The Lady Gaga Rate (Haus Labs now available)

"Gypsy" hasn't aged well. I have however had a few experiences playing it on a car aux with people who've never heard it before and it does go off in that setting. It's an itch-scratcher, the kind of song we wish Gaga had more of, and one of her most melodically satisfying album tracks; but it's not top-tier Gaga as a whole for me. It can leave soon for me, along with "The Cure."
 
I Like It Rough - 10. This has always been one of my favourite GAGA songs. On the surface the chorus suggests it's about rough sex. But to me she's saying she can only enjoy a relationship when it's painful or difficult, and this person is making her think about why she feels like this. My favourite lyric is 'I'm a hard girl, lovin' me's like chewing on pearls.'
 
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I Like It Rough - 10. This has always been one of my favourite GAGA songs. On the surface the chorus suggests it's about rough sex. But to me she's saying she can only enjoy a relationship when it's painful or difficult, and this person is making her think about why she feels like this. My favourite lyric is 'I'm a hard girl, lovin' me's like chewing on pearls.'

I Like it Rough, Dance in the Dark and Heavy Metal Lover are like a trilogy lyrically and sonically. I could write a thesis on why
 
I can't even choose between "The Cure" and "Stupid Love" as the more faceless song.
It's probably "The Cure", since it was basically created at the same sessions as "Heal Me" and "Hair Body Face" - two of her most generic songs.
 
I thought the Cure was a random song she released in honour of Sonya borne out of no particular session.

I was so disappointed it was about that smelly oaf Jackson Maine
 
I remember listening to Artpop for the first time and, after the God's test of the run from Swine to Dope, being finally revived by Gypsy's post-chorus. It lost a bit of its shine since then but it's still very solid.
 

Subwaykid

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Diamond Heart

average 8.06
Highest: 10 x 16 (@RJF @Petty Mayonnaise @Music Is Life @heavymetalGAGA @aaronhansome @Remorque @Aidan @Ashling92 @Lila @soratami @VitaminBee @R92 @Alenko @UncleDeSeanAli @Phonetics Boy @MrMannacroix)
Lowest: 4 x 3 (@dancingwithmyself @Dijah. @Aester)

And Joanne loses another forum fave. Gaga's gone over the early days of her career...a lot, but this feels like the first time she's sung about it in such explicit detail rather than wrapped up halfway between fantasy and reality. A bold opener to Her Most Personal Album Yet, this held steady the rockier, anthemic Gaga of eras past while charting fresh ground conceptually.





I feel like Gaga is one of a very few artists that knows how to do a good middle 8. @VitaminBee

Everything about it is sublime but that middle 8 is everything! @syPOPhantic

A solid opener. Such a powerful chorus and another cracking melody. The production is all wrong for me though. Needs more power and is mostly too subtle and timid. @sfmartin

Ugh, I love me a Gagger story reboot. I actually even think it would have been an excellent single too, if only for the diamond heart related foolishness she would have worn, but I guess Mark Ronson needed an idea to build his 2019 imagery around. Generous queen. But yeah, this is perfect. What a reintroduction to her after three years away too; gale force vocals taking us through the bleak and brutal story of how the early days became all that is around us now. Really underrated too; y'all don't talk about it enough. @RJF

The chorus gives me such an exhilarating rush. The paint a grim, seedy, and at times painful reality, but the chorus is pure escapism: carles, exciting, and just so alive. The highs may be fleeting, but there’s nothing quite so sweet while they last. One of her most Springsteen moments. @R27

I didn't come back to Joanne at all, this is quite decent @daninternational

The first time I heard it, I thought it was an English cover of Zazie’s Rue de la Paix dd. I love how the build-up in the chorus makes it sound like it’s going to turn into a typical dance number, but instead opts for a pop rock direction. This feels a bit more restrained than I hoped but this is a great song anyway. This is never going to happen, but I wouldn’t mind a collab with Metric. @Petit nain des Îles

The only uptempo on this album I can stomach. @madgemad

An opening track. For the album, but for the tour too. RIP to the cancellations. This track is great, altought for the people that are not as Joanne-y as they wish, it is obviously a reminder to quickly switch before starting this album. Anyways, love how she wrote this and the lyrical contents @Laurence
 

Subwaykid

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And here's your top 30. The sheer dominance of The Fame Monster and Born This Way. The A Star is Born track aside, I think it's fairly bulletproof? I would probably switch out GUY and John Wayne for some personal favorites but those aside y'all managed to get most of the essentials in there. I'll do the Top 20 by album but I can't guarantee there'll be many of those left by the time we reach it xx


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Two of these tracks are actually in the same order they're eliminated. Let's guess which.​
 

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