I'm not sure I'd say that she's getting too weird (actually, in some ways I wish she would push the envelope more, especially musically) but I feel like her shit is getting too self-indulgent, maybe. Like this little monsters thing is turning into a cult, and it's just bullshit. I think she's trying to create a mythology around herself, which is interesting in theory but actually quite pedestrian in practice.

I think the reason why the Bad Romance video worked so well was because it was an interesting idea (who makes a pop video about sex trafficking, seriously?) with simple and coherent imagery, and it was all done within standard pop video conventions. That's what I was hoping she'd deliver with this, and she just hasn't.

BTW is definitely not her greatest song. At first I couldn't get over how cheesy it was, then I went through a brief period of LOVING it, but I got bored quite quickly. I had really high hopes for this album but I've started to revise them down a bit.