Ladle Ghoulash 44,635 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 (edited) 3 hours ago, LGAte said: It's so crazy because (and I'm ready for the bullets), but I actually really love the vibe and production and world and clarity of Chromatica and prefer it to anything except Abracadabra on Mayhem. Honestly, what you feel about Chromatica (the production being milquetoast and bland) is how I feel about Mayhem. When I first heard it it sounded dated and not mixed well to me. Abracadabra and LoveDrug and Die With A Smile sound "right" to me. The rest of the album sounds off or warbly or something to me. It could punch better. Chromatica....does punch and smack for me. Genuinely wild that you think stock instruments from GarageBand are more compelling to you than lush, layered, harmonically compelling instrumentation, tbh. IMO the engineering and production on MAYHEM is among her best, whereas Chromatica, which is well-produced in the sense that it’s “clean,” is very dull to me sonically 🤷 Edited February 26 by Ladle Ghoulash We have forgotten our public MANNERS 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agunimon 632 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 I'm someone who does really like Witness, but Chromatica is also just better. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGAte 673 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 On 2/26/2026 at 6:28 AM, Ladle Ghoulash said: Genuinely wild that you think stock instruments from GarageBand are more compelling to you than lush, layered, harmonically compelling instrumentation, tbh. IMO the engineering and production on MAYHEM is among her best, whereas Chromatica, which is well-produced in the sense that it’s “clean,” is very dull to me sonically 🤷 Yeah I’m not hearing that. I hear subtle little beautiful things floating around in the background and what feels like a full world on Chromatica. mayhem feels compressed and static to me. Like the punch does not hit the way it should in parts. It felt flatter to me. It also literally is just a rehash album and lyrically a way of contextualizing her. Like Joanne, Mayhem serves a purpose, but isn’t really all that innovative. it feels like a connection of trial tracks that someone puts together to set the stage for an album. Hence the 3 distinct sounds on the album. It sounds like 3 totally different albums to me. Like she was brainstorming and said **** it and slapped them together and called it Mayhem. the Perfect Celebrity concept was better. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gagacabana 5,142 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 1 hour ago, LGAte said: It sounds like 3 totally different albums to me. Like she was brainstorming and said **** it and slapped them together and called it Mayhem. I mean she did brainstorm and said **** it and slapped them together and called it mayhem. that was a pretty significant thing that happened. like i understand where you're coming from here but she very much did brainstorm and said **** it and slapped them together and called it mayhem I don't believe in the glorification of murder, I do believe in the empowerment of women 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bim 786 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 I feel comparing Sour Candy and Swish Swish paints the picture of who they are as artists. SC has c*nt and Swish is meme music. They approach music differently and I typically don’t care for Katy’s brand. It feels more pick-me than artistic. Even at Gaga’s lowest, she still did it for the sake of art and music. The fact that you can feel her sadness on Chromatica just shows how much of herself she puts into what she does, and I don’t just mean lyrically. Chromatica needed to be an acoustic album tbh, or if she wanted to make a house record it needed a different producer, especially one who was willing to commit to extended mixes. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gagacabana 5,142 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 3 minutes ago, bim said: Chromatica needed to be an acoustic album tbh, or if she wanted to make a house record it needed a different producer, especially one who was willing to commit to extended mixes. That makes perfect sense actually you always keep it real I don't believe in the glorification of murder, I do believe in the empowerment of women 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holocene 61 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Gaga didn’t even write Chromatica. It’s my least favorite Gaga album — there’s that sense of disconnection and lack of passion in the project. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junko Enoshima 4,261 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Both tanked and are HORRIBLE ALBUMS DELETE THEM My b00vs are hopelessly huge 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout19 14,936 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 On 2/25/2026 at 6:58 PM, PartySick said: Meanwhile, Chromatica is the worst Gaga album by a mile. i am a free woman. ○● 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout19 14,936 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 1 hour ago, Holocene said: Gaga didn’t even write Chromatica. It’s my least favorite Gaga album — there’s that sense of disconnection and lack of passion in the project. i am a free woman. ○● Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladle Ghoulash 44,635 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 (edited) 2 hours ago, LGAte said: Yeah I’m not hearing that. I hear subtle little beautiful things floating around in the background and what feels like a full world on Chromatica. mayhem feels compressed and static to me. Like the punch does not hit the way it should in parts. It felt flatter to me. It also literally is just a rehash album and lyrically a way of contextualizing her. Like Joanne, Mayhem serves a purpose, but isn’t really all that innovative. it feels like a connection of trial tracks that someone puts together to set the stage for an album. Hence the 3 distinct sounds on the album. It sounds like 3 totally different albums to me. Like she was brainstorming and said **** it and slapped them together and called it Mayhem. the Perfect Celebrity concept was better. If you can’t hear the harmonic layers on MAYHEM, I genuinely don’t know what to tell you lmao. Not only does almost every song have richly layered vocal harmonies, but all of the instrumentation forms vibrant harmonic layers around the melodies of basically every song. The album, in terms of engineering, feels like one of the only records of hers where every part really breathes. The vocals are punchy, vibrant, have depth, well-saturated and calibrated reverb, the instrumentation all has enough space to shine while simultaneously centering whatever the focal point is at any given moment. Chromatica is well engineered and clear, but in the absence of any real compositional intricacy or interesting production texture, it’s hard to say that that’s really any asset tbh. I just think it’s ironic to call one of her most sparse albums (Chromatica) vibrant but then to call one of her most densely layered albums “static.” But, to each their own, I suppose! Edited March 1 by Ladle Ghoulash We have forgotten our public MANNERS 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PartySick 171,131 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 2 hours ago, LGAte said: Yeah I’m not hearing that. I hear subtle little beautiful things floating around in the background That's the wind blowing through the gaping holes in the production Whimsical bitch 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holocene 61 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 31 minutes ago, Blackout19 said: But Free Woman including the Rina version is my favorite song off Chromatica — it’s also my most replayed track from the album on Spotify Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout19 14,936 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 15 minutes ago, Holocene said: But Free Woman including the Rina version is my favorite song off Chromatica — it’s also my most replayed track from the album on Spotify i am a free woman. ○● Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bim 786 Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 1 hour ago, Ladle Ghoulash said: If you can’t hear the harmonic layers on MAYHEM, I genuinely don’t know what to tell you lmao. Not only does almost every song have richly layered vocal harmonies, but all of the instrumentation forms vibrant harmonic layers around the melodies of basically every song. The album, in terms of engineering, feels like one of the only records of hers where every part really breathes. The vocals are punchy, vibrant, have depth, well-saturated and calibrated reverb, the instrumentation all has enough space to shine while simultaneously centering whatever the focal point is at any given moment. Chromatica is well engineered and clear, but in the absence of any real compositional intricacy or interesting production texture, it’s hard to say that that’s really any asset tbh. I just think it’s ironic to call one of her most sparse albums (Chromatica) vibrant but then to call one of her most densely layered albums “static.” But, to each their own, I suppose! I’m twitching because the demonic vocal harmonies on Disease are one of my favorite things in her career. I’ve felt that Mayhem and TFM are her best produced albums and could not agree more that Mayhem lets things shine in a way we haven’t heard in her music before. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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