Lady Gaga Joanne Streamline Records / Interscope vinyl record Flash Sale

2 x12″ Deluxe Edition Inc 3 Additional Tracks – Gatefold Sleeve
Joanne, a clever streamlining of the Lady Gaga persona that functions as the opposite of Artpop. All the excesses are excised while the eccentricities are used as accents on songs that are usually well-rendered pop. A few numbers take a passing glance at country music — the title “Joanne” winks at Dolly Parton’s “Jolene”; in a different arrangement, the ballad “Million Reasons” could be an adult contemporary crossover from Faith Hill or Shania Twain — but Gaga’s feet remain firmly planted in dance-pop even when she brings in Father John Misty, Beck, Florence Welch, and Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age for collaborations. Homme co-wrote “Diamond Heart” and “John Wayne,” two of the harder disco songs here, while Misty assists on the steady rolling “Sinner’s Prayer” — perhaps the best fusion of country and pop here — and “Come to Mama,” a buoyant throwback to Motown that finds a companion on the Welch duet “Hey Girl,” an analog slow jam