Rolling Stone - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "With JOANNE, Gaga starts over with music that feels stripped-down, restrained, modest and other adjectives that you wouldn't usually associate with her. It's an old-school Nineties soft-rock album, heavy on the acoustic guitar..."

Spin - "She's never sounded more matter of fact than on the arpeggiated folk of album's title track, an ode to her father's sister whom she was named after....Intimate moments register throughout -- especially on the Hillary Lindsey-co-penned country dirge 'Million Reasons'..."

Entertainment Weekly - "JOANNE is surprising, wandering, and, yes, inexplicable -- which is to say, it's Gaga -- and with it comes an infectiousness that was introduced in 2014's CHEEK TO CHEEK but is solidified here: When Gaga is having fun, we all are." -- Grade: B

NME (Magazine) - "Gaga Americana is not the Nashville kind, nor the big-beards sort, but a schlocky, thrill-packed theme-park. When Gaga strips herself back, what's underneath is just a more streamlined strangeness."

Clash (magazine) - "Her latest, JOANNE, finds Gaga mostly stripped of the bombast that permeated her early work and injected with surprising but fresh shades of country and light Americana."