What if Speechless & Teeth replaced each other in TFM tracklisting?

[Gracious Gaga 17,163]

Hey guys!  I was just listening to TFM, and noticed how the two songs that are least musically/sonically similar to the rest of the EP are the 4th and 8th song.

 So the way the track list is set up, is you get 3 euro-dance pop tracks, then a piano driven rock ballad, Speechless.  Then for the second half of the EP you get 3 more dance pop tracks, and finally a bluesy soulful R&B track, Teeth. 

Now, it is very common on most albums to save the ballads towards the end of the record- so it made me wonder- what if Speechless and Teeth were switched on the trackless?  Would this affect the flow of the album?  Would the songs fit in their new places?

Bad Romance

Alejandro

Monster

Teeth

Dance in the Dark

Telephone

So Happy I Could Die

Speechless 

 

I do think TFM is perfect the way it is, and that Teeth is a very strong closer that ends the album w a bang, but could you see it being switched with Speechless?  

Speechless could be a great closer as well, being that by the end of the record, Gaga has nothing left to say, and is metaphorically Speechless and the album is over.  Story telling-wise, this actually fits and is rather touching, makes it hurt a little more to hear the song at the very end of the album, and “you left me so speechless” being TFM’s very last words.  

Thoughts? How does this make you guys feel?  

[dynamite 58,574]

I didn't know the tracklist order off the top of my head but now you mention it yeah an epic ballad like Speechless would have made a better closer. Teeth is cool but a pretty random song belonging somewhere in the middle.

[Gracious Gaga 17,163]

1 minute ago, dynamite said:

I didn't know the tracklist order off the top of my head but now you mention it yeah an epic ballad like Speechless would have made a better closer. Teeth is cool but a pretty random song belonging somewhere in the middle.

I put the track list in the OP

[zoldyck 2,117]

Now that you mentioned is, speechless do sounds like a perfect closer. Not just because of it being ballad but lyrically too 

[dynamite 58,574]

2 minutes ago, Gracious Gaga said:

I put the track list in the OP

Yeah that's what I meant, I didn't know til I saw your post 

[Sneaky Oliver 22,067]

12 minutes ago, Gracious Gaga said:

Story telling-wise, this actually fits and is rather touching, makes it hurt a little more to hear the song at the very end of the album, and “you left me so speechless” being TFM’s very last words.  

You’re a genius tbh Gaga stans are always so smart 

[Red Velvet 10,988]

Oh no, my screen’s getting blurry again! MY TEARS

[Madame Goo Goo 3,843]

I always thought the album should open with Monster and close with Bad Romance

[PartySick 159,824]

Speechless as a closer is alright but Teeth after Monster is amazing.

[Gracious Gaga 17,163]

9 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Speechless as a closer is alright but Teeth after Monster is amazing.

teeth after monster is great.  in monster she says "he ATE my heart!" and next song is TEETH. perfection 

and ending w speechless makes sense lyrically also.

[Smother Em Eh 7,095]

Yes I believe Speechless is a better album closer out of the two, but always thought So Happy I Could Die is a perfect closer!

[Gracious Gaga 17,163]

19 hours ago, Smother Em Eh said:

Yes I believe Speechless is a better album closer out of the two, but always thought So Happy I Could Die is a perfect closer!

I also thought that SHICD makes sense lyrically as a closer