Lady Gaga
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This is all still accurate for me. I listened to The Fame last night for the first time in a while at the gym and got my fucking Life; it's such a nostalgic listen.
@V3RYP05H that was supposed to be in Katy Perry's thread dddd. I have no idea how or why it ended up here.
Born This Way
The Fame Monster
ARTPOP
The Fame
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Chromatica
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Joanne
This is actually a pretty easy ranking. Born This Way and The Fame Monster are Gaga working as a perfectly oiled machine, the height of her powers and on top of the world. ARTPOP is a messy but endlessly fascinating set. The Fame is an excellent debut, but lacks some of the grandiose ambition of her best work.
Chromatica has some great highlights, but it’s mostly a bit too glossy and sanded down. And Joanne is the only Gaga album where I can remove literally half the tracklist and have a better time, so dead last thank you.
The Fame Monster
ARTPOP
The Fame
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Chromatica
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Joanne
This is actually a pretty easy ranking. Born This Way and The Fame Monster are Gaga working as a perfectly oiled machine, the height of her powers and on top of the world. ARTPOP is a messy but endlessly fascinating set. The Fame is an excellent debut, but lacks some of the grandiose ambition of her best work.
Chromatica has some great highlights, but it’s mostly a bit too glossy and sanded down. And Joanne is the only Gaga album where I can remove literally half the tracklist and have a better time, so dead last thank you.
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Currently conducting my yearly rewatch of the early Gagavisions and it has occurred to me that Space Cowboy's cadence is exactly the same as Charli XCX's.
As you were.
As you were.
I know this ranking thing happens a lot but Chromatica gets ranked way lower than it should. I agree all the production needs beefing up but it’s really not a bottom barrel as people like to make out!
If (when) I host the Gargoyle discography rate next year, I will craft every elimination writeup for ARTPOP with the focused intention of making you remove it from the bottom of your ranking. That's insane you whore!!
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Dddddd as I said last year, it's not totally because of the music - I can't not factor in the entire era with her! By the tail end of ARTPOP it felt like we - Gaga included - had been run ragged (and then a few times through a wheat thresher), and it will never not bother me that it's become the album for some of the most annoying people in the fanbase to constantly hold her to (and usually it's followed by some braindead denigration of Joanne), which clouds my perception of it.
Plus I genuinely did play it to death for like two solid years ddd. The title track, solo edit of Do What U Want, and Venus are still as fresh as the day I heard them for the first time though, hot girls only!
I would absolutely love a few more songs akin to ARTPOP the song, it's a bit of an unexplored territory for her.
"So Happy I Could Die" is probably the only song that compares within her discography for me. Both have this starry-eyed inebriation to them.
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So Happy I Could Die is the unsung heroine of The Fame Monster. Understated, throbbing, glossy bliss. And that bass?
ARTPOP has some genuine career highs (I stand by Applause as my favorite of her leads) and I still totally agree about the album as a whole.
It’s definitely the work where her inner turmoil feels most raw and out of her control—which is compelling in its own way, but hard for me to be fond of.
I think as an era it also benefits from its unfinishedness, where, because we got so little of the promised promotions, the broader fan nostalgia for the era is partially based in the mystique around what could have been, rather than what’s actually there.
