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The Fame (2008)

Reviewed by Mikael Wood | Oct 22, 2008
EW's GRADE
B-

Details Release Date: Oct 28, 2008; Genre: Pop

She's on tour with the reunited New Kids on the Block, but Lady GaGa is no squeaky-clean teen singer: This naughty New Yorker got her start on the Lower East Side's sex-soaked club scene, and on her dance-pop debut she offers up barely there metaphors like ''I wanna take a ride on your disco stick.'' The Fame is remarkably (and exhaustingly) pure in its vision of a world in which nothing trumps being ''beautiful, dirty, and rich.'' In this economy, though, her high-times escapism has its charms. B–
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Originally posted Oct 22, 2008 Published in issue #1018 Oct 31, 2008 Order article reprints
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