Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga is very unpredictable singer! for that I love her!

"The Edge of Glory" is up next.  This might be her safest sounding song yet, but man, that sax by Clarence 'The Big Man' Clemons = WIN.

Last edited by Angela (Aug 09, 2011)

Anyone heard the full "Born This Way" album yet?  Thoughts?

I bought the two-disc deluxe version today, and after giving it a couple playthroughs, I'm extremely impressed.  While the bulk of the remixes featured on the second disc are kind of throwaway (I do like the Country Road Version of Born This Way), the core seventeen tracks are absolutely solid stuff.  I'm loving the hair-metal dance pop vibe that Gaga went for here, as illustrated by tracks like Bad Kids, Electric Chapel, and Marry The Night.   But it's the huge, sweeping anthem-rock songs that are the big winners, such as the aforementioned The Edge of Glory, The Queen, and Highway Unicorn.  (The hook in Unicorn's main stanza that runs from 0:38 to 1:05 is ADDICTING as anything.)

The Pat Benatar-influenced Hair and the 80s style Whitney Houston beats in Fashion of His Love are quickly climbing up the ranks with every listen as well.  Just really, really fun songs all around.

Last edited by Angela (Aug 16, 2011)

*Bump*

Count me in as a fan of hers now. One of the few instances where the style has some substance behind it and in Gaga's case, that substance is some disgustingly good hooks. Nothing in recent memory has quite stayed stuck in my mind the way a number of her songs have recently ("Eh Eh Nothing I Can Say", "Pokerface", "Telephone", "Hair", "Black Jesus", "Bloody Mary" and "Heavy Metal Lover" chorus being the primary culprits). The electropop style was pretty foreign to me, but her actual voice is really good, so the style grows on me (and her songs are way more exciting than Freezepop, which I occasionally enjoy, but have never been crazy about beyond RB/GH songs) and I'm re-rating a lot of songs I didn't like initially.

One thing I'm not picking up on...I've seen Iron Maiden listed as an influence and I just don't hear or see it. I can hear Queen a bit (with the way the vocals are sampled/layered) and definitely Pat Benatar (Gaga should seriously cover "Invincible"), but zero hint of Maiden.

Of the three albums, Born This Way is my favorite by far (as evidenced by my song list above). Out of 17 songs, only three I didn't like (Government Hooker, Americano and You & I) and two that were good, but kinda lackluster -Bad Kids and Fashion of His Love-. Out of the remaining 12 (a good number for ANY pop album), Hair, Judas, Electric Chapel, The Queen and The Edge of Glory were all worthy of 5 stars, and pretty much everything else is nipping on their heels and racking up playtime.

So yeah...Lady Gaga...surprisingly good shit. Fame well deserved.

Heard my first Gaga song last weekend, I think it was Judas. And I suddenly got the feeling that Gaga's fame is somewhat build on the looks and the media circus around that, at least the track felt just 'meh'. But then, what I know, I just listen bleeps and bloops mostly. :P