Billboard: "Applause" vs. "Roar": Which new single is your favorite?

[Stefani 25]

is it natural to be scared gaga wont go number 1 on the billboards? She isnt flopping number 1 in 43 countries and counting and secong in the us is amazing but i just want my number 1 to go to number 1.

[Redstreak 6,653]

"It's just that Gaga makes it difficult to appreciate such a single at face value when there's so many other assets spinning alongside and within it."

 

I just think that the two ARTPOP tracks we've heard (Aura and Applause) have lyrics that don't exactly coincide with their respective songs. Like the verses have almost NOTHING TO DO with the CHORUSES. This frustrates me. I want a song with lyrics that can connect easily. I can handle some stretches every now and then, but come on, Gaga.

 

I love Applause to death, but I kind of feel like she had a few budding concepts that she just mashed into one song.

We could belong together.

[Redstreak 6,653]

is it natural to be scared gaga wont go number 1 on the billboards? She isnt flopping number 1 in 43 countries and counting and secong in the us is amazing but i just want my number 1 to go to number 1.

There's a lot of things that go into a song becoming number 1. While iTunes position does mean a lot, it doesn't mean she won't get a number 1 on Billboard by being number 2 on iTunes, it just means it will be harder, not impossible. Even if Katy is getting constant 1.0000 updates, it just means she's selling more without putting a specific number with it, for all we know she could just be ahead by 100 copies currently but it will still have her at 1.0000 while Gaga may be at like .50234 or something., :) That's why it's also very important to keep playing the official song videos over and over again on youtube and spotify and to keep requesting it on radio.

[dutchyguy 243]

I think the rest of the album will be more edgier, she just played it safe?

 

For example, with P!nk's new album we got a lead single that wasn't new at all, however the singles she put out after were very different (Try, Just give me a Reason) and got her way more appreciation and a huge #1 hit.

[Bambino 24,104]

Looks like we arent the only ones who pay attention to these kinds of things the media is really putting them agaisnt each other.

 

This. First VEVO and now Billboard.

[Prometheus 1,494]

We could belong together.

 

ARTPOP LYRICS:

 

We could belong together

Like PETA and real leather

Like ice cubes and hot weather

These lyrics connected by a very small tether 

 

WE COULD BELONG TOGETHER

 

ARTPOP

 

Cheese.

[Stefani 25]

There's a lot of things that go into a song becoming number 1. While iTunes position does mean a lot, it doesn't mean she won't get a number 1, it just means it will be harder, not impossible. Even if Katy is getting constant 1.0000 updates, it just means she's selling more without putting a specific number with it, for all we know she could just be ahead by 100 copies currently but it will still have her at 1.0000 while Gaga may be at like .50234 or something., :) That's why it's also very important to keep playing the official song videos over and over again on youtube and spotify and to keep requesting it on radio.

ive honestly refreshed the page of the video a hundred times!!! Ive promoted it all over my facebook, insta, twitter and school. So i hope that enough.

ARTPOP LYRICS:

 

We could belong together

Like PETA and real leather

Like ice cubes and hot weather

These lyrics connected by a very small tether 

 

WE COULD BELONG TOGETHER

 

ARTPOP

 

Cheese.

Like peta and a meat dress.

[Redstreak 6,653]

ive honestly refreshed the page of the video a hundred times!!! Ive promoted it all over my facebook, insta, twitter and school. So i hope that enough.

Like peta and a meat dress.

I've been doing the same.

[mrlemon 574]

who called Applause "forgettable" :king:

[Antidote 95]

A lot of the statements in the article are true tbh, but all the comparisons are annoying :dead:

[Sexxx 5,538]

Funny how they don't mention Brave :awkney:

[superman 32]

There's a lot of things that go into a song becoming number 1. While iTunes position does mean a lot, it doesn't mean she won't get a number 1 on Billboard by being number 2 on iTunes, it just means it will be harder, not impossible. Even if Katy is getting constant 1.0000 updates, it just means she's selling more without putting a specific number with it, for all we know she could just be ahead by 100 copies currently but it will still have her at 1.0000 while Gaga may be at like .50234 or something., :) That's why it's also very important to keep playing the official song videos over and over again on youtube and spotify and to keep requesting it on radio.

i think unfortunately gaga doesnt stand a chance this week against katy.maybe the video will help. i read on some page that katy is estimated for 500 000+ and gaga more than 200000.thats a big gap.unfortunately the vma s advantage wongo cause katy is also performing there.

[Mariano 958]

yes both songs aren't as good as everyone expected.. I think that Born This Way is better than Applause ... I love Applause but BTW is an underrated masterpiece while Applause is underrated by other stan bases but overrated by monsters..

[Snowyrain 38]

Funny how they don't mention Brave

the song was either charged as a rip-off of Sara Bareilles' recent single "Brave," or it was deemed too similar to Perry's "Teenage Dream" output

. The comparisons to "Brave" are far-fetched -- "Roar" is cleaner, more precise, with a similar message of empowerment but with an arena-rock sensibility

 

 

What is Roar without Brave ? 

[Luc 4,775]

Applause was beyond my expectations. Bye Billboard, I expected more from Katy. It could've easily fit on Teenage Dream but then not as a single, I prefer songs like Part of Me, The One That Got Away, Teenage Dream and Peacock over this by far (and now I think of it two weeks ago I saw a few peacocks and I played Peacock )