I think, as DJ/Producers go, there is David Guetta and than there is everything else. And I base this on his first solo album, his DJing and his work with Will I Am. The stuff with Will I Am, the dusting off early 80s Eurotrash beats for modern hip hop, as much a game changer as Puff Daddy's work with Biggie in the early 1990s.I don't base this upon his simply disappointing second album. I feel about Nothing But The Beat, much the same as David (and I) feel about Lady Gaga's Born This Way. the same only worse.
Here is what Guetta had to say, "Yeah, because I think we could have done something amazing on her last record, Born This Way. And her last record was to me very disappointing. She's an amazing artist, and she deserves to be always looking ahead, like she did with her first album. But actually I know for a fact – because I know who she's working with now – that the next album is going to be absolutely crazy. He's someone really good, a young kid."
Does that mean her producer RedOne is out of the picture? God, I hope so. For all the pain and the passion of Fame, Born To Lose was really not the same and while I blamed Gaga at the time, I thought the songs were seriously underwhelming, maybe it was just as much the overproduction. Underwritten songs and overtracked tracks is a recipe for the blandest of bland. And while, I wouldn't go that far, Born This Way was born to be a Grade: B.
Look at it this way: if BTW had been her FIRST album, dya think the fuss would be so loud? dya think she'd be so big? Elton and Bennet love LG because she respects her elders, Madonna hates her because LG considers Madonna one of her elders (plus, LG stole "Express Yourself")
We can debate it but Artpop better be the goods… a new producer is certainly a start… though it is not as if any one is telling her what to play.