onTheBrink 1,758 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Gaga albums always have a storyline baked into the tracklist and it's one of the things I enjoy most about listening to an album start to finish w her. Mine is probably Born This Way - this journey away from defeat with Marry The Night all the way through to transcendence and release with The Edge Of Glory (with nice stops in between - betrayal (Judas), danger (Government Hooker), adventure (Americano) etc) Do you sense a 'storyline' in any of the album tracklists? What is it? you missed a bit 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oriane 23,026 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 ARTPOP The only GGD member who can read / Credits to Celloo Deng for the profile pic! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout19 16,204 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 i am a free woman. ○● Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronco 27,954 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Mayhem is the one that comes closest to a storyline at points. But I genuinely don't think any Gaga album has a storyline level cohesion. The gays know how to party 9 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
River 128,859 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Mayhem. It's about a person who played the doctor (like any other influencer/RFK) to heal their lover through conventional medicine and it didn't work so they became anti vax and all that. Then they went to magic with abra, just to end up in a weird magic chemsex rave. She cheated on her bf. The news went viral and everyone in the world knows that.. she's pissed and blaming the paparazzi and the media.. like a typical right wing politician. her lover she tried to heal died.. she regrets what she did at the party, she wishes to vanish into him and live forever. she's over his death and now just going to f-ck people and kill them.. like in American Psycho movie.. also her curtains are full of human sperm she went to another magic weird chemsex rave and she rose her dead lover from the dead as a zombie.. just to realize that he's better be a memory, so she sent him back to the grave. she met me @River, I was in her eyes, so she wrote a song about how her love and admiration to me is like a drug. she's teasing me with a taylor swift-like song "how bad do u want me" and I'm like "I'm gay sis". Her father is on FOX news again, so she's driving home to her favorite song and she screams so loud cause she's all alone.. because her bf died.. then her republican father calls her and she's pissed. she's dancing in the shadow of her father, her dead lover, the guy she cheated with, any man.. f*ck them all. she met a werewolf and they had a crazy furry wild beast sex they got married they apocalypse arrived, they died with a smile. the end. So sploosh your juice all over me you Riverboy 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimotheeChalamet 7,049 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Probably Chromatica Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas 31,569 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Chromatica probably. The 3 different acts, the instrumental interludes etc... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DESTROY UR DISEASE 21,271 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 ARTPOP wins for me The Fame Monster doesn't really have any storyline or at least I don't see it The Fame and Joanne kinda do but they don't do much for me Chromatica is like the most obvious answer because of the three acts but ut's still not my favorite Born This Way has a perfect opening and closing and the record itself is phenomenal but I think there's two that provide the sequencing a bit better MAYHEM is executed perfectly and I think most of us agree, the only thing I'd personally change is switch LoveDrug and The Dead Dance cause it ruins my Zombieboy-LoveDrug flow so yeah - ARTPOP takes it Aura, ARTPOP and Applause (aka the 3 tracks containing the album title) starting, closing and being in the middle of the record also make a difference Starting off with the craziness of Aura and keeping the energy for Venus and G.U.Y.. Then lowering it a bit for Sexxx Dreams so she can skyrocket it again for Jewels n Drugs AND MANiCURE. Then slow it down for Do What U Want and nicely go to the title track. Again the energy peaks during Swine, kept on similar level for Donatella and continue the fashion theme on Fashion!. Do I even have to mention the Mary Jane Holland-Dope-Gypsy-Applause sequencing? Exactly I can smell your sickness I can... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RochesterJoannster 4,188 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 I actually think it’s none of them, so I’m giving my vote my dear Joanne. Loss and healing are important themes. It sort of reminds me of Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 album, where only 4 of the 12 songs fit any type of “theme” outside of love, but it’s still pushed as the main concept of the whole album. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bxr 2,960 Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Hmm … neither here nor there fwiw, but I‘d say … The Fame, ARTPOP, BTW, Joanne (like a parallel to the concept album thread, but levelling up Joanne) … DESTROY UR DISEASE (I was going to abbreviate the initials, but that seemed backhanded) summed up ARTPOP quite well … BTW reads like a horizontal storyline or more of a mise en scene capture of identity, like she shows up to school and sort of plays narrative theme song/scene songs for identities she encounters through the day in the halls or parking lot or quad or mess hall or, etc. … Joanne is a solid introspective retrospective more of a journaling, but Diamond Heart as an establishing shot like, wow—and then JAD and Angel Down (Work Tape) to close captures a bit of that BTW ouroboros continuity The Fame, though, that was the first album that really challenged me as a writer to articulate a lucid sequential storyline, scene by scene, through the songs as arranged in the tracklist … on a blind spin … so, that it established that necessary standard for an otherwise “just another aught pop debut,“ completely elevated my approach to music journalism and music culture and millennial pop music as a bonafide docupop narrative form But … again … just neither here nor there salt grain musings into the airwaves 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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