Mayhem details that you still didn't get?

[Bronco 21,419]

14 minutes ago, Lord Mayhem said:

Why weren't there more singles for such a banger album? 

 Because the streaming numbers didn't support more singles lol

[Oriane 22,327]

16 hours ago, steven said:

I feel like Mayhem was meant to sound chaotic but sometimes it feels more like a bunch of different styles and influences put together than one clear album vision tbh. It still works but I don’t think it’s her most cohesive project sonically.

I will go further than that. I get that the concept of MAYHEM is supposed to be chaotic, a mix of several styles together, but the result doesn't feel like that.

It does feel chaotic in the first few songs although most of it is classic dark pop Gaga, but from Vanish into you to Shadow of a man, it's just a collection of 80s inspired songs with very little change of style between them. Then you've got ballads at the end. It feels like there's a lack of clear direction and concept.

Secondly, that concept would be cool for an artist who isn't used to doing that. But most of her albums already feel chaotic sonically. The Fame is very MAYHEM and not in a good way imo (it starts with pure dance pop hits, then you've got a mix of glam/pop/RNB(?) less good songs and a few old pop/ballads). The Fame Monster is short but every song is so different from the others. Every ARTPOP song is also different from the others. Even Harlequin feels more MAYHEM than MAYHEM. So it's a bit weird for her to do an album based around this concept that she's done so much better in the past.

[gagzus 20,247]

17 hours ago, qoqo said:

1. The Mayhem Ball plot

4. what making the curtains cream means

These I can tell you.

Start of with the shorter one; curtains cream is a cheeky metaphor for female genitals getting moist during sex. The whole song and chorus is about sex. 
 

Now Mayhem Ball; it’s in short about the whole Lady vs Gaga dichotomy she’s had for years. Mayhem/The Mistress/Lady in Red whenever she has black hair basically is essentially Gaga and when she’s in blonde it’s Lady/Stefani. And at the end during Shallow/Million Reasons they realise they can exist together and become own; hence why in Bad Romance she wears white with red and had blonde and black hair.

[HotLikeMexico 6,242]

Why is the album’s original color orange and then completely abandoned. Why was the imagery all dark but the body of work was mainly disco and funk. 

Edited 9 hours ago by HotLikeMexico

[dopega 3,783]

19 hours ago, qoqo said:

4. what making the curtains cream means

I believe it's referencing a Salvador Dali painting of Mae West 

[PartySick 171,216]

20 hours ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Mistress of MAYHEM and Lady in Red same character afaik

That's incorrect, actually

[Ladle Ghoulash 45,020]

Just now, PartySick said:

That's incorrect, actually

In what world are they not the same character? 

[PartySick 171,216]

Just now, Ladle Ghoulash said:

In what world are they not the same character? 

No, you're right, I just wanted to be annoying  

Gotcha

[Ladle Ghoulash 45,020]

Just now, PartySick said:

No, you're right, I just wanted to be annoying  

Gotcha

You thought you had to *try* to be annoying? Groundbreaking 

[imogen2133 327]

1. Why we never got a GOE video.

2. The plot of the Mayhem Ball.

[Ladle Ghoulash 45,020]

2 minutes ago, imogen2133 said:

1. Why we never got a GOE video.

2. The plot of the Mayhem Ball.

I still am baffled by the number of hoops you’re willing to jump through to justify the scattershot plot of the BTWB only to not get her most straightforward and fully realized stage plot lmao 

Edited 17 hours ago by Ladle Ghoulash

[imogen2133 327]

16 hours ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

I still am baffled by the number of hoops you’re willing to jump through to justify the scattershot plot of the BTWB only to not get her most straightforward and fully realized stage plot lmao 

Huh? well the BTWB plot is pretty easy to follow imo (but some parts are messy i admit) but besides that with the Mayhem Ball plot I understand the Ethereal Ga/Mistress Of mayhem split and how it is about Gaga learning to integrate the 2 halves of herself but I don't see how Bad Romance is the culmination of all of that and I still don't get why Etherealga comes back after she is killed after PokerFace. Also in the Disease and Abra videos it is establised that the Mistress is watching over the 2 halves of Gaga(and there are parts of this in the tour  narrative as well), how can the Mistress be watching over the EtherealGa and darker version of her if the darker version is the Mistress? like is the Gaga battling Etheralga during Pokerface the mistress? This also goes for the intro interlude the Gaga in red is supposed to be the Mistress after during Bloody Mary(she even wears a similar outfit with the same hair) but she is talking about the Mistress as a seperate entity. Also we do not learn anything about the Mistress of Mayhem outside of her being there to challenge Gaga really and put her to the test.

Edited 35 minutes ago by imogen2133

[Ladle Ghoulash 45,020]

Just now, imogen2133 said:

Huh? well the BTWB plot is pretty easy to follow imo (but some parts are messy i admit) but besides that with the Mayhem Ball plot I understand the Ethereal Ga/Mistress Of mayhem split and how it is about Gaga learning the integrate the 2 halves of herself but I don't see how Bad Romance is the culmination of all of that and I still don't get why Etheralga comes back after she is killed after PokerFace. Also in the Disease and Abra videos it is establised that the Mistress is watching over the 2 halves of Gaga(and there are parts of this in the tour  narrative as well), how can the Mistress be watching over the EtherealGa and darker version of her if the darker version is the Mistress? like is the Gaga battling Etheralga during Pokerface the mistress? This also goes for the intro interlude the Gaga in red is supposed to be the Mistress after during Bloody Mary(she even wears a similar outfit with the same hair) but she is talking about the Mistress as a seperate entity.

Because Bad Romance has almost always been staged as being about Stefani’s relationship to Gaga and Gaga’s relationship to fame (not to mention that, if you view the dynamic between EtherealGa and the Mistress as being toxic and somewhat dangerous, the idea of it being a “bad romance” makes pretty straight forward sense, imo). Also: again, the death isn’t really literal as much as it is figurative: she sends her into a dream (à la The Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland) where the dream is a challenge/test and the consequence of failure is death (but she passes the test and doesn’t die).

Also: re: Disease: they’re all Gaga (which is established in the video when EtherealGa is born and takes off the Mistress’ mask to reveal they’re the same person and her shock that she’s doing this to herself). She also doesn’t talk about the Mistress as a separate entity in the opening of the tour, tho. She is the Lady in Red there, which is the same character as the Mistress (shared use of the cane, thru line between Disease -> Abra).

[KindnessPunk 2,360]

At the end of Bad Romance during the Mayhem Ball, is that supposed be the red dress burning in the archway?

[princedeeblebleble 3,133]

5 hours ago, Bronco said:

 Because the streaming numbers didn't support more singles lol

I feel like most people mean why we didn't get more videos more than single releases  which is a valid question for little miss almost billionaire while much smaller artists sometimes do basically visual albums (slayyyter, Jade, Jessie Ware etc.