ThisGuyTony 33,201 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Both of these “Tonight” songs are divisive amongst the fanbase. Which one do you prefer? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouranos 947 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 I feel like I'm in a prison hell, Stick my hands through the steels bars and yell 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas 29,756 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Easily Fun Tonight 4 3 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUTELLA 20,412 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Don’t Call Tonight… …by miles. What is going on?? 7 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PornoDanceFight 1,369 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 (edited) Using two songs that, imo, directly communicate with each other (Stefani confronting Gaga; Gaga confronting Stefani)…real asf… Fun Tonight. Even though DCT is a “better” song, there’s something endearingly wonky and almost Ghibli-esque about it (I always imagine the end of the song is Gaga performing on a giant walking piano like Howl’s Moving Castle). Edited March 21 by PornoDanceFight 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamo 20,125 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 (edited) the bridge of DCT easily trumps the entirety of Fun Tonight for me and I say this as someone whose least favourite track on MAYHEM is Don't Call Tonight bloop! Edited March 21 by mamo Ï could be your girlfriend for the weekend... 1 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Defmix100 6,793 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Whenever I hear the opening of Don't Call Tonight I get the same horrible feeling as when Stupid Love starts 4 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladle Ghoulash 39,963 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 43 minutes ago, NUTELLA said: Don’t Call Tonight… …by miles. What is going on?? Yeah, even with DCT being one of the weaker tracks on MAYHEM, it still definitely clears FT. We have forgotten our public MANNERS 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hadrian 1,445 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Both relatable bops, I fear... but I'm going with Fun Tonight as I found myself skipping through DCT while I let Fun Tonight play in full. I'm a full-time caregiver and I'm "not fun anymore" because of it, so it's hard not to feel the "I can see it in your face; you don't think I pull my weight" on a very deep level lmao. rent-free like your future nursing home 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANVEEROY 63,890 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Last time Don't Call Tonight, let's see this time! READ MY...BODY LANGUAGE! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUTELLA 20,412 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 23 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said: Yeah, even with DCT being one of the weaker tracks on MAYHEM, it still definitely clears FT. Different strokes obviously, but I wouldn't even call it one of the "weaker" MAYHEM tracks, just a more mellow-sounding one. It's not the filler some people claim it to be. Solid verses, strong chorus, very strong bridge (& arguably the most vulnerable song on the album). Singing about your lover is one thing.. but singing about your blood is another. It feels "higher stakes"/more raw/"from the heart" to me. How anyone can hear her exclaim "tomorrow you'll desert me" & not be moved by the song is crazy to me. I grow fonder of it with each listen lol 2 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlastiscGuy 21,919 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Fun Tonight is literally her worst song after Stupid Love PG. 2 1 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duella Dvil 11,003 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 3 minutes ago, PlastiscGuy said: Fun Tonight is literally her worst song after Stupid Love I will never understand the hate either of these songs get. The level of euphoria I experience when I hear either song just makes me wanna pee out of excitement so I end up crying www.instagram.com/theduella666 4 3 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladle Ghoulash 39,963 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 35 minutes ago, NUTELLA said: Different strokes obviously, but I wouldn't even call it one of the "weaker" MAYHEM tracks, just a more mellow-sounding one. It's not the filler some people claim it to be. Solid verses, strong chorus, very strong bridge (& arguably the most vulnerable song on the album). Singing about your lover is one thing.. but singing about your blood is another. It feels "higher stakes"/more raw/"from the heart" to me. How anyone can hear her exclaim "tomorrow you'll desert me" & not be moved by the song is crazy to me. I grow fonder of it with each listen lol No issue with it being mellow, I just think the verses are melodically thin and somewhat cloyingly repetitive. The production is great, the vocals are excellent, and I definitely agree that, if the song is indeed about her relationship with her dad (which it definitely could be), the emotional stakes there are high + powerful. Also agreed about it being a grower because I was somewhat underwhelmed by it at first, but now I do really love it. We have forgotten our public MANNERS Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apec 24 Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 (edited) I don't get some of the comments about Fun Tonight. It's easily the darkest song she's ever released (and I'm not talking about dark pop). Maybe you have to have been through it to understand - she even said this was written in protest when Bloodpop again asked her to write something happy. It screams loud and clear many things you go through in the situation she's describing - with personal touches of course, like how it manifests when you experience chronic pain and how that interacts (and if you've read the latest Vogue interview she's not pain-free at all and also ofc still has to take medicine - they of course didn't mention for what - and isn't fully healed like some here think, because fibro is incurable atm) partly because most sufferers are women, and like most female-majority diseases is under-researched. The song is so obvious to me, even the almost painful devil-may-care sarcasm when comparing to the cheerful sound itself. I may have a different kind of chronic pain, being bedridden (my room and the bathroom next to me have been my world since I was 23 and I'm now 35, all due to a medical mistake that effed up nerves in my hip when I was 19 and first became housebound due to no fault of my own) but everything she sings sounds like it couldn't be more clear, whether an irresponsible doctor has left her without important medicine they think you don't need to taper (which would mean what she's feeling is even more traumatic because it's external - I've been there) or she feels it due to her lack of privacy, constantly being used, male jealousy and lack of true partnership and love for who she truly is and of course the horrifying thing that is chronic pain. Look to Disease's video to look into 4 minutes of 24/7 for a portrait of chronic suffering. She couldn't have painted the mind of someone in incredible pain any better. Why is Fun Tonight her darkest? If it's not yet clear, Fun Tonight's subject ends in ... ideation. Maybe passive, but could've even been active, poor woman - I'm glad she seems so much better equipped and more content than we've ever seen her - remember the Vogue quote about the time she released Chromatica and right before: "I was functioning as well as a woman who blacked out from hard liquor every day could have." What a difference, she's finally glowing again. As for the question: She's a genius and I'm not choosing, sorry! DCT is heavenly, with gorgeous lyrics like "The sun is rising, but we're out of light/We twist the knife too many times to say goodbye". It also seems like a personal song but one that isn't cloaked in poetry (especially with real life context) and a has fantastic bridge. It's just that, while House isn't my thing (but probably would've been if she could have been as involved as she was on all of her other albums - everything she touches turns to gold, whatever the genre), the courage she showed by pouring her heart out during the most painful time one can, making Fun Tonight both a great song and still confusing people who haven't been through it with its real meaning? Amazing. Not choosing. Edited March 21 by Apec 1 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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