Slate: Why Gaga & Bruno Needed Each Other For #1

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49 minutes ago, Jill said:

I think given all of these facts, Gaga should stick to jazz or pop jazz for the rest of her musical career, often doing some American Songbook albums or maybe Broadway re-recordings like Tony Bennett and Barbra Streisand, who were very succesful in that regard.

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53 minutes ago, Bronco said:

Agreed. Its conclusion is bizarre though.

Paragraphs of "Bruno & Gaga are old and needed a hit before their career died".

Conclusion "old singers in the 21st century don't have fall off windows"

And like saying we expect singers to only be successful for a decade like Madonna? Sorry what? Madonna who after 40 years just did her biggest ever attended concert?

 

Exactly. Cher also had multiple high peaks and deep lows with commercial success. It happens. I don't know why critics always overreact when it does.

Oh wait, it's because, like Lady Gaga said in 2011: "Critics are bullies."

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I don’t know why but it really irks me to read commentary about Harlequin’s chart performance as if it was a full blown mainstream pop release. Sure it might’ve faired better had the movie been a success, but it was always a niche project. It’s an album of jazz-style covers… I don’t think it was ever intended to set the charts alight.

Anyway, small frustration given the rest of the article is kind of whack. Not that there weren’t valid points made but I don’t know why critics have such a hard time just giving Gaga her flowers. 

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Did an ATRL or Stan Twitter user write this article? So unserious

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This is actually a really decent article. I thought it would be something from a hater based on the comments here, but it kind of just lays out the facts. Chris Molanphy is a great pop music and chart analyst who has been writing about Gaga for years.

 

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To put it short and simple: Bruno gets the credit for DWAS and APT. 

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5 minutes ago, Plastic Flower said:

To put it short and simple: Bruno gets the credit for DWAS and APT. 

A masterclass in erasing nuance

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Slate Magazine wrote negative things about Gaga most of the time. Just check their ratings for her albums  So I'm not really surprised if they wrote something like this even if Gaga is winning now.

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18 minutes ago, Bradley said:

A masterclass in erasing nuance

Girl please. I read the whole thing and I get what the writer is trying to say, but we don’t need so many paragraphs for this. It is what it is. 

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I like the way they explain Die With A Smile’s sound that it’s not a Bruno song like Silk Sonic or Locked/Uptown Funk production but Gaga’s Million Reasons / Speechless style is blended really well there. 

Didn’t like some of the passive aggressive stuff. 
 

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We love DWAS (feat. Lady Gaga) 

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I mean

no lies detected sadly

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Didn't bother reading because I knew it'd be the same backhand compliment, passive aggressive bs her critics have been serving since the beginning. Things like this make me mourn journalism's slow death a bit less - at least we'll get less tiresome commentary such as this. 

Also, the song is a hit because people like it. There's not really a narrative outside of two famous people singing together, which is a very thin, very basic narrative that is true of all collaborations on earth. If the song itself wasn't appealing, there would be no hit for Bruno and Gaga.  I don't know why stan twitter and music journalists have trouble  trying to make sense of this. It really does feel like their logic is "but it's not a bawp!!" Now I know how Adele and her fans feel. 

Edited January 12 by freebit

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4 hours ago, RAMROD said:

preloaded with a No. 1 hit

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7 hours ago, PoshLife said:

It's an interesting article, a bit hard on Gaga but not dishonestly so.

I disagree with the headline, though (that they needed each other) - I think it's fairer to say that, in terms of getting a #1 hit, Gaga probably needed Bruno. The proof isn't only in Disease's disappointing chart performance, but also in the fact that Rose's solo singles have been performing poorly as well. Bruno is the common factor here. I think that in both cases the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, so it's not that I'm not giving Gaga or Rose any credit, but I think it's pretty clear whose star power is more responsible for Apt and DWAS becoming hits.

When was brunos last successful solo project?