Lady Gaga talks LG7, Coachella and confirms DWAS and Gesaffelstein on the album

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5 minutes ago, Sneaky Oliver said:

one of her biggest hits EVER on her new album

I feel like people are seriously overlooking this part, DWAS is gearing up to be one of the biggest songs of all time, it will be sung at weddings/funerals until the end of times, it's a song that the GP loves overall.

DWAS will immortalize LG7. 

 

Not including it would be a huge mistake than both gaga and this fanbase would regret in the future. 

[LastNight 5,933]

Great interview! Love her approach to releasing music lately. It’s so free and that feels soooo right for her. Her excitement is infectious and I’m so hyped for the album. It sounds like it’s gonna be a lot more varied than I was expecting, which is amazing. She excels in so many genres that it makes total sense for her to really explore that on an album - cannot wait to hear it.

And sh—— if I had a song with a billion streams best believe I’d add it onto my record too. She has so much integrity as a musician that I think she’s well within her rights to play the game a bit, especially if it fits in with the genre exploration she’s spoken about.

Also, VERY exciting that they said the interview happened between video shoots - can’t wait to see what she’s cooking up for us. Can’t fault her approach to releasing music the last few months, it’s been an amazing ride. 

[GagaTheExplorer 3,053]

Oh LG7 the Grammy nominated album that you are 

[Jack3257 728]

I wonder if this decision was retroactive or always the plan?  I feel like there’s been so many stories about this song.  A part of me also thinks maybe this is an excuse so they can do another major promo push for the song early next year, leveraging the Grammys to try to make it go number 1.

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29 minutes ago, lastpopicon said:

I feel like people are seriously overlooking this part, DWAS is gearing up to be one of the biggest songs of all time, it will be sung at weddings/funerals until the end of times, it's a song that the GP loves overall.

DWAS will immortalize LG7. 

 

Not including it would be a huge mistake than both gaga and this fanbase would regret in the future. 

I think DWAS is huge enough to become immortal either if it's included on LG7 or not 

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2 hours ago, edengowon said:

I mean I don't like this decision and plenty of people here have articulated why. She can say that Die With A Smile was included to 'tie the album together', but I find it hard to believe that anybody finds that to be a believable argument. It's a textbook industry tactic. It's like putting your album on sale for $1 and saying it's because of your 'artistic vision'. I don't care if she does it, but I don't like the fact that she's trying to make this out to not be a cash grab, and would rather she just said 'it was more popular than we expected it to be, so decided to include it later' than going on about how 'it always meant to be on the album'.

I don't know, I guess I'm just annoyed that she finally seems to be trying a completely new sound for the first time since ARTPOP, and we're still going to end up with the same old Adult Contemporary ballads tacked on to the end of the album. Die With A Smile isn't bad by any means, but it's hardly new turf for her.

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And quite frankly it makes me laugh to see the same people who constantly drag Taylor Swift for being 'money hungry' and 'exploitative' defend this move like their life depends on it. This is no different to the 10 variants, or the bonus tracks, or the voice memos.

 

It's better to do this now before pressing rather than pollute the earth some more with a million different versions. What is the point of Billboard if not for bragging rights? No one is above that. But there's that and then there's pure greed and overkill. 

[MadArchitect 826]

oh damn, i really want to believe her, i really do, but the fact that she first presented DWAS to us as an one off single while we "wait for LG7" and later also clarified that it was a stand alone single, and now its added as a part of LG7, it makes you inevitable question how much of that choice was made really because of her artistic vision of it being "the missing piece", and how much of it was influenced due to the massive commercial success of the song and how it will boost sales and streams... I trust her and i really hope it didn't make her compromise her artistic integrity, but i better wait for the album to come out to make a judgement myself, maybe once i listen i understand fully what she means, but even then, i'll always have the doubt if this would've been the outcome had DWAS never been such a huge success, would she still have it added to LG7? i'm afraid we'll never know..... 

Edited December 19, 2024 by MadArchitect

[Emvee 8,126]

My guess is that Interscope is forcing her to put it on the album and potentially change the overall direction. 

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3 minutes ago, Emvee said:

My guess is that Interscope is forcing her to put it on the album and potentially change the overall direction. 

based on what she has said over the years, interscope cant force her to affect the content itself of the album, it is only in their hand how the album that she presents to them will be promoted, so they can make her go with a single thats not of her preference of a booking that she doesnt nessesarily like, everything involving the roll out but not the art itself, so i dont think they have the power to make her add a song that she doesnt want to the album, they can surely push for it heavily, but she has to give in first for it to happen...

[Emily 991]

I'm really not looking into this as deeply as most people, I'm just surprised as she made it so clear it was a standalone song and when you compare it to disease, it's hard to imagine the album being coherent but at the end of the day, I don't really care 

[codymonster 8,518]

Coming back into this thread, I'm still genuinely so confused. Like, this isn't new. Dope was on ARTPOP. Fits thematically, but sonically, completely different. You and I on Born This Way is quite out there compared to the rest. Speechless on The Fame Monster, etc. 

And I mean, let's be real, she has admitted herself that SO many songs are crafted for an album. Songs are written and then the album theme and story are built around the music she ends up choosing for the album. It's not like each song was specifically crafted for this specific album. They are songs written by her, and then she puts them together and creates a "story" or theme. After seeing the unexpected success, she clearly thought it out, and feels that with all the chaos on the album, this wraps it all up in the fact that love is the only thing that brings clarity (which is something she has discussed in ALL of her albums). She adapted the created theme to include the song. Just like she would when adding any song to the album pre-release. This just happens to be a song we knew ahead of time. 

And from a strictly sales perspective, damn straight. She earned this monster hit and she's earned allowing that to strengthen her album sales. It's not like she's pulling this song from years ago or doing some cheap tactic. This song came out recently and was written during the album creation period, so it makes sense to be on her album. Let her celebrate the song.

I just think people are freaking out about this for no reason. Like, she's adding a song to her album last minute. She's done this before with songs like Dope vs. Temple on ARTPOP. In this case though, it makes a ton of sense why she'd add it. 

Ya'll have been having heart failure with the lack of promo and success of Disease, so here is them doing something to help with sales/promo. Just relax and enjoy the success and the upcoming bops that LG7 will surely have.

 

 

Edited December 19, 2024 by codymonster

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1 hour ago, apollorowling said:

Sometimes I wonder why it's so hard for you to enjoy things, it's like you always see the glass empty. SHUT UP AND ENJOY

Aren't people in this fanbase some of her biggest OGH ? 

I'm very fine if she loses some people with LG7. Some cleaning needs to happen in the fanbase honestly.

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8 hours ago, nATAH said:

anyway why is nobody talking about the fact this hasn't been labelled the lead and disease has also technically not been called the lead either? it was called the "first" single

to me, it sounds like they're getting rid of the traditional single cycle and just dropping songs due to how streaming works

Gaga always calls them her first single. It's nothing new actually. 

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3 hours ago, edengowon said:

I mean I don't like this decision and plenty of people here have articulated why. She can say that Die With A Smile was included to 'tie the album together', but I find it hard to believe that anybody finds that to be a believable argument. It's a textbook industry tactic. It's like putting your album on sale for $1 and saying it's because of your 'artistic vision'. I don't care if she does it, but I don't like the fact that she's trying to make this out to not be a cash grab, and would rather she just said 'it was more popular than we expected it to be, so decided to include it later' than going on about how 'it always meant to be on the album'.

I don't know, I guess I'm just annoyed that she finally seems to be trying a completely new sound for the first time since ARTPOP, and we're still going to end up with the same old Adult Contemporary ballads tacked on to the end of the album. Die With A Smile isn't bad by any means, but it's hardly new turf for her.

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And quite frankly it makes me laugh to see the same people who constantly drag Taylor Swift for being 'money hungry' and 'exploitative' defend this move like their life depends on it. This is no different to the 10 variants, or the bonus tracks, or the voice memos.

 

im sorry but these two things are not the same or even comparable at all, Gaga is allowed to modify and decide which songs make the album as she pleases, it is her work and her art, you can question the motives of course, but her doing so because she tought it fits and completes the concept of it is a feasable possibility. That has nothing to do with putting out multiple variants on the market to drain obsessive fans or strategically discounting to boost sales, those are purely bussiness moves and dont involve anything regarding the body of work of the album itself...

[nATAH 46,314]

anybody else having a kii over the fact lg7 already has over 1b streams and 2 grammy noms?