Gaga hills you will die on

[weed 75,874]

I am part of the "cannot determine a genre" bc I would have never considered Say So a disco track lol

[dynamite 62,693]

Die on a hill 

You called 

[dynamite 62,693]

7 minutes ago, weed said:

I am part of the "cannot determine a genre" bc I would have never considered Say So a disco track lol

Same I would have called it 

2020s 80s inspired rnb funky pop

Literally no clue 

[Oriane 21,685]

DWUW's original version is conceptually genius. It shouldn't have been done because at the end of the day, a collab with him gives him royalties, visibility and credibility, but just like Swine's SXSW performance, it was the kind of twisted artistic stuff that ARTPOP was about.

[NotoriousEden 366]

ARTPOP ACT II has enough songs finished to be released as an EP 

[NUTELLA 16,623]

3 minutes ago, NotoriousEden said:

ARTPOP ACT II has enough songs finished to be released as an EP 

[NotoriousEden 366]

2 minutes ago, NUTELLA said:

Weird take to not want songs from the vault as a fan but alr 

[Lisbeth Salander 330]

41 minutes ago, PartySick said:

It's not the era that drags it down, it's the album itself that's just not great imo.

As I nodded to in the OP, every other album, even her jazz albums with Tony, take you through a myriad of sounds while the album that's ironically named "Chromatica" is the same sound from beginning to end. The lyricism isn't up to her standard either.

When she says she wasn't in a good place creatively, I believe it, 'cause it shows  

But the concepts were cool. If she revisited the album now, worked on it with anyone other than Bloodclot, and rewrote some lyrics (and finished writing certain songs like the snippet of Alice that made the album ) it'd be good  

 

But sh*t, some people would say the same thing about my personal favorite (Joanne). None of us are an authority on this, not even Gaga  

Respectfully, I totally disagree. As you said, some would say the same about Joanne. But yeah, it’s still great to discuss this as all of us have different opinions. 
 

The only thing that I feel is somewhat lacking in the whole era is that Chromatica couldn’t full out its full potential due to the lockdown and thus clubs not being open. Oh, well…

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2 minutes ago, NotoriousEden said:

Weird take to not want songs from the vault as a fan but alr 

I want songs from the vault from every era cept Act 2 rumoured tracks.

This fanbase gets annoying enough already about ARTPOP 

[River 121,018]

BTW is mostly a Bubblepop album with songs covered with glam and pop-rock elements and leather for the cools.

[Anderson123 40,234]

Disease deserved Bad Romance level of impact and attention. It's one of those songs that elevates your discography. 

[River 121,018]

55 minutes ago, PartySick said:

while the album that's ironically named "Chromatica" is the same sound from beginning to end.

U don't understand the European dance scene then because it's not true.

Each song represents a sub genre of the European electronic dance music.

And that's where Bloodpop failed because he doesn't understand it either.. he mimicked it.

The biggest mistake with this album is to work with an American main producer instead of with a Eurppean one. BURNS and Tchami saved the songs they worked on basically.

[calmar 22,635]

2 minutes ago, River said:

BTW is mostly a Bubblepop album with songs covered with glam and pop-rock elements and leather for the cools.

*pours whiskey onto a twink in a leather jacket, circa 1987* here's the btw you ordered

[Head Empty 25,663]

The Joanne era was not as authentic as it was marketed to be.

Gaga needed a stripped down era after the maximalism of ARTPOP, so she crafted one. What rubs me the wrong way, is that she chose a style that, to this day, does not seem to be part of her actual DNA as an artist. She could've taken many paths that would've been much more believable, especially given the theming of the lyrics:

- a modern piano-based album
- a jazz-infused pop album
- a Springsteen-esque album

To name a few.

Instead she forced her voice to sound 3 decades older, put on a cowboy hat, brushed off her best southern accent and forced one of our mods to repeat "it's not country" for more than 10 years after release.

(I know it's not a country album but she sure as hell leaned in to it)

It looks like she wanted to take a left turn for the sake of it. To go down a route that nobody could predict, just to be contrary. That could be an interesting approach, were it not that the lyrical themes of the album are supposed to be very sincere, tragic and deep-rooted in her history as a person. 

I believe most of these songs on paper. But the production, the marketing and even the fashion made it feel like she was hiding herself more than ever.

Edited Friday at 09:12 PM by Head Empty

[elsamars 5,023]

She secretly loves to see people suffer.