The soft-rock detour: Joanne trades meat dresses for a pink hat, with Mark Ronson steering Gaga toward country-tinged balladry and dive-bar rock. "Million Reasons" did the commercial work, but "Joanne"'s title-track grief is the real center. Transitional and uneven — yet it set up the Star Is Born coronation that followed.
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