Lady Gaga - ARTPOP [2012]

gaga's self-obsession annoys me sometimes (often) but really, for some reason this song sits pretty well with me

Fair enough, but I'll take not giving a fuck abt theory above reading but entirely failing to internalise theory any oldf time

It's not that Katy doesn't give a fuck about theory, it's that she hasn't found a way to turn it into a campy themed outfit...yet.

This is also a good example of knowing theory better than LG

Forgot this was a Gaga thread and read that as a particularly snippy sideswipe of ILX poster Local Garda, or maybe (in my morning haze) L0u1s Gagg3r.

worst porn name ever

OK, this "Applause" song is barely a song.

if she'd written "some of us just like to read theory" I would have nodded and said welcome to my life, bitch

Gay men are leery of men who read theory.

unless they get beery

and ask three-beer queries.

©

the verses seriously sound like Leoncie

HEY HEY YOU GUYS

GUYS

GUYS GUYS LISTEN YOU GUYS HEY

...art!

haha

the verses seriously sound like Leoncie

― dale cthulhu (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, August 17, 2013 8:57 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

omg

i like the pre-chorus part of this ("i live for the applause") a whole lot but the rest of it is kind of a mess. the chorus isn't bad per se but her songwriting is usually very clear and strong and this to me is just kind of chaotic and messy for no reason

i keep hearing Mannequin by Britney Spears in the chorus which i think is a good look, didn't really put this together until now

"give me the thing that i love, i'll turn the lights on" is the best bit

i like the whole chorus actually, the part quoted above being my favorite part

music video is kind of w/e

Song and video both seem like kind of a rush job. One of the other leaked tracks I've heard ("Aura") is a lot better.

Watching the video, I keep thinking that she almost looks like Macklemore at points.

wow "applause" is realllllly awkward

"Mannequin" OTM; what I thought of was "Womanizer." there's a part of lady gaga who will never stop being a writer for britney spears circa _Circus_ and it's why all her tangents still result in decent pop songs

yeah it has that hurled unleashed quality in the chorus, like it couldn't help itself

mannequin is about 100x better tho.

wait are "Womanizer" and "Applause" decent pop songs in this premise

"womanizer" is certainly the less-shitty of the circus tracks

well then

I like this but am really surprised at how indistinguishable all the vocals are in the chorus! I didn't even know recognize she was spelling out "Applause" until I watched the lyric video to find out.

OTM I think that's song's biggest problem. The chorus is really blurry and it takes a couple of listens before you can make out the melody and I couldn't figure out its lyrics without looking them up. I do like it now, but I don't understand why they made it so difficult to hear.

i actually think the blurriness is the song's strongest asset, the meld of the vocals and layers in the chorus actually achieves some of the "art" she so blatantly hammers into your head with the lyrics elsewhere

was listening to this last night with my bf and just cracked up at how funny it is. the verses (the opposite of blurry) sound like a hoax, like a little girl making up a song for a make believe broadway show

the video kind of draws more attn to the silly lyrics which has made it harder for me to like the song as much

I like that I started this thread and haven't even bothered to hear her single.

listen to it!

I stand here waiting for you to bang the gong
To crash the critic saying "is it right or is it wrong?"
If only fame had an I.V., baby could I bear
Being away from you, I found the vein, put it in here

I live for the applause, applause, applause
I live for the applause-plause
Live for the applause-plause
Live for the way that you cheer and scream for me
The applause, applause, applause

Give me that thing that I love (I'll turn the lights out)
Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch (make it real loud)
Give me that thing that I love (I'll turn the lights out)
Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch (make it real loud)

(A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E) Make it real loud
(A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E) Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch
(A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E) Make it real loud
(A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E) Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch

I've overheard your theory "nostalgia's for geeks"
I guess sir, if you say so, some of us just like to read
One second I'm a Koons, then suddenly the Koons is me
Pop culture was in art, now art's in pop culture in me

I live for the applause, applause, applause
I live for the applause-plause
Live for the applause-plause
Live for the way that you cheer and scream for me
The applause, applause, applause

Give me that thing that I love (I'll turn the lights out)
Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch (make it real loud)
Give me that thing that I love (I'll turn the lights out)
Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch (make it real loud)

(A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E) Make it real loud
(A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E) Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch
(A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E) Make it real loud
(A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E) Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch

koons did the single art

Naw. I kind of hate her now.

did she even do anything in the past year to make you change your mind?

I think it's me that's changed more than her.

Suddenly, the Koons is you.

fame monster is front-to-back classic but everything since has been shit

dammit I don't wanna think about these lyrics but now there they are, printed upthread and I'm sitting here puzzling over Lady Gaga's use of prepositions, like does she even understand the relationships implied and not implied by a simple little word such as "in"? imagine a venn diagram of the scaffolding of inclusion and containment implied by this song, with "me" as the largest class/category, which then contains "art", and then that contains "pop culture"- it goes without saying, but the grotesque egotistical sublime of these lyrics couldn't be more blatant and obnoxious. Then we've got the equation/synonymy shenanigans, I = Koons; Koons = I, and if I = me then it would follow that Koons, too, contains "art" and, by extension, "popular culture". I bet she's not an idiot but she sure sounds like one on this tune.

fame monster is front-to-back classic but everything since has been shit

otm

i actually prefer this new thing to any BTW single tho

uh, it's kunst, no?

Lyric video says Koons.

haha yeah, I just watched it. so funny