MAYHEM Requiem: Apple Music Live

[South Blonde 6,353]

Anybody can share a link? Help a broke bitch out pls 

[gagacabana 5,132]

11 hours ago, Nagini said:

Someone start the LG8 thread because she is coming with this alien cyborg 2050 daft punk electronic musical GENIUS energy 

And featuring the archandroid electric lady Janelle Monáe iktr

[Ladle Ghoulash 44,605]

Just now, gagacabana said:

And featuring the archandroid electric lady Janelle Monáe iktr

Janelle needs to start making good music again because the fall off after Dirty Computer? Sister…

[gagacabana 5,132]

11 hours ago, DESTROY UR DISEASE said:

heaven's not ready for you

 

 

so it came down on Earth tonight

Mayhem, where do you think you're going, girl

[desnorteio 111]

Can someone share the download of the songs from Apple? I own Spotify only 

[Luisillo0o 176]

DONT CALL TONITE WAS AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING, I love how the crowd was being so loud

 

[gagacabana 5,132]

2 hours ago, bxr said:

But/and/then on the eighth day …

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Today‘s (May 15) Gospel Reading (Catholic Liturgy)

As always, neither here nor there, just musing salt grains into the airwaves … but whew … an undercurrent flair for the Zeitgeist Theology, Pop Goes the Gospel 

The catholiqueer-motif is MOTIFYING 

[gagacabana 5,132]

33 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Janelle needs to start making good music again because the fall off after Dirty Computer? Sister…

Holding JM on previous standards could never make me hate you, TAOP  i do understand the dissonance of going from a specifically curated concept of black queerness to a more "down to earth" perspective, but I do loooove TAOPs production and sounds and themes. It's like JM'S joanne era 

[Vimo 1,532]

Reflecfing back on this show, I wish she could reinvent her old songs for her regular tours. Like Madonna has been doing for the last 30 years. 

[gagacabana 5,132]

3 minutes ago, Vimo said:

Reflecfing back on this show, I wish she could reinvent her old songs for her regular tours. Like Madonna has been doing for the last 30 years. 

You've already answered your own rhetorical question: when gaga runs out of things to say maybe she'll live reheating her nachos (which I don't think is ever going to happen tbh )

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[bim 786]

…excuse me? This is absolute top tier, next level, even for her. Fvcking BRAVO to everyone involved in creating this show. Wow. I don’t really have words. 

[SleepingSun 966]

Words fail me. How could I describe what my eyes just witnessed? Let me say this: We've all been saying 'Lady Gaga is back'. However, that's not true. She isn't just back. She went to the stars and beyond. Mayhem, from genesis to requiem, has been nothing but pure joy to experience. Thank you, Gaga 

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[bxr 1,675]

2 hours ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Reminds me of Gaga saying that she “needed to find the religion in the show” during the BTS commentary. In spite of the conversation about Gaga and religion often centering around her provocative use of religious iconography, I think her most interesting contribution to the discussion is actually decentering the ecstasy and liturgy of religious experience from the nexus of tradition/established faith practices (“my religion is you”). Taking religion, at first, as obsession and devotion during TFM, then gradually building it into a personal practice, belief system, shared ceremony, but also, probably most radically in the idea that religion is the machination of personal meaning using the world (both figurative and abstract) as raw material.

Oh wow, I haven’t watched the Mayhem Requiem BTS yet, but collectively: yes, your vantage is lucid as ever and draws on much of the contemporary tensions within the Catholic Church in particular … popular piety, the rise of the “Nones” (those who identify as having no religious affiliation … which is also an seamless allusion toward cradle Catholic women who find spiritual community elsewhere or practice a more integrated approach (the “None” Nuns)), the historic dialectic between contemplation and action or the mystical versus activistic endeavor toward the divine or transmundane experience (traditionally, women mystics, namely Sts. Teresa of Avila and Therese “The Little Flower,” who dove deeply into the mystical experience of literal espousal to Christ) … how does one bring Heaven or The Kingdom to Earth, and cultivate / express said consciousness manifest reality … live the sacrifice of unconditional love supreme: here, music is that immortal elixir and the live experience is cultural liturgy and the reality of that one girl’s “bubble world” within this capacity, for instance, is said religion (adapted)—that started to ramble after the None Nuns, but there might have been elements of relevance subsequent to said drift … but/and, yes, your reflection is revelation

2 hours ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

@bxrngl that string of connections genuinely warrants its own thread because that is ****ing fascinating 

Oh wow [2], in immediate retrospect … that March 28 is the day attributed with the birth of the sun, moon, and stars (and controversially considered to be the actual Nativity) also surfaces in relation to this sort of intercultural spirituality / zeitgeist theology significance …

Spoiler

and, if we parallel the days in a liturgical season with years in one‘s life … this, 2026 AD, SG’s fortieth year on Earth … would be the fortieth day in said lifetime … or, forty days (solar cycles) after the Lenten Passion of her human experience thus far into an emerging Eastertide, or forty days from the Easter of a rebirth in this form into the Ascension of said era‘s Requiem, Mayhem laid to rest … this electric world pop life … the endless cycle of love, art, death, rebirth … or something to said eclectic chaplain effect

A thread would be fun  maybe a Sunday session (Ascension Sunday, May 17) for the sake of narrative contintuity … 

[Ladle Ghoulash 44,605]

51 minutes ago, gagacabana said:

Holding JM on previous standards could never make me hate you, TAOP  i do understand the dissonance of going from a specifically curated concept of black queerness to a more "down to earth" perspective, but I do loooove TAOPs production and sounds and themes. It's like JM'S joanne era 

I just prefer the musical influences/direction on AA, EL, DC. I miss her doing psychedelic soul/R&B, funk, pop/rock etc. 

[REALITY 79,756]

Just finished watching it! My god, it was amazing from start to finish

I loved every interpretation and reimagining of the songs, which I was kind of surprised by, only because I remember hearing that people were kind of mixed on whether or not they liked the new versions. Immediate standouts are SOAM, DWAS, Killah, HBDUWM, Zombieboy, Perfect Celebrity, and BOE. Though every. single. one. of them were great! I was most surprised by how much I enjoyed BoG. This easily beats the album version imo. Like, leagues above it.

The set and costumes were incredible too. I'm enamored with the creative direction of this show; the idea to make it the ruins of the opera house and setting it in the distant future is really cool. It's very cinematic. 

Ngl, I'd love it if this were the direction of LG8. This gothic/cyberpunk/synth-y/electronic sound and style is right up my alley. But I have a feeling she's going to go in a completely different direction—which is apropos for Gaga. 

Overall, a wonderful ending to her best era since BTW 

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