What Gaga Era is the most “special”?

[Smother Em Eh 7,003]

This is mostly her Music Eras. I included ASIB cuz it had soundtrack and singles and all of that.
 

Which Era is the most special? As in impact, influence, concept, music and performances, nostalgia etc.? And what Era is the most special to you? And why? 
 

It’s so hard because they’re all so unique, different and amazing in their own ways. For nostalgia it’s definitely TF/ TFM. I used to dance and listen to her all the time as a kid and found her fascinating as I looked up to her. I do love Joanne because it was the first Gaga Era that I experienced in a long time since BTW cuz unfortunately I wasn’t here for AP/ CTC eras. But objectively, I think it’s BTW tbh! I’m going with BTW 

[weed 71,501]

I think Born This Way, she was inescapable, she traveled to probably like 30 countries to perform, sang on every show she should, 5 music videos, everything was meticulous and executed perfectly (bar TEOG MV). 

[Anderson123 36,173]

The Fame / The Fame Monster has that nostalgia but Born This Way took it to another level, her best one.

[Edonis 28,805]

I chose TFM, but it's really 2009 that was most significant to me. I will always credit Gaga for kick-starting my queer-awakening and that year in particular was the start of that process in teen-aged-Edonis lol. Such good memories!

[Killa 16,056]

The most significant gaga era to me was probably ARTPOP

but each era has its Ian flavour. Maybe chromatica was a bit flavourless but still they are really distinct and unique, at least musically 

[sexy 3,174]

She released Born This Way three years into her career when same-sex marriage was still illegal in all but 5 states in the US and most of the world. Regardless of whatever the music even sounded like, that takes massive balls to stake your entire baby career on what was, at the time, such a contentious, family-splitting societal issue. She put her money where her mouth was, it wasn't just performance, it was "This **** could end my professional career" level investment, and for that reason alone, BTW is her most special era. The vast majority of artists don't have an album whose impact extended into the sociopolitical, and means so much to so many LGBT+ people around the world – if not for the music, then absolutely for what the message meant at the time.

BUT, in addition to the social impact that will have her remembered in history books as an integral artist of the LGBT rights movement, the music is among the best in her catalogue, the international tour was monstrously successful, and it was chock full of hits – the hits of 2011, like Born This Way and The Edge of Glory, and the hits of 2022, like Bloody Mary and Judas. It shows her amongst her most experimental and engaging work, like with Heavy Metal Lover and Government Hooker, and with her most accessible and soaring bangers, like with Marry the Night and Scheiße.

When all is said and done, and her legacy is more or else contained, when she's retired or just stopped making music, I think Born This Way is hands down going to be the album people look back on and recognize as her greatest, most impactful contribution to the culture and zeitgeist. As wonderful as her other albums are (and ARTPOP is actually her album that's the most personal for me), none of them come close to the complete package than BTW was.

(And like I said, even if she created an album that was sonically superior to BTW, I think it'd be very difficult to create another one that was as special, that has meant as much as it does to so many people)

[Space Cowboy 11,670]

I'm sorry but for me, nothing tops the BTW Era. That was her at her best.

[ChrissyBot 2,252]

“The Fame (the real original Gaga)”

ARTPOP is also the “real OG Gaga” too cuz it’s literally her Fame era self represented in an iconography way. That’s what ARTPOP was always essentially about.

OT:

The Fame is good for a nostalgia trip

TFM is legendary for the dark turn she took with her art

BTW was and is her best album and showcases the big balls she had to take such a risk like BTW

ARTPOP was a freeing experience for her. It was an era in her career when she could let out all her rage/chaos regardless of how the media portrayed/crucified her. This to me makes the ARTPOP era the most special. 
 

Cheek To Cheek is right with ARTPOP with being special. It quite literally saved her life and restored her passion for music/art with thanks to Tony and her passion for jazz (since she was 13 )

 

Joanne was her trying to heal her father (which sadly we now know it didn’t work). 
 

ASIB solidified her as an award winning actress.

 

Chromatica is at 3rd place as her most special album because this was when she was able to brush off her pain and become the artist she’s always TRULY wanted to be, as she said at one of the Chromatica Ball shows

 

[Anveeroy 57,887]

ARTPOPiana 

[Controversiaga 9,511]

The fame and the fame monster.

[huttont 4,980]

Fame into Fame Monster. It felt so good to see her explode into the megastar she is. That’s truly when my friends and family actually started to pay attention to her instead of me trying to get them interested. It was validating as a fan.

She made me feel so special and important as a human at TMB 2.0

[TheBadRomancer 949]

The Fame Monster 100%.