Schwerk 7,393 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Garden of Eden is not it - The lyrics are cringy as if sung from the perspective of an overexcited teenager and wannabe Brat (the way she says adrenaline). Seeing it live made me like it better, but the mediocre guitar playing wasn't doing it for me either. Its almost as if shes posing to be a rockstar instead of just being one. Love the melody of chorus and her vocals but I never got the hype of this song. Lovedrug is underrated - Her voice is like a warm blanket and during the tour it felt like it was a love song to us her fans and it really made me emotional. Lyrically its her least interesting album - I love the album sonically but there is no lyrics that speak to me personally unlike previous albums. I sometimes miss her double entendres, she is a master at them. Killah is a lyrical highlight to me, especially when I as a woman schooled the gays on here what 'make the curtains cream' actually means. I love it when she plays with words like that. According to Gaga I'm a ****ing rad bitch 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladle Ghoulash 33,041 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 2 minutes ago, TheFrenchGuy said: the understatement of the century Just Dance is great and it’s an iconic single, but MTN is just way more compelling, relatable, exciting etc. We have forgotten our public MANNERS 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladle Ghoulash 33,041 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Just now, Schwerk said: Garden of Eden is not it - The lyrics are cringy as if sung from the perspective of an overexcited teenager and wannabe Brat (the way she says adrenaline). Seeing it live made me like it better, but the mediocre guitar playing wasn't doing it for me either. Its almost as if shes posing to be a rockstar instead of just being one. Love the melody of chorus and her vocals but I never got the hype of this song. Lovedrug is underrated - Her voice is like a warm blanket and during the tour it felt like it was a love song to us her fans and it really made me emotional. Lyrically its her least interesting album - I love the album sonically but there is no lyrics that speak to me personally unlike previous albums. I sometimes miss her double entendres, she is a master at them. Killah is a lyrical highlight to me, especially when I as a woman schooled the gays on here what 'make the curtains cream' actually means. I love it when she plays with words like that. Yeah, I think the album is much more about mood and atmosphere than it is about lyricism. Agreed about KILLAH, the whole song teetering between being a double entendre and also a song sung by a murderess is fckn brilliant (and the “curtains cream” lyric is iconic. Classic Prince style euphemism). We have forgotten our public MANNERS 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bim 492 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 50 minutes ago, NUTELLA said: You really followed the assignment here There are so many layers in it for me, like how Disease wouldn’t hit as hard as an opener if Alice/Chromatica didn’t exist, and that ghoulish ‘I can be your antidote tonight’ being one of my favorite vocal deliveries in any song ever, and the Alanis-esque bridge, and that OUTRO which somehow makes the ending of MTN feel Iike child’s play, and the rolling stone video of her breaking down the song, and how our first taste of Mayhem ended up being the album opener, and how the song solidified a true return to form mixed with something we’ve never seen from her before. Disease also is possibly a top 5 in her entire discography for me and I’ve been stanning hard since Just Dance, so there’s that factor too. To quote the end of the godly Stuck on F’n You, ‘…I could go on forever’. 2 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUTELLA 16,242 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 19 minutes ago, bim said: There are so many layers in it for me, like how Disease wouldn’t hit as hard as an opener if Alice/Chromatica didn’t exist, and that ghoulish ‘I can be your antidote tonight’ being one of my favorite vocal deliveries in any song ever, and the Alanis-esque bridge, and that OUTRO which somehow makes the ending of MTN feel Iike child’s play, and the rolling stone video of her breaking down the song, and how our first taste of Mayhem ended up being the album opener, and how the song solidified a true return to form mixed with something we’ve never seen from her before. Disease also is possibly a top 5 in her entire discography for me and I’ve been stanning hard since Just Dance, so there’s that factor too. To quote the end of the godly Stuck on F’n You, ‘…I could go on forever’. I love how much you love the song. I think one of the most interesting things about MAYHEM is how genuinely passionate everyone is about their opinions for it (compare that to Chromatica, where passion was more or less AWOL) For me- opening song or not- I personally like to imagine Disease an album track as opposed to a single, which somehow makes me like it more. My favorite part of the song is her deeper voice “hidden” underneath the main vocal when she says “screaming for me baby... like you’re gonna die.” I guess you’d call it a harmony (?) You can hear it really well in the slowed version. Sexy/spooky as hell (vid synched) 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFrenchGuy 2,355 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 (edited) 2 minutes ago, NUTELLA said: I think one of the most interesting things about MAYHEM is how genuinely passionate everyone is about their opinions for it (compare that to Chromatica, where passion was more or less AWOL) to be fair Gaga's passion was also AWOL when she made Chromatica lol Edited January 9 by TheFrenchGuy 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUTELLA 16,242 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 (edited) 1 minute ago, TheFrenchGuy said: to be fair Gaga's passion was also AWOL when she made Chromatica lol Her AWOL could mean nothing 🔵 Edited January 9 by NUTELLA 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladle Ghoulash 33,041 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 1 minute ago, NUTELLA said: Her AWOL could mean nothing 🔵 A-W-O-L We have forgotten our public MANNERS 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zevthepaparazzo 1,280 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Unpopular opinion: the album is amazing, all of you are wrong @NUTELLA loves me 1 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladle Ghoulash 33,041 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 3 minutes ago, zevthepaparazzo said: Unpopular opinion: the album is amazing, all of you are wrong Another one: it is an album by Lady Gaga. Some of you aren’t brave enough to admit this, but it is true. We have forgotten our public MANNERS 2 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NemoMyName 1,364 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 I think the album is diverse but would feel even more diverse if the tracklist was in different order. I feel like with the actual order you can cut the album in 3 cohesive part. 1.- Disease till Killa 2.- Zombieboy till Shadow of a Man (a.k.a the disco/funk influenced part) 3.- The ballads 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFrenchGuy 2,355 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 12 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said: Another one: it is an album by Lady Gaga. Some of you aren’t brave enough to admit this, but it is true. girl what are you smoking. this take is wrong on so many levels. Call the hospice. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson123 40,127 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 (edited) I love the appreciation Disease is getting here from fans. It truly is one of her best songs ever made. It's high up there with Bad Romance, Marry The Night, Dance In The Dark, Bloody Mary, The Edge of Glory, Scheiße, Government Hooker and Heavy Metal Lover. Edited January 9 by Anderson123 1 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenWonder 4,521 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 The album is amazing. Full stop. My not-so-hot take: Had she released the first (er, second) single in early January, performed that song at the Grammy's, then released Abra as a single the week before the album was released, she would have had two top ten hits, plus DWAS. Oh, and that single should have been Garden of Eden. I love Disease, but it wasn't right for a single. The world simply wasn't ready for that masterpiece. GoE would have been huge because it's catchy af and Joker 2 would have been far enough in the rearview to not cloud it up. I also think she should have released VIY in late May or so. No, it wouldn't have charted that high, but it deserved a video. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavadour 2,560 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 (edited) Not in the splitting hair bandwagon. I love Mayhem as a whole. Skipping song here and there might happen, depends on the mood or moment. But... - I totally dispise the extremely low DR value of the official version. The mastering is pushed to the limit, which makes it a painful listening experience imho. There's a remaster out there by a Japanese engineer that is much better in this regard. The dynamics are more natural and the music is improved. This current trend of pushing everything into the red is completely unbearable. The only drawback is that this remaster was generated from multi-track high-res files of the first release, and the two bonus tracks and The Dead Dance do not currently exist in this resolution. Maybe they will in the future. Edited January 9 by Cavadour Late to the party but I got a diamond heart 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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