Is "The Fame" Album generic?

[Smother Em Eh 7,129]

Pop music speaking...

Is The Fame Album generic by any means?

I mean it's a lot different than today's pop music right? 

[Korok 4,272]

It was generic at the time but it's aged like a fine wine. 

[weed 73,835]

No

[The Fame 4,192]

Honestly? No. If you recall what music was like back then, the album was actually quite different from what was out there. ESPECIALLY in terms of lyrics. No one really did the 'Gaga stutter' as I call it (P-p-poker face, p-p-poker face; papa-paparazzi). Her lyrics were also juxtapositioned in really abstract ways. It was just so cool. 

[shame 25,360]

it was unique at the time but after every singer copped her style, it became generic sounding 

[juju 18,907]

It's dated and stuffed full of filler.

But it isn't exactly "generic", by any means. 

[My Enigma Heart 1,915]

Not really, it sounded different from what was the norm at the time. To me, it changed pop music forever.  

[DeanWinchester 41,390]

5 minutes ago, Korok said:

It was generic at the time but it's aged like a fine wine. 

If you said it's retroactively generic because of how other artists tried to emulate this sound I would have agreed but no. You got it backwards.

[Edonis 28,950]

It's slightly dated and there are songs on there that qualify as filler, but by no means is the song generic. Every single one of the tracks on there feels like a Gaga track. 

[Cerny 4,270]

It's far from generic, The Fame is Gaga trying be noticed without selling out and it shows.

[Bambino 24,288]

Not when it basically changed the sound and image of pop music. If it wasn't for TF, Katy would still be making cool pop music without calling it dark pop.

[PunkTheFunk 124,437]

I remember hearing "Paparazzi" for the first time and thinking "I have never heard anything like this before"  

[Korok 4,272]

1 hour ago, DeanWinchester said:

If you said it's retroactively generic because of how other artists tried to emulate this sound I would have agreed but no. You got it backwards.

The Fame was generic. Her sound was already booming in Europe. All she did was bring it over to NA with her own "Gaga" twist to it. I'm not discrediting her work, TF is my 2nd favorite Gaga album. Gaga said it in an interview herself that radio stations didn't want to pick her music because it was too "euro-dance". 

[DeanWinchester 41,390]

1 minute ago, Korok said:

Gaga said it in an interview herself that radio stations didn't want to pick her music because it was too "euro-dance". 

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[TheFame Monster 8,944]

15 minutes ago, Korok said:

It never was generic at the time but it's aged like a fine wine. 

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