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Smother Em Eh

While we celebrate ARTPOP’s 12th anniversary, I wanna talk about some lil things you like about some of the songs.

For example, I love the banjo in Auras intro, G.U.Y’s bridge, the way she pronounces G.U.Y in the last chorus. She sounds just like she does in ROM during that. Love the way she pronounces “Jupiter” in Venus, “Saturn… JUPITA!”, also MJH’s bridge slays, even if the lyrics are a lil cringe. 

I also LOVE Donatellas pre chorus, gives it a lil break from the bone crushing beat, lastly, love the little A-R-T-P-O-P when Applause ends. 
 

 

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NUTELLA

Fashion's piano & "I own the world, we own the world!"

Sexxx Dream's throbbing instrumental

MJH's "cuz i love love, cuz i love love... you betta than, you betta than... myyyy darkest sin"

Aura's outro

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gumzy3000

The little hiccups in Swine

The slow build-up in Dope :fatcat:

Love the intro in G.U.Y. 

The whole instrumental in Mary Jane Holland sounds amazing

The piano at the start of Fashion! :golfclap:

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Ladle Ghoulash

Aura vocals (demo)

Space-y whistles in MANiCURE 

“Hee hee”s in ARTPOP

Bass line in the bridge of Sexxx Dreams

We have forgotten our public MANNERS
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Venus Warhol

Bust the rearview and fire up the jets cause it's; you and meeeee! Baby, for liiiiiife!

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LauraPalmer

the cough in jewels n drugs

also seriously, the aura intro, the gypsy outro, “nein zedd”, and the backing vocals of the title track

i’m a woman, i insist, it’s my life ♀
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AVeryGagaHolyDick

I love the hardcore drums of Applause

The second chorus of Gypsy with the harmonies 

The main synth of the title track, it sounds so hypnotic

The MANiCURE trap outro (best part of the song imo)

How unique Jewels N’ Drugs sounds in her discography

How unapologetically weird Aura and Venus are

 

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Hadrian

That quiet twinkly sparkly synth in the choruses of Venus.
"WHEN YOU TOUCH ME (ding!) I DIE (ding!)... (ding ding!)"

The crunchy bassline in G.U.Y., and her distorted vocal lead.

The first four seconds of Sexxx Dreams are TO DIE A TINY BIT FOR.

Do What U Want's synthwavy bassline inspired DOZENS of my songs :cryga::brat:

The piano in Swine at 2:37 to 2:52... WHAT THE **** INSPIRED THAT? It sounds like it could be the theme for a jazz-themed villain in some arcade fighting game and I live for it. And he was like a friend at first and then betrayed your party because of something innocuous you did early on? IDEK BUT **** I LOVE THAT PIANO RIFF :flippy:

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dopega

The writing. Fashion! is one of the highlights on the album imo. 

The way she references the Wh*re of Babylon (the lady in red on MAYHEM) from the ”Book of Revelation” feels insane to me. 

”Walk into the light, displayin' diamonds and pearls in my (Fashion)
Married to the night
I own the world, we own the world”

And the nods to gnosticism in the bridge and outro.

”I take it off, I put it on
I feel alive when I transform
But this love's not material
Now take it in and turn me on
Zip me up, it can't be wrong
'Cause your new look's ethereal

and ”Fashion” being pronounced like ”Fashaeon”. An aeon is a divine being according to gnostic texts.

Honorable mention being the ”Voodoonana” in Donatella being the same spell used years later in Abracadabra.

Kind of makes me wonder if Chromatica and MAYHEM were intented to serve as spiritial successors to ARTPOP as she did talk about potentially having enough ideas for 3 ACTs of AP.

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TimotheeChalamet
6 hours ago, Starmie25 said:

Infected Mushroom need to return.

 

 

They weren't involved in the production since she simply purchased one of their unreleased tracks and they don't like her, they just accepted her offering because of the nice royalties (as they publicly said in an interview) 

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