Biggest fear for Chromatica?

[Hades 27,980]

8 minutes ago, SHALLOW said:

Makes sense that you skipped ARTPOP but like FW 

I haven't listened to the leaks.

[Lucas 26,700]

Lack of creativity. I'll be quite honest, Gaga hasn't released a song that blew me away in terms of creativity since the Born This Way album 

[oko 436]

Chromatica will definitly be an album for the fan (such as ARTPOP), I think the GP will not be very interested (like what happened with Stupid Love)

[Taide 5,789]

Delay. You know, moving the release date again and again until we're all fed up and want to move on.

[Felix Jens 180]

I don’t have “fears “ when it comes down to music. 
She either release it now or later ,that’s it.
I’m longing to listen to good stuff.
Babylon and Free Woman give me hope.

 

In terms of promoting,Gaga and her team? 
I’m holding my breath......always.
No great expectations......

The best era for me was ASIB, there were no leaks ,no problems,no stress.

[not Chromatica 5,393]

BloodPop............. eye– 

For real tho, my biggest fear is that it won't leave that big of a cultural imprint. Look at FN... I feel like no one's talking about it now, and everyone was raving about it a month ago. That's because albums like these really need clubs in order to truly come alive. And I'm afraid that won't be able to happen under these circumstances.

[ToxicHot 6,444]

These three poll options have already be jeopardized by the pandemic :

Cancellations of plans

Bad Promotion

Release date

 

I’m gonna say..... it leaks in full BEFORE there is an official release. And then it flops. 

[Prada 1,200]

More songs like Stupid Love

it was just not so good. 

[cacaca 1,210]

Maybe I'm weird but I like Gaga's music more than how well it does on the Billboard charts or what she wears when she leaves a hotel. I GET that she's a performance artist and the whole package is important, but as long as the music is good, IDGAF about anything else. And she barely promotes nowadays, so we won't be missing out on too much anyway.

[Awrah999 4,296]

1 hour ago, SHALLOW said:

Lack of creativity.

With this album it really feels like she’s following trends. SL sounds like a basic pop song that could be anyone’s and it also has that annoying instrumentals chorus that bad songs have had for years. Also the Ariana and BLACKPINK collab and the fact that she worked with Max Martin. I think this album is definitely going to have some bops but it will also sound very generic and not GAGA imo. Also i hate the fact that she included interludes, we all know those are just going to be fillers. I really thought this album could dethrone ARTPOP as my fave but ARTPOP is not bothered at all 

With all due respect you haven’t heard the album—you’ve heard at most one song and 3 LQ snippets that are likely demos. Imagine basing your entire opinion of an album based on 3 ARTPOP demo snippets and...Dope or Applause. I love ARTPOP too but to say Chromatica will be generic, basic, and “following trends” based on minimal material I think is premature. 

[Awrah999 4,296]

I have no fear regarding the album. I think in many ways despite COVID-19 and the delay, Gaga is at her peak maturity in her art and is ready to spread joy and use her musical and vocal talent in a way that can relate to the masses in a powerful way, irrespective of chart numbers. My real fear is that fans won’t accept her for her evolution, when she’s been constantly evolving and changing her whole career, and that is truly what makes her great. No other pop star in history has the capacity to put out a pop mega hit like Bad Romance, follow it up with a cultural phenomenom like Born This Way, and then find ways to succeed in jazz, television, and film, then peak with an album full of timeless, classic ballads like Shallow and Always Remember Us This Way, then change to house music and collaborating with Ariana Grande, Blackpink, and even Elton John. There are so many artists that claim to evolve and just stay stuck in one type of music, or don’t have the talent to expand the breadth and depth of their music; I’ve enjoyed Gaga’s career path for the highs, lows, and everything in between and I think Chromatica will prove so many people wrong and if you don’t like it, don’t listen. Gaga will continue to thrive and I will always appreciate her for it 

[Leoj305 3,586]

That it won’t come out this year 

[zerojk 4,954]

I agree with everyone fearing the album will be so basic...

The Elton John collab gives me hope that it won't be like that.

You can have a dance album and still have quality and an artistic vision behind it, look at "Confessions on a dancefloor" by Madonna 

[JustJames 950]

15 minutes ago, SHALLOW said:

Yeah, a chorus that I can’t even sing. I have to mimic that sound with like “da da da” and it’s pretty annoying to me 

Honestly, you've let your 'fears' be known and have by far the largest % of posts in this thread thus far regarding your disdain for what you have heard so far. You are obviously free to continue to talk about those feelings, but my fear is that an overwhelmingly loud minority of fans will fill each and every Chromatica era thread with their own personal disappointments masked as fact/taken to be the opinion of the collective - whether the collective fanbase or collective GP.

I seriously, 100%, mean it when I say to continue to post the types of statements as above if you wish to, but please just consider that so much of this fanbase has waited an extremely long time for her return to pop and instead of coming here to celebrate the fact that a pretty unremarkable (yes, I do think SL was/is unremarkable; but, that's so much more in line with what a lead single should be then a turn-off like Perfect Illusion, or even a smash that the rest of the era can't compare to a la Don't Start Now) song got her a #5 debut on the Hot 100, close to 2 months of near-Top 10 radio airplay, and received nearly universal acclaim in a time where artists are unable to do what she does best- live performances- I just see post after post about what a flop the song was and worse.

The fact the Charts thread is filled with "SL flopped harder than NRO" rhetoric when NRO was supported by the 2nd-best machine in pop at the time, had radio on its side from the start, and had live promo/no pandemic to deal with, yet still debuted and peaked at #15 before dropping similarly to SL, I don't even get it? If SL falls off the Hot 100 next week, its 2nd-9th weeks look similar to NRO, and NRO lingered for a mere 4 extra weeks. 

1. FAN STANDARDS: My fear for this era is that I was gaslit into thinking that this was at least a site filled with mostly logical, civilized fans of Lady Gaga's music, who will experience excitement and disappointment, but at the very least maintain their own standards as to what they consider to be above/on/under par for her musically. Seeing people flip from years of "we want a dance track!" to "she should have released a ballad!" was seriously sad. We should all be hoping for things this era that have more to do with the music than Charts/GP/other artists.

Those are unavoidable, but if she released 16 tracks on par with your fav 16, yet they flopped into oblivion, would that be disastrous?

2. COHERENCY: I definitely want a cohesive album in terms of visuals and message; even BTW suffered because of the lack of a coherency. Does anyone remember that album for its amazing rock influences? The message of love and inclusion was pushed, but never the growth as an artist by way of blending genres. Imagine the leadup to 5/23/11 with MTN, BTW, and EOG as the first three singles and Electric Chapel as a promo single?

Even prior to CV, I was worried that she was selling a single, album concept, and entire tour based on a 10ish second intro the SL Music Video; CV shouldn't have prevented her from engaging the fans and GP in unique ways to explore and explain what Chromatica is, how the songs on the album will relate it to it, and tease what sounds and visuals to expect if she wants that level of commitment. Now that she has gotten it, I'm nervous about continuity.

3. 3 WELL-PLANNED SINGLES: I definitely want the album to be a great BOW, with her typical high-quality experimentation with new sounds/genres and story-telling, but w/ 3 well-planned singles that bring a more elevated level of songwriting than SL. Gaga is beyond capable of keeping the attention of music fans for long enough to release 3 singles and 3 music videos that all are Top 10 quality, but even though getting only 1-2 singles since ARTPOP has stunk, I struggle to think of which songs from Joanne (outside MR) and ARTPOP (outside Applause and DWUW) were viable? Not getting ARUTW performed at 2018 Grammys and released in 04/2019 was criminal, though.

4. THE PROMO: Even though I was screaming during Week 1 of SL in the Charts thread that she needed to deliver at least 1 in-person interview and at least 1 live performance, I got heckled. But, when Gaga shows her face, she sells records. Imagine our convos had Joanne been put to rest w/ a #15 + #34 and MR never re-entered at #4 post-SB? Or, if Shallow remained a frustrating #5 without the post-Oscars storm? 2 performances of Stupid Love, with attached visuals/choreo would have given it a sense of place and time in Spring 2020 and kept it as a Top 20 holdout.

5. THE COLLABORATORS: I, too, am nervous that the names I see could be signs of a little sense of desperation, but what is scarier is how hard fans have latched onto some of them as the 'only hopes' to 'save' this era. Gaga has gone her entire career without needing to feature heavily. Even in "Telephone," Beyonce was clearly performing on a Gaga track. No collab has ever carried an entire pop era, and if a +Ariana is an  inevitable single, then I hope to heck it is not next, because Ari's history shows that she either dominates or is an afterthought.

Had SL gotten proper lead single treatment to the point where it was ubiquitous with Chromatica, then a collaboration followup would have been okay. But, this has always been seen as Gaga's 'comeback' to pop music- a genre she redefined and has owned for over a decade. She needs a 'Just Dance' and 'Pokerface' (contagious, if basic lead + iconic followup) at minimum.   

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