Sorcerer 12,487 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 Generally positive review from Pitchfork! "And yet it still feels like “Stupid Love” is filling a void in our downcast, anxious, genre-fluid landscape... “Stupid Love” may not reposition her at pop’s bleeding edge, but it captures just enough of the goofy, indomitable spirit that made her so refreshing in the first place." https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/lady-gaga-stupid-love/ I DID NOT EXPECT THIS AT ALL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameltoe Chariot 15,151 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 Me, logging on to gagadaily after a decade of knowing full well the day after a new release just means an onslaught of trolls and negative "fans" trashing Gaga's latest venture, trying in vain to convince everyone she's over: Stupid Love, both song AND video, are EXACTLY what we've been asking for for years. And to all the Little Managers out there turning into camera technician and criticising the iPhone stunt: don't act like your fave didn't use an online casino feature to pay for a video, or film another video on the set of a failed ABC drama. Bye. If you've been paying attention you'd know this type of thing is exactly what Gaga has done her whole career. And that's on periodT. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NT78 1,230 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 13 minutes ago, Sorceress said: "And yet it still feels like “Stupid Love” is filling a void in our downcast, anxious, genre-fluid landscape... “Stupid Love” may not reposition her at pop’s bleeding edge, but it captures just enough of the goofy, indomitable spirit that made her so refreshing in the first place." This right here is spot on. The amount of angst-y pop music right now is just overwhelming. This is such a fresh departure from all that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorcerer 12,487 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 Anthony Fantano retweeted the positive Pitchfork review Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vitleysingur 13,789 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 Did The Atlantic just wrote a think piece for this? CULTURE: Lady Gaga Is Trying to Bring Desperation Back to Pop The title of Lady Gaga’s fantastic new single, “Stupid Love,” riffs on a concept she’s sung about many times before. A “stupid love” sounds like it could be a “bad romance,” diseased and vengeful. It might be the fleeting roar of a-p-p-l-a-u-s-e. “All I ever wanted was love,” she now croons, but listeners know that in the past she’s accepted a perfect illusion, a hit of dope, and the kiss of Judas: a love that leaves. Gaga’s career has, in fact, shown that the best pop can be the neediest kind, the most insistent, and the most superficial. Her early visual aesthetic glinted and changed with the restlessness of a video-slot display, and her whirling synthetic sound matched. It was pop, on some level, about pop, and how its rush resembled and could even replace other sensory rushes. The culture inevitably got a hangover. “We’re far from the shallow now,” Gaga announced on the hit from 2018’s A Star Is Born, culminating her years-long correction into stately jazz, show tunes, and rock. During that same late-2010s period, the Hot 100 became a zone of hauteur, burnout, and paranoia. To the extent that dance pop has survived, it’s been with post-Chainsmokers divas such as Dua Lipa performing chilly, come-hither coyness. Gaga’s attempts at that sort of affect, as with the 2017 single “The Cure” or the songs of her A Star Is Born character’s sellout phase, rang as parody. She’s just too much of a ham to pull off anything other than big and bold. At some point, she’d either have to retreat from aiming for nightclubs or—as her fans have been rooting for her to do—make a brash last stand for music that interrupts vibe-y playlists rather than fits in with them. So here she is now, red hot and panting, trying to jolt the national mood. The prismatic arpeggios, assertive kick drum, and wait-is-this-Madonna? chord progression of “Stupid Love” will be called a return to form for Gaga. But the song, the first single off her sixth album, is no mere clone. For the first time in her career, Gaga is working with the superproducer Max Martin, the architect of many of the defining smashes of the past three decades. He’s fallen off a bit with regards to chart success in recent years, and so has Gaga, but their sonic matchup makes a ton of sense: Even if each note feels perfectly calibrated for catchiness, Gaga’s voice is so big and personable that a sense of humanity remains intact. Rather than chasing the operatic chaos of “Bad Romance” or ARTPOP, “Stupid Love” is light, sweet, and orderly, which is to say, it’s ineffably Swedish. It’s clever, too. The producers BloodPop and Tchami help sprinkle the track with small delights: crunchy keyboards defibrillating the verses, chopped-up vocals looped like a chipper GIF, tearful gospel passages from the church of Annie Lennox. The surest sign that the team wasn’t working on autopilot comes in the bridge, when the song tamps down the energy, builds back up, and then roars into its final chorus—but withholds the big drop by crucial microseconds. It’s a fake-out that tricks the ear every time, as superfans who’ve been giddily listening to the song since it leaked in January can attest. The video is B-movie camp, with Gaga in pink Barbarella gear (call her Chromatica, the possible name for her forthcoming album), playing peacemaker during a dance battle. Each warrior faction has a color and fashion theme, though in the place of the haute couture of Gaga’s early videos, these outfits looks crafted and Halloween-y. A generous reading would be that she’s trying to convey a more goofy, humble, and authentic kind of romance—do try this at home!—than she once did. Stupid love, the video suggests, is the kind that can heal the world’s fractures. Pop makes such promises all the time; while you’re dancing, you’re not worried whether they’re true. Dreams of you and me are in the dirt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kahzandra 142 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 EDIT: I meant to post this in the "Stupid Love looks cheap" thread but it ended up here Indeed its too obvious the video was intended to look campy and a little tacky and cheap in fresh way. I think she and the director definitely drew inspiration from 90s era Power Rangers aesthetics. And did anyone else also pick up on the influence from those forgotten late 90s Eurodance videos (which are so iconic and beautifully retro now) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pharamon 6,839 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 3 hours ago, Sorceress said: Anthony Fantano retweeted the positive Pitchfork review omg how did u make that photo from your avi black I want itttttt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGagaOfItAll 178 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 12 minutes ago, Kahzandra said: Indeed its too obvious the video was intended to look campy and a little tacky and cheap in fresh way. I think she and the director definitely drew inspiration from 90s era Power Rangers aesthetics. And did anyone else also pick up on the influence from those forgotten late 90s Eurodance videos (which are so iconic and beautifully retro now) YES AND THIS IS PRECISELY WHY I LOVE THIS SONG it's so unbeilevably happy 90s Y2K sounding, nobody seems to be talking about that in the font design as well for the stupid love logo as well. Nobody's gonna heal me if I don't open the door Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShayCristoforo 10,607 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 6 hours ago, xoxo Craig said: Its like Just Dance but on steroids It's basically MUST DANCE. Get the pinot ready, because it's turtle time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpet Shark 227 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Lady Gaga’s ‘Stupid Love’ Is An Exercise In Fabulosity by Nadja Sayej Forbes Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylight Jokers 14,958 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 On 2/28/2020 at 3:45 PM, ladygaga1984 said: Lol... how much did these “journalists” get paid? Seethe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gagzus 15,831 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 I’m shocked at how well it’s being received considering it’s like her weakest lead song and it’s just a run of the mill song (that’s not bad I’m still enjoying it). Like even Pitchfork likes it, her Beyoncé era is upon us maybe that means LG6/LG7 will FINALLY give her and 80+ that she deserves on Metacritic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylight Jokers 14,958 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 On 2/29/2020 at 1:49 AM, Vitleysingur said: roar of a-p-p-l-a-u-s-e Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CookieHWilson 684 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 On 2/28/2020 at 1:24 PM, M Monstre said: Don’t know about Fantano, but I could see Ajay going either way with this. I could see her crying and saying it’s a bop, but then I could also see her looking into the camera with a minute of silence Hopefully she likes it cause I think she’s a great reactor and I think she has a lot of insight. Didn’t she react already and said it was something she could not connect to? nonsequitur Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady K 211 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 On 2/28/2020 at 1:30 AM, WholesomeOOf said: I'd just like to preface this by saying that the people who are sharing their opinions or critiques in a mature manner are obviously fine. However, the extremely negative fans who consistently/redundantly spout vitrol at Gaga are criticizing something that will yet again be widely loved lmao. It happened with A Star Is Born, Shallow, Enigma, and now seemingly Stupid Love . Gaga clearly knows what she is doing so stop acting like any of you know better when you evidently do not in any capacity. SLASH/// It's her life and her decisions. If you don't agree with them then don't be here! (Or express them in a mature manner ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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