Why is ”Stache” so forgotten?

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1 minute ago, AVeryGagaHolyDick said:

The instrumental track is phenomenal, there’s nothing overrated about it

But I understand why some fans are turned off by Gaga’s lyrics. That said, Bad Romance´s lyrics aren’t Shakespeare level either, and no one complains about them. It’s very freestyle like

I didn't say I was turned off by the lyrics lol where did that come from? 

But if we look at the history of the song - it's a Zedd track that Gaga got bored and decided to record some vocals for fun to go on top of it. 
And as a result, you can hear it's quite rough. The spoken vocals are choppy and have an odd reverb/echo to them that comes with them being made for fun, it sounds like they were recorded in a bathroom. 
The mixing is off - for most of the song the vocals and the instrumental are fighting eachother to be the primary part of the mix. 

And like it's a good instrumental. It's not phenomenal. It's basic "chart-friendly" EDM. Like Gagzus said, it's heavily repetitive in quite a bland way. It doesn't really take it's loop and do much of anything with it. It starts at one level, stays at that level without building for the first minute, then spends the next 40 seconds building to a drop that's a blatant Swedish House Mafia Greyhound rip off (and the problem with ripping off SHM is that they are infinetly better). And the drop lasts like 15 seconds before it goes back to the loop we'd had for the first 2 minutes of the track. 
If the final drop brought in around the 3.30 mark was the centerpiece of the track and not the after thought it'd be an interesting mix. But like it's a 4 min track, and it only starts to show variety and experimentation in it's final 30 seconds before coming into a bit of a uninteresting ending. 

But ultimately, it's not actually a Gaga song or an ARTPOP song. 
It was a Zedd track which she decided to riff sing on top off and released for the fun of it. So like, there's a reason why most people never considered it as a potential DWUW replacement. Because it's not really an ARTPOP track. 

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1 minute ago, Hydrangea said:

I’m sorry to say it honestly felt like she just got high and made a mess 

No need for apology! That chemical elevation into material ruin isn‘t entirely unrelated to the conceptual undercurrent … bless this mess—ARTPOP!  

 

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1 hour ago, AVeryGagaHolyDick said:

Not as dated as Just Dance/Monster tbh

Also yeah, it’s no The Edge Of Glory but not every song needs to be that

It’s better than some of the last MAYHEM songs, and much better than the DWP songs

just completely and loudly wrong

as someone else said: she got high and pooped out some mess

very poor quality song alongside CLLG, it was a gag back then but it's aged like cheap milk, mostly because it's an unfinished concept

Edited November 7 by nATAH

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I love Stache but it’s a big nothing salad. 

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2 hours ago, nATAH said:

Nutella get behind me

As A Sub Top, I just might

2 hours ago, DESTROY UR DISEASE said:

said by Judas🗑️ hater

THIS ^ is how I should have ended my original comment, just to further drive home the point that I KNOW a bad song when I hear one 

2 hours ago, AVeryGagaHolyDick said:

Not as dated as Just Dance

The timelessly spooky, hypnotic, simple-but-precise synth of Just Dance...?

...more dated than a noxious, hyperactive experiment of early 10's EDM?

Surely you jest, HolyRichard

[27monster27 16,447]

I love it! I wish it was an official feature. I remember people saying that Zedd was anti-drugs and that's why he didn't want it to be official. Is this true or just a false rumor from years ago?

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6 hours ago, Bronco said:

And like it's a good instrumental. It's not phenomenal. It's basic "chart-friendly" EDM.

Really? I never saw this as chart friendly. If you were talking about Clarity or Follow You Down (a song Lady Gaga got instrumental rights to, but didn't use and ended up on Clarity), then I would agree. Stache always felt way more experimental for radio and the charts.

[NemoMyName 2,451]

this song and mary jane holland is so "white girl tries weed and now it' her whole personality"

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Ugh Clarity was such an amazing album when it was released, so many good memories. 

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16 hours ago, Addison Rae said:

she was kinda ahead of her time…artists like ninajirachi/underscores are bringing back this 2010s noisy edm sound 

I'm having a hard time with this take... The more EDM-leaning elements of ARTPOP honestly felt dated at the time. Everything is cyclical, it was bound to come back eventually. Doesn't mean it was ahead of the curve back then.

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8 hours ago, 27monster27 said:

Really? I never saw this as chart friendly. If you were talking about Clarity or Follow You Down (a song Lady Gaga got instrumental rights to, but didn't use and ended up on Clarity), then I would agree. Stache always felt way more experimental for radio and the charts.

So far as that specific time period and looking at places where EDM was and still is popular. The Stache instrumental was pretty mainstream and chartable. Like, not long after Stache came out we had Garrix's Animals dominate the charts (including the US). And Greyhound by Swedish House Mafia likewise did very well in the European charts which is super similar to Stache. You also had tracks like Spaceman by Hardwell get given single pushes on the dance charts. 

The Stache instrumental was definitely mainstream edm.

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7 hours ago, NemoMyName said:

this song and mary jane holland is so "white girl tries weed and now it' her whole personality"

This is just a fun little track she did because she was excited to put out ARTPOP and it was taking longer than expected because of her being on tour and stuff.

MJH is my favourite song on the album and it’s very much about identity instead of weed. The name comes form when she was high sure, but the actual content in the song is far more about her wanting to be escapist from the persona of Lady Gaga.

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