ARTPOP was not "ahead of its time" (and that's okay!)

Sources/ Further Reading:

Lady Gaga Flies (Sorta), Sings, and Vogues at Multimillion-Dollar ‘ArtRave’ – Spin

Lady Gaga's artRave: The Beginning of the End of the Extravagant Album Launch? – Pitchfork

Lady Gaga's ARTPOP Pop-Up Store: Art Or Commerce? – Forbes

Lady Gaga’s Art Rave — a Pop Artist in Search of Something Bigger – Vulture

Lady Gaga's flying dress offers vision of how "we may all travel in ten years time"- Dezeen and Mini Frontiers

Did Lady Gaga's ARTPOP Actually Flop?

Vevo could have been ‘an existential threat’ to YouTube, but YouTube won in the end – Vox

Reflektor, Year Zero, and a Brief History of the Elaborate Album Rollout – Pitchfork

Popping the Drop: A Timeline of How EDM’s Bubble Burst – Pitchfork

Landfill Futures: Is The EDM Bubble About To Burst? – The Quietus

Dance Dance Revolution: How EDM Conquered America in the 2010s – Pitchfork