and what about "you and I" -- have y'all heard that one? she premiered it on the today show or whatever like months ago? it's good! kind of like a sister to speechless
― i like lucy (surm), Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:29 (fifteen years ago)
Alejandro
― zeus, Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:30 (fifteen years ago)
xp could you link it?
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:32 (fifteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muXg2qPFcKY
― i like lucy (surm), Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:35 (fifteen years ago)
alejandro but only because it reminds me of ace o' base
― ouroboros shoal (diamonddave85), Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:36 (fifteen years ago)
i think this is perhaps why i don't like it quite as much as i could/as others seem to
― lex pretend, Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:37 (fifteen years ago)
You and I is promising now, but it is going to be incredible with bombastic Speechless-style production.
Yes, I am excited for Born This Way.
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:38 (fifteen years ago)
:D :D
― i like lucy (surm), Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:38 (fifteen years ago)
yea i really like you and i. takes me back to something, and sounds very her at the same time.
― i like lucy (surm), Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:39 (fifteen years ago)
Has anything else leaked btw? Popdust seem to be covering it quite carefully, but I haven't been following as I should..
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 10 February 2011 22:41 (fifteen years ago)
for whatever reason "Just Dance" has always been my favorite. I really love "Ehh Ehh" though, that was one of the first songs of hers I heard. I think The Fame is very patchy, whereas The Fame Monster is all solid tracks overall.
― werner herzog zwei (San Te), Thursday, 10 February 2011 23:22 (fifteen years ago)
yeah echoing the "speechless" praise wrt her voice - probably her strongest vocal perfomance for me. i've also said this before but i love the little yell at the end there ("ohh boy WHY you so speechless). reminds me of courtney love almost
― kl0p's son (k3vin k.), Thursday, 10 February 2011 23:33 (fifteen years ago)
Speechless was my tune last year.....played it a lot during my depressed phase.
― werner herzog zwei (San Te), Thursday, 10 February 2011 23:34 (fifteen years ago)
was the fame monster polled? every track should pick up at least a few votes
― idgi fridays (blueski), Thursday, 10 February 2011 23:36 (fifteen years ago)
feel like it was (ilxor poll?) but i can't find it
― kl0p's son (k3vin k.), Thursday, 10 February 2011 23:38 (fifteen years ago)
so good i can't decide
just dancebad romance
less good than those 2 & roughly in order
paparazzipoker facealejandrotelephone f/ beyonce
bad enough i don't care to distinguish or listen to them
eh eh (what can i say?) <-- lollovegame
― flopson, Thursday, 10 February 2011 23:38 (fifteen years ago)
bad romance just gives me a headache i liked the HALA dub of it tho
― plax (ico), Thursday, 10 February 2011 23:39 (fifteen years ago)
If a remix would qualify for the poll, I'd go with the Stuart Price remix of "Paparazzi" which is one guitar overdub away from being a long lost chillwave/NDW pop sensation. I like it more than the original.
"So Happy I Could Die" should have been a single release instead of "Alejandro" - tremendously great song that doesn't get namechecked that often.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 11 February 2011 00:21 (fifteen years ago)
Voted "Bad Romance" - about as unstoppable as an asteroid strike.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 11 February 2011 00:23 (fifteen years ago)
The very anonymity of "Just Dance" is attractive in retrospect -- like listening to Madonna's "Everybody" in 1986 and trying to divine how she became so massive.
She's still not as good a songwriter as Madonna was in 1985: she has a problem with either lame choruses or pedestrian verses. To me only "Alejandro" and "Just Dance" are complete in themselves.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 February 2011 00:25 (fifteen years ago)
^^oh totally. unsurprisingly, i love it
― kl0p's son (k3vin k.), Friday, 11 February 2011 01:00 (fifteen years ago)
happy in the club wit a bottle of red winestars in our eyes cuz we're havin a good timeeh-eh, eh-ehso happy i could diebe ur best friend yea i'll love u foreverup in the clouds we'll be higher than evereh-eh, eh-ehso happy i could die and it's alright
alejandro's tepid homage-ination is laughable in comparison to early madonna, dear lord
― i like lucy (surm), Friday, 11 February 2011 01:06 (fifteen years ago)
problem with the Fame Monster is I bought it during a very low point for me last year, which just so happens to correspond with a breakdown I had one night, so every time I put the cd on, those memories come back.
they should fade over time tho so it can be a fun album again and all.
― werner herzog zwei (San Te), Friday, 11 February 2011 02:15 (fifteen years ago)
"Bad Romance" it is. But many really strong ones.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Friday, 11 February 2011 02:28 (fifteen years ago)
As for "Speechless" it really should have been a single. Not least because, while great, her songs are all very stylistically related. With "Speechless" she might have had a completely different hit single, which would probably do her career good in terms of becoming long term.
Madonna would never have managed to stay on top for almost 30 years now if all of her subsequent 80s hit singles had sounded like "Holiday".
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Friday, 11 February 2011 02:31 (fifteen years ago)
Just Dance in a walk for me.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 11 February 2011 02:45 (fifteen years ago)
With "Speechless" she might have had a completely different hit single, which would probably do her career good in terms of becoming long term.
I can't believe I agree with Geir. "Speechless" is her best song imo.
However, "Paparazzi" was when I finally gave up and started to like her. I personally think her first album is patchy as hell and like to think Monster is the real debut.
Another thing I find funny is that Gaga and others who take from Madonna really don't actually change their image or concepts from album to album. Closest I can think of is P!nk. I hope Gaga does something different image wise.
― Wanted to slap a teengaer who didn't know Are You That Somebody (lilsoulbrother), Friday, 11 February 2011 03:20 (fifteen years ago)
what does everyone consider the 'duddiest' tracks on The Fame?
For me, it's "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" (real boring hook), "Money Honey" (again, boring hook, and verse melody that is ok except for the last few notes), and "Boys Boys Boys" (meh)
― werner herzog zwei (San Te), Friday, 11 February 2011 03:30 (fifteen years ago)
my #1 is probably "telephone" but i'm gonna show "just dance" some love for being the not-so-secret proto-"telephone" song in gaga's arsenal ("i lost my phone / just dance / it'll be okay")
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 11 February 2011 05:17 (fifteen years ago)
"telephone" for its two great videos, the original and the one done by the soldiers in Afghanistan
― Dan S, Friday, 11 February 2011 06:52 (fifteen years ago)
"Alejandro" = "Bad Romance" =/> "Telephone" >>> "Paparazzi" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Just Dance" > "Poker Face" > "Ey Ey" >>>>>>>>>>>> "Love Game"
― Tim F, Friday, 11 February 2011 06:57 (fifteen years ago)
LITERALLY FALLING OF THE EDGE OF MY SEAT WAITING TO SEE WHICH SONG WINS THIS ONE
― markers, Friday, 11 February 2011 06:58 (fifteen years ago)
paparazzziii
― dayo, Friday, 11 February 2011 07:10 (fifteen years ago)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . off
― markers, Friday, 11 February 2011 07:12 (fifteen years ago)
Another thing I find funny is that Gaga and others who take from Madonna really don't actually change their image or concepts from album to album.
still think the closest we've got to that was xtina's stripped campaign, when she completely upended her image on every single (the album itself being a lot more homogeneous (but great!) than this indicated).
i kind of agree that "speechless" should have been a single too, for much the same reasons :/
― lex pretend, Friday, 11 February 2011 07:40 (fifteen years ago)
i think the only great video she's done is "bad romance" though
bad romancepaparazzijust dance
poker facetelephonealejandro
eh ehlove game
― johnny crunch, Friday, 11 February 2011 14:33 (fifteen years ago)
I guess she, and whatever people she may take those decisions together with, felt that it was too early.
After all, it did take Madonna a couple years before she took the chance on doing "Crazy For You" and "Live To Tell" as well.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Friday, 11 February 2011 15:41 (fifteen years ago)
Geir what are your thoughts on "Born this Way"?
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 11 February 2011 15:42 (fifteen years ago)
Haven't heard it yet.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Friday, 11 February 2011 15:43 (fifteen years ago)
Lady Gaga wanted to JUST DANCE, but the PAPARAZZI showed up, so she put on her POKER FACE, and picked up the TELEPHONE to call ALEJANDRO, she told him about living THE FAME, and he was SPEECHLESS. She said they arent playing my LOVE GAME and hung up, someone yelled MONSTER at their boyfriend and she said now thats some BAD ROMANCE then shrugged it off saying EH EH (NOTHING ELSE I CAN SAY) BOYS BOYS BOYS who were BEAUTIFUL DIRTY RICH, She was in DISCO HEAVEN, and said im SO HAPPY I COULD DIE
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― ouroboros shoal (diamonddave85), Friday, 11 February 2011 18:16 (fifteen years ago)
Of fucking course. Christina has changed her image every album thus far. Why did that blindside me. Scrap what I said about P!nk. Christina is the only one fulfilling the Madonaa mold and she is being underrated because the media has gotten dumber by the days.
― Wanted to slap a teengaer who didn't know Are You That Somebody (lilsoulbrother), Friday, 11 February 2011 18:32 (fifteen years ago)
to be fair back to basics was...decent but not GREAT, and bionic was just an incoherent mess of an album - kind of feel like xtina squandered that potential herself (really it just felt like she lost a bit of interest in making music, like justin did)
― lex pretend, Friday, 11 February 2011 18:39 (fifteen years ago)
uh ....
― i like lucy (surm), Friday, 11 February 2011 18:40 (fifteen years ago)
yeah. christina is not filling any madonna mold.
she is being rated just fine bc she has gotten dumber by the year.
basically what lex said. bionic was basically trying to be everything to everybody, so you couldn't take any of it seriously. it was like a monkey imitating all the other monkeys. and how bout that single she had before it -- "keeps gettin better" ?
that was like her big moment? after back to basics?
some days i'm a super BITCH.... some days you're a super bore, honey.
― i like lucy (surm), Friday, 11 February 2011 18:41 (fifteen years ago)
otm i like keeps gettin better but mostly cuz it reminds me of girls aloud and would prob be better by 10x if they wrote it in their heyday
― johnny crunch, Friday, 11 February 2011 18:52 (fifteen years ago)
I ♥ Bad Romance sooo much
― NYCNative, Friday, 11 February 2011 19:10 (fifteen years ago)
omg
― i like lucy (surm), Saturday, 12 February 2011 07:06 (fifteen years ago)