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Lady’s Gaga announces new album
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 15 July 2013
Lady Gaga announced release details about her new album, ‘ARTPOP’, over dinner last week. As previously noted, the album/app combo will be released on 11 Nov, with the first single from it out on 8 Aug. Fun, fun.
The appy nature of the album was first announced by Gaga last September, with the singer hinting that fans might be able to get their hands on it in the new year. It’s possible that the subsequent delay was down to the technical ambition of the app. Though it’s also possible that a year-long wait was always the plan. Who knows?
Anyway, a statement posted on Facebook on Friday explained that the app is “a musical and visual engineering system that combines music, art, fashion and technology with a new interactive worldwide community – ‘the auras'”.
In other words, it’ll have music and pictures, as well as a social function, and will look nice and seem exciting at first, but ultimately have very little shelf life. Maybe it’ll throw in the added bonus of forcing you to buy the MP3s separately if you want to listen to the album outside the app, making it an expensive and unsatisfying way to own an album. Everyone loves that.
Or maybe it’ll be amazing and totally revolutionise the music industry. How about we all stop being so bloody cynical for a moment, huh? Honestly, you people.
