Gaga Related Random Conversation Thread

[Miel 15,009]

It's not a bad album, at all, though it sounds a bit dated now. The whole 'era' itself was cool, too, probably her smoothest.

 

In fact, so much about it was (is) great. It's just that I think that what came after was just better (TFM, BTW).

[EdgeofTeeth 1,934]

I love it! It's just that most of the non-singles are very filler-y in my opinion.

[Deacon 5]

Because it's her simplest album, but I actually like it better than ARTPOP, though. It's very fun, interesting, cohesive, and its four singles absolutely SLAY the majority of her other songs.

[Alcina Dimitrescu 1,156]

It is for me. It's not bad. It's simply my least favorite.

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[ChvVolk 2,323]

I don't think it's her worse because it is her first album, but it's my least farvorite

[ChvVolk 2,323]

I too think "Venus", I think a crazy lead single is quite acceptable, go in with a bang

[Devin 4]

Applause 

[Muh 144]

DWUW

[Klou 2,414]

Aura or GUY. She needed something that really stood out and made a big statement/impact. They both do a good job representing the album and would stand out from the crowd on radio.

I would have included Venus, but seeing how poorly it performed across the world as a promo single makes me think otherwise. Sexxx Dreams would have been good as well, but the clean edit would have been played on radio and we know how great that version is

Gypsy is great, but it doesn't represent the album at all...

[brownie 5]

SEXXX DREAMS FT. RIHANNA

[TMP 87]

Every song on that album (well, almost) is single-worthy, but no song is the right lead single tbh

[Oscar 1,031]

Alejandro video wasn't her first flop, Eh Eh was. 

 

Besides, it's almost 200m views which is more than many of her other videos, plus there was so much media talk surrounding the video. Define flop tho.

 

 

Alejandro has 200M views on YouTube, and it was a smash WW, please.

 

You guys are missing what I was trying to say. It was considered to be a flop video HOWEVER it got a lot of media attention...that basically describes the BTW era. And i'm not talking about the song. I'm talking about the video

[Sister 9,907]

Mary Jane Holland!

[goldenrealm 1,238]

I also love listening to it

[Raikov 183]

like with telephone, that may not be technically from the fame, actually, she wrote it pre fame so nevermind the fact that its on the fame monster, but the "sorry i canNOT hear you im kinda busy". or with the pronunciation, on songs like brown eyes, which i love that song, but the way she pronounces things is so off putting. her voice was really nasally in her songs too. 

 

In the US, the stress on the second syllable is a common and accepted pronunciation: /kÉ™(n)ˈnÉ‘t/, /kɪ(n)ˈnÉ‘t/. I'd guess that the stress on the first syllable is the older pronunciation (indeed, it's the only pronunciation in some dictionaries) but "canNOT" is perfectly acceptable. "CANnot" and "canNOT" can have different meanings, too, related to what specifically you're trying to emphasize.

 

I totally get what you're saying about her voice, though. I think Boys, Boys, Boys is the best (or worst, depends on your view) example of her baby talk. "Glamophonic, electronic, d-d-disco, BEH-EE-BEE." It's hard to write, but she used a lower "e" sound on the diphthong in BAby as opposed to the more normal higher or central ones. She uses it a lot when she says "baby" on the Fame, but this song is the one that immediately came to mind. She does the same thing in Brown Eyes. "I knew that it was wrong, so baby, turn the record on." You can hear it to varying degrees throughout all of the songs. Eh Eh and I Like It Rough manage to sound pretty normal, though.

 

I kinda like her baby talk. She never uses it again, so it makes the Fame feel really different stylistically. It works sometimes. If she did it on every album though 

 

The Fame has some incisive comments about Fame and love buried beneath seemingly shallow lyrics about the club, s-x, and champagne. I think that's part of its appeal; it serves us a party anthem and social commentary at the same time. Some other Gaga songs just try way too hard and end up losing the commercial appeal and the meaning at the same time (most of the song ARTPOP is gibberish or cringey to me, although there are some genius lines like "lovers' kites are flown on beaches for public sight" and "come to me with all your subtext and fantasy"). TF has a great balance. Even the "filler" track Money Honey is quite biting when you look at it (s-x/love as currency and the other idea of wealth being an expression of love, so currency as a form of love). It's easy to overlook because it's not obvious.

 

The Fame is great, but it does do that faux-disco sound a bit too much for my taste (BDR, TF, Summerboy, Disco Heaven and Retro Dance Freak on the other editions) or that dated 80s synth-pop sound (ILIR, BBB).