MEM 3,112 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 (edited) Let's be honest, every single track on MAYHEM is a certified BANGER I've spent a lot of time thinking about my favorite CHORUS on this album. I'm talking lyrically, melodically, sonically, vocally AND emotionally. Happy to announce that it is: VANISH INTO YOU Saw your face and mine In a picture by my beside It was cold in the summertime We were happy just to be alive Can I-I-I vanish into you? Can I-I-I vanish into you? It just feels like Gaga now, career-wise. It's reflective, mature and doesn't fit in with the music landscape at current. The production on it is gorgeous and reminds me of those 80s/90s mid-tempo ballads, like ABBA but modern. Trust Gaga to stretch "I" into nine notes and make it sound amazing. The beat is strong but it feels so ethereal at the same time. The music track is hopeful but the lyrics are sad, which is my favorite kind of Gaga. Her vocals (main and layered) just soar so beautifully. It opens AND closes the song - it's that good - and the "when I die" in the last line absolutely HITS If the CD/vinyl hype sticker is true and it's the next single/music video, I will be SO HAPPY. Other Random Observations - My runner up for best chorus was Die With A Smile. Lady Mars harmonies are on another level... the lyrics, production... Grammy-winning PERFECTION) - Best pre-choruses: Abracadabra ("Like a poem said by a Lady in Red...") and Don't Call Tonight ("you pull me close & knock me down..." + the "oh oh" BR reference), SO GOOD - Best bridges: Don't Call Tonight ("drivin' home to your favorite song..." SUCH A VIBE) and How Bad Do U Want Me ("You love a good girl bad/make a bad girl mad" is so addictive ahhhh) - Best overall production: Disease, Perfect Celebrity, Killah. You really escape into another world. Masterpieces. - Every element of Shadow Of A Man is SO infectious (verse, chorus, bridge etc.), it's a perfectly crafted song. (Shoutout to Kill For Love which is also MJ-inspired and perfect actually) - Vanish Into You and Blade Of Grass are lowkey sisters, melodically? Except one is bittersweet and the other is hopeful. - The verse & pre-chorus of LoveDrug is stronger than the chorus. Also no bridge which is why it feels so short. - The spoken parts in Garden Of Eden and Zombieboy are getting totally valid comparisons to early-00s Gwen Stefani, however as a massive Avril Lavigne stan, they remind me of her too! Sassy and fun. What is your favorite chorus on MAYHEM? Edited March 12 by MEM 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynamite 55,582 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Abracadabra Also love Garden of Eden, Vanish Into You, Zombieboy and LoveDrug Like a poem said by a neydy in red 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernster7 7,919 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Zombieboy/Vanish Into You. Monsters never die. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RenegAde 18,783 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Garden of wataa Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zedd 6,230 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Perfect Celebrity LoveDrug (the way she almost sings it with short pauses, I- just- need- a dose of- the right stuff, I- just- need- a- hit- of- your loveeeeedruuug) Shadow Of A Man The ARTPOP Zedd 1 4 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robotvoiceinalice 1,514 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 see the thing about Mayhem is that all the choruses are incredible and are defo earworms, i actually cant pick i wanna say Shadow of a Man because its so fast, so funky, wants to make me sing along and just makes me wanna dance and feel good with a damn air guitar but its so hard to pick 3 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brazilwood 4,116 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Shadow of a man. When the words start jumping out of her mouth so fast it's heaven. In the first listen my soul left my body. Paubrasilia echinata 2 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brazilwood 4,116 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 (edited) One more thing: after the first chorus on shadow of a man, around 1:10 in "hard to be the yellow in a purple sky" with just the kickdrum, then the hihat comes in "piercing like the skin from a thorn" and then when the snare starts hitting in "when I get this feeling" is possibly one of my favorite moments in the album. The groove that this cadence of no hihat and no snare, then they start one bar after the other makes the groovy so funky, so well arranged, so refreshing. Edited March 12 by Brazilwood Paubrasilia echinata 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Gaga 22,832 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 (edited) 27 minutes ago, MEM said: every single track on MAYHEM is a certified BANGER This, and also would like to highlight the amount of pre chorus, post chorus and outros the album has Tbh, Abra´s chorus and post chorus are LEGENDARY already. Some Bad Romance level ****, i can´t believe she has done it again. Disease outro is the crowning jewel, GoE chorus is a sugar cube. LoveDrug might be my fav after Abra. The Beast slays as well, specially the last one Edited March 12 by Mister Gaga 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUTELLA 7,009 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 (edited) The Shadow Of A Man chorus is a gift to us all. One of a few head-exploding moments in her discography But Zombieboy is the catchiest & Vanish Into You is the one I keep singing to myself for some reason Edited March 12 by NUTELLA 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 97,799 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 A-bracadabra-a-bracadaaaaaaaabra If you see me posting like crazy, I'm either bored or procrastinating. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 97,799 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 You know, I still prefer Chromatica over Mayhem but I’m glad that Mayhem served what Chromatica denied us: choruses and bridges. If you see me posting like crazy, I'm either bored or procrastinating. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haldy 1,256 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Its between Perfect Celebrity and Zombieboy, both absolutely FIRE and some of the best of her career. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombiecat 16,049 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 DANCE IN THE SHADOW OF A MAAAAAAN https://linktr.ee/jamalholt 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorcerer 12,462 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 I love them all but I wanna give a shoutout to How Bad Do U Want Me "'Cause you hate thе crash, but you love the rush And I'll make your hеart weak every time You hear my name, 'cause she's in your brain And I'm here to kiss you in real life" She's a lyricist YOUR HONOR 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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