Why MAYHEM special?

[Blackout19 12,900]

8 hours ago, NUTELLA said:

Because it's her first solid album since then

Chromatica says hi

[ANVEEROY 61,899]

2 hours ago, nATAH said:

why are we branding chromatica as a flop now?

I didn't say it's a flop; I simply stated that it was expected to be a commercial boom, as it followed the success of "Shallow" and "A Star Is Born." So the bar was high. Like ARTPOP, after Born This Way (Commercial Way). 

[nATAH 51,954]

21 minutes ago, ANVEEROY said:

I didn't say it's a flop; I simply stated that it was expected to be a commercial boom, as it followed the success of "Shallow" and "A Star Is Born." So the bar was high. Like ARTPOP, after Born This Way (Commercial Way). 

you said it failed girl

it has some hit singles and sold well, not sure why we would be comparing it to a movie soundtrack anyway?

Edited 18 hours ago by nATAH

[TheARTPOPball 926]

I think the nostalgic vibe is honestly why so many ppl love MAYHEM. 
 

As an ADHD fan, a huge reason I have been able to hyper fixate on Gaga for nearly my entire life, is all the dramatic changes she has made both sonically and aesthetically. It keeps me interested and inspired. I understand most ppls minds don’t work that way and ppl like what’s familiar and predictable.  And mayhem is exactly that in my opinion. Never lacking in quality, but I kind of guessed what the aesthetic of this album would be correctly for the very first time as a Gaga fan, and hearing the record, I heard so many throwbacks and allusions to her previous work. I was not blown away by the album my first listen bc it didn’t really bring anything “new” to me, so in my point of view, this project sounded familiar immediately. 

[TheBannedShadow 3,300]

3 minutes ago, TheARTPOPball said:

I think the nostalgic vibe is honestly why so many ppl love MAYHEM. 
 

As an ADHD fan, a huge reason I have been able to hyper fixate on Gaga for nearly my entire life, is all the dramatic changes she has made both sonically and aesthetically. It keeps me interested and inspired. I understand most ppls minds don’t work that way and ppl like what’s familiar and predictable.  And mayhem is exactly that in my opinion. Never lacking in quality, but I kind of guessed what the aesthetic of this album would be correctly for the very first time as a Gaga fan, and hearing the record, I heard so many throwbacks and allusions to her previous work. I was not blown away by the album my first listen bc it didn’t really bring anything “new” to me, so in my point of view, this project sounded familiar immediately. 

Every single word. My ADHD Gaga experience as well!

[Starmie25 20,149]

8 hours ago, 4th Time Around said:

that seemed to light a fire under her again.

Sounds dangerous 

[Starmie25 20,149]

31 minutes ago, TheARTPOPball said:

I think the nostalgic vibe is honestly why so many ppl love MAYHEM. 

Not necessarily.

There's a few "Gaga-isms" included, however she brought a lot of the 'present her' into this project.

 

Edited 17 hours ago by Starmie25

[RochestrMonstr 3,497]

2 hours ago, nATAH said:

why are we branding chromatica as a flop now?

All three of the “pink albums” ARTPOP, Joanne, and Chromatica, didn’t do as well as the rest.

They still did well, but could be considered relative disappointment for someone who has done as well as Gaga. But there are many artists who wish they could have an era as successful as these! 

[RochestrMonstr 3,497]

5 minutes ago, Starmie25 said:

Not necessarily.

There's a few "Gaga-isms" included, however she brought a lot of the 'present her' into this project.

 

That is what I think. I think with BTW she went full avant-garde. Mayhem has some of that, but also has more to entice newer fans she’s picked up through her more traditional vocal projects.  

Edited 17 hours ago by RochestrMonstr

[ANVEEROY 61,899]

34 minutes ago, nATAH said:

you said it failed girl

it has some hit singles and sold well, not sure why we would be comparing it to a movie soundtrack anyway?

I do not know where this is aggression coming from, please project somewhere else. I did not say that I stop misrepresenting my words. 

[ManMan 2,334]

4 hours ago, Blackout19 said:

Chromatica says hi

Chromatica says bye

[nATAH 51,954]

3 hours ago, ANVEEROY said:

I do not know where this is aggression coming from, please project somewhere else. I did not say that I stop misrepresenting my words. 

these are your words, no?  :

12 hours ago, ANVEEROY said:

but the chart is full of soda of music, why Chroma then failed? 

you literally said it failed, right here, in this quote...

and then got mad at me for asking why we are suddenly saying Chroma is a flop/failure... 

I wasn't being aggressive at all

[nATAH 51,954]

3 hours ago, RochestrMonstr said:

All three of the “pink albums” ARTPOP, Joanne, and Chromatica, didn’t do as well as the rest.

They still did well, but could be considered relative disappointment for someone who has done as well as Gaga. But there are many artists who wish they could have an era as successful as these! 

exactly my point, so why is the OP saying it failed? why are we rewriting history?

[Ladle Ghoulash 30,549]

3 hours ago, TheARTPOPball said:

I think the nostalgic vibe is honestly why so many ppl love MAYHEM. 
 

As an ADHD fan, a huge reason I have been able to hyper fixate on Gaga for nearly my entire life, is all the dramatic changes she has made both sonically and aesthetically. It keeps me interested and inspired. I understand most ppls minds don’t work that way and ppl like what’s familiar and predictable.  And mayhem is exactly that in my opinion. Never lacking in quality, but I kind of guessed what the aesthetic of this album would be correctly for the very first time as a Gaga fan, and hearing the record, I heard so many throwbacks and allusions to her previous work. I was not blown away by the album my first listen bc it didn’t really bring anything “new” to me, so in my point of view, this project sounded familiar immediately. 

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. 

[TheFrenchGuy 1,509]

11 minutes 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. 

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