The Dead Dance: Song and Video Discussion

[elsamars 1,527]

3 minutes ago, chewing on pearls said:

girl iktr... our girl is expensive!!! 

Well she needs that money for her billionaire lifestyle and labubus

[LadyLuca 2,553]

Can Gaga hit 10 mil views after 24 h?

[andy232000 11,833]

Honestly I feel like fans will abandon this song quite quickly. So if the GP doesn’t eat it up immediately I see this flopping hard. 

[Chris Thomason 965]

Surprising to see some people not liking this, I love it and her darker side. Still waiting on RockGa/MetalGa but I do love me some disco vibes.

[elegidadedios 2,271]

13 minutes ago, lastpopicon said:

lmao, it's fine. I think it would be interesting if she talked about it tbh, delve into her psychic, i bet she has many interesting things to say. 

Well, I think she's at a point where I can relate somehow. When you're under depression, you embrace death as a calming thought, just because you want pain to end (Chromatica is there, for example). So you dissociate from the actual implications of it. When you (after hard efforts) get to be out of depression, leaving that behind you, you start getting emotionally happy about what you thought of death in the past. That's why she normally says "maybe I'll just die and vanish into everyone and each of you" before playing VIY in the tour with a teary but happy face, because she actually values life as a worthy thing, and sees death as something that will haunt her after such a good ride

Edited Wednesday at 06:37 PM by elegidadedios

[JustTea 6,099]

Her mind is so weird... Imagine this song with GOE chorus. Now THAT would've been a smash hit 

[LadyxGaGa 2,134]

i like that it looks like something straight out of a movie it’s so atmospheric with all the dolls everywhere 

[Ladle Ghoulash 26,208]

The vid does its job. It’s not groundbreaking or particularly cinematic, but I like the look, the choreo is really good, and she turns in a great performance. 

[Bobina 2,681]

The video reminds me of when TEOG music video came out and it was all one look and simple. People were disappointed expecting more/melting down. I agree though. Seems like a waste of what could've been a legendary collab with Burton. Still love the song though. That girl is catchy af. 

[LordByron28 1,105]

3 minutes ago, JustTea said:

Her mind is so weird... Imagine this song with GOE chorus. Now THAT would've been a smash hit 

Mmmm… no. Quit trying to make GOE happen, GoE is kinda cringe tbh. 

Edited Wednesday at 06:32 PM by LordByron28

[Ladle Ghoulash 26,208]

17 minutes ago, elegidadedios said:

That happens when people get older and mature! They start worrying about complex aspects on life and the death that comes with it. I personally like that evolving moment on her

Tbf she’s also been pretty morbidly fascinated with death 

[Celloo Deng 55,150]

1 hour ago, RenegAde said:

I love a good release day meltdown 

as is tradition 

[Sarah H 3,725]

The video is fine. I don't want to rewatch it a million times like with Abracadabra, but that's a tough one to match to be fair. 

I like the song, the chorus is very catchy.

Edited Wednesday at 06:37 PM by Sarah H

[TheARTPOPball 510]

7 hours ago, OMonster said:

I enjoy the song overall BUT I really dislike the inauthenticity of this. It's quite disheartening to think that LADY GAGA would title a song and wedge in lyrics purely to create a TikTok challenge. "Do the dead dance" is just extremely forced and "The Dead Dance" isn't even an organic title for the song - that lyric was clearly just added to the 'bridge' to give the song a challenge-friendly title and 'instruction'. 

I like the trance-like, more haunting vocals and production in the verses but the chorus becomes very screechy and not as easy on the ear, especially towards the end. 

I think if you're going to write something inauthentic and INTEND for it to be a 'mass appeal' hit, at least make it more approachable and listenable (to non-fans). The screeching vocals kill the replay value, and the "do the dead dance" in the bridge is too kids bop. I think the song would've achieved its purpose (of being a replayable hit) much more if she dialled back the vocals a bit, wrote a stronger bridge and re-titled the song "Until I'm Dead", the lyric that is sung twenty times versus the seven mentions of "The Dead Dance". 

I also struggle to see how Bloody Mary going viral could inspire this. That song is a true ear worm you want to hear again (partly because of the slower, less screechy delivery), whereas the hooks in this song aren't natural or intriguing - they're just heavy-handed.

I think possibly “The Dead Dance” might have been a reference to “The Monster Mash” which now that i’m thinking about, i would have enjoyed a nice cover of much better

[OMonster 14,718]

1 hour ago, andy232000 said:

Well, guess I dont see how "Do the dead dance" is miles different than "Abracadabra amor oh na na" or "Ba-Ba-Babylon". Cut from the same cloth, different executions. What makes those acceptable and not this one? 

My point is that "do the dead dance" feels like like an attempt at writing a lyric that will become a hashtag or dance challenge on TikTok. She's never done that before.