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Is Gaga a Mediocre Songwriter?


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Is Gaga a Mediocre Songwriter?  

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  1. 1. Is Gaga a Mediocre Songwriter?

    • Yes, she’s so MID
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    • No, she’s GREAT
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    • She has her HITS and her MISSES
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Decodekid
9 minutes ago, LM said:

yet you are here preaching about other people being bored and having too much time to waste while having 31,899 posts under your account :laughga:

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Controversiaga

I honestly feel she was great before the fame was released, and up to born this way was able to carry that greatness 

but then burn out happens and once an artist feels like they’ve said everything they want to say , they no longer know what they want to say now, and her life changed drastically, so more and more songwriters needed to hop on to help out and that’s when her lyrics got more and more generic and basic and extremely unimpressive uninspired and not clever at all.  Abracadabra felt like a once in a decade GEM because it was able to do what she use to be able to do 

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I think she's an average songwriter and her lyrics can be cringey sometimes, but she sure knows how to write melodies. I just wish she'd diversify her themes a bit. It feels like it's always love, men, breakups, or death. I'd love to see her work with more co-writers for LG8.

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Babylon Dynasty

she's just fine imo. She knows how to write a pop song and I do think that the topics she talks about in different albums can feel repetitive (I think it's very noticeable in MAYHEM), but I don't think it's that bad. And yk, many will disagree but I think her most inspired album in this aspect is Joanne. Come To Mama, Angel Down, Hey Girl, Grigio Girls. These songs have some of the most beautiful lyrics of her career imo. :iamfair:

When it comes to other albums, I have mixed opinions but I don't think Chromatica is as bad as people say. It has some misses but then there are songs like SFA, Replay, 911 and Fun Tonight too.

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SidewalkUnicorn
9 hours ago, candydarling said:

you mean dont call tonight and shadow of a man?

I know. Just because she doesn’t spell it out doesn’t mean the meaning isn’t there. That said, do I think she’s the greatest lyricist? No. She has some great peaks and some low valleys. But songwriting is more than lyrics and very few are as good with packing multiple hooks into a song as Gaga is.

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PornoDanceFight

She's fine. At times she outwrites her peers, at others, she can be as average as them. I think some of her more straightforward tracks work for what they're trying to accomplish (I will never not belt "Hold My Hand," even though it is paint-by-numbers-movie-soundtrack fare), but I'd argue her only "bad" lyrics are when she's purposefully trying to write trite lyrics (some of BTW and Joanne, and a lot of ARTPOP). 

However, I think she is a phenomenal melodicist and composer.

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monketsharona
1 hour ago, LM said:

gurl, nobody here is rude. We're allowed to discuss both Gaga's strengths and weaknesses and yet you are here preaching about other people being bored and having too much time to waste while having 31,899 posts under your account :laughga:

And my post is worthy enough for you to comment. Idiot.

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TheWineMonster

I think she's amazing, she can write deep songs to sob and silly fun pop songs to perfection, she can be camp, serious, fun and she writes great choruses and bridges!

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12 hours ago, Omegahedron said:

Just ask your gay friends their advice before you, get a spray tan on holiday in Taipei" is something you might hear on an SNL sketch).

lol I don’t know how no one talked her out of releasing that song… It’s just so so cringe :toofunny:

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PornoDanceFight
4 minutes ago, nkta said:

lol I don’t know how no one talked her out of releasing that song… It’s just so so cringe :toofunny:

See, I always thought that was a slight drag on this iconic Donatella look...:stupidoreo:
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I think it works in-song as both uplifting and satirizing the subject matter.

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3 hours ago, steven said:

I just wish she'd diversify her themes a bit. It feels like it's always love, men, breakups, or death.

also fame haha - she loves writing about fame too much sometimes

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6 hours ago, SleepingSun said:

Born This Way is redundant?

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sorry I heard Express Yourself there on the first listen, and that kinda killed the song for me :reductive:

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7 hours ago, SavetheEarthNow said:

Anyone who says she's a "mediocre songwriter", one question: who and what do you consider superior to her songwriting?

from contemporaries: Lana Del Rey, Madonna of the 80’s - 90’s early 2000’s, I also think Miley Cyrus is amazing songwriter (her last album was criminally underrated)

From Music History: Michael Jackson, Freddy Mercury, Elton John… maybe Dolly Parton? Did Whitney Houston write her some of songs - not sure here

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