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3 hours ago, MountainMonster said:

 It’s her most visually compelling album up until the 911 video… which is good but it just doesn’t live in the same universe as Stupid Love and Rain on Me. 

thank god

4 hours ago, TheFrenchGuy said:

That take is so tired though. BloodPop finished the album because Gaga was profoundly depressed and unable to work by then. 

I remember Gaga saying she reworked the album w/ him after he said he didn't like the demos on a dinner or something?

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4 hours ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

It’s also all, arguably, pretty firmly set in one time and place, which is 16th century BC in Babylon (which, although the Tower of Babel likely never existed, is a time period in which the ancient city of Babylon did exist) [to your other point about the purposeful mixing of eras, it could also be referring to Elder’s famous painting of the Tower of Babel, which was painted in the 16th century CE]. The only anachronism (which is really more of a historical juxtaposition) is the ballroom/vogueing references, but the song is basically using the Tower of Babel (a common mythic symbol of people being incapable of understanding each other) and the ancient city of Babylon as a metaphor for people talking ****/refusing to understand each other being as old as time and needing to accept that fact and rise above it. 

i always thought 16th century style was a reference to mona lisa and her "smile" idk

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15 hours ago, NUTELLA said:

-There are no GREAT songs on this album.

-The only songs worth occasionally revisiting are Rain On Me, Enigma, Babylon & maybe Replay.

-Alice is overrated.

-Plastic Doll Ashnikko remix obliterates the original track.

Agree with these statements

 

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AVeryGagaHolyDick

Her worst lyrics btw and by very far, I just don’t know why people praise them :deadbanana: 

Like I understand why someone would love the sound, the visuals, the overall perspective of the album, or even how personal the lyrics are, but to consider them some of her best?

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25 minutes ago, Super said:

i always thought 16th century style was a reference to mona lisa and her "smile" idk

Could def be both (because the 16th century reference could be both 16th century BC Babylon and 16th century CE with Mona Lisa and Elder’s 16th century painting of the Tower of Babel).

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1 minute ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Could def be both (because the 16th century reference could be both 16th century BC Babylon and 16th century CE with Mona Lisa and Elder’s 16th century painting of the Tower of Babel).

her 16th century style  could mean anything

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ThisGuyTony

The 90’s original demos is what the final product should’ve been

Babylon (Haus Labs) version should’ve made the final album cut instead of the OG Babylon

Sour Candy is mediocre and cheap

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Chromatica has a consistently bright breezy vibrant colourful sound, and that has to be down to - oh yes it does - the PRODUCTION.

The first minute of Sour Candy, featuring as it does those squeaking noises from some people who are not Gaga, is no good. Then Gaga comes in and it's fine.

Plastic Doll is a good song imo. I like the overall sound, and the lyrics and her delivery succeed in painting a picture of a Barbie Doll.

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SimonBaetens

it's a good album with some excellent tracks but I don't think 20 years from now it will be remembered as a memorable Gaga album, even today I'd rank it last in her discography

when you're lonely, I'll be lonely too / https://www.last.fm/user/SimonBaetens
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zevthepaparazzo

The worldbuilding wasn’t world built enough imo

the tribe thing had so much potential

i wouldve forgotten about sour candy Friday if we got like a little interactive map or smth or like a “which chromatica tribe r u?” buzzfeed quiz but alas

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BloodyVelvet

- Fun Tonight is underrated

- Babylon and Enigma are overrated 

- Stupid Love MV is fun and should have had a longer storyline

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