Cruelty 5,887 Posted November 11, 2023 Author Share Posted November 11, 2023 7 SEXXX DREAMS â average 8.06 The highs: 11 x 5 [ @Poltergeist @Kandy life @nodandsmile @FinallyFree @Gagaism] The lows: 2 x 1 [ @JustTea] Yeah, this one is just a juggernaut of a pop song. I was going to quote Gagaâs descriptions of what this songâs about, but truly itâs just about sex dreams. & thatâs okay! Gaga later retconned the track as being about âthe adrenaline of laying in bed next to somebody & having thoughts about someone elseâ, but truly this doesnât need to be Poker Face 2.0; it can simply be Erotica 2.0. âSexxx Dreamsâ is a musical tour de force from start to finish, the sultry thump of the verses exploding into a robust synth-laden chorus, via the iconic spoken-word confession âwhen I lay in bed, I touch myself & I thinkâa youâ. âSexxx Dreamsâ was one of the final songs written for ARTPOP; DJ White Shadow recalls staying up for 20 hours straight working on the song, & I think it was worth the effort. This is so quintessentially Gaga â because itâs Gaga, thereâs something slightly (& characteristically) corny in announcing âlast night, damn you were in my sex dreamsâ, & yet thatâs allied to an insanely catchy chorus. With many of you wishing that the song had been released as a single (& it was certainly considered), âSexxx Dreamsâ lands as your 7th favourite from ARTPOP. Letâs just celebrate the fact that we escaped a Robin Thicke version of this one. Comments: Spoiler @ALittleMonsta this song is so sexy and its giving the second part of poker face its just nasty and sexy and wrong in such a polished edm way wish it was a single like gaga wanted it to be @Bronco Should have been a single @HeavyMetal Halcyon Should have been the lead single⌠@Onlygaga Should have been the lead single!! @Born This Way I prefer the Swinefest version that has a little less going on. @JazzGa Looooove this song. Bi anthem tbh. Such a unique delivery style, with 2 different voices and 2 perspectives, like Gaga is duetting with herself. It would have been cool to get a seggsy bi female singer or actor to feature on this one. Like imagine K-Stew doing the smoky spoken word parts, that would be so hawt @Kandy life Love this one. It's one of the sexiest and dirties songs. It's the "I like you and won't hold back anymore" kind of song. @Bowman One of my favourites from ARTPOP, screams pure Gaga to me @Auralegends Love the singing and spoken word in between. Also the pre-chorus and the choreo for it are fun. @whoresup Love the 80s vibe especially the chorus. Itâs not particularly memorable, fun but not memorable. @Scarlet Bitch Dirty Ass Song. Love it @Ophelia Sexy, but not enough. Could be sleazier, it misses depth in sound. I GAGGED when I heard "I can't believe I'm telling..." for the first time, but who didn't? 6 3 4 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
 Cello 52,536 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 Mjh is too damn high pun intended do i need to understand a pineapple to eat a banana 6 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KubaM316 13,528 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 4 minutes ago, Cruelty said: 8 MARY JANE HOLLAND â average 7.93 The highs: 11 x 13 [ @Rhiannon @Noir @Little Monstera @Onlygaga @GagaSkeletonWay @ImMatt @maymay @jackjackjackjack13 @HausofGabo @bionic @asfittingasmcqueen @Ophelia @radioactive] The lows: 2 x 5 [ @Lukasson @HIMe @evgenigerm2 @Joshua81 @Agunimon] Introducing, ladies & gentlemen⌠Mary Jane Holland! ARTPOPâs unabashed weed anthem finishes in a respectable eighth place. Loud & hedonistic, the song represents a paradigm of the ARTPOP formula. Over a tumult of belching electronica courtesy of French EDM wunderkind Madeon, Gaga plays dress-up as the titular âLady of the âDamâ, her incognito weed-smoking alter-ego, confessing âI think that I could be fine, if I could be Mary Jane Holland tonightâ. She found immense solace & pleasure in marijuana in 2012, commenting âit really became a source of comfort for me that I could smoke & take something that would⌠help really bring me down from the pressures of being a starâ. However, thereâs something dark & quite uncomfortable beating at the heart of âMary Jane Hollandâ. Although the song is superficially about cannabis, itâs much more about identity & losing yourself as youâre battered by the pressures of life. Gaga describes this song as being about âdying your hair brown & being able to go out with nobody recognizing youâ, but thatâs a tragic comment about the claustrophobic, intense life she led â & with Gaga acknowledging that âwhenever I smoke, I really forget that Iâm famousâ, Mary Jane becomes understandable as a kind of psychological crutch, a necessary means of escaping a deleterious & destructive way of life. ARTPOP producer Nick Monson said âGaga is just like the rest of us. In those darker types of times, you dive into the music, which is totally what she did. & I think it comes acrossâ. As you listen to the thrill-ride of âMary Jane Hollandâ, thereâs an inevitable sense that those âdarker types of timesâ canât be held at bay forever â but for now, all you can do is ignite the flame & meet Mary Jane in Holland tonight. Comments:  Reveal hidden contents @Poltergeist Poppy and chill at the same time, I really enjoy her vocals here, especially that rockish moment during the bridge! @Lukasson Itâs a skip. @Werewolves Wanted These abnormalities are corrupting the minds and the hearts of our children⌠@Ultimecia The song loses steam (hah!) with its post-choruses. @27monster27 Not just a song about Mary Jane, Lady Gaga reveals that she enjoyed flying under that radar and avoiding celebrity life while high in Amsterdam. The alter-ego "Mary Jane Holland" sings over aggressive and all-encompassing synths. @Head Empty I am 100% biased because I'm Dutch, but her bringing this song back for ArtRave in Amsterdam was one of my favorite memories. It's the perfect balance of camp, grit and pop. @Juliandante This used to be one of my favourites from this album when it was released. @JazzGa The bridge is so OTT. It's so much fun to belt at the top of your lungs with no one else around lol. Kinda has Heavy Metal Lover energy @huttont Part of my ARTPOP trifecta. I love the demos and the layered vocals. An instant favorite @Joshua81 Too psychedelic, kills my brain cells @Bowman A really unique and cool song but it's kinda aged like milk, as I've got older I kinda cringe when I listen to it, it used to be my fav from ARTPOP @TwistedTeeth Like a glass of port wine, Mary Jane Holland only gets better year after year. @dimitristhe I canât describe how much I love this song. Props to anyone who made that instrumental, cause is one of Gagaâs best. @TXNNXTUS I feel the synths, and the vocals give the listener a sense of being under the influence, and makes it feel like your truly getting high with Gaga @Scarlet Bitch Drug dealer anthem @Tobcho Ah if only the production wasn't annoying this could be it for me. High concept, executed with imagination and carried with equal parts humor and emotion. I thought y'all would vote it so high it'd end up in the top 3 for sure 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heygurlhi 3,200 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 Just now, KubaM316 said: I thought y'all would vote it so high it'd end up in the top 3 for sure like no one thought that Ignore me i drink Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KubaM316 13,528 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 Just now, Cello said: Mj is too damn high How am I supposed to understand it 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PMM 2,309 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 2 minutes ago, Donatellah said: Yes, we do.  based on that score i don't think so I Am a Joke 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KubaM316 13,528 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 Just now, heygurlhi said: like no one thought that I did Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyperobject 65,850 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 sexxx dreamsâ bridge is kinda tragic tbh⌠idk if I love the album version or not⌠it couldâve been better 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyperobject 65,850 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 but that pre chorus tho⌠𼾠3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruelty 5,887 Posted November 11, 2023 Author Share Posted November 11, 2023 6 AURA â average 8.39 The highs: 11 x 14 [ @Magic Mike @HeavyMetal Halcyon @Quentin @Born This Way @candydarling @Trxstan @The Fame Monster @HookerOnAChurch @Donatellah @Jose Alberto @Stone S @lg5 @jimmytimestep @chromaticathong] The lows: 3 x 2 [ @JustTea @marrytheminogue] A frenetic collage of clattering synths and psychotic deadpan vocals, âAuraâ is a track that, for better or worse, none of Gagaâs contemporaries could have made. In a career-best chorus, Gaga asks âdo you wanna see the girl who lives behind the aura?â. & so begins ARTPOPâs teasing interplay (foreplay, almost) of revealing & withholding. Nothing is straightforward on this album â confessions of love & expressions of hurting are cloaked in metaphors of space, or sex, or else projected through figures such as Aphrodite, Donatella, the âenigma popstarâ or Mary Jane Holland. The issue with ARTPOP is⌠she did show us what was âbehind the auraâ, pretty much: just a girl who falls in love & f*cks up & tries to make things better. But, as I discussed when eliminating âFashion!â & âSwineâ, she cloaked that simple enough journey in SO MUCH âartâ, in Aphrodite & Koons & endless, endless outfits that, whilst the ARTPOP campaign was a stimulating feast for the senses, it ultimately distracted from the music itself. Still, maybe thatâs the point. As you look into the Koons gazing ball (as depicted on the album cover), you see yourself reflected in the art â you canât ever fully see within, canât truly see behind the aura. Maybe the aura is all there is? The song has a suitably chaotic history. âAuraâ was a beat expanded by Zedd then toplined by Gaga. The original producers were Israeli psytrance duo Infected Mushroom, who⌠were f*cking FURIOUS about the whole situation. They later gave an interview where they explained how they only sold the beat to Gaga for the payout; to be fair, itâs not as snarky a comment as fans make it out to be, & their criticism of the process is rooted in their steadfast refusal to commercialise their music. As for the next piece of chaos⌠out of the five choices for ARTPOPâs lead single, âAuraâ was infamously Gagaâs preferred option, to the point that she created a Gagadaily account & leaked it on here. Cue meltdowns. & the final part of the chaotic history of âAuraâ played a part in this trackâs performance tonight. It seems that, 10 years on, Gagadaily is still suffering from an epidemic of demoitis. Through various means, weâve obtained multiple early versions of quite a lot of ARTPOP, & many fansâ judgments about these songs are clouded by what could have been. Lots of you said you preferred the demo with its harsher vocal performance, & although âAuraâ is a perennial fan favourite, it just fell out of the top 5 in the final stages of voting, & finishes the artRATE in 6th place. Comments: Spoiler @Poltergeist An instant favorite. Iâm rating the demo version, as I find it superior to the album one. I remember the day it saw the light of day, I was listening to the song non-stop for hours, one of my favorite choruses of all time! @Lukasson So chaotic and so good @Born This Way My favorite song on the album. I only wish the situation between Gaga and Infected Mushroom had gone better. @Daenerys By far the greatest album opener in her entire discography (sorry Bad Romance) @The Z The vocals in the verse kinda ruin it for me. The demo is worth an 8 @27monster27 A dazzling musical journey from start to finish. The song has such a unique meaning about revealing what exists underneath the veil of fame and a brand. This meaning is communicated through aggressive vocals over an equally aggressive instrumental, and then in the chorus with soaring vocals over entrancing synths. @Head Empty Ambitious, agressive and powerful, but a little too rough around the edges in places where it doesn't need to be. The instrumental is one of the best in her discography. With the demo vocals, this would've been an easy 9 or 10. @ImMatt #JusticeForAuraDemo @huttont When this leaked, I was blown away bc it was so crazy compared to any of her previous releases. Parts of the demo still > album version but such a wild song that encapsulates the album. @TwistedTeeth A strong start for one of Gaga's most adventurous albums; Aura is a totally infectious song that I play out LOUD. It fit perfectly for the big EDM phase in 2013 and still holds up to today's standards. @Helxig Wouldâve been 10 with the original âscreamyâ vocals @ARTGOD One of her hardest and most experimental bangers. The production makes my brain melt. There should be more songs like this in her discography. @TXNNXTUS Perfectly embodies the energetic, electric and crazy soul of ARTPOP 2 4 7 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KubaM316 13,528 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 4 minutes ago, Cruelty said: 7 SEXXX DREAMS â average 8.06 The highs: 11 x 5 [ @Poltergeist @Kandy life @nodandsmile @FinallyFree @Gagaism] The lows: 2 x 1 [ @JustTea] Yeah, this one is just a juggernaut of a pop song. I was going to quote Gagaâs descriptions of what this songâs about, but truly itâs just about sex dreams. & thatâs okay! Gaga later retconned the track as being about âthe adrenaline of laying in bed next to somebody & having thoughts about someone elseâ, but truly this doesnât need to be Poker Face 2.0; it can simply be Erotica 2.0. âSexxx Dreamsâ is a musical tour de force from start to finish, the sultry thump of the verses exploding into a robust synth-laden chorus, via the iconic spoken-word confession âwhen I lay in bed, I touch myself & I thinkâa youâ. âSexxx Dreamsâ was one of the final songs written for ARTPOP; DJ White Shadow recalls staying up for 20 hours straight working on the song, & I think it was worth the effort. This is so quintessentially Gaga â because itâs Gaga, thereâs something slightly (& characteristically) corny in announcing âlast night, damn you were in my sex dreamsâ, & yet thatâs allied to an insanely catchy chorus. With many of you wishing that the song had been released as a single (& it was certainly considered), âSexxx Dreamsâ lands as your 7th favourite from ARTPOP. Letâs just celebrate the fact that we escaped a Robin Thicke version of this one. Comments:  Reveal hidden contents @ALittleMonsta this song is so sexy and its giving the second part of poker face its just nasty and sexy and wrong in such a polished edm way wish it was a single like gaga wanted it to be @Bronco Should have been a single @HeavyMetal Halcyon Should have been the lead single⌠@Onlygaga Should have been the lead single!! @Born This Way I prefer the Swinefest version that has a little less going on. @JazzGa Looooove this song. Bi anthem tbh. Such a unique delivery style, with 2 different voices and 2 perspectives, like Gaga is duetting with herself. It would have been cool to get a seggsy bi female singer or actor to feature on this one. Like imagine K-Stew doing the smoky spoken word parts, that would be so hawt @Kandy life Love this one. It's one of the sexiest and dirties songs. It's the "I like you and won't hold back anymore" kind of song. @Bowman One of my favourites from ARTPOP, screams pure Gaga to me @Auralegends Love the singing and spoken word in between. Also the pre-chorus and the choreo for it are fun. @whoresup Love the 80s vibe especially the chorus. Itâs not particularly memorable, fun but not memorable. @Scarlet Bitch Dirty Ass Song. Love it @Ophelia Sexy, but not enough. Could be sleazier, it misses depth in sound. I GAGGED when I heard "I can't believe I'm telling..." for the first time, but who didn't? Whenever I listen to it it's making me feel certain things, like... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donatellah 1,572 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 ... Â 1 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KubaM316 13,528 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 Just now, Cruelty said: although âAuraâ is a perennial fan favourite, it just fell out of the top 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
27monster27 10,461 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 Aura not being in the top five shocks me. Another Paparazzi moment indeed. he/him/his 3 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivy 11,377 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 Aura deserves top 5 TRULYÂ 5 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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