Lady Gaga's extremely anticipated latest album, titled "Born This Way," has found its way on the Internet on Wednesday i.e. five days earlier than its official release date of 23rd May, 2011.
Image via WikipediaThe complete album, with all 14 songs, was exclusively streamed on Wednesday in Europe through an online website to its wide range of readers of Metro, which is a London-based free newspaper. Lady Gaga also guest-edited the newspaper edition published on Monday, as a part of her promotional deal for her new album. On the same day, i.e. Wednesday the 18th, the music streaming service Spotify streamed the album for its premium subscribers of Sweden, Norway, Spain, the Netherlands and Finland.
It was not too late after that, when all the songs of her album had been pirated for free preview on the worldwide web. This also gave the opportunity for her native country fans to not only hear all the songs but also review them online. Four singles of the third Lady Gaga album were already released in the U.S., as its title track sold a record breaking one million copies within five days making it the most fastest-selling single ever in iTunes history.
As for the reviews, Rolling Stone magazine published an elaborated track by track review this Wednesday, asserting that regardless of the leaks Lady Gaga had "still managed to pack in some surprises". While Entertainment Weekly referred to the album as "an inconsistent blend of icy techno-pop and greeting-card empowerment that's more a triumph of production than songwriting." Dan Martin, representing a British music website NME.com, spoke about album in these words: "It’s like a relentless torrent of heavy metal rave pop." Martin further mentioned that "Born This Way" is "an exercise in the pushing of everything to its ultimate degree. And for all the black, white and silver, it passes that test with flying colors."
Quite predictably, even the loyal fans of Lady Gaga were torn on Wednesday; whether to immediately download the album illegally or to wait till its official release next week. A writer, named Carrie, wrote on the Entertainment Weekly’s website claiming that it was "Pretty stupid to preview it and not think such a highly anticipated album would leak. She should have just waited to release her album when it was meant to be released." Lady Gaga, has also been named as worlds’ the most powerful celebrity by Forbes.
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