Why MAYHEM special?

[Sepsami 19,418]

It's because she gave us both music AND the bling, I liked ARTPOP, Joanne and Chromatica but Mayhem devours them

[Battle 4 Ur Life 6,734]

because it is cohesive in its EXTREME DIVERSITY. and that is so hard to achieve for a long album. and she did just that. The Deluxe is probably her longest album after BTW and it’s somehow even better than the already sensational standard version. she took bold choices, she followed her instinct. tapped into her creative freedom, chose smart collaborations. and stayed 100% true to herself. without sounding the same! I don’t know what else she could have done honestly.

even the songs I least connected with I find myself listening when listening to the album and growing on me to this day. (looking at you HBDYWM, I was vibing and karaokeing this weekend to it) there isn’t a single song that I can say it’s bad. they’re all produced impeccably. vocals are incredible. she said, I’m gonna do something iconic and release my best and most successful songs since born this way and just like that we were crying to Die With a Smile and shaking our thangs with Abracadabra.

Mayhem you will always be famous. 

Edited Monday at 05:02 PM by Battle 4 Ur Life

[MACATL 1,719]

Top notch PRODUCTION, songwriting and editing (and vocals of course). 

[TheARTPOPball 929]

15 hours ago, TheFrenchGuy said:

Maybe not heavy in the sense of a specific genre (industrial rock / funk), but she definitely has done heavy in the neurospicy stimming way before. Swine, Aura, Electric Chapel, Sheisse, Americano all come to mind 

I think they mean familiar in the sheer intensity, emotion and depth of the sound, plus the classic hooks, the repetitions, the references and all the Gaga-isms.  Mayhem is the first album since ARTPOP where I feel every element is firing at full volume, in a real “she’s BACK back” sense. It is not that it avoids bringing anything new, it is that it taps into what we love most about her work, which makes the album feel familiar in the best possible way.

Quote "The nachos are mine I made them" + she made every ingredient herself + added spices and sour cream 

Exactly. 

[TheARTPOPball 929]

15 hours ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Eh, can’t really say she’s ever done anything as heavy as Disease, PC, CSTH, or even Killah before (nor anything as funky as VIY, ZB, KFL, or SOAM). I definitely think MAYHEM has shared DNA with some of her old work, but I disagree pretty strongly that she didn’t bring anything new to the table here. 

Well I mean im simply talking in terms of my own perspective I just feel like this album out of all of hers is kind of a compilation of her sounds spread out throughout the record. There’s so many songs on the record that immediately reminded me of past records

abracadabra reminded me of bad romance, Judas, while the first verse sounded very chromatica to me,

vanish into you also gave me bad romance throwbacks with the melody, though slower tempo,

zombieboy sounds straight out of the Fame in the verses, 

Killah shares the same intensity as swine imo,

 

I feel like out of all her albums, this is the one where I could place a majority of the track list onto other albums and they would fit sonically, even if they became the new stand out song in that record. But we couldn’t, for example put any song from Joanne on to ARTPOP, or an ARTPOP song on to the fame. 

I think there was much less focus on innovation/experimenting on this record than her previous. And I think that’s intentional bc mayhem feels kind of like a new checkpoint for Gaga. In the past I kinda viewed Joanne as the transitional record, Gaga before and after Joanne, and I think as time passes it will become Gaga before and after MAYHEM when reflecting on her career