DC 25,164 Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 3 minutes ago, Rosalina said: OMG THIS. It’s so cringe Maybe it's cause you've never experienced someone kissing you hardly Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitoburrrito 649 Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 The number of lines in a song does not equal how lazy the artist was being. There are some great songs with minimal lyrics... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SashaxBzns 514 Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 sometimes artists reintroduce a line to bring back your attention to a concept or to bring resonance to an idea or even shift it's meaning and perspective. Just because you can't grasp her intent doesn't mean it's lazy, you just don't get it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defmix100 6,374 Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 I actually love the repeated lines in FW and SFA, it reinforces it and especially with SFA it's to make a point of change - she did it when she was young but not anymore. I agree with Sour Candy though, they really could have used that final part to add new lyrics and a completely new vocal melody. Even though it's a short song I remember when I first listened to it, by the time that BP part came back I felt tired and looking at how long was left of the song Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peroxide555 587 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 Enigma’s chorus.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joannesrats 26 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 i find this whole thread amusing bc everyone is complaining about some simple lyricism or it lacking complexity when at the start of the album campaign gaga said she wanted clear messages and a lack of heavy metaphors with simple meanings Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy 11,840 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 The only thing that I think could potentially qualify as lazy from Gaga’s lyricism across her whole discography would be the bridge in Bloody Mary. Even then, though, I think she sticks the landing pretty well. It may not always be a rousing success but I wouldn’t call her lyrics lazy. In pop, repetition and pattern are good ways to make ear worms. She excels at that better than most (e.g. Shallow). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sister 9,907 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 The only moment I find lazy is that Gaga came up with "Stupid Love" and settled upon it. Maybe this was during her depression and bad things she was still dealing with, but I personally wish that she would have found another way to express "stupid", even if I get what kind of feeling she is conveying by labelling it as "stupid" in finality. I just don't like that word and find it ignorant and shallow. I am someone who also hates the word "glad", so this is just me nitpicking, of course. The word just doesn't sit well with me, but especially while she is describing her wanting of a huge all encompassing thing as love and she also says a great big thing of, "All I Ever Wanted Was Love". Like, she holds so much to love but will in such a small time resort it to being "stupid" so jarringly, but I think that is exactly HER point too. The future's uncertain and the end is always near. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromatica Island 8,517 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 How do you report an entire thread? Any/All Pronouns, Genderfluid🏳⚧ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromatica Island 8,517 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 Can anybody win the songwriters hall of fame here? lmao The album is better than y'alls entire lives lmao Any/All Pronouns, Genderfluid🏳⚧ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromatica Island 8,517 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 I will defend Chromatica forever! This thread triggered sorry, I'm feeling salty for y'all dragging Chromatica, this album is really special to me! Any/All Pronouns, Genderfluid🏳⚧ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntonTurnItUp 7,088 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 3 hours ago, Peroxide555 said: Enigma’s chorus.... No Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie 246 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 On 8/20/2020 at 9:01 AM, yobrennis said: But .... million reazons is repeated a million times. Is it not lazy? What album is that on again? fav song: lady haha — no floodz ft adele Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie 246 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 This album will age 👏🏼 like 👏🏼 wine 👏🏼 fav song: lady haha — no floodz ft adele Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SchwineLove 1,374 Posted August 27, 2020 Share Posted August 27, 2020 On 8/20/2020 at 10:15 PM, ARTGOD said: I’ve been thinking about this lately and I think the problem is this: For a songs’ lyrics to be good to me they have to be interesting in different levels. 1- The main topic of the song (Love, Friendship, Death, Partying). Choosing a topic that is not overdone makes it harder for you to make something cliche. 2- The perspective you bring about the topic (If the song is about love what do you have to say about it? Is it about heartbreak? Who was at fault? What was the relationship like?). 3- Do you have a unique metaphor or catchy concept to make your lyrics stand out from songs that tackle similar topics? (Diamond Heart to represent inner strength, Marrying the Night to represent accepting life’s hardships, getting a Manicure to represent getting over an ex). 4- The actual words you use to talk about the thing. The more poetic and beautiful your writing is the more it will stand out. I think Gaga has always been great at writing lyrics that are great in most if not all these different levels. She usually gets s*** for writing about love and sex a lot, but people often overlook the actual unique perspective she brings, the original metaphors she makes, and the funny lyrics she creates. Take a look at a song like G.U.Y. It’s about sex, so in that regard there isn’t anything unique about it. The actual perspective she has about sex in the song though, is about power dynamics and gender roles, something much more interesting and unique. Then, not content with only that, she comes up with the G.U.Y. acronym that is instantly memorable. Then the actual lyrics of the song are full of funny and quotable lyrics like “please retweet”, “greetings himeros...” and “nein zedd”. G.U.Y. is not a unique example, her discography is FULL with songs like this, with interesting concepts for unique perspectives and memorable quotables. The problem with Chromatica’s lyrics is that they’re generally more generic and unoriginal in every level. Her songs used to tick at least 3/4 of these boxes, while in Chomatica that is not quite the case. The songs are still about broad topics like they used to be, but she struggles to come up with a unique perspective, cool metaphor or memorable quotables more often than she used to. Being Alice looking for wonderland, feeling like a plastic doll or using rain to represent hard times are metaphors, yes, but they are like the most obvious ones you could come up with. In other songs she doesn’t even bother coming up with one, like with Stupid Love, Free Woman and Fun Tonight. Her lyrics this time feel way too generic, because she’s talking about topics that have been done to death, she fails to come up with a unique perspective a lot of the time, she struggles to find unique metaphors, and then the actual words she uses are often obvious and cliché. The saving grace with the album’s lyrics are the songs about mental health, which is actually a topic that hasn’t been overdone. With these songs she can get away with not coming up with cool wordplay because the actual topic is still novel. I think the uniqueness of her lyrics has been declining since Joanne, but I thought that album still had enough interesting lyrics, and the simpler lyrics weren’t exactly a detractor because it was supposed to be a personal, stripped back album. Chromatica is way more high concept than that, so it needed way more interesting lyrics, and for the most part it didn’t deliver. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. Did you read the interview that she intentionally used "simple messaging" in her lyrics in this album. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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