Happy Mistake is a modern-day Creep and deserved better

[Killa 17,930]

20 minutes ago, ThisGuyTony said:

MAYHEM desperately needed a Happy Mistake type ballad. Blade of Grass composition makes no sense to me. It’s a song about her engagement but sounds like Dope 2.0  

Exactly finally Someone Who thinks this. She loves him like Dope i Guess?

Its like She wants tò kill herself for tying the knot. Melodramatic and depressive honestly 

[elegidadedios 2,526]

Love this record but I honestly don't get why some people say it fits and should've been on MAYHEM. Its narration and mindset clearly belongs to the way she felt during Chromatica. It even feels like a bridge from Chromatica to MAYHEM, that's why (to me) it made so much sense to label Harlequin as LG6.5 

Idk, some stick to the words "my head is filled with broken mirrors" to the LG7 artwork... And that's not. Just look deeper. In Happy Mistake she was trying to fix those mirrors, on MAYHEM she ****ed up those mirrors and embraced them in a loving way. Totally different paths to deal with trauma

Edited 13 hours ago by elegidadedios

[Lextyr97 20,203]

6 minutes ago, elegidadedios said:

on MAYHEM she ****ed up those mirrors and embraced them in a loving way.

Never thought about it this way and I’m honestly gagged

[Ophelia 4,898]

I haven’t thought of it before, but this definitely reminds me of Creep and we know she loves Radiohead, always did. 

I thought of this song as more of a reference to Hurt by either NIN or Johnny Cash. Both were played on Gaga Radio.

The ending:

„If I could bottle up a sunny day
So brilliantly
It'd wash away the sad mistakes”

is similar to the ending of Hurt:

”If I could start again a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way”

 

I also believe Disease (The Antidote) was also inspired by Reznor’s piano renditions of his songs (for example  Something I Can Never Have). The instrumental is very NIN and so is the vibe, the way Gaga sings. 

 

Happy Mistake is an amazing track, absolute highlight of Harlequin. I only wish they didn’t use so much vocal pitch correction in that Live version. 

Edited 13 hours ago by Ophelia

[REALITY 77,939]

48 minutes ago, Guillaume Hamon said:

It instead of blade of grass would have been perfect. A better ballad to transition to DWAS at the end of the album. 

Thematically, I think BOG into DWAs works much better. Honestly, I think she could've included Happy Mistake right before BOG and it still would've worked.

[elegidadedios 2,526]

25 minutes ago, Lextyr97 said:

Never thought about it this way and I’m honestly gagged

[elegidadedios 2,526]

So y'all are telling me an album including Happy Mistake and Perfect Celebrity would've made sense?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[JustAnotherGayASMR 190]

I prefer this live version over the original track. It just hits all the right spots. It's immaculate.

Edited 12 hours ago by JustAnotherGayASMR

[AVeryGagaHolyDick 27,322]

Meh song, the performance is overrated too, heavy on autotune. She sounds soooooo much better this year with a thousand better performances. 

[Ladle Ghoulash 29,898]

38 minutes ago, elegidadedios said:

So y'all are telling me an album including Happy Mistake and Perfect Celebrity would've made sense?

 

 

 

 

 

 

IMO there’s nothing incongruent about those songs being on the same album. As much of a strong front she puts up in PC, there’s still a huge amount of angst and HM could be viewed as the resolution of that angst. 

PC = railing against the division between Gaga + Stefani

HM = confronting it and accepting it.

Edited 12 hours ago by Ladle Ghoulash

[Ladle Ghoulash 29,898]

11 minutes ago, AVeryGagaHolyDick said:

Meh song, the performance is overrated too, heavy on autotune. She sounds soooooo much better this year with a thousand better performances. 

I mean I loathe the fact that they autotuned this, but it’s not as if they did it because she needed it (which makes it a million times more frustrating). I know you don’t care for the song, but we can’t be acting like we can’t tell that the vocal under the tuning is excellent. 

[elegidadedios 2,526]

12 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

IMO there’s nothing incongruent about those songs being on the same album. As much of a strong front she puts up in PC, there’s still a huge amount of angst and HM could be viewed as the resolution of that angst. 

PC = railing against the division between Gaga + Stefani

HM = confronting it and accepting it.

I get what you're saying but I don't think she's accepting it in HM... Like at all. Quite the opposite. To me it's a "I give up, no longer strong to deal with this"

[elegidadedios 2,526]

12 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

IMO there’s nothing incongruent about those songs being on the same album. As much of a strong front she puts up in PC, there’s still a huge amount of angst and HM could be viewed as the resolution of that angst. 

PC = railing against the division between Gaga + Stefani

HM = confronting it and accepting it.

I get what you're saying but I don't think she's accepting it in HM... Like at all. Quite the opposite. To me it's a "I give up, no longer strong to deal with this"

[Ladle Ghoulash 29,898]

8 minutes ago, elegidadedios said:

I get what you're saying but I don't think she's accepting it in HM... Like at all. Quite the opposite. To me it's a "I give up, no longer strong to deal with this"

I don’t think that’s the case, tbh. The bulk of the song is: “If I could resolve this internal conflict, I wouldn’t feel so much regret” (If I could fix the broken pieces, then I’d have a happy mistake) and when she ends with “make my happy mistake,” the music literally resolves (the chord progression is positively resolved after much of the dissonance throughout the song) and lyrically, although kind of vague, I read that line as meaning, “I’m choosing to view this all as a happy mistake (I wouldn’t change a thing)”.

Edited 12 hours ago by Ladle Ghoulash

[elijahfan 26,663]

It really is a shame that this was tied to Joker, and for that reason she'll pay it dust until the end of times... I truly believe this could've become one of her signature ballads.