She looked great but that lace front....Freddie sis
She looks like she's about to drop her Houdini (fingers crossed!)
She looks like she's about to drop her Houdini (fingers crossed!)
Lady Gaga - 7th Album (Feb 2025)
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I don't trust her anymore even if she says her name is Lady Gaga. I feel traumatized.
I don't think the placement is fully the issue, it needs to not be a wall of a hairline in order for it to be believable. Pluck out the front a bit more and move it down a smidge.
She/Her
And you shouldn’t! She picked that album kahver and those preview tracks on IG to hype up the release for a reason and it worked NN
I still love her though!
I wonder whether the lead single is something we have heard bits of (the snippets from the tour film and Paris) or something completely new. And I also wonder if she's going to gaslight us all with this album too, where we are expecting something in the vicinity of rock and techno based on what she's shared and yet the song being an irredeemable piece of matter-of-fact bluegrass might as well not be entirely impossible, judging by recent developments. She is exhausting.
He/Him
I just had a flashback to when we got Joanne snippets early all because someone found a way to use Alexa to preview the songs and people heard the LQ Dancin' In Circles preview and thought it was some sort of tropical pop...I wonder whether the lead single is something we have heard bits of (the snippets from the tour film and Paris) or something completely new. And I also wonder if she's going to gaslight us all with this album too, where we are expecting something in the vicinity of rock and techno based on what she's shared and yet the song being an irredeemable piece of matter-of-fact bluegrass might as well not be entirely impossible, judging by recent developments. She is exhausting.
The way Joanne was such a mixed bag of sounds and yet it managed to sound cohesive. On top of that, she gave us rock, folk, electronica, psychedelia, traditional pop, country... The way gays at large continue to write it off angers me as much as it doesn't surprise me.
It kinda is though. Maybe not in the modern sense of “tropical”, but it definitely has that 90s latin-esque vibe a la Ace of Base.
I think this is a very real possibility. I don’t think it’s a matter of gaslighting as much as it is about Gaga having a VERY different perspective of her music, genre, and “genre bending.” Harlequin is a good example of this. The way she views and describes the music as radical reinterpretations of their original compositions, while most others don’t see it that way, is very telling. I think some of this may be due to her being classically trained. She has a lot of respect and reverence for tradition and “the classics”, and she sees any small deviation as radical. Now how that translates to her own pop music/LG7 has yet to be seen, but I wouldn’t get too caught up in the idea of genre bending.
he/him
Flashbacks to her referring to Americano as "techno" dd. At the same time, her descriptions of the influences on Harlequin (surf rock, gospel, blues, and yes, jazz) aren't necessarily wrong, either.
Tempering expectations is reasonable for any new release, but we'll see I guess?
Tempering expectations is reasonable for any new release, but we'll see I guess?
he/him
Yeah, these influences are definitely always present in some form. It's just maybe not as overt as we might hope. I do think it comes down to how she sees music so... traditionally. It's the same reason she doesn't change her live arrangements much either.
So…we don’t love her again?
Well Joanne was certainly a mixed bag. Correct.
We do! Always have, always will… just gotta try to see things from her perspective (and maybe adjust ours in the process).
I was just going to mention this as another example. And you know what? She’s not wrong! The ~flow of the song is very hip hop, especially the end of the verses that go “You're givin' me a million reasons / Give me a million reasons / Giving me a million reasons / About a million reasons.” It’s not something most people, myself included, probably would’ve picked up on, but she does this thing with her hands when performing the song that really physicalizes the “hip hop feeling” that she’s talking about. As @mindtrappa stated, a lot of her influences are not always overt.
I don't disagree with anything you're saying about her engagement with music and genre, but the way she deliberately chose to highlight what she did on Instagram with those clips... is gaslighting dd. Like, she fully knew what she was doing, and there's a reason she didn't tease the album with any of its multiple traditional-sounding tracks, which is most of it. We can maybe better call it false advertising, as I've described it before. Which is fine and even genuinely funny, because I've also said I'm not offended by what she does on Harlequin, just... not as interested.
I was mostly being hyperbolic though. I don't think LG7 will have needed to be marketed, described, or teased deceivingly. And I'm not expecting it to bend genre either. It just needs to pull her back up where she belongs by being undeniable and up to par with the contemporaneous work of her peers. Whatever way we get there!