ASIB is a Gaga album

[Maxine Puth 9,053]

I’m seeing some ASIB disowning in that other thread 

Gaga had a hand in both the writing and production throughout the album, and was involved in the creation process from 2016 to 2018 so 3 whole years. Not only that, but it has more solo and collab songs than TFM (7 solo songs, 1 collab).  It’s the album with arguably Gaga’s biggest hit too. Let’s put some respect on that soundtrack  And not pretend like Gaga didn’t feed us in 2018 with a handful of new songs. 

[Guest]

Are they not just saying it is not a Gaga solo LP?

[TheFame Monster 8,949]

Agree and it’s her fourth best album (after TFM, BTW, and Chromatica)

with some of her best written songs (Shallow, ARUTW, LWIF, Is That Alright?, WDYDT, INLA)

[Ricardo 7,900]

anyone who says the contrary is dumb 

[Maxine Puth 9,053]

9 minutes ago, Agunimon said:

Are they not just saying it is not a Gaga solo LP?

the point of the thread is measuring how long we wait to get a collection / full body of new work, so there’s really no need to “look past” ASIB like a lot people are doing simply because Bradley’s on it.  Like I said it’s still a whole body of work with more original solo songs than TFM, so what’s the purpose of diminishing its value to make the wait between Joanne and Chromatica seem longer. 
 

It’s crazy that Gaga could’ve released the 8 solo songs with Shallow (so 9 total), threw in a couple of music videos (even from the movie) and people would view it differently. Literally cutting it down to make it bigger lol. 

[sillynate 6,170]

I can see people not counting it because none of it is written by Gaga as Gaga. It’s written by Gaga as Ally

[REALITY 77,425]

10 minutes ago, Maxine Puth said:

the point of the thread is measuring how long we wait to get a collection / full body of new work, so there’s really no need to “look past” ASIB like a lot people are doing simply because Bradley’s on it.  Like I said it’s still a whole body of work with more original solo songs than TFM, so what’s the purpose of diminishing its value to make the wait between Joanne and Chromatica seem longer. 
 

It’s crazy that Gaga could’ve released the 8 solo songs with Shallow (so 9 total), threw in a couple of music videos (even from the movie) and people would view it differently. Literally cutting it down to make it bigger lol. 

Because Chromatica was Gaga's next solo album after Joanne.

I don't think anyone's denying ASIB's impact. To be completely honest, ASIB is probably one of my favorite, if not my favorite, collection of Gaga work, but I still wouldn't call it a "Gaga" album. It's a soundtack to a movie. The album didn't get the same treatment as one of Gaga's solo work and it's not like she toured it like she did with her other albums. She also wrote the album from the perspective of Ally, which quite literally makes it NOT a "Gaga" album.

[Future Lovers 7,022]

I agree it's a body of work from Gaga absolutely but I don't count it as part of her albums discography. To me, soundtracks and studio albums occupy two different categories. I don't count I'm Breathless as one of Madonna's albums either for this same reason. I especially feel this way when there are songs on there that the primary artist doesn't appear on at all (like ASIB, The Gift, and The Bodyguard).

[Joshie S 6,193]

not yall discounting ASIB... lol.... those words came from Gagas brain. They are Gaga songs. Ya'll are wild.

[Modern Ecstasy2 2,202]

I don’t see the logic in ASIB not being one of her albums  

[monstertoronto 10,383]

There are enough Gaga solo songs to make an album and add the collab songs and it’s more than enough new Gaga songs.  She even wrote them (I didn’t look this part up tho so idk) at least most of them.   There’s more Gaga songs on ASIB than Whitney songs on Bodyguard, and Bodyguard is officially counted as a Whitney album.  And the argument that she was writing as “Ally” discounting its inclusion makes no sense. Artists write from different perspectives all the time. Bowie recorded whole albums in different character POVs, like Aladdin Insane, and no one would deny those are Bowie albums because it wasn’t recorded as Bowie. 

[sillynate 6,170]

I gotta say though, I think it’s boring when people only count the solo six (TF, TFM, BTW, AP, J, Ch) because we technically have 10 (a bigger discography is a better discography) if you count all of them (five Lady and five Gaga) 

Gaga: TF, TFM, BTW, AP, Ch 

Lady: C2C, J, ASIB, L4S, TGM 

I only count the solo six when we’re counting the time between them

[River 117,775]

If we're talking about her contract with Interscope, so it's not a Gaga "by contract" album.

But if we're talking about by release dates, so of course it is lol

[Auralegends 6,796]

3 hours ago, sillynate said:

I can see people not counting it because none of it is written by Gaga as Gaga. It’s written by Gaga as Ally

Joanne was written by aunt Joanne so it does not count either xoxo

[COOOK 76,406]

It is clear that they refer to solo albums. Gaga herself referred to Chromatica as "LG6" too so if ASIB counts to you then you're in for a surprise Maxime: LG7 is already out.

This all sounds flamebait to me because not only does this discussion belong in that thread, but it completely disregards her jazz albums because they're just as much a different category in her discography as ASIB is