Which tracklist has the best storyline?

[onTheBrink 1,477]

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?

[Oriane 22,856]

ARTPOP 

 

 

[Blackout19 15,929]

[Bronco 26,529]

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.

[River 127,965]

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.

 

[TimotheeChalamet 6,993]

Probably Chromatica

[Lucas 31,332]

Chromatica probably. The 3 different acts, the instrumental interludes etc...

[DESTROY UR DISEASE 20,858]

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

[RochesterJoannster 4,123]

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.