DesertWolf 42,422 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 4,3M streams for ROM ww, holding on at #3 2,9M for SC, falling to #8 JOYRIDE Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloody g 31,735 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 16 minutes ago, daisy said: Madonna fans are so pressed by gaga. the way they compare erotica to chromatica and trash gaga's entire career except for cheek to cheek 『𝐟𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝』 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adarsh Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 Just now, DonnieDarko said: All that maters is that if it counts Can @Aarghya check Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teal Ambition 47,805 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 1 minute ago, thehanyo said: Vulture review just dropped and the headline makes it sound good but it's behind a paywall. https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/lady-gaga-chromatica-album-review.html Spoiler Earth is a drag. Humanity teeters on the brink of enlightenment, but money and power engender division, and selfishness and passivity are the feet of clay hindering advancement. Art provides escape. There’s a reason tough guys kicking villain ass do well at the box office in every decade, why songs about trying to make it to a better place have flourished over the years. Utopia is a through line adjoining gospel, disco rock, pop, rap, and country music, genres that have often been at odds. The common thread between the Staple Singers’ “I’ll Take You There,” Diana Ross and the Supremes’ “Someday We’ll Be Together,” John Lennon’s “Imagine,” 2Pac’s “Changes,” and the Carter Family’s “When the World’s on Fire” is the sense that there has got to be a better way, if not in life then in the afterlife. Unrest is a constant, though it ebbs and flows like water. When the tide is high, the value of music is to remind us of what ties us together. It is fortuitous for Chromatica, Lady Gaga’s disco lovefest dressed in intergalactic peace-punk clothes, to have crash-landed where it did, on the cusp of (socially distanced) Pride month, smack in the middle of a worldwide outcry for equality. It’s on the nose for her politics and her music, as the author of the perennial Pride anthem “Born This Way,” the Trayvon Martin tribute “Angel Down,” and the assault victims’ solidarity song “Til It Happens to You.” Gaga’s art makes the personal political and the political personal. Given the halftime gig at Super Bowl 2017, she delivered a stage show featuring men in pink and purple capes and cut “God Bless America” with a sliver of “This Land Is Your Land,” the sorta-socialist Woody Guthrie song written as a pointed rebuke, smuggling implied queerness and tacit liberalism into the nation’s preeminent jingoistic normie spectacle. Three years later, Chromatica offers a flight to a whole different planet. Well, the videos at least suggest that. The real retreat Chromatica envisions is a gay club. Alongside regular collaborators like BloodPop, Madeon, and Benjamin Rice, Gaga has crafted a loving ode to classic house music, from the booming, chopped-up vocals in the chorus of opener “Alice,” which wink at vocal house standards like Aly-Us’s “Follow Me,” to closer “Babylon,” whose fake sax sounds and runway instructions seem built to be played at a ballroom competition. Chromatica is the hard reset Fame/The Fame Monster fans have been waiting for. Gaga’s reined in the musical-theater and cabaret aspirations explored in her Cheek to Cheek and A Star Is Born eras; the cross-genre, multimedia ambitions of ARTPOP; the loving Shania Twain fan service of Joanne; and the hard-rock veneer of Born This Way. The back-to-basics, four-on-the-floor dance-pop exercises undergirding those albums’ adventures in marrying her music to other genres is the main current now. If you wished on A Star to serve more “Hair Body Face,” if you thought Joanne needed more “Illusion,” if you expected more “Applause” and less Volantis out of ARTPOP, this is your moment. Chromatica’s streamlined approach makes for the leanest, shortest full-length album in Gaga’s catalogue, and what’s true of the beats is true of the lyrics. She’s a straight shooter; every line aims for the jugular. Some are maybe too on the nose, like readings from a Lady Gaga lyric generator. It’s not necessarily a crime to sound too acutely like yourself. No one else in the modern pop spectrum could or would try to get away with some of these lines: “My name isn’t Alice, but I’ll keep looking for Wonderland.” “I’m still something if I don’t got a man.” She’s sharing wisdom gleaned in soul-searching therapy but trying to make it universal. Sometimes that leads to euphoric expressions of self-sufficiency like “Free Woman.” Sometimes you get pat but pleasant songs like “Plastic Doll” (which, in the grand scheme of lyrical metaphors likening people to marionettes, doesn’t quite fill out its felt shoes the way, say, Elvis Costello’s “Shabby Doll” or Hole’s “Doll Parts” do), and sometimes you get a “911,” an honest word about seeking comfort in medication and, if you listen selectively, a hall-of-fame popper anthem. Paradoxically, the more Chromatica plays ball with modern sounds, the less potent it is. Having spent the back half of the last decade following her muse, Lady Gaga isn’t the arbiter of what’s new and hot right now. She doesn’t seem to want to be. She doesn’t have to be. As a kind of Confessions on a Dance Floor move, where a singer revisits her year-one ideas and obsessions with the poise and wisdom she’s learned since, the new album is a treat. When it tries to settle into 2020, it comes out sounding like 2017. “Sour Candy” was dragged online for sounding like Katy Perry’s “Swish Swish.” “Plastic Doll” sounds like one of the peppier moments from Taylor Swift’s Reputation. The production on “Fun Tonight” is too tame for the vocal. The songs that encourage Gaga to belt out leads like Martha Wash and CeCe Peniston — see: “Alice,” “Rain on Me,” “Enigma,” “Sine From Above” — end up being the most fun, the most like the club night of the mind her base needs right now. Chromatica doesn’t quite achieve space travel, but it lifts us up nevertheless. here you go! ▌│█║▌║▌║ before I am Canadian, I am Chromatican ║▌║▌║█│▌ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anveeroy 57,865 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 2 minutes ago, thehanyo said: Vulture review just dropped and the headline makes it sound good but it's behind a paywall. https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/lady-gaga-chromatica-album-review.html why the can't give a score Stream Kylie-Janet Discographies! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miaou 39,013 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 ROM better stay in the top 10 on Spotify US Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TINDER 2,383 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 Never would have thought Gaga would be promoting chromatica in India. @ANTI WP @Adarsh you guys saw this? I am tinder Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levitating 4,716 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 Did ROM drop because of other BLM related songs rising? Come, come unwrap me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anveeroy 57,865 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 1 minute ago, Adarsh said: Can @Aarghya check counts, sis, counts Stream Kylie-Janet Discographies! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GagaOhhLaLa 2,737 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 It’s very understandable why it dropped to 7 so I better not see anyone complain Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Adarsh Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 Just now, Aarghya said: counts, sis, counts Does it read like an 80 to you? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANTI WP 19,799 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 1 minute ago, Randomaccessmemory said: Never would have thought Gaga would be promoting chromatica in India. @ANTI WP @Adarsh you guys saw this? what !!!! this made my day She said " India " Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisy 246 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 1 minute ago, Levitating said: Did ROM drop because of other BLM related songs rising? Yeah.. And bl overtook us Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
2HB 534 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 3 minutes ago, DonnieDarko said: All that maters is that if it counts No it doesn't Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anveeroy 57,865 Posted June 3, 2020 Share Posted June 3, 2020 Just now, Adarsh said: Does it read like an 80 to you? The Vulture one can be 75/80 Stream Kylie-Janet Discographies! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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