What Is Gaga's Best Concept Album?

[Future Lovers 7,680]

Well she’s never made one. 

An album in which a handful tracks brush against a general, undetailed theme does not a concept album make.

The Fame does not really deal with fame for the majority of it’s runtime and does not offer much actual commentary on the songs it does.

ARTPOP isn’t really about any one thing. No artistic expression and the melding of art and pop (whatever she meant by that) is not a theme. 

Joanne isn’t about any one thing in particular either. 

Chromatica is very loosely about trauma and depression sometimes but is not a unified concept or theme in any way. 

MAYHEM has a theme but the theme is applied to the sound of the record, not what the songs themselves are actually about (the actual tracks are about a variety of disconnected topics).

BTW is the closest she’s ever come to one but it also isn’t really one. A lot of the tracklist loosely revolves around the idea of freedom and expression but it’s never really tied together or presented as any sort of real throughline and several songs aren’t even within that theme at all. 

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[Concertaholic 6,592]

Joanne. Maybe not the best but certainly the most cohesive. To me she played the role of wannabe crossover country/Americana artist consistently throughout the entire album/era and had the most dedication to just one theme/vibe out of all the eras.

[Future Lovers 7,680]

I feel like several of you are approaching this as “cohesive sound = concept album” when that is…not what a concept album is. 

A track list of songs that have a similar sonic identity is not a concept album. That’s just what an album is babes.