Most of Gaga's singles are "safe"

[crazygato 535]

Her team have done a great job at choosing her singles and most of her releases were "safe" for a popstar. 

There's this belief that Gaga's music (besides her persona) is avant-garde and "out there". But I personally dont think that,most of her single choices were perfectly normal but good pop songs. There are exceptions though (Bad Romance, Bloody Mary, Perfect Illusion) that were risks and I admire her for releasing them but for the most part I think her releases are "tame" and perfectly normal. That's not a bad thing of course! That's why I love her music and pop music in general! What do you guys think?

 

[Starmie25 19,170]

Hmm, I would only call "Stupid Love" and "The Cure" her only safe singles, and oddly DWUW (sonically), but the rest are umm, quite out there lyrically, sonically, and VOCALLY (especially Perfect Conclusion) 

[weed 74,362]

I think in hindsight they seem safe but in the moment they were not. 

The Fame in general, different vibe than was successful, then Bad Romance, Telephone, Alejandro, pushing the envelope more.

Then Born This Way, opposite of safe, celebrating gays in 2011. then Judas, on Easter, very unsafe.

Then Applause, a song that starts off loud as f*ck and is frenetic

etc

[nATAH 50,410]

back in the moment, not really

judas absolutely was not a safe choice, especially releasing it on easter weekend... if TEOG was the second single, it would have been a lot safer and maybe performed better in the long run

[Blackout19 12,237]

Judas wasn't safe at all

[crazygato 535]

29 minutes ago, weed said:

The Fame in general, different vibe than was successful,

I thought Rihanna and Britney already had electro pop songs before TF (Pon D Replay, Dont Stop The Music, Gimme More, Break The Ice). What helped Gaga stand out was her quirky persona.

 

33 minutes ago, weed said:

Then Born This Way, opposite of safe, celebrating gays in 2011. then Judas, on Easter, very unsafe

Maybe the message she was pushing was still unsafe but the song was like the empowerment anthems of its time. Perfectly safe. Nobody even remembers Judas on Easter and was a random rush release that flew under the radar, I would say BTW was more controversial.  

[AnglerfishbraBENUS 5,734]

3 minutes ago, crazygato said:

I thought Rihanna and Britney already had electro pop songs before TF (Pon D Replay, Dont Stop The Music, Gimme More, Break The Ice). What helped Gaga stand out was her quirky persona.

 

it was just …. different. the sound was just completely crazy different back then. Gaga stood out because she was a mystery - not because she was ‘quirky.’ i feel like no one knew where she came from or what she even looked like 

[crazygato 535]

15 minutes ago, Blackout19 said:

Judas wasn't safe at all

 

26 minutes ago, NATAH said:

judas absolutely was not a safe choice, especially releasing it on easter weekend..

It was perfectly fine, it was just that she kept releasing upbeat club pop songs and after a while it sounds about the same, TEOG sounded different enough but still pop to keep people interested. 

[Oriane 21,148]

I mean, it's the point of a single. Catering to more people to make them interested in the album and the artist.

[crazygato 535]

3 minutes ago, AnglerfishbraBENUS said:

it was just …. different. the sound was just completely crazy different back then. Gaga stood out because she was a mystery - not because she was ‘quirky.’ i feel like no one knew where she came from or what she even looked like 

What I tried to say. Electro pop is rather hyper/crazy but Gaga combined it with an "out of this world" persona. The other girls were just acting sexy and normal. 

[nATAH 50,410]

1 hour ago, crazygato said:

 

It was perfectly fine, it was just that she kept releasing upbeat club pop songs and after a while it sounds about the same, TEOG sounded different enough but still pop to keep people interested. 

girl it was not perfectly fine, she had the christians SEETHING and the easter release date was intentionally controversial

people were already mad at her for swallowing those beads in the alejandro music video the year before too

her singles were very risky back then either sonically or visually 

[TimotheeChalamet 5,843]

That's kinda how you survive in music industry nowadays, if she released something like Teeth, Sex Dreams, Replay etc her career would've been be over years ago

Her singles sounded different from anything on the radio even 15 years ago tho

[Jester 6,365]

Since ARTPOP, yes. Especially lead singles.

Aura was supposed to be the lead, but the safest song on the album made it instead.

Perfect Illusion was one of the weakest songs on Joanne, but still a safe choice because they were scared to put out a ballad or a riskier song as the lead.

Stupid Love - some of Gaga's simplest and least meaningful lyrics, simple melody, safe af. When they had songs like Rain On Me, Alice, Replay, Enigma, 911.

[Decodekid 28,392]

Not all of them. I wouldn’t call Bad Romance safe at all, neither Born This Way, Judas…

[warhol killah 8,712]

6 hours ago, crazygato said:

It was perfectly fine, it was just that she kept releasing upbeat club pop songs and after a while it sounds about the same, TEOG sounded different enough but still pop to keep people interested. 

Judas wasn't perfectly fine in its concept. She literally had rallies on certain countries because some were offended by this song. Judas was one of the singles that I wished wasn't released as one because it's obvious that the label wanted that "rah-rah" sound of The Fame Monster.

For the rest of the songs especially during ARTPOP, I agree that they have been playing safe with the singles they choose. They could have gone with Replay or Aura.