Mayhem Should Have Been Titled….

[Purrrrrr 18,115]

6 hours ago, bpmMonkey said:

Chaos Ankle. 

That poor shoe is fighting for it's life  

[Killa 18,835]

Should have beeen La mayhem like in Mexico. It gave that extra Gaga effect and campiness that we love

[RainOnGaga 872]

MAYHEM should be called "Perfect Celebrity"

[Ladle Ghoulash 53,554]

7 hours ago, LGAte said:

I love the lore but I think this is reading into Mayhem as a title too much. I think her explanation of it was what it was meant to be. 

Sure, but that reading is also totally consistent with the way she’s talked about it and the framing you used to justify Happy Mistake as the title lol

[Ladle Ghoulash 53,554]

7 hours ago, LGAte said:

Precisely why I think it’s too safe.

 

i want Gaga to take an actual ****ing risk again sorry lol

“I want Gaga to take a risk again” by releasing the same album with a different name 😭

[Ladle Ghoulash 53,554]

7 hours ago, Juanlittlem said:

But some songs do sound like the early Gaga? Also, not you pretending The Fame or TFM arent safe as well.

Again, I think because Gaga was a formative influence on a lot of folks on here, they see her early work as more experimental than it is because the sound was new to them at the time, but they don’t account for that bias when talking about her new music lol

[Ladle Ghoulash 53,554]

5 hours ago, MadArchitect said:

i mean that is the direct meaning of it, you don't have to read too deep in it, and she named the character Mayhem too, i think that had to do with her choosing the title as well, she never said that explaining the title lol, have you even seen her telling what her thinking was?

I also don’t really understand why folks are so prescriptive/intentionalist about interpretations. If a fan can read something into the work that is supported by the material, even if it wasn’t explicitly stated as the intention of the artist, it’s a valid interpretation. So even if Gaga never specifically cited the etymology of the word “mayhem,” the fact that it’s etymology is reflected in the work makes it a valid interpretive lens, imo.

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[BrandyFinest 870]

7 hours ago, Juanlittlem said:

Also, not you pretending The Fame or TFM arent safe as well.

commercially safe isn't necessarily an issue, but it's only an issue to me when the aesthetics of an era promise something more . TF+ TFM are main stream pop, but don't pretend to be anything more. they are also better albums in general.

[Mothermayhem 5]

10 minutes ago, BrandyFinest said:

commercially safe isn't necessarily an issue, but it's only an issue to me when the aesthetics of an era promise something more . TF+ TFM are main stream pop, but don't pretend to be anything more. they are also better albums in general.

Gaga started the mayhem era by teasing shadow of a man and doing a little MJ dance. And mayhem (which is perfect name of the album) end up being an MJ/80s pop inspired album. And she teased the disco influence with zombie boy during disease MV… like get a grip please we got exactly what she wanted to give us whatever you made up in your mind isn’t her problem she was obvious about this album’s inspirations and it having many sounds . and in no way or form the fame is a better album than mayhem lol

[Bradley 60,232]

Some of you did not understand the ingenuity of Mayhem at all and it shows

[BrandyFinest 870]

6 minutes ago, Mothermayhem said:

and in no way or form the fame is a better album than mayhem lol

One second of brown eyes coming from shitty muffled ear phones>>>>> entirety of Mayhem

[Ladle Ghoulash 53,554]

1 minute ago, BrandyFinest said:

One second of brown eyes coming from shitty muffled ear phones>>>>> entirety of Mayhem

Yeah, the nostalgia trap is so real lmao

[BrandyFinest 870]

Just now, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Yeah, the nostalgia trap is so real lmao

naur, I wasn't a big gaga fan when I was a kid. I only became a fan in my late teens, so i'm a newbie fan in the grand scheme of things. 

[Ladle Ghoulash 53,554]

30 minutes ago, BrandyFinest said:

TF* TFM are main stream pop, but don't pretend to be anything more

Those eras’ aesthetics *absolutely* pretended to be more than mainstream pop, moreso than MAYHEM even lol. Paparazzi turning into a commentary on killing for fame, the Alejandro video attempting to tackle the aesthetics of fascism + religious iconography etc etc. Gaga’s whole schtick early on was regularly clashing the visual aesthetic of her work and the narrative context of her work with the relatively straightforward pop sound of her music. IMO, a lot of MAYHEM is actually more aesthetically uniform than her previous material (Disease + Abra’s MVs come to mind, as well as purposefully leaning into the camp of Killah + Zombieboy for live performances)

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[Ladle Ghoulash 53,554]

1 minute ago, BrandyFinest said:

naur, I wasn't a big gaga fan when I was a kid. I only became a fan in my late teens, so i'm a newbie fan in the grand scheme of things. 

You don’t have to have lived thru those eras to fall into a nostalgia trap, tho lol. If anything, it’s easier to look back with rose colored glasses if you weren’t there while something was happening.