Do Infected Mushroom still feel the same about Aura?

[Defmix100 6,598]

Just saw them mentioned again and remembered how they felt about Aura, do you think they still feel the same?

"She (Gaga) came into Zedd's studio, her producer, while he was working on our track", says I-zen.
"It was one of its first demos she immediately fell in love with.
Zedd called us saying "There's a problem. Lady Gaga wants your song."
We had some serious deliberation, we see ourselves as a band with a high artistic integrity and we avoid commercialization and doing cheap things such as Britney or Gaga.
But suddenly there's a concrete offer on the table and saying "No" is a mistake, because it's a guaranteed lifelong pension.
Each time the song is being played or sold, we get some pretty nice royalties.
So we decided to give her the melody, as long as we are signed under our private names.
We felt embarrassment for our fans.
But she refused, she wanted "Infected Mushroom" to be credited.
So, we decided to go for it thinking it won't make the cut or she'll eventually change her mind.

But she didn't. Do you like the result?

No. I think it's an artistic compromise.
The song is too cheesy and commercialized.
The way her vocals are over the melody is bad.
But, what do I know about pop hits? we are honored that someone off Gaga's league found potential in our track and loved it.

[NUTELLA 16,692]

5 minutes ago, Defmix100 said:

The way her vocals are over the melody is bad.

Spilled

[TheFrenchGuy 2,442]

That's so disrespectful... So they willingly sold out to get a nice cheque then they come and trash her? F*ck them and their "artistic integrity" 

Edited December 1, 2025 by TheFrenchGuy

[TimotheeChalamet 6,448]

3 minutes ago, TheFrenchGuy said:

That's so disrespectful... So they willingly sold out to get a nice cheque then they come and trash her? F*ck them

Yep

[Ladle Ghoulash 33,803]

Ngl the melody on Aura slaps, so “what would we know” is about right lol

[Borisapillar 9,792]

irrelevant outside of that song 

[Hadrian 1,038]

Who would want to work with someone who says **** like this about their collaborations?

[LadyEnigma 1,346]

Aura one of her best songs they just don’t get it I fear HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA A-A-A-A-A-A OH AURAAAAA iconic

[Guillaume Hamon 6,762]

I mean you either brag about your artistic integrity and refuse to work with big popstars or you just take the cheque. 

Taking the cheque and call it an "artistic compromise" when it's only a financial one is peak hypocrisy. 

[palma 8,621]

42 minutes ago, Defmix100 said:

We had some serious deliberation, we see ourselves as a band with a high artistic integrity and we avoid commercialization and doing cheap things such as Britney or Gaga.

So we decided to give her the melody, as long as we are signed under our private names.
We felt embarrassment for our fans.
But she refused, she wanted "Infected Mushroom" to be credited.
So, we decided to go for it thinking it won't make the cut or she'll eventually change her mind.

But she didn't. Do you like the result?

No. I think it's an artistic compromise.
The song is too cheesy and commercialized.

This reads like a bunch of hipster haters thinking they are too cOoL for Gaga when she made bank for any DJ in the industry by reviving Dance music

I couldn't care less about what they think tbh

[Ladle Ghoulash 33,803]

31 minutes ago, Guillaume Hamon said:

I mean you either brag about your artistic integrity and refuse to work with big popstars or you just take the cheque. 

Taking the cheque and call it an "artistic compromise" when it's only a financial one is peak hypocrisy. 

Can’t have your cake and eat it too on that one, or as the Bulgarians say, “You can’t have a d*ck in the ass and a soul in Heaven.”

Edited December 1, 2025 by Ladle Ghoulash

[TheFrenchGuy 2,442]

9 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Can’t have your cake and eat it too on that one, or as the Bulgarians say, “You can’t have a **** in the ass and a soul in Heaven.”

well apparently I made my choice 

[Lanadelduck 2,040]

lol losers 

can’t have your cake and eat it too. 
why don’t they donate the money to young artists then?

Edited December 1, 2025 by Lanadelduck

[River 121,067]

It's like that with every act that does any genre of pop music but believing that they are not pop because they are not "commercialized" 

Please bitches did "this is sparta" remix to their own song 

Their label is Monstercat which is the most commercialized label for trance music 

[tylerjs 6,014]

The problem isn’t that he doesn’t care for what she did with the track or that he saw it as selling out. The problem is that he had no reason to say it that way. All he had to do was say that he was hesitant on the grounds of the commercialization factor, which is fair, and that he maybe would’ve gone in a different direction sonically or structurally, but instead his framing and verbiage are just so unnecessarily spiteful.