I think it's a decent-ish record. Certainly overlong, which becomes clear somewhere in the middle when every song sounds exactly the same with varying degrees of inanity in the lyric department to keep you from nodding off. However, her beats (which make up the backbone of a very 90s house-influenced record, complete with gospel-inspired vocal interjections and pianos) have improved dramatically from the Fruity Loops shit that people were praising when Poker Face came out. The synths buzz in all the right ways, the percussion is creative, and it doesn't stop throughout the album's 60 minutes.
Well, once in a while it does. The aforementioned Man! I Feel Like A Gaga (I'll take credit for that title) is a pitch-perfect Twain parody (written by her ex), complete with the pauses for spoken vocal hooks and rowdy guitars. It's dumb as a post, but I actually don't mind it, myself. If I didn't know who Twain was, I would like it a great deal. The stupid lyrics don't stop with that song though: most tracks on the album (not excluding Born This Way) are filled with really trite observations or cliches. Good God, Hair is just unbelievable. Did she take note of the criticisms from conservative PTA members who thought her music was shallow and wrote a handful of "love-yourself-and-no-matter-how-ugly-and-talentless-you-are-everyone-will-love-you" tracks? They're alright, except that Gaga's sincerity is undermined by the fact that every other song is about fucking or is a song about fucking with religious imagery thrown in for the sole purpose of pissing people off.
However, Gaga ain't a poet, and most of the tracks here are catchy as hell. It's a solid, coherent record, and the first two tracks get the album off to such a great start that the first third of the record radiates with a certain infectious thrill. Seriously, Marry The Night is one of her best songs yet. Don't miss that one.