Lady Gaga in 2020 - "Stupid Love", Chromatica, pink latex, etc

Yeah it's good. As an Ariana fan, I find her part underwhelming — her vocal isn't recorded very well(?) — but the track does the (admirable) trick of feeling 20-25 secs. too short, leaving you wanting more.

(Ariana sounds great on "Stuck With U" -- so whatever's up on this song, I assume it's not just that she has a bad mic at her home studio, or whatever.)

(...plus, the Gaga song was recorded prior to the pandemic, duh. it’s like I’m forgetting there was a “before times.”)

ok, what bloghouse song is this reminding me of? i thought it was groovejet by spiller, but i think there's one that's closer.

I saw someone else get reminded of Cassius's Feeling For You. Is that what you're thinking of?

Isn't it really We In Life's "Grandlife?" The way the bassline descends and climbs is basically identical.

Am hearing “Starlight” by Supermen Lovers.

Not really feeling this track, seems a bit basic for either of them, and Ariana sounds even more garbled than usual.

i think it was grandlife, thank you mr milligan.

also hearing notes of 'music sounds better with you'

the drop felt a little canned to me at first but it's a full on great track i think... glad she's back to making gaga music. video is hilarious too

i've listened to this like a handful of times and it still sounds like they're both saying "i'd rather be drunk but at least i'm alive" to me lol

I saw someone on Twitter who heard it the same way (I’ve been seeing the hype tweets all week, so have long been familiar w/the actual lyric, lol)

idk how to feel about this one. It's competent but it feels like it plays it excessively safe which is something I don't want or expect out of this collaboration.

^Good take. A bunch more listens has sort of pushed it into the "trending negative" column for me.

Ariana Grande looks like Gina Rodriguez in the video

“Hey, Gaga here. Wanted to remind you all I’m still little old me. (...) Please listen to Dua Lipa instead!”

― breastcrawl, vrijdag 28 februari 2020 9:05

Basically what happened. We did, and so did she.

A guy in the car next to me today was playing this song, and getting into it (hand movements, etc.). It seems to really have some heat, wonder how high it will debut on the chart.

could very well debut at #1, as numerous songs have this year. the more important question is whether it will show staying power beyond that, since some of the year-to-date's number-one debuts might not

i think the song is just okay so i am not the best judge of its commercial prospects. it is definitely better than "stupid love" tho

lmao at the misheard lyric, even after knowing that was incorrect i still couldn't figure out what the real lyric was until looking it up!!

I am sort of disappointed that after Joanne (which I really liked), Gaga seems to be sort of aesthetically retreating. But I’m not a Little Monster, maybe this move hits the sweet spot for her core fans.

any ariana song is gonna go no 1... she just did it last week. i think it's a good song personally and will have staying power at the top of the chart. it was a very well chosen feature by gaga.

i don't necessarily consider the song safe ... it does feel a bit fossilized w/ the drop and all but i think the time was right for a back to basics record for her after the artpop-joanne b2b. "shallow" + star is born made it cool to like her again, in that sense i think she's already accomplished the difficult part. following it up w/ a feel good party-ish kinda record that's like, "remember when we all loved me" w/ a few new twists makes a lot of sense to me. also think it's when her songwriting is at its best.

also think the video will carry it far

this song has totally demolished the gays already, it's gonna do just fine

following it up w/ a feel good party-ish kinda record that's like, "remember when we all loved me" w/ a few new twists makes a lot of sense to me.

I feel you on this. I guess I was hoping she’d “take it to another level,” but that’s probably an unreasonable thing to expect from any artist.

I like this! But I like her best when she's at her most conventional. I barely hear Grande.

This new song with Blackpink is great!

https://open.spotify.com/track/6R6ZoHTypt5lt68MWbzZXv?context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1DXaB4n0u69YR3&si=ozdmFTo4Q1Osr0CGKJw5rQ

I thought the song with Elton John would be like an awful Cheek to Cheek-esque thing but boy was I wrong!

this is a good album

indeed

Elton's blown his voice, though.

Anonymous house music is a good look for Gaga

Elton singing on the One World stream a few weeks ago was hilariously awful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCLagU-dr9A

Rain on Me debuted at #1, week 2 dropped to #5, week 3 dropped to #10.

that's pretty good for a song launched to #1 based overwhelmingly on pent-up hype, a simultaneous track/video premiere, and a plainly charts-driven digital retail strategy. like, the trajectories of a couple others recently fitting that description:

1 - 12 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 22 - 25 (travis scott & kid cudi "the scotts")
1 - 13 - 15 - 17 - 20 (ariana grande & justin bieber "stuck with you")

all are being buoyed somewhat by airplay gains, even those for which direct consumption (sales/streams) is running out of steam fast. they could all eventually find a real mass audience, but i wouldn't count on it. of the three, i'd say "rain on me" may be the likeliest to actually become a 'real' hit

Big VMAs for her

Her performance was great too.

This album's terrific.

This may be my favorite Lady Gaga video ever. It's stunning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58hoktsqk_Q

tarsem singh rules

Yes he does! I've watched it like 10 times now. I'm curious about The Color of Pomegranates now, which I hadn't even heard of until now.

finally trying this album on at full length, not too much is grabbing me so far but "stupid love" sounds even better in context. also gives me this powerful Max Tundra deja vu around the glitchy edges - she should hire him for some remixes, he deserves the paycheck.

Her best album since BTW.

Somewhat incredibly, “Rain on Me” is the first all-woman collab to win a Grammy for best pop duo/group performance.