DrKindnessKunt1999 6,100 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 I don’t think that Gaga’s released an experimental album yet. She does release music that’s different from what the radio’s playing though. I would choose “Born this Way” I guess. Since she mixed rock, Spanish influences (AKA Americano), techno, industrial sounds (a little bit in Government Hooker), and just the themes in general weren’t safe at the time for the pop world. But one could argue that all her albums are “experimental” in that sense. Even “Joanne” (which is labeled as one of her safest albums) had “John Wayne” which isn’t an avant garde song, but at the same time isn’t a song that sounds like any other song out there. I can’t really name any gay EDM, pop rock (?) songs with country influences. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PunkTheFunk 124,437 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Joanne. She did an experiment to see if her fans hated country music and it worked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dzox 552 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 born this way and ARTPOP. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen 30,423 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Neither BTW or AP are fully experimental of course but if we’re choosing which is more, I’d say BTW has the edge. Government Hooker is nuts. Americano is ridiculous. The fake German chant for like a full minute at the start of Scheiße. Heavy Metal Lover still sounds futuristic and alien nearly a decade later. The album overall is a massive journey. It’s so damn long and winding. ARTPOP is a journey too but it’s tighter. ARTPOP has Aura which is her craziest song in terms of structure and where the instrumental goes. If the whole album was as crazy as Aura then I would probably say ARTPOP wins, but that’s not the case. Venus is wacky as **** and Swine is weird but other than that the album doesn’t take tons of risks. The songs are all short and very pop. She was much ballsier on Born This Way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super 1,017 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 what's so experimental about ARTPOP lmao is everyone joking? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wet Fire 7,506 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 None Gaga is not experimental in the sence of production or melody. But yeah, if you consider releasing a particular type of music when the usual hits do not belong to that type an experiment, then she's been doing it well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xoxo Craig 55,649 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 9 hours ago, Twitter said: Free Woman Fun Tonight Plastic Doll Stupid Love 1000 Doves Love Me Right all safe tracks Free Woman - Not safe Fun Tonight - Not safe Plastic Doll - Not safe Stupid Love - lyrically safe, sonically not safe 1000 Doves - Not safe Love Me Right - only available on the deluxe edition, so technically its not one of teh Chromatica main tracks. It doesn't fit the theme of the album or sonics of the album. Its the only other track that is 'safe' End Racism Now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuvitLevit 639 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Actually, Joanne in regards to Gaga. Nobody expected the sound or aesthetic. Why people call it safe, for Gaga it was experimental with her true fans. Even with the tour not ending in 'Ball,' a lot of people thought she was stepping away from her for fanbase for good. Her true fans knew it was another side of her that she hadn't expressed to the public. Mad respect for Joanne. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Temptation 11,209 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 In very different ways both Born This Way and ARTPOP really explored the limits of pop. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuvitLevit 639 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 7 minutes ago, Lord Temptation said: In very different ways both Born This Way and ARTPOP really explored the limits of pop. I feel you on this as well. I think it can be seen from both ways, with fans and non fans point of views. Born this Way took the world by storm. ARTPOP to me is something that i think in the future will be seen as an underrated masterpiece Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiQuenDroid 5,059 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 ARTPOP and Joanne were really unexpected. All I ever wanted was love... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARTGOD 3,266 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 It’s either BTW or ARTPOP. Both are experimental in almost the same amount, it truly amounts to what type of experimentation you think is weirder. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucee 1,690 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Gaga is low key always experimental. Her productions are always different from the main sound. It's always kinda obvious when you play a mainstream radio station, and she pops. Everything she does is both classic pop and experimental. hello hello baby. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
youandi 2,110 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 As crazy as ARTPOP was as an era, it mostly comprised of edm pop bangers, a sound of its time, albeit much quirker in sound/lyrics than the EDM pop that was around when it was released. Aura, Venus and ARTPOP were pretty out there though, but even then, I don't think it was as experimental as Gaga wanted it to be, so for that, not ARTPOP. Joanne, on the surface, looks the least experimental but it depends on how you use the word. Yes there wasn't anything that had never been done before on there and nothing was the basic definition of what people mean when we talk about experimental music. However in terms of what's an 'experiment' for Gaga, she took a risk by releasing an album like Joanne when it's not what she's known for, even though she's showed this side of her self occasionally in small doses to the GP, but it was especially risky in terms of the fans that got interested in Gaga through her dance focused pop music, rather than more 'live instrumentation', especially after the teasing/rumours of a 'dark' dance pop album. So I feel like Joanne was a little experimental in the sense that it was out of the norm of what was expected of Gaga at the time and it took risks which I believed payed off, but it's certainly not got any songs that you could describe as experimental in sound in the usual sense. Chromatica is good for mixing house music with pop, something that isn't exactly globally popular with casual listeners but it was a pretty accessible album tbf. I think it's probably BTW. Yeah it's got a lot of traditional pop sounds and styles but it's got a few songs that are unconventional in terms of sound and structure and there's loads of experimention mixing rock influenced sounds with dance music, with a good majority of it wrapped up in a nice 80s-ish soundscape which came way before the trend of 80s nostalgia hit mainstream pop. It's still quite accessible and it's got some pure pop loveliness that isn't too weird like Edge Of Glory but a lot of the songs just borderline the kind of weird pop that could easily put off the casual listener Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Temptation 11,209 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 37 minutes ago, LuvitLevit said: I feel you on this as well. I think it can be seen from both ways, with fans and non fans point of views. Born this Way took the world by storm. ARTPOP to me is something that i think in the future will be seen as an underrated masterpiece ARTPOP album of the millennium confirmedT Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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