lady gaga 'fame-era' singles poll

bad romance
paparazzi
just dance

poker face
telephone
alejandro

eh eh
love game

i kind of agree that "speechless" should have been a single too, for much the same reasons :/

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.

Geir what are your thoughts on "Born this Way"?

Haven't heard it yet.

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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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).

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.

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)

uh ....

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.

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

I ♥ Bad Romance sooo much

omg

i just came here to post that i just listened to it

and i am listening to monster

and this is why

i can't get behind this song

oh wrong thread i thought we were on the " born this way " thread but u know what i mean

I like Bionic for it's big ass mess I suppose because it had a little bit of everything. To bitch that it was overlong and all over the place can be said of all her albums from Stripped on. Bionic was her overlong, all over the place version of late 00s pop. But since I like her voice I liked it more than usual.

Plus, her record label was scared shitless of the more "experimental" tracks being on the main tracklist so they were relegated to bonus tracks land.

I think because everyone was on such a Lady Gaga high attacking Christina was the "thing" to do. As well as hating on Lady Gaga is right now with "Born This Way."

she is being rated just fine bc she has gotten dumber by the year.

Has ilxor always been this Perez Hilton like catty or have I been just speed reading the threads too much?

Oh and the first side of Back to Basics was more than decent. To get Rich Harrison, DJ Premier, Kwame, & Mark Ronson on the same album was good on her and her labels part.

oh please. insinuating that i am negative when it comes to pop music is a joke. i ride no kind of trend high -- i think for myself, and i happen to think that Bionic has more than a tinge of desperation to its lack of focus -- in the same way that Back to Basics is way too homogenous in its focus to be considered truly genuine. it's awfully ballsy to go around accusing ilxors of forming an opinion because it's the thing to do - ilxors are a pretty smart bunch. i would think twice before making that kind of claim.

Has ilxor always been this Perez Hilton like catty or have I been just speed reading the threads too much?

lol, i wasn't being catty in this thread, i don't think! just talked about a couple songs i like

he meant ilxor the website rather than ilxor the poster i think

i think the only great video she's done is "bad romance" though

― lex pretend, Friday, February 11, 2011 2:40 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

word to that, most of her other videos are either kinda boring or overloaded with overt attempts to be WTF or 'funny'. as much as i hate "Poker Face" it's probably her 2nd best video, although a very distant runner-up.

most of her stage performances >>>>>> her videos

just dance is the only thing i can stomach, reminds me of being in europe when it was blowing up.

he meant ilxor the website rather than ilxor the poster i think

I meant the website as a whole.

oh please. insinuating that i am negative when it comes to pop music is a joke. i ride no kind of trend high -- i think for myself, and i happen to think that Bionic has more than a tinge of desperation to its lack of focus -- in the same way that Back to Basics is way too homogenous in its focus to be considered truly genuine. it's awfully ballsy to go around accusing ilxors of forming an opinion because it's the thing to do - ilxors are a pretty smart bunch. i would think twice before making that kind of claim.

And when I meant hating on Christina or Lady Gaga is the thing to do I meant more pop music/gawker-like forums doing that. I never doubted the intelligence of the posters here. I have always respected the opinions of people here even though I disagree with them. I didn't know ILM was such serious business.

http://www.sabinabecker.com/images/serious-cat.jpg

to repeat my question. how good is the second cd of the Fame Monster?

The second cd of the Fame Monster is ten times better than the first one. Due to it being shorter and having a little more diverse in sound.

And when I meant hating on Christina or Lady Gaga is the thing to do I meant more pop music/gawker-like forums doing that. I never doubted the intelligence of the posters here. I have always respected the opinions of people here even though I disagree with them. I didn't know ILM was such serious business.

― Okay Pet Shop Boys Aren't That Bad. (lilsoulbrother), Saturday, 12 February 2011 17:33 (1 hour ago)

it's not. sorry for the serious words. i just reacted that way cuz i tend to be a very positive person when it comes to music and i really would like to see christina doing better. it's just, i feel she's made the wrong decisions.

i was ready for her to like take over the world when she came out with stripped

curious as to how people feel about "summer boy". i really like that one, prob more than any of these singles

most of her stage performances >>>>>> her videos

― lex pretend, Saturday, February 12, 2011 12:05 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

ehhhhh lost me there, the videos at their worst are at least kind of flashy and engaging, the try-hard community theater props & plots of her live TV appearances really put a chink in her armor of supposed unstoppable polished professionalism.

i prefer her recorded material to her live stuff

but i appreciate that she does the live stuff the way she does it

i don't know "summer boy"

"summmer boy" is okay - it sounds like No Doubt

i like no doubt sometimes

"summmer boy" is okay - it sounds like No Doubt

yeah, the first time i heard it i thought it was a gwwen stefani song, and was esp. confused b/c the person i was with had just finished playing one of her records

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damn, really didn't expect this big of a wipeout

yeah that's kinda surprising

nah i totally expected this

yeah me too

lol lovegame

this is p much what i expected but idg what makes bad romance special. always feels overcooked.

i like the dancers in the leather jackets in the love game video more than all her music combined.

overcooked is what i like about "Bad Romance." when she falls short of over the top it feels a little flimsy for me.

its like u pick everything terrible abt music to like sometimes

yeah i should really focus on the important stuff like leather jackets