Lady Gaga needs her own thread

"alejandro" and "so happy i could die" are the ones i really haven't got into yet - too cheesy for me, too poppers o'clock

"dance in the dark" should've totally been the next single (though it reeaaaallly needs to lose the diana reference)

personally v glad 'alejandro' is the next single since i've long hoped it gets co-opted as a football chant 4 my team's ace argentinian midfielder. ^_^

besides that though i am quite fond of it, albeit probably for no reasons that will stand up to critical scrutiny - perhaps it's to me what 'speechless' is to yall in terms of indefensible caseous extremity? but less wrong obv.

this (and the mia thread sorta) reminds me that i really should have got back to lex when he rightly called me out for apparent brit seaside cheese double standards on the dizzee thread way back when - v fine line i'm not sure i can be bothered with right now though.

"so happy i could die"

This one's killer. One of my favorites on the album.

Finally breaking down and ordering Fame and Fame Monster vinyl. Excited!!

' so happy i could die ' is one of the most poignant songs i have ever heard. the accuracy with which she depicts a night of drunk emotion, best friend in tow, and a life of " superficial " thrill-seeking is almost too much for me to bear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXqXsZfInJw&feature=channel

one thing i love about Telephone is that you can hear the grit in the teeth in the stuttering of t-t-t-t-t-t-t-

it's hot

i figured out what they're playing in the Telephone video in the scene where she's outside with all the inmates: gaga's Paper Gangsta.

which i actually love, i had never heard it before ?

uhhhh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haHXgFU7qNI&feature=player_embedded

actually amazing

I can see how going multiplatunum and being top-ten albums across several different European countries could be seen as a sign of her being written off.

"True Blue" and "Like a Prayer" both hit #1 virtually everywhere.

'telephone' is hitting me in a way that other gaga singles haven't. the buzzsaw synths sound absolutely caustic on nice headphones. <3 darkchild

yes, surprisingly, for such a dance-oriented track, "telephone" is definitely a headphones song

I have been listening to the instrumental and it's fire

what could have been (but thankfully was not)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IojALr7id8M

omg i don't know if i have the heart to listen to it

can i get a ruling on whether or not that is real? inflection sounds like britney guess but the voice is autotuned beyond recognition

it's probably her -- gaga was writing for britney and this is pretty much exactly how she's sounded since she came back

that does not sound like britney. or at least, it sounds like britney with a LOT of sub-ins by someone else. which is actually something i heard rumored about Blackout, that a lot of the vocals were like ... not her. of course, i heard this from a relative stranger who i have no reason to believe so whatever.

but wow, total butchering of song. shows much it comes down to vocal delivery

Why is it that when someone does something like her they're copycats but when Lady GaGa does it she's 'inspired'? How is it any different?

cause apparently Gaga invented everything.

you really suck at having opinions

you just suck in general.

ooh burn

afaik the britbrit leak is a fake but whatevs

xp it's hard to deny tho, considering how much i love uffie & all

i'm sure we'll all know one way or the other soon enough so really just withholding thinking about it til then

can't tell how much it says about britney that no one is for sure if that is her or some utterly random person

that is def her and also that sounded awesome to me

J0rdan S.: schooling people on what's hip from a basement in the bible belt.

anyway, Britney's version is so much better.

Telephone could've been released by any random pop automaton. It's not really a Gaga-specific endeavor. And fwiw, it's not her I hate (So Happy I Could Die is killer shit), but this idea that she's doing anything remotely innovative and is given all kinds of crazy credit from the press and her fans. The woman is a human mashup! I can't help but feel like she's playing an elaborate joke on the general public....which would be cool. For one, I can't really take her working with Beyoing-yoing seriously. The collaborations come across as tongue-in-cheek/marketing scheme.

It's not really a Gaga-specific endeavor. And fwiw, it's not her I hate (So Happy I Could Die is killer shit), but this idea that she's doing anything remotely innovative and is given all kinds of crazy credit from the press and her fans.

Like Dave Edmunds, The Jam, Blur, Oasis and many others, she is innovated in that she has recycled a musical style from the past and managed to influence a lot of copycats, making that style dominate current hit music.

Telephone could've been released by any random pop automaton. It's not really a Gaga-specific endeavor. And fwiw, it's not her I hate (So Happy I Could Die is killer shit), but this idea that she's doing anything remotely innovative and is given all kinds of crazy credit from the press and her fans. The woman is a human mashup! I can't help but feel like she's playing an elaborate joke on the general public....which would be cool. For one, I can't really take her working with Beyoing-yoing seriously. The collaborations come across as tongue-in-cheek/marketing scheme.

― Blancminaj (Spinspin Sugah), Monday, May 3, 2010 12:43 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yea, her career is entirely based on mashed up ideas, and totally independent of any innovation on her part as a songwriter or vocalist. writing killer shit isn't really considered innovative anymore -- you have to like, actually kill shit to be innovative. and you're right, the brit-bot version of Telephone is just as good, and gaga and beyonce are irrelevant in terms of vocal skill or chemistry.

This Britney version is a fucking disaster with no fangs.

i prefer it a lot but im not gonna argue that i have any real credibility on this front

huh?? i'm sry but that recording is just objectively shit, with no soul. the vocals sound like a stay-at-home robot mom decided to go to the club and "let loose." i'm all for digi-voice in the right setting, but this is supposed to be about a woman having her perfect night and like, feeling something -- feeling the music.

Personally, I didn't think it was possible to be more embarrassing than a non-Khandi Real housewife recording, so thank you Britney for teaching me something new today.

i dunno, there's a kindof over-egged noisiness in almost every gaga song, like the beat bangs in a real stadium-rock kinda way that this remedies a bit. i do like the way the vocals split and divide, still not feeling all that whooshiness, for, like, want of a better word.

papparazzi is the only one i can think of that is not so like buzzy all the way through, and consequently my favourite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsoS-RUEbqU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjqG9n3uEwI

"don't be tardy for the party" is the funniest thing i've read in a while

lol the whole development of that song was probably some of the best tv i've ever seen. the gays around here go crazy for it

still haven't heard countess luann!!!!!!!!!! maybe i should listen now.

i guess im familiar enough w. britneys voice that its semi intriguing for me to hear it half covered by digital crap, even if the reasoning is as functional as it is w/ these ladeez i dont read it the same

but yeah those are pretty lol, countess luanne kinda sounds like a skank

i love britney's electronic voice, it just sounds like crap on this song

and i still don't think it's all her

yeah ur right there are def bits that are someone else.

i still love pointing out the bit where u hear robyn on piece of me, bc i am cool like that.

uh i almost just spit out my food listening to the beginning of "money can't buy you class"

the biggest red flag that the Britney thing is fake is that the beat sounds like it was re-played on completely different equipment by an amateur (like the differences aren't even kind of thing that could plausibly be a rough draft or alternate mix). plus i'm pretty sure LOTS of women can do the nasal duck Britney voice pretty convincingly

"Telephone" kinda makes more sense as a Britney song, though, because it's about as retarded as "3" or "Womanizer"