Unpopular opinion: Born This Way

[Blackout19 13,343]

mine:

- Born This Way cover its one of the best
- Born This Way music video its her best music video
- Heavy Metal Lover its the best song on the album
- Bad Kids its underrated
- Americano its the worst song on the album
- Born This Way Ball its her best tour

[HeAteMyh3art 2,262]

TEOG is overrated 

[NUTELLA 15,994]

1) The album’s holy trinity is Heavy Metal Lover, Bloody Mary & Government Hooker

2) She will NEVER top “I could be your girl, girl, girl/girl, girl, girl… but would you love me if I ruled the world, world, world?” 
That moment will always be her musical Mount Everest... she cannot climb any higher 🏔️ Listening to it is a physiological sensation. Rivaled only by “rara-ahahah, roma-romama, gaga-ohlala,” nothing has ever worked so perfectly/sounded so good in a song.
Make your peace with this fact: it is *the best* we will ever get from Gaga. 

3) Bloody Mary’s instrumental is a sinister miracle.
I would give anything to have been in the room/bus watching them assemble it, because it is such an important part of my life. I listen to the instrumental multiple times. Every. Single. Day. 
HOWEVER, for a song with such airtight verses/pre-chorus… the chorus is a flaccid let-down

[NUTELLA 15,994]

4) Scheiße is fun, but MASSIVELY overrated by this fanbase.
The Mugler remix is superior (the 4th best song on the album); it feels like the spirit of the BTW era itself, distilled into one long, sexy, hypnotic track. Most people won’t understand that… but those who do, really do.

5) They’re not necessarily bad songs, but I always skip Americano, Hair & Highway Unicorn

6) Marry The Night & The Edge of Glory are both huge anthems… without much replay value

7) Judas- not BTW- is the most “reductive” song on the album. 
A second, spoiled helping of Bad Romance, reheated & served with mold spots. 
Not even air-fried… just pulled out of the fridge, thrown into the microwave for 10 seconds & then dumped onto the table… rancid, moist, soggy, revolting.
“Her signature sound” blah blah blah. It is lazy, self-plagiaristic trash. 
Whereas BR was a masterpiece, Judas is a drunken finger painting. Even if it weren’t a copycat, it would STILL be a clumsy, noxious, bullshit cartoon of a song.
SHAME on RO & LG for making Judas.
(love the brick lyric though) 🧱

[NUTELLA 15,994]

8) Electric Chapel is probably the album’s hidden gem. It gets less attention than any of the other tracks, but I feel like that opening instrumental (with the guitar, piano & bells) could win over any type of music fan if it randomly came on their radio

9) I spent years disliking Bad Kids (mostly because of the ass intro & some of the awful lyrics) but parts of that song are actually great. Her pronunciation of “di-sastr-ous” in the bridge is divine

10) Fashion Of His Love is LG’s sweetest song. 
Haters can choke to death & go to hell 💓

[River 120,773]

3 minutes ago, NUTELLA said:

8) Electric Chapel is probably the album’s hidden gem. It gets less attention than any of the other tracks, but I feel like that opening instrumental (with the guitar, piano & bells) could win over any type of music fan if it randomly came on their radio

[River 120,773]

BTW is not a good song, but the instrumental slays though, the part when u hear little monsters talking is amazing.

It's a long long way to reach TEOG and most of the times, you just forget this song exist because u had to stop listening mid-way..

Bad Kids and Hair could have been good songs if they were shorter.

[dynamite 62,305]

Marry The Night is great but not quite as otherworldly as it's often made out to be

Bad Kids is amazing, I didn't like it at first because you expect a stomping chorus and the beat just disappears  but I really love it now lol

Hair is top tier

I can live without You and I

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[nATAH 52,448]

judas is mid; awesome verses let down by a basic chorus

[SS77 2,071]

Electric Chapel deserves to be in everyone’s top fives. I wish she got a bigger spotlight. Maybe one day.

The Queen, particularly the bridge and outro, is such a beautiful gem in her discography. I love the bells in the intro. 

[Miichael 1,170]

- BJ†AF is extremely underrated and easily top 3 on the album

- Bad Kids, Electric Chapel and Hair are also v underrated and are top tracks

[Bronco 15,490]

Electric Chapel is underrated.

Bloody Mary is overrated and a lot of people only speak about it because it because it got tiktok virality. 

We need more 80s power ballads like Hair & You and I.

[SimonBaetens 8,963]

- it's a great album but sometimes the production feels a bit overwhelming
- the tour is overrated: yes, the castle was incredible, but the storytelling and numerous Mother GOAT interludes were a bit convoluted and long
- Yoü & I is often overlooked by the fanbase, while it was absolutely instrumental in cementing Gaga's popularity with a broad audience