Lady Gaga - Mayhem

[Vasilios]

Rihanna's first two albums alone have more good ballads than Gaga's entire discography.

 

[Drew]

Britney has better ballads too if we’re being honest.

 

[huntypoo]

They way I still hammer this.

 

[man.tis.shrimp]

Doesn't "Take a Bow" make @RJF weep or am I misremembering forum history.

 

[mindtrappa]

Britney has better ballads too if we’re being honest.

There’s like a whole top 10 of pop girl ballads before we even get to Gaga

Mind you we haven’t even gotten into Madonna’s ballads yet

 

[Applause]

"Drunk On Love" I would potentially concede to but if we're not calling the other two ballads, then we're not getting to sneak "Always Remember Us This Way" into this category either.

Sis.

 

[Andy French]

The implication that “Unfaithful” and “Stay” are anything but 10s… not to mention legitimate classics

She sounds like shit on Unfaithful I'm sorry fff. Stay is gorge tho - and objectively her ballads clear most of her peers' so a couple of meh moments aren't gonna make a huge dent for me!

 

[Sarzy]

"Always Remember Us This Way" is great.

Her best ballad by far, IMO. One of her best songs full stop.

 

[Vasilios]

Only true divas hear Unfaithful and appreciate it.

 

[Andy French]

Thinking about it now a lot of my favorite Gorgor ballads are unreleased (Oh Well, Trigger, Fooled Me Again). Which I think says...something!

 

[RJF]

Let me leave the group with top tier throwback stan wars mayhem before I go to bed, shall I? And while I'm here, everyone remember to vote in BPG 2024, which closes tomorrow night.

Thinking Of You
Lost
I'm Still Breathing
The One That Got Away
Not Like The Movies
Wide Awake
Double Rainbow
By The Grace Of God
Choose Your Battles
Daisies

All good to fantastic! And I won't even bother listing Beyoncé's great ballads, because I need to get to bed in the next two hours at least. I didn't think that saying that Gaga's ballads were a weak point in her discography against the other girls was remotely controversial. She literally just has less and therefore a smaller room for error. It's maths.

 

[Verandi]

"Unfaithful" was the first pop music CD single I ever bought ["We know!" - the whole forum]. She might sound like a dying cat on a couple of seconds there but I will always stan. 10/10!

 

[soratami]

Wide Awake
Daisies

ballads

Right

 

[drewsky]

I know I didn't see people suggest Take a Bow isn't a good song. It was the SIXTH single of eight from that album and there was still gas in the tank with Disturbia after. Not this reminding me Please Don't Stop the Music stalled at #3.

 

[Andy French]

Right

I mean...the jury is out on Daisies in its album version but Wide Awake is pretty clearly a ballad by most metrics

 

[Vasilios]

Let me leave the group with top tier throwback stan wars mayhem before I go to bed, shall I? And while I'm here, everyone remember to vote in BPG 2024, which closes tomorrow night.

Thinking Of You
Lost
I'm Still Breathing
The One That Got Away
Not Like The Movies
Wide Awake
Double Rainbow
By The Grace Of God
Choose Your Battles
Daisies

All good to fantastic! And I won't even bother listing Beyoncé's great ballads, because I need to get to bed in the next two hours at least. I didn't think that saying that Gaga's ballads were a weak point in her discography against the other girls was remotely controversial. She literally just has less and therefore a smaller room for error. It's maths.

Have you heard Daisies baby

 

[RJF]

Right

What on earth would you class these as?

 

[Trinu 3.0]

The thread living up to its title and we're still five weeks from release day

 

[mindtrappa]

"Unfaithful" was the first pop music CD single I ever bought ["We know!" - the whole forum]. She might sound like a dying cat on a couple of seconds there but I will always stan. 10/10!

I remember hearing “Unfaithful” premiere on the radio and I swear it shook something loose in me because I’ve been melodramatic as hell ever since

 

[RJF]

I’ve been melodramatic as hell ever since

Can't relate.