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OMF
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Shallow and Blade of Grass I love

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Ashley

idk I’m not a vocal expert but I enjoy her voice on most songs :shrug: even ones people complain about like Dope, The Cure, and Blade of Grass.

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darkgaga
43 minutes ago, Duella Dvil said:

This is rage bait right? :ladyhaha:

The woman couldnt even do the keychange at Gagacabana

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Duella Dvil
3 minutes ago, darkgaga said:

The woman couldnt even do the keychange at Gagacabana

:laughga:MESS

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TAIPEI
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LIKE:

most of her songs from the fame / the fame monster and born this way / venus / alice / 911 / abracadabra / 

DONT LIKE:

dope / shallow / sour candy / die with a smile

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Charmi3

What I love from a Gaga vocal is on a song like SHICD (huge part of my why it's my favourite gagz song). it's an understated sound from her, more RnBish, and because of that it communicates the song's intent/themes and emotivity through mood/tone and stylistic nuances. it's not trying to affect me with force. I loved how she used to flip into and between nasalised and throaty vowels on certain words (do my hairrr, gloss my eyyyes, good tiiime, diiie-uh, or the way she wauhhhlks, I touhch myself can't get enouuugh, it's alr-iiight) and seamlessly flip back to rest on a more neutral "speaking" voice, or switch to a belt, breathier sections, powerful mixy vibrato... SHICD has it all really. but she is such a versatile singer in that way which is why it pains me that nowadays I think she over sauces it to death, some songs and performances really suffer in that bulldozing of nuance.

I aired my issue in the Requiem thread with the kind of vocal that is exemplified there, which she has really settled on since like 2015. that unrelenting, resonant, nasal, forward placement with very exaggerated stagey vowels. I can accept and appreciate the intention there and how it connects to the setting. I just have a problem with how she applies it to almost everything. the dancey ASIB songs are some of the worst earliest offenders of this imo, like why are you/Ally singing like Liza Minelli on this slinky tropical RnB jam. I die everytime I hear her come in like Andrea Bocelli at the pre chorus of Sour Candy. And I hated it on Joanne because it was all so forced and convoluted but at least it did fit the album there. 

44 minutes ago, AVeryGagaHolyDick said:

she often either sounds like she wants to prove she can sing or she completely neglects the vocals in favor of the emotion, with like no balance to me. 

I think this also kind of speaks to my thoughts: the sound of "proving" I think is at this point just cuz she likes to sing that way and likes to differentiate herself - and she does, nobody sings like her. vocally, the pendulum swings way too far into her valuing of substance over style sometimes

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Anderson123
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Don’t like:

Why Did You Do that? 

Diamond Heart (yoUuungg wild american, I might not be flawless but I got a diamoOnd hearToooOoaahoo, GOOD THING THAT I KNOW WHAT I’M WOOOORTH)

Come To Mama (Avarabady’s gatta lav each otha)

Plastic Doll bridge

Aura final version verses (prefer angry vocals)


I love Dope so much but that voice she does on this song and Til It Happens To You is so depressing I have to be in the mood to listen to them.

 

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StrawberryBlond
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Hate: The way she says "my voice gets thin" on Joanne and the "goinnnng goinnng" bit and the way she sings "foolish and weaker" (for the last time) on the Angel Down work tape. She sounds like a witch then it just ends! :derpga:

Love: Everything else.

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gagacabana

Like: lady gaga

Dislike: you guys

I don't believe in the glorification of murder, I do believe in the empowerment of women
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Ziggy
3 hours ago, BELLYACHE said:

I miss her sweet and airy raspy voice from TFM and BTW, if she sang in that way but with her refined growls today I would have liked a lot of songs better or better period. I’d love to hear disease abra and perfect celebrity in that voice 😩😩

I don’t think you could sing two of those songs in that voice :laughga:

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GerMonsterNotta

Anyone else thinks she sings A LOT more in her higher register than the early days… can anyone explain that ???

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Charmi3
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29 minutes ago, GerMonsterNotta said:

Anyone else thinks she sings A LOT more in her higher register than the early days… can anyone explain that ???

She does love to go up there, higher pitches/wider melodic contours are just more dramatic = interesting and exciting to listen to and for her to perform. So it works on a dramatic album like MAYHEM. but she wants to belt up there, she rarely uses head voice

lowkey I reckon she has been taking notes from Amy Lee in recent years... both mezzo sopranos with similar ranges but Amy has total mastery of her upper register

 

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FameHookah
8 hours ago, TheBannedShadow said:

Don’t like: Mayhem Requiem 

Yeah not a fan of these Daftpunk and vocal choices there

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TheARTPOPball
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I think born this way and harlequin have my favorite vocals. My favorite studio vocal performances from her are fashion of his love, the outro of the Queen, close to you, and the final chorus of hold my hand is great. 

ironically, I know Gaga is a very talented vocalist both sound and technique wise. But I think I enjoyed harlequin because of her abandonment of total perfect technique, it really did a lot for the sound and I hadn’t heard her sound better in years. I tell people all the time, you can be a perfect singer technically and still not SOUND good, and this record reflects that. The sound of her voice is incredible and no amount of training is the reason for that, her singing is a natural gift of hers. 

I don’t have any vocals of hers that I strongly dislike but I think a lot of Chromatica and some of mayhem were a little bit on the too nasal side and it sounds like she is sitting higher up in her voice than is comfortable. It’s much more apparent when she’s touring. 

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darkgaga

Dont like most of the Fame vocals and when she goes into this very narrow pinched voice she often does in the jazz albums and during Enigma. 
 

Love the deep rapsy vocals and switching them into the higher register

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