KubaM316 13,271 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 Just now, SharkmanthaC said: @PartySickĀ wanted me to let everyone know that he is threatening all of you because you didnāt allow Dope and Swine to be Top 2. *we're 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heygurlhi 3,200 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 1 minute ago, Poltergeist said: I'd hope for Gypsy or DWUW to go next, if I even believed this was possible DWUW is winning Ignore me i drink 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruelty 5,887 Posted November 11, 2023 Author Share Posted November 11, 2023 I WANNA BE WITH YOUĀ ā average 7.39 The highs: 11 x 1 [ @Shadow] The lows: 1 x 3 [ @heygurlhiĀ @StephenĀ @The Fame Monster] We first heard the song which would become āDopeā in September 2013, when Gaga debuted āI Wanna Be With Youā during her iTunes Festival performance. This Disney-esque ballad was presented as Gagaās sentimental ode to her Little Monsters, celebrating her enduring connection with her fans, although I suspect that it was actually written for Taylor Kinney & retroactively applied to us. āDopeā, into which the song would evolve, is explicitly written to Gagaās loved ones, & lines such as āIād rather be poor and happy than rich and aloneā make infinitely more sense in that context. Thereās clearly a special place in Gagaās heart for āI Wanna Be With Youā, as although it didnāt appear onĀ ARTPOP, it was deemed strong enough to be performed live. & yet, given that the chaos of theĀ ARTPOPĀ era saw Gaga begin to withdraw from her Little Monsters for the first time, thereās a sense of tragic irony in being denied the chance to officially hear this song ostensibly about Gagaās love for us. Personally, I think Gaga rarely sells saccharine, & with āI Wanna Be With Youā lacking the empowering force of something similar such as āHairā or āBad Kidsā, this song ultimately feels cloying & insipid. As it fulfils the same function as āGypsyā, itās also understandable why the track was rewritten for its eventual inclusion onĀ ARTPOP. However, āI Wanna Be With Youā is fondly remembered by Gagadaily. Overall it scored higher than āDopeā, although both songs had a good number of fans & detractors, & has performed amazingly well to kick off yourĀ ARTPOPĀ Top 10! Comments: Spoiler @PoltergeistĀ The track #13 we've deserved! A beautiful, strong ballad, the climax is everything. @ALittleMonstaĀ this got me emotional the studio version got me emotional and my parents didnt like this but its okay. this is a disney song,, this is a passion for love and the happy version of dope @Onlygaga Beautiful @allanrocksĀ So much better than Dope. @Julien Lockhart I cried a lot lmao @ImMatt It's great. Possibly a little sugary for Gaga. I can imagine it being on a Disney soundtrack @JazzGa I do not like these lyrics better than the ones for Dope << Too cheesy, and not even true these days (she clearly does not wanna be with us rn lol) @GangieĀ Simply beautiful @huttont A cute ballad. Iām glad it was reworked into Dope for the album. I could see it working really well on another album thoughĀ @marrytheminogue Much better than dope @AuralegendsĀ I value this equally to Dope. @whoresup Deffo think it deserved a studio release and if she ever puts out a deep cuts type album this should be on it. I remember being disappointed that the album version was Dope and not this.Ā @ARTGOD Good vocals, but the lyrics are cheesy and feel straight out of Born This Way. I donāt think this song wouldāve fit the album at all. @BroncoĀ I need this more than Dope 3 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ā Cello 50,870 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 23 minutes ago, Ororo Munroe said: Fashion! deserves to be top 6ā¦Ā Ā 23 minutes ago, Cruelty said: 13Ā FASHION!Ā ā average 7.14 The highs: 11 x 4 [ @RailingĀ @littlepotterĀ @StephenĀ @sillynate] The lows: 1 x 3 [ @HIMeĀ @Modern EcstacyĀ @chromaticathong] It feels like a mistake eliminating āFashion!ā this early. Itās so fun! Gagaās vocals glide ethereally over a silky disco backing, as she boasts, ālook at me now ā I feel on top of the world in my fashion!ā. Cleverly sequenced alongside āDonatellaā, the song celebrates the importance of fashion, written by a woman whoās been lucky enough to wear some of the worldās greatest designers. & yet things arenāt quite that simple. As I said when we eliminated āDopeā, the back half ofĀ ARTPOPĀ is all about descending into hedonism to mask your trauma. Itās a horrifying autobiographical tale about a woman falling apart at the seams in the glare of the public eye. If āFashion!ā were just about dressing up and feeling good, it would be in the brighter, falling-in-love first half of the tracklist. Much like āDonatellaā before it & āMary Jane Hollandā after, āFashion!ā is about wilfully losing your identity & becoming someone else. Gaga explained that the track is about ābeing able to put something on & feel like a totally different personā, with the song celebrating how āI feel alive when I transformā. Because fashion is armour, right? Just as āDonatellaā triumphantly chanted āall of the day, Iām gonna wear designer & forget your nameā, āFashion!ā captures the feeling of putting a nice dress on & temporarily leaving your pain behind. But what about the rest of the time? What happens when the fashion comes off, & leaves behind Stefani, a confused, lost, hurting woman? Thereās a reason this song comes in the downward-spiral half of the album. Thereās a reason sheās ālooking goodā but only āfeeling fineā. Thereās a reason sheās dressed as a condom in the Muppets performance of this song, you guys ā itās something you wear for protection! & this is theĀ ARTPOPĀ era in microcosm. Gaga put out a searingly honest record about her unhealed wounds, & was then expected to go all round the world for a whole year singing those songs of pain before sheād even properly healed. So what do you do? You put your armour on. TheĀ ARTPOPĀ promo campaign was a dizzying array of sensations, ART ART ART FASHION FASHION FASHION, piling looks upon looks so weād never the sadness at her core. As we know, in December 2013 this finally broke her. But beneath the bright exterior of āFashion!ā, there is the acknowledgment of a woman in an absolute tailspin, putting her armour on without fixing the wound that was already there. āFashion!ā was tested on US radio stations in early 2014 (because almost everything onĀ ARTPOPĀ was considered as a single at one point or another), & I think with an edit or two it would have made a nice choice. The song moved up & down the leaderboard several times as the votes came in, but sadly fell a few places close to the end of voting, & ends up as your 13thĀ favourite from theĀ ARTPOPĀ album. You can now all argue about āFashionā (Confessions of a Shopaholic) vs. āFashion!ā (ARTPOP) for the next 5 minutes, whilst I format the next elimination post. Comments: Ā Reveal hidden contents @PoltergeistĀ I hate myself 10 years ago for hating on this one. A beautiful gem, the bridge is everything, both vocal and instrumental wise. @Onlygaga Possibly my fave out of all of her discography! @27monster27Ā Another underrated song. Fashion! reminds everyone of Lady Gagas (arguably) most well known love, fashion. In the disco-infused song, she views fashion as its own performance and show cases it in an epic way. Rather than just talk about runways, she envisions a world on Mars where all fashion is just as exquisite as what she has to offer. @allanrocksĀ One of the top songs in the album for me. Very well produced. I wish she would officially release the version featuring RuPaul. @Juliandante Just like with Sexxx Dreams, I found myself listening to this songs many years after its official release. It's a really fun song, with a trendy instrumental, in a good way, of course. I believe this could be re-released today, and people wouldn't guess it had been released almost 10 years ago. That happens when you release something trendy, but in a timeless way. @JazzGa One time I heard a reporter describe Gaga's vocals on Fashion! and Applause as "vampire David Bowie vocals" and I feel like that is so accurate and a very flattering comparison! Who wouldn't want to be/be f*cked by a vampire David Bowie, right? @TwistedTeethĀ I love how experimental the production is on this song. Everything about it just exudes positivity and elegance. It's empowering and inspires you to feel good about yourself no matter what you're wearing. It's just extravagant! @jackjackjackjack13 Don't get me wrong, the song is good but I would've expected something HUGE when I heard that will.i.am are one of the collaborators on this track (I mean, Scream & Shout was a hit then and I was expecting something like that) and then I get to hear this track and was like "Whaaaaa..." @whoresup The sheer campiness of this song makes it enjoyable for me. Will.I.Am with Gaga should have been a nightmare but this is okay. So much more personality and fun compared to Donatella.Ā @dimitristhe Thatās cute, nothing else. Oh, almost forgot that this song has her longest note ever. Weird right? @TXNNXTUS Incredible anthem for fashion @Scarlet Bitch so gay @NirvanaĀ Looking good and feeling fine... Finding comfort in things like fashion when everything else in life is falling apart.Ā Your LIACP momentĀ she/her š free my mind 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donatellah 930 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 periodt Ā Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poltergeist 2,955 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 Just now, heygurlhi said: DWUW is winning Love your PFPs lately, but nopeĀ I've been getting messages from my deep waters 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donatellah 930 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 I Wanna Be With You? more like I Wanna Bore You Ā 2 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ororo Munroe 62,011 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 1 minute ago, Cello said: Ā Your LIACP momentĀ I didnāt mean toā¦Ā 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heygurlhi 3,200 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 predicting top three : 3applause -2 DWUW -1 VENUS (should be DWUW but y'all are haters ) Ignore me i drink 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donatellah 930 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 Just now, heygurlhi said: predicting top three : 3-aura -2 DWUW -1 VENUS (should be DWUW but y'all are haters ) yes 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ā Cello 50,870 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 8 minutes ago, Cruelty said: So now we have our top 10! Which one do you think weāre losing next? The ones on the right need to be goneĀ she/her š free my mind 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Cowboy 11,666 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 *manifesting ARTPOP title track for number #1* 1 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruelty 5,887 Posted November 11, 2023 Author Share Posted November 11, 2023 9Ā GYPSYĀ ā average 7.90 The highs: 11 x 6 [ @BatwingsĀ @UltimeciaĀ @androiduserĀ @jillianwojĀ @highongagaĀ @Nite] The lows: 1 x 2 [ @TMM90Ā @bionic] Whilst Iām not convinced that āI Wanna Be With Youā was written about Gagaās Little Monsters, āGypsyā isĀ definitelyĀ for us. Written forĀ Born This WayĀ & then reshaped forĀ ARTPOP, the song espouses the beautiful message that āI donāt wanna be alone forever, but I can be tonightā, optimistically suggesting a sense of gradual spiritual recovery after the nadir of āDopeā. Donāt get me wrong, itās definitelyĀ alsoĀ for Taylor Kinney, but I suppose for a couple of years Taylor was sharing Gaga with all of us. & thatās the point of āGypsyā ā when Gaga misses Taylor, she has us to keep her company, & when she misses us, she has Taylor. āGypsyā is the story of Gaga realising she has the best support network in the world, & in turn accepting her identity as a wanderer. If āGypsyā was made for us, it was a wonderful present. The thunderous instrumental sounds like Springsteen produced by Avicii, as Gaga plants her feet on the āroad to nowhereā & blazes a trail through the night. Although it received a euphoric live outingāas the show closer for the artRAVE tourāāGypsyā wasnāt received too favourably outside of the fanbase; itās listed on a hype sticker asĀ ARTPOPās third single, but US radio stations didnāt respond favourably to test plays. These days, the song is also doomed by its unfortunate title. & yet āGypsyā still holds a special place in many of our hearts. Although the production is rooted firmly in early-2010s EDM, the piece is lifted by the idiosyncratic lyrics. Itās refreshing to hear a musical behemoth speaking openly about how isolating life can be as a top-level popstar on tour, & itās comforting to genuinely feel that Gagaās loneliness was alleviated by meeting new fans every day & feeling welcomed by every country she visited. The global rundown of Gagaās touring haunts (āRussia, UK, Paris, Iām Italian, Asianā) also feels like a subtle, savvy shaping of Gagaās legacy as a live artist. A euphoric coda to the journey ofĀ ARTPOPĀ (before the encore of āApplauseā), the live anthem āGypsyā lands comfortably in GagadailyāsĀ ARTPOPĀ top 10. Comments: Spoiler @Bronco Iāve gone from not caring for this song to essentially having it as a personal anthem. @Lukasson Good song, favourite tour finale yet. @Born This Way I think my most unpopular Gaga opinion is that I donāt like Gypsy. @HIMe Hairās ugly stepsister @Ultimecia One of the greatest Gaga songs of all time. @27monster27Ā The only song to sit inside the late 2013/early 2014 EDM trend due to its sound, the Avicii-esque anthem recounts Lady Gagas love of being on the road to see her fans. With loving lyrics she expresses how she feels like a traveler as she (at the time) had no actual home. In spite of this Lady Gaga says how she loves this life over the hopeful instrumental. @allanrocksĀ Love it and I live for it. @Head EmptyĀ This is the wrong side of camp for me. The acoustic version is beautiful though. @Juliandante I really don't like it. @ImMatt A strong song, makes me dream of the tour (which I didn't attendĀ š¢) @JazzGa Beautiful song and production, great chord progression! This one begs to be banged out on the piano. The outro is really fun to sing as well! Also in major need of a lyrical update... "I'm i'm i'm i'm i'm i'm a nomad nomad nomad I'm" would be alright or maybe "i'm i'm i'm a wand'rer wand'rer wand'rer i'm" @Gangie Beautiful and nostalgic @huttontĀ I want to love this song so much but the slur and the attachment to Taylor Kinney makes that difficult. Although, I always get misty when she lists all the countries and sings ābe my home just for the dayā @Joshua81Ā I don't get why everyone likes this, it's meh to me. @Bowman Yeah it's fun, it was the best one live at the artraveĀ @Tobcho She did it, kids. She did what she started with several tracks on Born This Way, marrying rock to solid hook to EDM and mining the story down to its core. I lived this song for years. She sat at the piano in London and right before the chorus, she looked at me and my partner at the time. I carry this moment as a badge to this day.Ā 3 2 4 3 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KubaM316 13,271 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 Just so you know: yes, I do think that IWBWY is amazing and it's such a great song and I love it, but imo Dope in between Mary Jane Holland and Gypsy is totally needed and ARTPOP wouldn't hit the same without that 1 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ā Juanlittlem 34,523 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 1 minute ago, heygurlhi said: predicting top three : 3applause -2 DWUW -1 VENUS (should be DWUW but y'all are haters ) DWUW will be out soon, and ARTPOP is in the top 3for sure. Locked in a basement again?! / I ā¤ļø Teletubby. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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