Gaga hills you will die on

[Diamond Blood 4,309]

A Very Gaga Holiday is her best album

[imogen2133 148]

3 hills I will gladly die on:

-Joanne is still her worst album to date. It was very inauthentic, it was strange how she took on the Joanne persona and the music itself is very bland and basic. She never had roots in country music even before fame and the stories she would say about walking through New York with boots and little shorts were completely fabricated/came off as her trying to sell her new persona. The way she kept saying that she wanted to connect with people that thought they would never listen to Lady Gaga (the woman with a baby in one arm and a drink in her hand thing) and the music itself came off as her reacting to the backlash ARTPOP got and the whole album feels like damage control for what they said about her during that era.(which is something she said she would never do). Also Gaga's other albums incorporated different genres into pop (like Boys Boys Boys having a rock like sound but with synthesizers) but Joanne is mostly just straight country and soft rock Americana. Also the production sounded way too much like Mark Ronson/generic and not very Gaga.

-The Fame Monster is still her best work to date. It has different sounding songs with multiple genres whilst still being cohesive, it has some of her best lyrics and a cohesive concept with production that sounded very different to everything in the pop landscape at the time.

-GaGa's more Avante guard/weird looks are more impressive and interesting than her more glamorous and elegant looks because anyone can pull off an elegant dress on a red carpet. Her more Avante guard looks are unique, take a lot of creativity and are something that she can pull off really well.

 

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[imogen2133 148]

49 minutes ago, Diamond Blood said:

A Very Gaga Holiday is her best album

Her covers of White Christmas and Orange Coloured Sky are some of my fav things she's ever done. It really is such a nice little album that should have included Bad Romance and Hair.

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On 1/25/2026 at 6:18 AM, Ladle Ghoulash said:

I guess I just kind of disagree on the premise of what makes something “Gaga” or not. If we’re talking about the Bowie and Prince references, Killah is a prime example of something that I think is quintessentially Gaga: taking a series of seemingly disparate influences (Bowie, Prince, Beck, Janet Jackson, the vampy camp of The Cramps, Tina Turner), fusing them together into a psychedelic glam industrial funk track with an electro-surf rock/punk bridge that is still, fundamentally, an infectiously, catchy pop song.

Not to mention that the perversity and absurdity of the double entendre that the song is centered around is so insanely Gaga. I understand that you’re saying that you don’t think that the references are integrated enough into her core sound to avoid feeling like pastiches, but I just think that if you look at the range of sounds that Gaga has explored both in her career in general and also in her pre-fame demos, I think her core sound is a bit broader than you are giving it credit.

I guess this is just something we fundamentally disagree on, when I first heard Mayhem it reminded me of most of the 80s songs I hear on the radio(and I listen to a station that plays almost exclusively 80s and 90s songs) to a huge degree to the point that half the time I was saying "I feel like I've heard that somewhere before" which I have never done with her other albums. I don't feel it was just inspiration but almost a ripoff of that decade honestly and that both the production and the lyrics didn't feel very "Gaga"(except maybe Abracadabra and Disease). Also her songs pre fame were more classic/indie rock influenced and I would argue none of those sounds are present on Mayhem (even Garden Of Eden which I have seen people compare to her unreleased stuff). The stuff she made around the time she was writing The Fame when she started the dance pop route was more synth pop heavy with SOME retro influence (filthy pop, heiress, rockshow, vanity, fashion, retro physical) than straight 80s.

[Brazilwood 4,284]

The hill I'll die on is that she never touched her nose surgically, hialuronically or botoxically. The botox is all around the face but the nose is the same all these years.

[Bronco 16,249]

1 hour ago, imogen2133 said:

Also her songs pre fame were more classic/indie rock influenced and I would argue none of those sounds are present on Mayhem (even Garden Of Eden which I have seen people compare to her unreleased stuff).

This is a crazy take. 

Disease, Abracadabra, Vanish Into You, Perfect Celebrity & Can't Stop The High all instantly bring in classic rock.

NIN, Siouxie, power ballads, The Cure etc. 

[Gorehound 4,953]

On 1/23/2026 at 7:23 PM, TheFrenchGuy said:

Very pedantic thing to say, but I think a lot of Little Monsters appreciate the aesthetics of art more than the actual vision and statement behind it, and therefore tend to reduce Gaga’s concepts to visual cues rather than engaging with them as fully developed artistic ideas.

Ex :

the reaction to BTW's album cover

not liking the disease video because it does not have choreo

etc

Man, a lot of Little Monsters don't understand art period. 

[Panchecco 17,741]

Gaga needs to make a visual album at some point but I doubt it will ever happen but who knows. It would be perceived positively by fans but the gp might treat it like Miley's Something Beautiful 

I still feel the Joseph Khan TEOG music video would have been so gaggy and the epic short film the song deserved BUT it probably would'have been very cgi and corny and I much appreciated that she recycled Yuyi for You And I and that video manages to beautifully capture the concept of living halfway between reality and fantasy while still feeling very practical and stunning visually.

DWUW should have never happened (for obvious reasons) but also because Venus should have been the second single from ARTPOP. I couldn't really picture a Ruth Hogben directed mv (I kinda imagined it more in the style of Steven Klein - similar to his photoshoot for the single cover) but I still needed to see it. I still wonder how far in production they were and I desperately need to see a leak if they actually filmed something. 

Perfect Illusion is Gaga's most underrated single and y'all just don't get it

I absolutely love MAYHEM but part of me still wonders if there were songs that were scrapped that had more industrial and rock elements like Disease/Perfect Celerity/CSTH and how it would feel to live in that alternate reality in which we got Perfect Celebrity as the album name and lead single. But honestly this era is perfect as is and I woudln't change anything 

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[Juanlittlem 47,417]

On 1/24/2026 at 8:42 AM, Juanlittlem said:

A mod on this forum (lets call them P.S) has awful taste

@PartySick you flop

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she's not a Zionist