The Fame/The Fame Monster: One album or two different albums?

[RainOnGaga 933]

It's a weird question, but do you take The Fame and The Fame Monster as one single album/era......or as two different projects. 

[PartySick 175,341]

Two albums, two eras, two tours (three tours?), I've never viewed them as being part of the same project

[ALGAYDO 35,684]

Anyone with a working brain knows that it’s two separate albums and two separate eras. However, for some label-ish reasons, a lot of people, markets and publications consider it one whole entity. So which are y’all?

Edited October 2 by ALGAYDO

[Hadrian 2,841]

They're two separate and distinct projects.

[Lord Axel 938]

They are two entirely separate albums, with TFM being basically an EP that contrasts the themes of The Fame

It's just that for charting/marketing purposes, TFM is considered a reissue of The Fame

[Sepsami 21,210]

They're very much a separate thing in my mind, in every way possible. They even had a separate tour. 

[Chromanne 2,907]

Before Gaga merged DWAS with Mayhem, she merged The Fame with The Fame Monster 

Initially, The Fame Monster was released as a standalone EP, but it was also bundled with the original The Fame tracklist as a double-disc deluxe edition. Disc 1 has The Fame Monster songs while Disk 2 has The Fame songs. This deluxe edition is also available in streaming services like YouTube and Spotify. Due to which, the pure sales and streams are counted together.

Edited October 2 by Chromanne

[princedeeblebleble 3,970]

I wish they added just TWO more tracks so it could be by numbers like an album, Like Glitter and Grease + Vanity were right there and she preformed them on tour.  Cause they feel , sound and look  like completely diff bodies of work. 

[Blackout19 16,409]

2 albums

[imogen2133 733]

2 different albums, both got their own eras/tours, Gaga calls it an album and LG2 and if Madonna's debut or Blackpinks The Album can be considered albums (with 8 songs) then I don't see why TFM can't be.  

[nATAH 58,694]

2 albums

[AVeryGagaHolyDick 32,494]

1 hour ago, princedeeblebleble said:

I wish they added just TWO more tracks so it could be by numbers like an album, Like Glitter and Grease + Vanity were right there and she preformed them on tour.  Cause they feel , sound and look  like completely diff bodies of work. 

Not Vanity and Glitter And Grease on The Fame Monster   It would be even more confusing, especially with Vanity being released already as a track from The Fame in Japan or something 

[Cherry Blues 688]

2 hours ago, princedeeblebleble said:

I wish they added just TWO more tracks so it could be by numbers like an album, Like Glitter and Grease + Vanity were right there and she preformed them on tour.  Cause they feel , sound and look  like completely diff bodies of work. 

It is by numbers an album, many successful albums such as Let's Dance by David Bowie has 8 tracks. Thriller by Michael Jackson has 9 tracks. 

Ride The Lightning by Metallica has 8 tracks, Dirty Mind by Prince has 8 tracks, The Cures ****ography has 8 tracks, IV by Led Zeppelin, Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen - all of them are considered whole albums.  EPs have around 5 songs. 

For me The Fame Monster is clearly an album. 

Edited October 2 by Cherry Blues

[nATAH 58,694]

1 hour ago, AVeryGagaHolyDick said:

especially with Vanity being released already as a track from The Fame in Japan or something 

this isn't true

Vanity only appeared on promotional editions for The Fame

https://www.discogs.com/release/12262656-Lady-Gaga-Lady-Gaga

these contained older mixes of the final songs, such as Love Games and didn't have a public release

Vanity never made it to any final version of The Fame

Edited October 2 by nATAH

[warhol killah 9,366]

2 albums, 2 eras.