Joanne 9th anniversary!

[Nessun Dorma 8,476]

Nine years ago, Gaga released Joanne! One of her most vulnerable and personal works to date, it’s a daring and dazzling record from an artist that refuses to remain in one place. 

It was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album and the song “Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?) won Best Pop Solo Performance at the 2019 Grammy Awards. 

During an interview with Zane Lowe, Gaga talked about Joanne:

There's no filter, this record goes right for the gut," Gaga said of the album. "Vocally, lyrically I am trying to tap into the vibrations that make you feel like I'm giving you a giant hug in a way. Or giving you a release, a place for you to rage, or to feel healed, to close your eyes and listen. That's the hard part. Sometimes you don't want to listen to a song that makes you go there. But that's what this record is, this record makes you go there. 

Sometimes you don't want to listen to a song that makes you go there. But that's what this record is. This record makes you go there. But it's also, I have to say, one of the most rewarding musical experiences of my life, making Joanne.

This is the album that made me become a fan. I still listen to it quite often and every time it feels like I'm meeting a dear friend again 

[Cavadour 2,506]

Even though that year AHS Hotel set wheels in motion, it was Joanne release that made a final LM out of me.

Against the community grain, this album will always have a special part in my heart. Calling it country is as reductive as calling Mayhem disco-funk.

No matter what visual or sound style she borrows, Gaga always makes it her own. And that's it in the end.

 

[Vengaboy 1,342]

No matter what opinions people have of this album, Joanne will always have a very special place in my heart. I was fortunate to be living in NYC at the time when it came out and I relive that time of my life whenever I listen to the album. We got to hear her voice in a different way than we had before and it was nice to see her make this album for personal reasons and not necessarily for the fans/public. We were just lucky to be there to share it with her ❤️ I also saw her perform Angel Down & Joanne outside the Bitter End which I will forever treasure as one of the best live moments of hers!

[RochestrMonstr 3,350]

11 minutes ago, Cavadour said:

Against the community grain, this album will always have a special part in my heart.

I’ve come to realize the album does have a place of respect in this community, even if it’s not everyone’s favorite album.

While Joanne’s haters are always loud/obnoxious/disrespectful/not funny at all, there aren’t as many of them as it seems.

Edited 9 hours ago by RochestrMonstr

[Auralegends 7,091]

I really enjoyed this album. I still remember the hype for Perfect Illusion, The Dive Bar Tours, The Million Reasons performance at the AMA's.

 

Not to forget the emotional aspect. Every time I hear Dancin' In Circles, a tear runs down my leg

[tlittlemonster 2,380]

This album is overhated by the fandom.

Some of Gaga's best vocals ever are on this album and there are amazing tracks like Diamond Heart, John Wayne and Perfect Illusion.

[Cavadour 2,506]

3 minutes ago, RochestrMonstr said:

I’ve come to realize the album does have a place of respect in this community, even if it’s not everyone’s favorite album.

Like everything Gaga, Joanne, the album is raising controversy.

Haters at one end and lovers at the other. Attackers will always clash with defenders.

This type of heathen debate between extremes always reveals there's something meaningful going on. Nothing's worse than a tiepid reaction.

[RAMROD 110,763]

She made this album mainly for herself and her family, she admitted this numerous times. And I am glad she did it because of that, regardless what fans think of it. (Like some fans thought it was cringe she made an album dedicated for someone that she didn't even met ever, among other things), Although she have confessed during one of Chromatica interview that the reception from her family isn't what she wished for, and we saw one of the moment of it when she previewed the song to her Grandma on 5ft2. But I am still glad she did it. 

[PartySick 162,166]

Still my favorite

[BadKid58 78]

Love that album and era so much. It's so perfectly encapsulated in the Five Foot Two documentary.

"And I'm going to fight like ****ing hell for them to ****ing love this. Because IT IS lovable."

And a lot of us do Gags 

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[princedeeblebleble 2,063]

Can't say its my fave Gaga album, as it kinda misses a lot of Gagaisms, but I did love the vounrability (spelling?) of the lyrics and the vocals were gorgeous. I just wish she kinda went harder on some songs and went with the full potential (which was also the issue with Chromatica).

But hey, she wasn't in the best of places so it's ok. Glad she's back with Mayhem now.

[robotvoiceinalice 1,737]

realistically, its been a decade since Gaga built her caeer back up after ARTPOP. Cheek To Cheek wasn’t taken THAT seriously, though people listened to it

it was really all the performances she done in 2014/15 including on screen that made people's heads turn again - Joanne was a pawn on the chess board that helped her solidify her return before ASIB, Superbowl, and Coachella really put her back on the map

even though i hate the album (didn't at the time i must admit, but the concept is awful the music is awful and it was all forced in order to heal her dad which failed and made her depressed about it cause she realized he would need to put the work in himself), i absolutely can recognize its place in Gaga's career and the significance it had to rebuild "a fad", and for that I'm truly grateful for that time for us to have what we have right now with Mayhem

[Alxjcgn 677]

2 hours ago, Auralegends said:

I really enjoyed this album. I still remember the hype for Perfect Illusion, The Dive Bar Tours, The Million Reasons performance at the AMA's.

 

Not to forget the emotional aspect. Every time I hear Dancin' In Circles, a tear runs down my leg

I still remember exactly where I was when Perfect Illusion came out (I was in bed lol) and I sat there in shock because it was so good! It was a sound/style of music I love and I never would have expected Gaga to go that direction, and she absolutely crushed it! I wish I could go back and hear that key change for the first time again

[Hydrangea 6,462]

I remember staying up all night in the uk when she was doing the launch of perfect illusion on the radio, I can’t believe that was 9 years ago already I feel old and decrepit 

[Blackout19 12,401]

still so underrated