was Disease the right lead single?

[socotra 3,357]

anyone else think Shadow of a Man should've been the lead? It's one of her best songs ever, total hit that I think would've appealed widely and also might've given a better idea of what the album was about 

(not knocking Disease, it's one of my faves, just don't think it was the best way to open the era) 

[Dramatica 13,697]

DWAS is the lead 

I have to agree, either Shadow of a Man or Abracadabra have the lead vibes. But Disease is fine too, we love her 

[Anderson123 41,276]

Yes 100% she was right about Disease being the lead single it's such a great pick and her best since Bad Romance. Abracadabra as a follow up was perfect.

Shadow of a Man is a great song but I feel like it's a bit overhyped, doesn't really feel like lead single.

[chathonnete 892]

8 minutes ago, Dramatica said:

DWAS is the lead 

I have to agree, either Shadow of a Man or Abracadabra have the lead vibes. But Disease is fine too, we love her 

Nope, confirmed by Gaga

[QueenMortuana 1,219]

Yes

[GerMonsterNotta 1,948]

DWAS - was a genius transition… no matter how you look at it…. An end-of-summer / autumn slow romantic burner… It had the ASIB flair, the message of love as the answer to Mayhem, this was LADY..

 

Disease - again, it’s so genius to bring this out before the album, it was Halloween so always a fallback to be ‘on theme’ at the time in case there was a push back from gp and they weren’t fully ready for scaryga…. It was crafted as a Bloody Mary 2.0 formula… it was slap in the face to say GAGA / Darkness was coming back……. 
 

with both LADY and GAGA resurrected… I feel like they fully came together in Abracadabra as a huge event to lead into this amazing album…… 

as super fans, gosh that waiting with so little info between, on album name and theme etc. was killing us all though…… I’m glad we made it here now 😋🤪

[Gmonster 119]

Honestly, it really does not matter. Due to the overwhelming success of DWAS, I believe any song that would have been chosen as the lead single would have been overshadowed. It was too soon. The second single came out at the right moment.

I would say this, I believe Gaga’s team made a mistake by selecting 2 songs from the first part of the album as singles. That gave the impression to the general public that the album was going to have that old pop gaga sound. If you have different genres on your album, why not selecting singles that reflects that? Maybe Abra as lead and Zombieboy or Shadow of a man as second single?

Just saying this because I was pretty confused as of why Perfect Illusion was the lead for Joanne when it really was not a representation of the sound of the album. Million Reasons or AYO should have been the lead, period.

[nATAH 54,208]

it was the perfect choice but so is Shadow

Shadow may have reflected the dance side of the album more but Disease is such a highlight in her discography, it deserved the honour of being a single

however would they have left Shadow to flop and decay if it were the lead?

[50 Ft Queenie 617]

59 minutes ago, Anderson123 said:

Yes 100% she was right about Disease being the lead single it's such a great pick and her best since Bad Romance. Abracadabra as a follow up was perfect.

Shadow of a Man is a great song but I feel like it's a bit overhyped, doesn't really feel like lead single.

All of this, her actual best since BR! Only thing is it set the bar reallyyy high for the album unfortunately ..& since it changed sound half way(Michaels creative direction advice)..we lost strong songs like mustang which is a shame. Mayhem is still a wonderful piece of art 

Side note, I see lovedrug as something she could release its heavenily

[Horny Chicken 10,307]

Should have been Shadow or Perfect Celebrity but Disease is universally acclaimed by music lovers. 

[Ziggy 13,119]

Disease is a great lead imo. It’s a sound on the album that she hasn’t deeply explored, good production, exciting sound, risky. It just didn’t pop is all. Could have been enormous, could have been a flop. I like that she took a chance and it told us out the gate that she wasn’t going to give us an underwhelming album or make bland decisions in promo. Which she hasn’t. Other songs could be more assured hits but I think it’s very Gaga to take a shot. If it hadn’t been the lead we’d be saying it should have been tbh 

[Obobo 3,785]

It was a great lead but overshadowed by DWAS and the JFAD flop

[Versace 8,035]

Shadow of a Man or Abracadabra scream lead single. I think the timing of Disease was so wrong as well with DWAS slaying and Joker flopping, so I guess it works out to release something like Disease which gives promo single during that time, almost like her team knew to keep the stronger songs for later. I hope Mayhem pushes two more singles/videos at least. 

[NickiMinajStan 6,894]

It's the one that she wanted. Commercially wise? no, probably the worst choice. 

But she's not a starving artist, is not like sge desperately needs a #1 hit to pay rent. I'm glad she's confident enough to release whatever she wants. She wanted "Aura" to be the lead on ARTPOP, and couldn't do it, so I see this as her reclaiming her power, and taking revenge for Aura 

[stevana229 1,916]

Honestly Disease and Abracadabra are the strongest pop songs on the album. They have strong melody and better appeal than the rest. In my opinion, it's her first album where the singles are obvious compared to the rest of the tracks. I can't say that for BTW, TFM or even ARTPOP