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I'll start with a controversial take: 95% of Monsters don't know how to recognize a genre "It's a country album" when describing Joanne—an album full of pop, rock, Americana, funk, even freaking folk and doo-wop. "It's a jazz album" when making the decision to ignore the rock, blues, soul, punk, and theater aspects of Harlequin. Actually, describing ANY album with a single genre when they all span half a dozen different genres themselves (except for Chromatica which is nearly the same song 13 times). "I want dark pop music like *insert a song from before 2011 with glittering synths but because it's in a minor key that makes it dark and brooding or something*" Did I make this thread just to randomly complain about this? Of course not! I also wanna see y'all fight over some unique takes

Spotify goes full Mayhem ball mode and forgets about Chromatica Is this a sign we're getting Monochromatica?!

I don’t understand the hate and apathy towards Chromatica - potentially even from Gaga herself. I think it is one of her top 3 albums musically and at the very top when it comes to visuals. I mean I get that it was released during the pandemic but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a brilliant piece of work.

Many fans take her brand as deathly serious and “c*nty” when the project has been hamfisted and camp from the jump and fans only selectively apply the “it’s cheesy” argument when it applies to a type of cheese they don’t like. She’s closer to Meatloaf meets a drag version of Madonna than she’ll ever be to someone like Björk (and she’s well aware of this).

Very pedantic thing to say, but I think a lot of Little Monsters appreciate the aesthetics of art more than the actual vision and statement behind it, and therefore tend to reduce Gaga’s concepts to visual cues rather than engaging with them as fully developed artistic ideas. Ex : the reaction to BTW's album cover not liking the disease video because it does not have choreo etc

The Joanne era was not as authentic as it was marketed to be. Gaga needed a stripped down era after the maximalism of ARTPOP, so she crafted one. What rubs me the wrong way, is that she chose a style that, to this day, does not seem to be part of her actual DNA as an artist. She could've taken many paths that would've been much more believable, especially given the theming of the lyrics: - a modern piano-based album - a jazz-infused pop album - a Springsteen-esque album To name a few. Instead she forced her voice to sound 3 decades older, put on a cowboy hat, brushed off her best southern accent and forced one of our mods to repeat "it's not country" for more than 10 years after release. (I know it's not a country album but she sure as hell leaned in to it) It looks like she wanted to take a left turn for the sake of it. To go down a route that nobody could predict, just to be contrary. That could be an interesting approach, were it not that the lyrical themes of the album are supposed to be very sincere, tragic and deep-rooted in her history as a person. I believe most of these songs on paper. But the production, the marketing and even the fashion made it feel like she was hiding herself more than ever.

HBDUWM is better than Killah

shes a pop artist. shes not as experimental as fans think which is ok.

people who hates chromatica, don’t have a great taste

Global Day 1: #1 - 12,478,024 streams Day 2: #3 (-2) 5,262,738 (-7,215,286) -57,82% Day 3: #6(-3) Global 3,720,061 (-1,542,677) -29,31% US Day 1: #1 - 4,114,986 streams Day 2: #1 - 1,586,191 (-2,528,795) -61,45% Day 3: #2(-1) US 939,801 (-646,390) -40,75% UK Day 1: #1 - 1,557,996 streams Day 2: #1 - 608,328 (-949,668) -60,95% Day 3: #2(-1) UK 446,458 (-161 870) -26,61% Biggest streaming debuts in global Spotify chart history: #1 The Fate of Ophelia 30.98M #2 Fortnight 25.2M #3 Elizabeth Taylor 23.97M #4 Opalite 23.71M #5 Father Figure 21.8M #6 Eldest Daughter 19.96M #7 Actually Romantic 19.39M #8 The Tortured Poets Department 19.1M #9 Wood 19M #10 CANCELLED! 18.83M #11 Wi$h Li$t 18.8M #12 Ruin The Friendship 18.76M #13 The Life of a Showgirl 18.73M #14 Down Bad 17.4M #15 Anti-Hero 17.4M #16 So Long London 17.2M #17 My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys 17.1M #18 Lavender Haze 16.4M #19 Honey 15.9955M #20 Seven 15.9954M #21 But Daddy I Love Him 15.5M #22 Snow On the Beach 15M #23 Florida!!! 14.5M #24 Maroon 14.4M #25 Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53 14.4M #26 I Had Some Help 13.95M #27 I Can Do It With A Broken Heart 13.7M #28 Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? 13M #29 You’re On Your Own, Kid 12.8M #30 Fresh Out the Slammer 12.75M #31 Guilty As Sin? 12.7M #32 Midnight Rain 12.6M #33 Aperture 12.48M #34 MONACO 12.45M #35 Girls Want Girls 12.4M

Dinner is served, dear. I made your favorite!

I mean, wtf did she do apart from speaking about health insurance at the Grammy's? There are thousands of activists who are not celebrities and and they do much more than any celebrity, maybe it's time to honor them instead.

https://twitter.com/MelanieLBBH/status/2014795828632944854

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I’ll never get the hate for this album. It’s such a great album in my view. The era was sidelined obviously by Covid so she wasn’t even able to go at it with full force

Hopefully this destroys her music career once and for all. She’s always been nasty to her peers and this is just a natural progression for a person like her.

This one because I own it !

Look at all of us nagging. When Gaga won an award for her activism in 2010 or when she shouts to Obama we all have wet p**ssys… dont be hypocrits😂😭😭

The fans who define a Gaga album/song based on how well it sells/charts aren't fans. It always confuses me when Gaga fans hate older music/refuse to engage with it when its literally the foundations of everything Gaga does.

The one I've had as my wardrobe door for quite a few years Couldn't find any normal photo, so I'm posting an old one I've found on my Twitter account, don't mind the 'swaggy' 16yr old me lol

At least with Mary Jane Holland, it felt more like "it's alright because I am rich as piss" is more facetious. We know how much Gaga agonizes over her parents' opinions of her, and thus, especially during the downward spiral of the bridge, it feels more like a hollow defense for herself (and her behaviors) rather than actually making the claim that being rich is virtuous. And if she feels any dissonance over that contradiction (that being rich excuses her but also she claims she doesn't need money)? Well, she'll just smoke a blunt and become someone else - someone who can't feel dissonant. I've always been of the opinion that MJH is not a party song about slipping into a fun persona. It's a rebellious tragedy. She's wanting to escape herself and have a good time as someone else, because she's not having a good time as herself, despite or because of her fame, status, and money. Donatella does affirm how being rich is aesthetic af tho.

Disease deserved Bad Romance level of impact and attention. It's one of those songs that elevates your discography.

I hate when people refuse to let a bitch lean into the whimsy

leave chromatica alone!

I also don't like it when people point blank refuse to listen to, or outright dismiss, an entire genre of music off the cuff. A genre which has tens of thousands, if not more, songs in it. You're saying you wouldn't like a single aspect of any one of those tens of thousands of songs? Sure Jan. Like I can say sure, I don't typically listen to rap music; it's not something that appeals to me. But sometimes I do like it. Not as much as other genres, but it happens. And I don't go around saying rap is horrible or not worth listening to just because I don't like it.

this Also, to the people complaining about retro sounds in Mayhem... leave your stan card at the door, retro sounds have been a part of Gaga's sound since the beggining, specially TF and BTW, but there's always an element of it. Also, cohessive eras have never been a Gaga thing up to Mayhem which is her most cohessive era visually and thematically since The Fame

The USA have like 5 times the population of the UK, actually the song is doing better in the UK than in the USA (streams/population)

Joker: FAD is Gaga's best film work to date and that's a hill I'll gladly die on.

THANK YOU. The amount of people I see that constantly want perfectionism on these issues is so aggravating. Chappell Roan has spoken and helped to spread awareness, and that in it's own is good enough for me.

The sour candy music video is coming next week

Bless your sweet soul. I could not agree more. I will gladly die on this hill with you.

Which reminds me: She did those song explainers for Chromatica. When explaining the lyric "Your monsters torture me" she said someting along the lines of "Of course I don't mean Little Monsters" She sure as hell did Little Monsters torture her and she said it to our face I don't blame her

We are lucky and blessed to get Gaga’s jazz side. It’s top tier artistry and she clearly thrives in that space. It easily rivals her pop persona. I hope she does a version of Jazz & Piano for the rest of her career, it’s one of her best shows. I’d listen to her sing Sinatra covers over half her discography at this point. Zero shade to her own music, her covers are just THAT good. Some others are kinda touching on this, it feels like some fans don’t truly understand her artistry and are more so just fans of pop music, not Gaga as an artist. With the way some people talk about her and her music it can come across like they legit don’t actually like her.

If it's the only way to make Free Woman disappear once and for all, It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make

She'd be cancelled immediately for this if she did it today but it was so c*nt

Ugh, Cheryl Hines ...

Worst lyrics and song on her whole career

I think being appreciative and understanding of The Fame is so fundamental to understand so much of her storytelling in music. Like even songs that most of you find silly/cringe like Plastic Doll or HBDUWM are so core Gaga, and If you don't get that humor/narrative tf are you doing here...

The black pepper might be a little spicy for him, but I’m trying to encourage him to step out of his comfort zone.

sad news, hope it comes back lol its one of her best albums y'all with no taste don't get it

They're making room for TOTAL MAYHEM: REQUIEM

Educate yourself and come back