Which Gaga's ballad is your favorite?

[Ronk 14,823]

Speechless.

[RochesterJoannster 3,601]

Joanne.

And ARUTW is not underrated. Underrated songs aren’t allowed to have million daily stream updates seven years after their release (that’s the unit of measurement I’m inventing and going by). 
 

It didn’t need to be bigger. If anything it would have ended up with the cross Shallow now bears of being overexposed to half of this fan base. 

Edited December 23, 2025 by RochesterJoannster

[Jeroen Bloeming 2,293]

Angel Down or Happy Mistake

[RAMROD 111,930]

Vanish Into You outsold

[DESTROY UR DISEASE 14,066]

22 hours ago, Zombiecat said:

This is tough  

Yeah, right? She has way too many great songs to just choose one from

19 hours ago, Bronco said:

Always Remember Us This Way should be bigger than Shallow.

Agreed  and I'm glad it currently gets more streams daily

[DESTROY UR DISEASE 14,066]

7 hours ago, Duella Dvil said:

I always say this any chance I get the opportunity to, but now I have a story to add so HERE WE GO

I chose Dope as that song was the song that basically stopped me from going down the route of alcoholism and drug abuse my family is riddled with.

So I have the second verse of dope tattooed around my right arm "Toast 1 last puff 2 Last Regrets 3 spirits & 12 lonely steps up heavens stairway to gold" the numbers in that when read from left to right are 1 2 3 1 2 that was the house number for the home I grew up in and it throttled me into realizing that I was gonna lose my family and friends and loved ones all so I could chase the highs of addiction. That I need THEM more than I need Dope.

 

Flash forward to the Mayhem ball in Seattle

I got tickets to all three nights because I am WHAT ✨ IRRESPONSIBLE ✨

We had 3 ARTPOP songs left for the Bows (excluding DWUW obviously)

Every single night I crossed my fingers BEGGING to hear that C minor chord (just started tearing up)

Night 1 Fashion!

Night 2 Jewels n Drugs

Night 3 I got it. I got Dope.

I sat there in my seat for the first time since she walked away from the scroll and SOBBED I ruminated over the life I was able to live because that song saved my life. Between hyperventilating I noticed she was crying too.

I need you all to understand that this woman that I have basically idolized since I was a ****ing child was crying with me, together our emotions were aligned and we were sharing this beautiful moment in this arena. It felt like she was holding me and like everything was gonna be okay.

SO YEAH that's why Dope will remain my Number 1 favorite ballad.

God, I remember where I was hearing it for the first time. I remember logging onto YouTube and streaming it in my living room on the family computer while my parents were smoking cigarettes out front of our house probably a year before the song would really click with me and push me to change my life. I remember being so shaken that I Wanna Be With U's soul was transformed into something so dark and angry and pleading. She was broken, and I didn't know that point was coming for me too. I remember hearing that intro and just crying because it was just so somber. I saw Gaga for the first time as fallible. She wasn't this alien warrior queen she's just a girl from New York who had a lucky break and made a lot of risky decisions.

I say all of this to say, she saved my life. She pushed me to change my trajectory and without this song without THAT LYRIC in the second verse I may have never met my husband, may have never moved to Seattle, may have ended up committing suicide because that was the road I was going down. 

Anyways that's enough yapping for me

Wow, now that's a story

I'm glad that this song means so much for you and that it actually helped you

[Duella Dvil 10,706]

53 minutes ago, DESTROY UR DISEASE said:

Wow, now that's a story

I'm glad that this song means so much for you and that it actually helped you

Thank you, I really had to share that story. It was so surreal hearing it live at the Mayhem Ball 

[TheARTPOPball 962]

Speechless

i wanna be with you

[MJVL 81]

Other: Blade of Grass

Although I did vote ARUTW

[ThisGuyTony 32,108]

All her ballads are good. 

I would say Brown Eyes and Blade of Grass are the worst tho. 

[PartySick 164,297]

On 12/23/2025 at 2:10 AM, Duella Dvil said:

I always say this any chance I get the opportunity to, but now I have a story to add so HERE WE GO

I chose Dope as that song was the song that basically stopped me from going down the route of alcoholism and drug abuse my family is riddled with.

So I have the second verse of dope tattooed around my right arm "Toast 1 last puff 2 Last Regrets 3 spirits & 12 lonely steps up heavens stairway to gold" the numbers in that when read from left to right are 1 2 3 1 2 that was the house number for the home I grew up in and it throttled me into realizing that I was gonna lose my family and friends and loved ones all so I could chase the highs of addiction. That I need THEM more than I need Dope.

 

Flash forward to the Mayhem ball in Seattle

I got tickets to all three nights because I am WHAT ✨ IRRESPONSIBLE ✨

We had 3 ARTPOP songs left for the Bows (excluding DWUW obviously)

Every single night I crossed my fingers BEGGING to hear that C minor chord (just started tearing up)

Night 1 Fashion!

Night 2 Jewels n Drugs

Night 3 I got it. I got Dope.

I sat there in my seat for the first time since she walked away from the scroll and SOBBED I ruminated over the life I was able to live because that song saved my life. Between hyperventilating I noticed she was crying too.

I need you all to understand that this woman that I have basically idolized since I was a ****ing child was crying with me, together our emotions were aligned and we were sharing this beautiful moment in this arena. It felt like she was holding me and like everything was gonna be okay.

SO YEAH that's why Dope will remain my Number 1 favorite ballad.

God, I remember where I was hearing it for the first time. I remember logging onto YouTube and streaming it in my living room on the family computer while my parents were smoking cigarettes out front of our house probably a year before the song would really click with me and push me to change my life. I remember being so shaken that I Wanna Be With U's soul was transformed into something so dark and angry and pleading. She was broken, and I didn't know that point was coming for me too. I remember hearing that intro and just crying because it was just so somber. I saw Gaga for the first time as fallible. She wasn't this alien warrior queen she's just a girl from New York who had a lucky break and made a lot of risky decisions.

I say all of this to say, she saved my life. She pushed me to change my trajectory and without this song without THAT LYRIC in the second verse I may have never met my husband, may have never moved to Seattle, may have ended up committing suicide because that was the road I was going down. 

Anyways that's enough yapping for me

I remember you telling this story before, it's nice to see someone who appreciates Dope  

I have three Mayhem Ball dates too and I'm praying for her to perform Dope or Happy Mistake  

She didn't sing Dope at my artRAVE so that's literally the only ARTPOP track I haven't seen live and it's the most important one

[Duella Dvil 10,706]

10 hours ago, PartySick said:

I remember you telling this story before, it's nice to see someone who appreciates Dope  

I have three Mayhem Ball dates too and I'm praying for her to perform Dope or Happy Mistake  

She didn't sing Dope at my artRAVE so that's literally the only ARTPOP track I haven't seen live and it's the most important one

DOPE IS CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED

I'm so happy I got to have that moment and I hope you get to have your moment! Such a powerful song

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17 hours ago, ThisGuyTony said:

I would say Brown Eyes and Blade of Grass are the worst tho.