Tim: Gaga’s gone back to the early ’10s!
Tom: Well, that’s the most promising intro you’ve written in a while.
Tim: Yep, she’s moved on from the dull stuff, and has finally gone back to producing the disco sound that made everyone fall in love with her in the first place.
Tom: The pendulum tends to swing back and forth: artist experiments for a bit, artist tries to please the long-term fans, and so on, and so on. Admittedly there are a few things that you wouldn’t have heard on early Gaga ten years ago here, like all those chopped-up vocal samples in the chorus, but — and I’m surprised to say this — I think it works.
Tim: The sound we now have again is FUN, it is LOUD, and it is EXCITING as far as whichever album might be coming out in the next few months or so.
Just a shame the song itself isn’t all that notable, really.
Tom: I mean, it’s still better than “meh”. By my standards, that’s practically a ringing endorsement.