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Most of Gaga's singles are "safe"


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RAMROD

How can most of her singles safe when a lot of them created divisive reactions, even within the stan base ?? :oprah:

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River

Just Dance was not a safe choice as a first single..

So sploosh your juice all over me you Riverboy
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Ladle Ghoulash
39 minutes ago, Starmie25 said:

Michael Buble No GIF by bubly

Literally one of her best. 

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AnglerfishbraBENUS
7 hours ago, Oriane said:

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

this is something important that not many stans understand

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TheFame Monster

Bad Romance and Alejandro were not safe

None of the BTW singles other than TEOG were safe

Perfect Illusion was not safe

Even Shallow was risky

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crazygato
7 hours ago, NATAH said:

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 

When? How? I only remember people going like "oh wow, THIS again?" Alejandro was controversial I agree and popular but Judas felt like a blip at the time. Maybe it was the overexposure and people saw through its marketing ploy, idk. Fans always blow things out of proportion, especially the Judas "controversy". Born This Way was more controversial and stood out, with its strange production and the horns/alien beings in the video. I remember people being creeped out and genuinely saying "she looks evil". With Judas? Nothing!

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13 minutes ago, crazygato said:

When? How? I only remember people going like "oh wow, THIS again?" Alejandro was controversial I agree and popular but Judas felt like a blip at the time. Maybe it was the overexposure and people saw through its marketing ploy, idk. Fans always blow things out of proportion, especially the Judas "controversy". Born This Way was more controversial and stood out, with its strange production and the horns/alien beings in the video. I remember people being creeped out and genuinely saying "she looks evil". With Judas? Nothing!

a quick google search of "lady gaga judas backlash" will provide you with a tonne of articles

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4 hours ago, Jester said:

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.

PI was absolutely not the safe choice for lady gaga's return to pop after ARTPOP and acting

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TEANUS

Ehhhh

You could consider Just Dance, LoveGame, Bad Romance, Alejandro, Born This Way, Judas, and Perfect Illusion all risky choices. If they were staying on current trends when launching The Fame they could’ve pushed Starstruck. LoveGame had the very plain and obvious innuendos. Bad Romance was very “strange” and a big turn from the airyness of Paparazzi. Alejandro wasn’t as obvious of a choice as DITD or Monster. Born This Way is obvious. Judas is obvious. Perfect Illusion is pretty obvious as well. Stans would’ve been more into John Wayne or DIC

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I reject the premise that "most" of her singles are safe, but at the end of the day, what exactly are you expecting? She's not some indie experiential artist, she's a popstar on a major label. They're ALWAYS going to be pushing singles that they hope appeal to the broadest audience, that's how they make money. The artist's input and vision only mean so much

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NewUsername
11 hours ago, weed said:

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

Exactly

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Smother Em Eh

This I have to disagree with. Like most people said, songs like Bad Romance, Alejandro, Born This Way, Judas and Perfect Illusion are NOT safe by any means. Sh*t even songs like PF aren’t safe because of what the song is actually about. 
 

The only safe ones are like Stupid Love & Rain On Me. 

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I feel like early on the biggest critique was just that. The music wasn’t as weird as her clothes. but that was also the point?? Be commercial but unique

but to those saying they were risky, the singles weren’t. From the body of music each album had the singles were nearly always the obvious singles. That’s okay! Great songs 💕

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