Who cares what NME think? Pot calling the kettle black there with them saying Born This Way is pretentious methinks. Born This Way is Gaga's best and most cohesive album to date, it just works somehow despite all the different genres she mashes together on there. For me, if she never goes back to some of the generic pop from the original The Fame album, I will be happy. NME love to sneer at anything that is hugely popular, funny thing is when they rated the album originally they gave it 7 or 8 out of ten, jumping on the bash Gaga bandwagon does them no favours. Does anyone still actually read NME anyway? Exactly, so another bunch of people trying to use Gaga to get publicity.