Regina George 59,387 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 Lady Gaga has remained one of the biggest pop stars on the planet without actually making much pop music. She abandoned her synths and donned her best cowgirl drag for 2016’s rootsy Joanne, and while she buried a few in-character bangers deep in the soundtrack for A Star Is Born, that movie’s enduring hits were classic power ballads that would’ve sounded just as comfortable in 1978 as in 2018. “Stupid Love,” her new single, is her much-ballyhooed return to pop-as-genre. It’s “classic Gaga,” that imperial phase at the end of the ’00s when the only thing bigger than her hits were the music videos and conceptual art pieces surrounding them. The song gestures toward that era without achieving the same kind of grandeur. Those big-budget mini-films were often accompanied by music that was just as audacious; the bulletproof hooks spread throughout The Fame Monster and Born This Way were coated in hair metal grease and industrial grime. If the brawny, shiny disco of “Stupid Love” sounds like anything in her catalog, it’s a sped-up version of “Do What U Want,” a song mostly erased from the public record because of its prominent R. Kelly feature. The video’s embrace of late-’90s JRPG energy pales in ambition and scale compared to “Bad Romance” or “Telephone.” And yet it still feels like “Stupid Love” is filling a void in our downcast, anxious, genre-fluid landscape: The only other artist working in this mode is Dua Lipa, whose Future Nostalgia singles—big, bright, and heart-on-sleeve—have pushed her into a new echelon of pop stardom. There’s an appetite for this kind of unapologetically exuberant sound, one evidenced by the communal frenzy for the leaked version of this song earlier this year that earned a tongue-in-cheek reprimand from Gaga herself. “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. WHY achievement? Because they usually hate her. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/lady-gaga-stupid-love/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gagaloo911 12,959 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 Pitchfork praising her? And straights are also stanning the song and the video The way we WON Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yxcvbnm 839 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 Just now, Gagaloo92 said: Pitchfork praising her? And straights are also stanning the song and the video The way we WON I don't want to be negative, but both song and mv are cheap. Did you see btw mv or judas? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie 5 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 Pitchfork praising a mainstream artist?! GASP this is how you know she won Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franch Toast 25,220 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 Only her own stans hate it. She/Her/Hers Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VertigoRogue 261 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 i mean they ain't wrong Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woohoo 6,534 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 she just did that gheys. she won the boss battle: the critics "I heard if you record Gaga snoring and play it backward it sounds like an act. 2 unreleased." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regina George 59,387 Posted February 28, 2020 Author Share Posted February 28, 2020 Just now, ropi said: I don't want to be negative, but both song and mv are cheap. Did you see btw mv or judas? Leave! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose P 23,341 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 2 minutes ago, Gagaloo92 said: Pitchfork praising her? And straights are also stanning the song and the video The way we WON The GP straights seem to be stanning the song more than the actual fans and for some reason that just makes me so happy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlopSlurper 34,336 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 Them stanning Gaga and Dua in the same article, the way my faves keep winnning Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Oak 5,642 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 I don't know who he is, forgive me Does anyone want to tell me? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
teenagechrist 2,853 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 I wasn't expecting Pitchfork to stan, they hate on everything. Her chromatic mind made them switch feeling so hot tamale Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiamondAngel 5,044 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 This is exactly how I feel about the song. The video is not Bad Romance or G.U.Y level perfectionism, it's not a huge show-stopping chorus like The Edge of Glory or Marry the Night, but it's still up there. It does its job. I love it! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose P 23,341 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 1 minute ago, ropi said: I don't want to be negative, but both song and mv are cheap. Did you see btw mv or judas? That’s ok and your opinion is valid but let the ones who like it enjoy it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWICE on hatius 4,746 Posted February 28, 2020 Share Posted February 28, 2020 Maybe, their basement deserves rights sometimes. Anyway, OGH lost! Please ignore the spelling in username. I am a Beyonce stan afterall. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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