by the time she goes on tour next year she “might have ‘Act II’ out from the album, and it might be nice to play both acts on the tour”.
Asked if the second record would be vastly different to the first, she said that, no, it would not: “In the beginning I was thinking of splitting the album up into [distinct] two parts, based on what I thought was more pop and what I thought was more art. But this was during the inception of the record, and I wasn’t even quite sure what ‘artpop’ meant yet”.
Actually, I’ve been struggling with that a bit as well. Luckily, Gaga is here to explain: “Artpop for me means a lot of things, but one of the things it means is I’ve discovered that we were putting this pop art back onto the commercial mountains. We were taking the ‘soup can’ art and putting it on the soup can. So we’re taking the art of Jeff Koons and we’re putting it on the CD. It’s the reverse of Warhol”.
OK, that didn’t really help. Maybe we’ll come back to this another time. Here’s the full interview, anyway:
