If LG6 lead is a country ballad..

[Musicisfreedom 5,837]

I would love it I'm sure, but she's done the whole country pop thing like twice now with Joanne and ASIB and while those have completely different feel to them, I dont know how she could reinvent it again. I love gaga because she doesn't repeat herself and stick to one thing. However, I am not against it as long as it is fresh and new and not reminiscent of Joanne and ASIB....

She could always mix country and techno 

[2School4Cool 6,449]

Gaga nails every style she does so of course I’d love it 

[Widows Kiss 7,818]

Become an OGH 

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1 hour ago, derpmonster said:

Honey, aesthetic is one thing and sound is another. That's common with popstars. Born This Way's aesthetic was metal and goth, yet the only song remotely gothic in sound is Bloody Mary and metal... nope. There are rock songs though.

Americana images and fashion (and references) don't make the sound country. They make the aesthetic country.

Every producer she has worked with on the album produced work very different from their other work. Look at Ronson and BloodPop for example. Sinner's Prayer is very folk and the most country inspired of all but definitely not "more country than half the songs on country radio". Million Reasons and Sinner's Prayer are the closest. Rest of the second half is more folky American inspired and I can see why people would think it's country. Most country music fans wouldn't think so. There are multiple different genres that folk American gave rise to and country is not the one that the second half of Joanne is the closest to.

Joanne's sound is less country than Taco Bell's food is Mexican. But the aesthetic, yes, very country inspired.

 

Even if you set aside the visual and fashion influences during the Joanne era (though I'm not sure why you would, as the aesthetics are obviously directly inspired by the music itself, and give you a clear idea of what she is trying to evoke with the entire project) the album is still heavily influenced by Country music. Gaga acknowledged Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash, and her Mother's southern roots as being inspiration for the album.

There wasn't a single review of Joanne that didn't mention its country influences. Rolling Stone called it her Shina Twain fantasy. NME said Joanne was Gaga's "lets-ge-a-bit-country-road" moment.

She enlisted Hillary Lindsey, a song writer who was best known for writing for Little Big Town and Carrie Underwood, to write AYO - a song Rolling Stone called "Country-Pop." Hillary also co-wrote A Million Reasons - a song drenched in the melodrama typical of country music.

In the lyrics for the song John Wayne - a song written about the definitive cowboy icon - she sang, "I just love a cowboy...you know hang off the back of your horse...hollerin' over, rubber spinnin'...big swig, toss another beer can."

There are many influences when it comes to the music on Joanne, but Country is certainly one of its major defining genres. Which is clear in both the music, and the entire way she chose to present the era visually.

My point is this: it's not ridiculous for fans to consider Joanne a country album, when she was happy to go full Annie Oakley...

 

 

[TINDER 2,383]

I just want a decent ELECTRO/SYNTHPOP song! Is it too much that I'm asking Gaga? 

If it's country I'm gonna meltdown for Sure

[Allim200 36]

Just reading the title gave me PTSD, I loved Joanne...but like Gaga said during the JWT when she sang "Bloody Mary". I am Sorry Joanne, this bitch in red showed up! I genuinely would love an ARTPOP like album, and hope that one day she releases some unreleased songs AKA Act II...one can dream right?

[GypsyBabe 22,836]

I’m usually pretty understanding and supportive of Gaga but I would be livid. LIVID. I hate country so much.

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[LGMonster95 13,704]

I loved Joanne and A Star Is Born so I'll be pretty fine with it but the thing is that LG6 wont be like that, it'll most likely be something different from her past albums (I mean like all the time)

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I'll smile and nod.

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i'd be calling it quits 

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6 hours ago, derpmonster said:

Honey, aesthetic is one thing and sound is another. That's common with popstars. Born This Way's aesthetic was metal and goth, yet the only song remotely gothic in sound is Bloody Mary and metal... nope. There are rock songs though.

Electric Chapel is metal-pop.

[DiamondKing 24,548]

Gaga makes anything sound great so I'll take it and I'd rather have country than jazz 

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12 minutes ago, FfFfFfFF said:

Electric Chapel is metal-pop.

That is not a thing  it takes more than distorted electric guitar to make a metal song.  

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3 minutes ago, Musicisfreedom said:

That is not a thing  it takes more than distorted electric guitar to make a metal song.  

It is a thing.  Some of you are so strict in the way you associate songs with genres like the boundaries between them aren't always blury and fluid. Yes, pop girls can release metal inspired songs too.