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  1. 1. Plastic Doll : BOP or FLOP

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dynamite
Just now, elegidadedios said:

It's childish. Period

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TheARTPOPball

Idc what anyone says its one of my favorites from Chromatica  :oops: its just fun pop music. Sometimes thats okay and enjoyable even.

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Van Vogue

one of my faves on chromatica. i wanted her to perform it in a flying plastic doll box at the chromatica ball😭

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It’s a soft bop, like it’s not great but it’s cute. 
 

Chromatica’s Hard bops for me are ROM, 911, sour Candy, enigma, replay and Babylon 

The rest are semi hard / soft bops

And then I don’t like Flop from Above and Free Flop

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This and The Cure are songs that are so unique in different sounding. It's astonishing how the wide range of different sounds Gaga extends to. Especially in Joanne as well. 

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Ziggy
23 hours ago, salty like sodium said:

i find it ironic people are fighting over the "don't play with me" and stretching it to fit whatever meaning they want when right before she says "i'm no toy for a real boy" which is way worse and requires much less logical leaps. but i guess you could also interpret that as "real boys don't play with toys" idk. either way the wording "real boy" is just extremely weird and dated imo.

 

i agree it's definitely not a what-was-i-made-for level song but for anyone to claim gaga has phenomenal lyrics they really need to relisten to her songs. i'm half convinced she needs lyrics like "ma ma ma ma" because she doesn't really know what else to say half the time. :ally: no shade, I love gaga and her music (one of her top fans in the UK), but she definitely isn't who i will go towards for good lyrics. as far as songs go plastic doll was at least trying to tell a different story from just "i want your [stupid/bad/whatever] love". i swear there was a meme i can't find about gaga's singles having a different line about wanting or not wanting someone's love. and sure, plastic doll is still a love song ... but at least it's going somewhere a bit more different. abracadabra is literally "ABRACADABRA love and death love and death death or love tonight". Even the lyrics to some of her biggest hits like Shallow are really random and abstract and vague. I think the album with the best lyrics is probably Joanne actually.

I think the chanting lyrics, though, are difficult to write well! She has a good sense for pop hooks and lyricism and the performance ability to pull them off. I think if you look to her to be woody Guthrie, yeah, you’ll be disappointed. But I think she’s a great pop lyricist in that she reaaally know how to write a chorus and hook that feel a little more grand than normal pop

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salty like sodium
23 hours ago, Ziggy said:

I think the chanting lyrics, though, are difficult to write well! She has a good sense for pop hooks and lyricism and the performance ability to pull them off. I think if you look to her to be woody Guthrie, yeah, you’ll be disappointed. But I think she’s a great pop lyricist in that she reaaally know how to write a chorus and hook that feel a little more grand than normal pop

she writes catchy tunes with memorable melodies and easy to remember words, but i wouldn't say the lyrics are necessarily evidence of "good writing". "i want your loving i want your revenge you and me could write a bad romance" is literally something a 5 year old child could write, for example. extremely catchy, very memorable, and that makes it a good POP lyric. But when you compare it to some of the other lyricists out there like Lana etc. who are clearly very much about storytelling (or even Taylor Swift tbh), Gaga's songs really feel very hollow in comparison. Born This Way is an exception because she was at the height of her inspiration and career I find (and to be honest, G.U.Y. has some amazing turns of phrases so she is capable of great lyrics!) But overall I don't think she should really be considered lyricist of the year. Which is fine - her strengths lie in melodies, singing, dancing, performing. No one can be great at absolutely everything!
I do agree the non-verbal sounds are hard to pull-off, but that's more a performer skill than anything else. I can't imagine Katy Perry pulling off Abracadabra no matter how hard she tries.

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bionic
On 2/10/2025 at 5:47 PM, A Very Gaga Holida said:

Mega flop, it sounds horrible, the verses are unlistenable 

this isn't a thread about sour candy

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Ziggy
21 hours ago, salty like sodium said:

she writes catchy tunes with memorable melodies and easy to remember words, but i wouldn't say the lyrics are necessarily evidence of "good writing". "i want your loving i want your revenge you and me could write a bad romance" is literally something a 5 year old child could write, for example. extremely catchy, very memorable, and that makes it a good POP lyric. But when you compare it to some of the other lyricists out there like Lana etc. who are clearly very much about storytelling (or even Taylor Swift tbh), Gaga's songs really feel very hollow in comparison. Born This Way is an exception because she was at the height of her inspiration and career I find (and to be honest, G.U.Y. has some amazing turns of phrases so she is capable of great lyrics!) But overall I don't think she should really be considered lyricist of the year. Which is fine - her strengths lie in melodies, singing, dancing, performing. No one can be great at absolutely everything!
I do agree the non-verbal sounds are hard to pull-off, but that's more a performer skill than anything else. I can't imagine Katy Perry pulling off Abracadabra no matter how hard she tries.

But I think my point is that “good” writing is about more than just storytelling. I mean, to write a song SO dense with hooks that doesn’t sound generic or factory slop? That’s a hard skill! She’s not Joni Mitchell in songwriting but in the field she operates in mama is about the best of the best. There’s different kinds of good songwriting is my point :) her arena has never been acoustic storytelling type songwriting. But gd if she doesn’t write a great pop hook better than anyone

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HelloHangoverz

BOP BOP. Plastic doll is such a beautiful song imo about loneliness. About locking yourself away behind a plastic screen of emotional unavailability so people can't touch you or hurt you. But it's also about the consequences of that loneliness. When she says "Don't play with me, it just hurts me", yeah she's talking about fcukboys with an agenda. But she's also talking about the good ones, who she's incapable of connecting with, because in a headspace like that, any true act of love is misinterpreted as 'you're playing with me'. Underrated and such a touching song

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