Is Lady Gaga just trying too hard?

The singer's early hits felt fluid and instinctive. Now it all looks a bit like hard work – and she's not hitting the sweet spotAt the end of last year I held a poll of pop fans and in one of the categories asked what people wanted from Lady Gaga in 2012, with two options: more or less. The promo campaign around last year's album release had not, shall we say, been one characterised by its subtlety.The result of the poll was a 44%-56% split, which at first seemed contradictory and useless, bu...

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