The Free Woman remix finally lives up to the song’s massive and fierce and lethal and cunty potential. Rina bodied this.
It’s what the obnoxious cigs who have been begging for this for 2 years, deserve. I haven’t even heard it in full yet and I can already tell from the snippet of Bree’s remix that she made the Meth Labs version obsolete.
I need to give the whole thing another listen before settling on how I feel about it, especially because the second half of remixes have really picked the whole thing up when I was feeling a bit whelmed before. But it's definitely interesting and adds new life to some stale ideas - I wish Gaga herself was ready to be this adventurous sonically. Bree and Shygirl completely devour their remixes. Whomever said the Alice remix sounds like The Neptunes completely hit the nail in the head - I could even hear Kelis, Gwen or Nelly jumping in on it. Sine From Above is the weirdest, everything but the kitchen sink - bordering on The Blessed Madonna memes thing I've heard in a while. Free Woman is not my personal cup of tea but I appreciate how it combines Rina's maximalist sensibilities with Gaga's - and you can tell Rina's having a blast. Oh, and the Fun Tonight remix is sending me.
Strangely after hearing the way she demolished this remix, I'd love to hear Rina and Clarence take on Gypsy. I feel like she'd eat it up.
Alice is an unexpected moment. Stupid Love and Rain On Me would be great if they built to something more.
Rina really took one of the worst songs on the record and transformed it into one of the best. I believed in her but it's even better than expected. But I scream at the worst song, Fun Tonight, somehow being even worse. The production is giving me 'bad pokemon spinoff soundtrack'.
The productions of the new "Free Woman"/"911" are a serve. "Fun Tonight" is so bad. I don't think I'll be revisiting this project much, though. "Enigma" becoming the festival dancefloor anthem nobody saw coming? OK.
Okay wait none of you were lying about the Free Woman mix. I wish there was more Gaga, but Rina and production absolutely slaps. Fun Tonight.. is not.
I know I'm in the minority, but 1000 Doves is a favorite of mine from the original album. I wish the vocals on the remix weren't pitched down or the remix was just released in the key of the original's vocals. I quite like the tech-house/minimal production. Also, no backing vocals/production on the Haus Laub mix of "Babylon".... will the gays riot?
I appreciated @Glitterizer putting the mix into context as well, because I probably wouldn’t have appreciated its presence as much as I do now, considering I was initially dreading Pabllo’s involvement
Dang the Haus Labs Babylon is really just... there. It's such a non-event. I would've much preferred the Bowie sounding one, but... okay. Let me listen to the rest of the album
