Has Gaga ever released a safe album?

[Oriane 21,153]

Joanne is safe, not that it was a bad thing.

[SHALLOW 16,456]

36 minutes ago, highlyreductive said:

You missed C2C, which is the missing link here. It was exactly the proof she needed that everyone was dying  to see (and hear) the girl behind the aura, if you will. Joanne was pretty safe both sonically and thematically, especially given the rise of white nationalism and the MAGA mentality in the USA at the time. I'm not saying the album came from a dishonest place – it obviously hasn't – but it was clever, nonetheless.

It wasn’t safe from her fans tho. We did jot expect that sound and most of us didn’t even like it. I did like the sound but the concept was just not it for me

[SHALLOW 16,456]

I think ASIB is the safest cause is basically a little like Joanne but also has the pop bops that lms want

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20 minutes ago, Quark said:

For someone like Gaga to do something like Joanne, specially after ARTPOP is not very safe. What song sounded like perfect illusion when PI was released? Plus the album was never meant to be fully one genre, it was a mixture of many genres (and genres that are usually not put together). 

Well here's thing. Gaga has always released a single that sounds nothing like whats on the radio. At this point its very much expected that the radio is on one path and Gaga is on another.

I already said that the album was meant to be a mix of genres, BUT it never went fully there. The tracks feel like they are demos and the instrumentals could go a lot further interms of the intention of the project. 

My all time favourite Lady Gaga song, Bloody Mary, is a great example of incorporating lots of genres but going all the way and hitting it hard. It had funk, pop, disco, and a little flavour of alternative WITH  a choir. If BM was on Joanne, it would be much more tame than what it was.

Joanne was a safe record because it didn't go anywhere. Infact, it felt like a record to pander to most Americans. If felt like Lady Gaga was starting her career all over again, and the whole 'regular girl' persona and the lackadaisical approach to her music was, in a way, prepping us for ASIB. She said herself, the goal of Joanne was to bring people together who couldn't connect with Gaga before to be like "wow I actually relate to her". 

I wouldn't call Joanne basic, but compared to her other works, it is basic. Literally, basic live instrumentation, lyrics about real life issues and honest vocals and boom, she accomplished the goal. 

Had Gaga released the original concept for the 5th album, THAT would be much more daring than Joanne. After ARTPOP, it was like "how do I prove to people that I am relatable in a way they haven't seen before?" and rather than keeping to the route of "daring, envelope pushing music", she chose a stripped back era

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All of her records were safe

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Even her safest albums weren’t safe lol.

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32 minutes ago, xoxo Craig said:

 

My all time favourite Lady Gaga song, Bloody Mary, is a great example of incorporating lots of genres but going all the way and hitting it hard. It had funk, pop, disco, and a little flavour of alternative WITH  a choir.

 

Bloody Mary is truly a perfect song Absolutely heavenly and eargasmic.

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1 minute ago, Jose P said:

Bloody Mary is truly a perfect song Absolutely heavenly and eargasmic.

Hearing it full blast with headphones/earphones is an experience omg

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39 minutes ago, SHALLOW said:

I think ASIB is the safest cause is basically a little like Joanne but also has the pop bops that lms want

Well yeah but ASIB is technically not a Gaga album

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1 hour ago, Quark said:

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In my opinion, Gaga has never released a safe album. Many people dismiss her music as just dance pop and EDM with her first 3 eras but when Gaga released The Fame, there weren’t many heavy dance pop albums at the top of the charts. When Gaga released The Fame monster, few pop albums had that dark, thematic, and industrial sound that most of the TFM had. Born this way was completely different to most of what other mainstream artist were releasing in 2011. From the lyrical themes (equality and religion) to the goth-rock, house, and 80s style mixture (even though now it is very popular to make 80s sounding songs), it was just a very unique album. Now with ARTPOP, many say that Gaga was just trying to follow the EDM trends (even though Gaga kind of help EDM get started), and yes, most of ARTPOP is EDM, but how many mainstream EDM songs sound like Aura? Or have lyrics like Swine? I mean who else would release a single with lyrics such as “pop culture was in art now art is in pop culture in me”.  Moving on to Joanne, people say that Gaga was just playing it safe with a more tame country sound to appeal to the adult and American demographic but at that point Gaga was only known for crazy electronic music. It was never a given that people would just accept the new Gaga just because it has a “safer” sound with more radio friendly lyrics. But “safer” sound should only be taken lightly because who else would mix country, with folk, with electronic, with Bollywood, and with soul influences in the same album. In the lead single Peferct Illusion, Gaga sounds like a rock singer instead of a pop artist. Now with her side projects, Gaga decided to release an entire duets album with a Jazz legend instead of you know, looking for features with popular artists. And she also decided to sing and record songs with an actor that was never known as a singer. From big to small risks, the point here is that Gaga has always at least tried to provide something new to the mainstream that isn’t necessarily a safe choice for a mainstream artist like her. 

Maybe not safe but boring definitely

[Lucas 27,349]

C2C, Joanne and ASIB were all pretty safe releases. Although they were different from what she had released before, they are all extremely safe

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2 hours ago, Quark said:

when Gaga released The Fame, there weren’t many heavy dance pop albums at the top of the charts. When Gaga released The Fame monster, few pop albums had that dark, thematic, and industrial sound that most of the TFM had.

Blackout says hi tho.

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If you really think about it everything Gaga does is risky because every move she made was something that was far from popular at the time of release. I guess her safest would be C2C for sure and maybe The Fame if I had to pick. When Gaga came out she shattered the scene and raised the bar forcing everyone to follow suit to keep up with her talent and creativity.