#also LoveGame by Lady Gaga is there for a reason I’m just saying

[emptyrainbowz]

I think you can tell I’m a phannie

Also 4/5 of my top artists are British

[innranrae]

"I'm too sober for this."

aaa took me longer than i thought to finish this one, but i actually like it a lot yayay I hope you guys like it too <3 likes n reblogs are very much appreciated, enjoy! ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ/♡

￫ character(s): Albedo, Kaeya, Childe, Venti

￫ pairing(s): Kaeya & Albedo

￫ word count: 936

￫ cw: alcohol

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Kaeya Today at 4:01 PM

Albedo

Bae

Babe

Bebedo

Albedo Today at 4:02 PM

Oh my god, what?

Kaeya Today at 4:02 PM

You’re coming to Venti’s party, riiight?

Answer carefully. If you say no I am going to blast Lady Gaga outside your dorm <3

Albedo Today at 4:03 PM

You’re funny

Too much noise, I'm not going.

Kaeya Today at 4:05 PM

I hope you’re ready for the consequences, chemistry boy

Albedo raised a brow at his boyfriend’s last message but soon dismissed it. He turned his phone upside down on the table and went back to his computer and numerous papers.

After only an hour of studying, though, Albedo noticed his phone buzz.

Kaeya Today at 5:00 PM

Hey can you look outside your window it’s urgent

“What the f–”

“Hey hey hey, we have children around, man, don’t swear!” Ajax gasped.

Albedo looked at his roommate sitting on the top of the bunk bed. Besides the two, the only other “person” in the room was the narwhal plushie Ajax held in his lap, both hands on either side of the narwhal's head, as to prevent it from listening.

God, I’m surrounded by idiots. Albedo sighed as he got up. Surely Kaeya wouldn’t be so reckless as to blast music on college grounds.

...Right?

The dormitories weren't populated that day, and the reason was simple. Venti.

Venti would throw parties at his house every so often and these gatherings were not only well known throughout campus, but the whole city. And when he threw them, it wasn’t the night of the party, rather it was the day of the party. Which basically meant the festivities started as soon as Venti got up and ended as soon as he got tired, usually by the morning of the next day.

But, despite the lack of students at the dorms, if Kaeya blasted a song there, surely the guards would ask him to leave. Well, at least Albedo thought so.

Little did he know his boyfriend's social circle reached even the security guards.

Just outside his window, where the road and entrance to the dormitory was, Albedo saw the familiar car parking. A Citroen C4 that actually belonged to Kaeya’s adoptive dad, Crepus, but was later reclaimed by him since neither his dad or Diluc liked to drive.

The driver seat’s door opened and the person who emerged from it was none other than Kaeya himself.

He noticed Albedo already at his window and, with a wide smile, Kaeya waved at him. He opened the hatchback door revealing two speakers, and upon connecting his phone to it, the chaos started.

Let’s have some fun, this beat is sick ♪

I wanna take a ride on your disco stick ♪

Hearing the familiar song, Ajax abandoned the eyeliner he was doing on himself to join Albedo by the window. “Yo, is that LoveGame?” He asked while pushing his roommate slightly to look at the scene beneath them. “OH MY GOD…”

Ajax started frantically laughing at Kaeya who danced to LoveGame, like it was the funniest thing he had seen in his whole life.

And to make matters worse, a very drunk Venti got out of the car, waving at them with his whole arm, almost spilling the wine inside the bottle he carried with the other hand.

Albedo’s eyes were almost falling off his head at that point. Weren’t the security guards going to get Kaeya out? And also, why was Venti there? Was his house okay without him??

“I’m too sober for this...” Albedo raised a palm to his face.

Still recovering from the laughter, Ajax began filming the little concert with his phone, “You don’t even drink."

“Maybe I should start,” the blonde sighed before leaving the room.

After going down the set of stairs, Albedo opened the door of the dormitory and walked straight towards Kaeya.

"Can you please turn that off?"

Kaeya gave him an innocent look and pointed to his ears as he widened his eye, clearly acting like he didn’t hear. And in response, he only swinged towards Albedo, serenading him, "Hold me and love me, just wanna touch you for a minute ♪"

Albedo pinched his temple, “Alright, fine, I’ll go to the party…”

When he heard those words, Kaeya dropped all the acting and embraced Albedo tightly, lifting him off the ground before putting him down again, leaving a kiss on the blonde’s cheek.

Venti staggered towards the couple and snatched Kaeya's phone from his pocket. Lowering the volume, he switched the song to I've only seen a face by The Beatles, before sitting by the speakers on the trunk. He swayed his head to the melody and giggled while he took blurry pictures of Kaeya and Albedo.

"I have to get ready, then. Let me go," Albedo requested. Kaeya was reluctant to let go though, leaving Albedo no choice but to give in to the embrace.

The cheerful notes played as the cool breeze carried the fallen leaves. Eyes closed, Kaeya swayed with Albedo in his arms.

At that instant, the dormitory grounds felt like the backyard of the Ragvndir house. The house where Kaeya, at one of the parties he threw their freshman year of college, asked Albedo for a dance to the same song and kissed him, marking the beginning of their love story.

Kaeya might be insufferable at times, however, it was the way he made people enjoy their life to the fullest that mattered.

And that was exactly the type of character Albedo needed in his life.

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My Personal Ranking of Lady Gaga’s Discography

The time has come. The day has arrived. I am so excited to finally do this list!

Lady Gaga is one of the most influential, innovative, and incomparable artists of this generation. I think her to be one of the greatest musical artists to ever live. Her impact on pop culture as a whole cannot be ignored, and her talents as a singer/songwriter is limitless.

I remember first seeing her perform on So You Think You Can Dance with that iconic bleach-blonde, sharp-edged wig and those LED glasses with text on them and being absolutely mesmerized. Ever since that performance, I had been a casual fan, but absolute admirer of her music. Around 2016-2017 is when I decided to listen to pop music more regularly, and the first artist I knew I had to add to my library was Gaga. It was then that I listened to all her albums and officially became a Little Monster.

Each one of her albums is so incredibly unique, yet so undeniably Gaga at the same time. With the recent release of her sixth studio album Chromatica, I can now finally give my ranking of her incredible discography. I will only be covering her solo studio albums, so A Star Is Born and Cheek to Cheek will not be included.

A new thing I want to add to each album review is add a superlative that the album possesses to showcase its respective strength in the discography as a whole.

Reminder: this is my opinion. Everyone has a different ear, and certain sounds and songs resonate with different people. I’m just sharing my personal thoughts and experiences with these albums.

6. Joanne (2016)

This feels like pure blasphemy to put this album as the lowest ranking on the list when it is objectively one of Gaga’s strongest and more mature albums. It showcases her versatility as a songwriter to the nth degree, and she is the most vocally ferocious on this album. 

It is incredibly top-heavy for my taste (the first seven songs are absolutely sublime to listen to). It’s unfortunate, but from “Sinner’s Prayer” to the end, the album becomes borderline unlistenable to me. Gaga’s vocal delivery on the last few songs seems over-dramatic and unauthentic, and also technically not up to par with what I know she can do.

I think the big concern about Joanne is the feigned nature that I think I’m listening to. Gaga has always been theatrical and performative with her music, but with Joanne, I don’t seem to buy it as well. It suits a more dance-pop and electronic feel that we know and love her for. Maybe that’s the gay sensibilities in me talking; that’s just how I feel. 

She was far more successful with the A Star Is Born soundtrack in terms of writing for this genre. I applaud Gaga for going out on a limb with this massive genre shift, and it worked well, for the most part.

Favorite Songs: “Diamond Heart” through “Million Reasons”

Superlatives: Most Stripped, Most Diverse

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5. Artpop (2013)

I have very conflicted feelings about this album. At its best, it is exploratory, imaginative, and audacious. At its worst, it’s ostentatious, inaccessible, and clumsy.

It undoubtedly has some of Gaga’s sickest and coolest production to date; she really amped up the electronic feel for this album. She also experimented with several contemporary genres (hip hop, R&B, dubstep, trap, rock, etc.) quite skillfully on various tracks like “MANiCURE”, “Do What U Want”, and “Swine”. However, the production does go overboard sometimes, creating a heavy and clunky sound (”Swine” often becomes very harsh to listen to).

Lyrically, I find that it can be very distant, boastful, and vain. Certain songs like “Donatella” and “Fashion” are very specific to Gaga’s lifestyle and obvious love for high fashion, but it is not relatable to the common listener (or at least not me). The extravagant nature of the songs, and even the album as a whole, is hard to really dive into.

I still love this album a lot, but more like as a guilty pleasure. I see many people regard it to be her underrated masterpiece, and I understand where they are coming from, but find them to be misguided. It’s a strong piece of work, but Gaga just shot for the stars and went a little too far for her own good.

Favorite Songs: “Aura”, “Venus”, “G.U.Y.”, “Sexxx Dreams”, “ARTPOP”, “Applause”

Superlatives: Most Experimental, Most Bold

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4. The Fame (2008) 

It truly pains me to put this album so low because it’s the record that introduced us to the brilliance of her work and it features some of my absolute favorite Gaga tracks on it (”Poker Face” still hits hard even today). I cannot let the nostalgic nature of the album cloud my judgment, though. This only goes to show how incredibly strong her discography is; we are really splitting hairs at this point.

What Gaga did for the music industry back in 2008 is insurmountable and outrageous. She brought back the four-to-the-floor sound to the radio in a campy and edgy way that we had never heard before. She will most likely be the biggest juggernaut of an artist I will ever see in my lifetime; she will define my era of music as a child. This is the era I mainly associate with the iconic nature of Lady Gaga. 

It’s comparatively tame to her other work since she was still testing the waters and figuring herself out as an artist. But by 2008′s standards, terms like “disco stick” and “bluffin with my muffin” were totally out-there and controversial. Songs like “Paparazzi”, “LoveGame” and “Poker Face” pushed the envelope and influenced many artists for years to come.

Besides the lead singles, many of the songs on the album are not too remarkable and probably the closest thing you can classify as “filler tracks”. They’re inconsequential, generic, and uneventful compared to the powerhouse singles. 

While these songs also deal with fame and the opulent lifestyle like the ones I mentioned for ARTPOP, they were written from the perspective of someone who was not yet famous. The whole idea of the album is playing with the universal dream and fantasy of what fame is like. In turn, that make the album so much more relatable, universal, and engaging.

This is one of the greatest debut albums ever produced, and it paved the way for Gaga’s career and artistry. I’m happy to say that it basically gets close to pop perfection from here on out.

Favorite Songs: “Just Dance”, “LoveGame”, “Poker Face”, “The Fame”, “Starstruck”

Superlatives: Most Revolutionary, Most Iconic

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3. Chromatica (2020)

This is the first album of her work that I was eagerly waiting for as a proper Little Monster. I was absolutely ecstatic when the first information about the album was coming out, including the singles. It was the album that I had been waiting for for a long time... and it absolutely delivered. It was everything I needed it to be and more.

Vocally, it is Gaga’s most impressive work to date. Her voice has matured so beautifully over the past 12 years, and she has learned to use her upper register in the D5-F5 range more healthily, powerfully, and consistently than before. There were several moments throughout the album that I was gobsmacked at the force of her voice. 

I will admit it is the most “tame” of all her works in terms of the outlandish and campy nature with which we know her for (just ahead of The Fame). Instead, she writes with more sophistication, finesse, and honesty that has come with more experience. On first listen, it seems rudimentary, but as time goes on, the inner complexities of the album start to reveal themselves.

For being a straight-up dance album through and through, it is brutally honest and personal. There is real pain and heartache that is displayed through much of the album, and Gaga is using music as a means of catharsis to release the pain. It makes the album incredibly relatable and accessible, allowing the listeners to dance through the pain. Released in a time when the whole world was faced with such uncertainty and worry, this album is definitely a great outlet for those looking for comfort.

Being as huge of a fan of artists like Kylie Minogue, Robyn, and Carly Rae Jepsen as I am, this album truly delivers on the dance/dance-pop department. The production is impeccably done and spearheaded by Bloodpop (who I hope is Gaga’s main collaborator from now on). Even the Chromatica interludes are stunningly gorgeous and inform how the next act of the album will go. In my opinion, Act I of the album (Tracks 1-6) is absolute pop perfection; I wouldn’t change a single thing about any of those tracks.

The album may run a little short, and it’s tamer compared to her earlier works, but it is still brilliant nonetheless. With a collaboration with the reigning Princess of Pop, Ariana Grande, you know it has to be amazing. This will absolutely go down as one of the best dance albums ever written. This is Gaga’s return to form, and we have been so blessed.

(Ok, but Chromatica II into 911 is THE serve. She did THAT. Do you know what she did? THAT.)

Favorite Songs: “Chromatica I”, “Alice”, “Stupid Love”, “Rain On Me”, “Free Woman”, “Fun Tonight”, “911″, “1000 Doves”

Superlatives: Most Cohesive, Most Personal

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2. The Fame Monster (2009)

I’m gonna be perfectly honest here: it took the longest time for this album to grow on me. Even longer than ARTPOP. But with time, I was finally able to see just how sleek, crisp, and perfect of an album this really is.

This was Gaga’s expansion to The Fame that she wrote based on her experiences with touring, fame, and the toll that can take on someone. It is a concept album with each song being based on a personal fear of Gaga’s that I am sure were all amplified with the high intensity of being a pop star. 

You can immediately tell the difference between this album and its predecessor. It’s darker, it’s sexier, and it’s candid. Where The Fame was written from a place of imagination and wonder, this was written from a place of truth and fear. The amount of growth that came from just a year on the road is staggering.

It is undeniably her most polished album in terms of production and composition. It took the ambition of sonic perfection that The Fame was going for, and amped it up even more. Each song has its own feel to it, but they all work together so well as an album.

There is one song that makes this album imperfect and keeps it from my number one spot, and the song will make tons of Little Monsters angry: “Speechless”. I just don’t like it, no matter how many times I’ve tried to get into it. It’s written in C major (my least favorite key), it’s overly sentimental and hokey, and it disrupts the flow of pop that keeps the album together. I know it’s an incredibly personal song for her, but it is just mediocre to me; I skip it everytime.

Other than that, I think the album is absolute perfection. “Bad Romance” is one of the most iconic and influential songs in her songbook and even the Great American Songbook, and the non-singles are just as powerful, if not better. This album is the standard to which Gaga is held, and any album in the future will struggle to hold its own against this amazing work. Except one. ;) 

Favorite Songs: “Bad Romance”, “Alejandro”, “Monster”, “Dance In The Dark”, “So Happy I Could Die”

Superlatives: Most Polished, Most Dark

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1. Born This Way (2011)

Is there really any other option?

It’s the album that debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts. It’s the album with 5 of her most iconic and successful singles (the title song, “Judas”, “The Edge of Glory”, “You And I”, and “Marry The Night”). It’s the album that was unabashedly open about its advocacy, and gave voice to anyone who ever felt cheated by life or counted out. Of course it has to be in the number one spot.

This is Gaga at her freest, her most courageous, her most daring. She went all out in this record, and the results are absolutely remarkable. I am a massive fan of the 80′s in all aspects (especially the music), so the influence of 80′s rock and pop on the album satisfy my sensibilities swimmingly. The ingenuity and artistry which she demonstrates in the composition of this album is just mind-blowing.

“The Edge of Glory” is her best song. Hands down. No question. Bottom line, cut, and dry. The first time I heard it back in 2011 was so impactful to me. I learned just what an impressive singer Gaga is, and how powerful of a songwriter she is. It is one of the most euphoric, devil-may-care, and joyous songs ever written, and one of the most important songs in my life. The fact that it perfectly closes out the thrilling roller-coaster ride of Born This Way is the cherry on top.

It might be a little messier and imprecise than The Fame Monster, but it’s lows never get as low, and its highs are astronomically high. The arc that this album takes me through is astonishing. It is an album about celebrating life, loving others and yourself, and throwing caution to the wind. Who can’t relate to that and find comfort in it?

I could go on for ages about this album, but I’ll keep it simple. This is Gaga’s magnum opus, and one of the best pop records ever created. I am so unbelievably grateful for what it has done for my life, and it will forever be one of my favorite albums ever written. It taught me that I am unequivocally born this way, and that I should strive to be on the edge of glory.

Favorite Songs: The whole tracklist   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Superlatives: Most Daring, Most Adventurous, Most Creative

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I have been wanting to do this list for so long, and I am thrilled to finally get my thoughts out in a post. Lady Gaga is one of the best and most iconic musicals artists ever, and I am eagerly hopeful for the future of her music. I recently uploaded a reaction video of me listening to Chromatica for the first time if you’d like to watch. I am an absolute dork in it, and completely got my life on the first listen. I’ll include it as a separate post on my page as well. Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/zdEH2RRc3DE

[borntoslay]

some Johannesburg thots

DIAMOND HEART

I was surprisingly oblivious to the fucking fact that

Because

TBH ...

like T B H... i was so annoyed when she got engaged LMFAO like literally she was like He Gave Me His Heart On Valentines Day<33 and i LITERALLY was like

But once it was pointed out to me the whole song made sense Lol it chronologizes her life in a similar way to BJ † AF, with the first verse covering her go-go dancing days with her newly revealed (post-Till It Happens To You) trauma, (“some asshole broke me in, wrecked all my innocence”), with the second verse “a cruel king made me tough” being about Lüc Carl (”I’m just a holy fool, oh baby, he’s so cruel”)... which could place the trauma sometime either RIGHT before she made it big (~2008), or during The Fame (2008-2009), because she dated Lüc again during TFM/BTW... but with the bridge (“better get a good look baby, ‘cause soon I’m breaking out of here...”), we can place the entire song as pre-The Fame (2008)!

So the song is saying that she’s had bad ...romances in the past, but she managed to find “the one,” (”I might not be flawless, but you know I got a diamond heart”)

The only thing I’m confused about is whether she wrote this song pre- or post-breakup with Taylor... it seems like everything from LG5′s first attempt (the one that RedOne produced 8 tracks for, with a single to be debuted at the 2016 Grammys) got scrapped when Mark Ronson was brought in to produce (~January/February 2016), and Gaga was notably distant from Taylor throughout early-mid 2016 before announcing they broke it off...

Hmm

A-YO

JOANNE

So obviously I know this post is mostly just a joke but... what if it’s not?

Honestly, I know where you’re going And baby, you’re just moving on And I still love you even if I can’t see you anymore Can’t wait to see you soar

“So just so you know, someday you'll be up here instead of me, and I'll be sitting in the back cheering all you guys on.” (~2010–2011 at The Monster Ball)

“I hope that you always remember this time in our lives together, when we painted each other’s faces and called each other “Monsters”. Talked about love and art, all night long. Every year when I travel around the world, I always wonder if things will be different. Maybe one year you won’t come to the show, or you’ll be less festive, or not dressed up. What I realized during ARTPOP is that we belong together and sometimes some stories have no end. I will follow you around the world as long as you’ll have me because I love making music, I love making art and I love, love meeting all of you beautiful and creative people. When this song is over, the clock will start ticking until the next time. I appreciate you so much, thank you for believing in me always. I’ll always believe in you. When I die, they’ll say, “Lady Gaga was special, but her fans, her Monsters, they were really something.” (2014 at the final ArtRave)

JOHN WAYNE

All songs with male names as the title are metaphors for her male partners; all songs with female names as the title are metaphors for herself!

Alejandro, Judas, John Wayne

Bloody Mary, The Queen, Venus, Donatella, Mary Jane Holland, Gypsy (with the exception of Joanne... except technically Joanne could be literally named after herself S0)

Hmm... John Wayne is lyrically about going for joyrides and both John Wayne and Judas had motorcycles in their videos so I was thinking maybe there was something more to it... like maybe all of the songs about male partners have this in common... except Alejandro doesn’t have anything to do with cars...

but then I remembered the existence of Summerboy, which technically could count as a male name... “hey there Summerboy, let’s go for a drive...” and THEN i remembered that there’s this:

which was pointed out as eerie foreshadow 1.5 years ahead of this:

which is might’ve lead to “bust the rearview and fire up the jets ‘cause it’s you and me, baby, for life” in Gypsy... not to mention we also just got this for John Wayne

So she’s told this same story... on every single album.......¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ and it still slays us every single tiMe¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿???//¿¿

DANCIN’ IN CIRCLES

This song is about masturbation, and some fans noticed it’s also an acronym for DIC...

Glitter and Grease is also a song about masturbation, and also an acronym for GAGA (Glitter And Grease Around)...

PERFECT ILLUSION

EXPECTATION: COULD THE METALLICA / GAGA COLLAB AT THE GRAMMYS FINALLY BE THE DEBUT AMERICAN TELEVISION PERFORMANCE OF PERFECT ILLUSION?? 

Reality:

Anyways, as with all her lead singles that I initially hated, I have really grown to adore Perfect Illusion. I hope it gets a true epic moment that it deserves... sigh

MILLION RAISINS

If you think about it, every single song performed at the Superbowl was laced with a double entendre, whether it was already written into the song, or it was freshly baked in due to current events.

Obviously her God Bless America / This Land Is Your Land medley has been deciphered as the latter was written as a protest song, tapped off with her excerpt of the Pledge of Allegiance, “ONE nation, under god, INDIVISIBLE, with liberty, and justice for ALL”...

Dance in the Dark, a song about finding a way to be happy when you’re living in fear and insecurity; “Tell ‘em how you feel, girls”

LoveGame, a song essentially about embracing your sexuality

Paparazzi, “We are the crowd” / “Don’t stop for anyone”

The Edge of Glory, a song about the passing of her Italian-immigrant grandfather who she saw as a champion of life in his dying moments

Poker Face, a song about bisexuality!

BORN THIS WAY IM FUCKING CRYING

Telephone/Just Dance, following her mission with this performance of wanting to make everyone feel good + forget about their fears, “I don’t wanna think anymore, I left my head and my heart on the dance floor” / “Just dance, gonna be OK”

Million Reasons has a new meaning for everyone feeling scared, feeling unsafe, wanting to abandon the country altogether, maybe even wanting to give up on life altogether; “I’ve got a hundred million reasons to walk away... but baby I just need one good one to stay”—she starts off the whole song with “America... world... how you doin’...”, ever-so-subtly changes just ONE lyric, and saying it while looking and even pointing to camera TWICE, “I bow down to pray, I try to make the worst seem better. Lord, show me the way, to cut through all his worn-out leather...” and it’s immediately a different song from the one she wrote and released pre-Trump presidency.

Bad Romance, with the country of course!

SINNER’S PRAYER

When The Fame first came out, there were reviews for it citing Brown Eyes as the worst tracks because they come off inauthentic and I was like

But now we enter the Joanne era where she’s a country/folk singer seemingly out of nowhere, and although this is a perfectly good song, this one stands out the most, to me, as inauthentic. A-YO, John Wayne, and Dancin’ in Circles manage to take influences from the genre and turn them into pop songs, Joanne manages to still sound like a traditional Gaga ballad (Princess Die, Living on the Radio, I Wanna Be With You, etc)... but Sinner’s Prayer just... doesn’t.

I was thinking maybe it’s the instrument choice (guitar instead of piano)... but Joanne is basically done entirely with a guitar and there was no problem on that one... IDK

COME TO MAMA

“So why do we gotta put each other down when there’s more than enough love to Gaga-go around?”

God imagine if this was a Born This Way bonus track would we all have even made it all the way to 2017? Holy fucking shit. This song feels like every single good time I’ve ever had with the friends I’ve made through Lady Gaga, and, to that extent, this song sounds like every single time I was happy since 2009. I love this song so MUCH

The double-entendre here is that I can almost guarantee that this song was written with the intent for it to have become Hillary Clinton’s theme song, so it touches a lot upon the current state of our country... AS WELL AS, of course, the current state of her fans as she, “Mama” Monster is seeing that we all seemed to have forgotten all the love and acceptance we practiced during the Born This Way era.

Man, it wasn’t that long ago we were all living in the jungle...

Who are you gonna follow? There’s gonna be no future if we don’t figure this out...

Speaking, of course, about Hillary’s candidacy in regards to the country’s problems, as well as about needing to resolve her fans’ sudden indifference following ARTPOP and C2C if she’s to maintain her career!

Dude in a lab coat and a man of God Fought over prisms and a forty-day flood Well, I say rainbows did more than they've ever done So why do we gotta fight over ideas? We're talkin' the same old shit after all of these years

This is a beautifully written second verse talking about the age-old battle of religion vs science...

As well as the age-old battle of Monsters VS people who like this person; “rainbows” is Born This Way, as she suggests, being more successful and impactful than both... BUT dismissing stan wars altogether “so why do we gotta fight over ideas? We’re talking the same old shit after all of these years; Come to Mama”

HEY GIRL

This, to me, is the most important and necessary track to ever come out of 2016 and literally if you even slightly disagree, fucking block me please

ANGEL DOWN

When this song title and the concept was announced, I was so sure (and uncomfortable at the idea that) she was going to use it as a double-entendre for herself and her hits and misses post-2011, especially with this

But it would seem that she really did dedicate this solely to Trayvon Martin and the Black Lives Matter movement, and that’s exactly how it should be.

I also have a theory about alternate universe timelines and how this song would’ve gone into play if democracy actually existed and Hillary had won the election, but I’ll save that for another one of these days

Ok we are in for a treat, because although I preordered the physical release of the deluxe edition of Joanne, I was so busy through the end of last year that I was never able to import the CD into my library, so I just had the downloaded standard edition leak and have just been listening to that since then...

I heard (a live version? of) Grigio Girls, surprisingly never heard or saw proof of the existence of Just Another Day (which makes me sad that it might not be very good Lol) but I just sat my ass down and imported the remainder of the deluxe edition... so In The Words Of Mother Monster, Hear We Go...

GRIGIO GIRLS

Ok the production on this is just right, it would’ve served as a bridge between Diamond Heart’s genre crossover and Sinner’s Prayer’s flat out genre jump.

I... think,, this might be the weakest song on the album LOL AND I ONLY SAY THAT BECAUSE, objectively, it is. However, I do recognize how important it is to them and their friendship and if I was in that circle of friends, this song might be my absolute favorite song she’s ever WRITTEN! However I’m not, and I can step outside of that bias and see that this song isn’t nearly as strong as the rest.

It’s kind of like that “Monster For Life” song Gaga wrote for SPW and Lady Starlight + performed a capella at the 2014 SXSW set. It’s very sentimental for them and their circle of friends, but the melody is all over the place, the lyrics are pretty half-assed, so maybe it would’ve been better if these just stayed personal songs

I have a rule for songs (which I’ve started using with ARTPOP), and that is, “IF the song I dislike were a bonus track, would I like it more?” When Applause first came out I HATED it, but used this rule and TBH if it were a bonus track, it would’ve SLAYED MY WHOLE LIFE! (For the record, I ended up loving it all on its own just a couple of months later so don’t come for me) I also used this rule on Donatella, Dope, Fashion! and even Swine and Gypsy... and magically they’re all perfectly ok songs... but this rule doesn’t seem to be working on actual bonus track, Grigio Girls!

AGAIN, don’t come for me, I understand its importance and how personal it is

JUST ANOTHER DAY

OH MY GOD. WHAT THE FUCK THIS SONG IS SO GOOD... I THINK PROBABLY TOP 5 OR EVEN TOP 3 FAVORITE FROM THIS ALBUM??? HOW THE FUCK YALL PAID IT DUST IT IS SO SWEET AND PERFECT OMFG IT KINda sounds like Oh Well and Blueberry Kisses¿ especially with the horns and the way her voice sort of marches across the melody

Honestly this was literally me listening to it just now oMFg

but anyways omg i LOVE IT WHAT THE FUCk wow ok here’s my final rating I THINK

Come to Mama / Hey Girl

Just Another Day

A-YO

Dancin’ in Circles

Million Reasons / Angel Down / Perfect Illusion / John Wayne

Sinner’s Prayer

Joanne

Diamond Heart (sorry)

Grigio Girls (SORRY)

AnYwAyS thats all! I love this album : ‘ ) I think aside from Grigio Girls (SORRY!!!) even the songs that I don’t really like are still really good

And I still stand by the idea that she should re-release Joanne like she did with The Fame/The Fame Monster and call it Stefani Joanne

Ok thats all

[pastelbatfandoms]

Music bold survey!

 Bold the songs you know! (also crossing out the one’s I don’t like and only Bolding one’s I like)

225 questions

2000

1. Who Let The Dogs Out? -Baha Men (liked it as a kid,hate it now.)

2. All The Small Things -Blink 182 (Have ALWAYS disliked them)

4. Oops, I Did It Again -Britney Spears

5. Graduation -Vitamin C (omg Sooo Overplayed. guess which song was playing at My Middle School Graduation....)

6. Bye, Bye, Bye -N*Sync

7. Independent Woman -Destiny’s Child

8. Let’s Make Love - Tim McGraw and Faith Hill

9. Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 4000

10. I Turn To You - Christina Aguilera

11. I Knew I Loved You - Savage Garden

12. It’s My Life - Bon Jovi

13. Breathe - Faith Hill (liked it as a Tween,not much anymore.)

14. Shake Your Bon-Bon - Ricky Martin (Gag.My Mom had such a Crush on him)

16. Goobye Earl - Dixie Chicks

17. Let’s Get Married - Jagged Edge

18. The Bad Touch - Bloodhound Gang

19. The Real Slim Shady - Eminem (was over it once I heard all his other,much better,songs)

20. Say My Name - Destiny’s Child (My Twin Nieces and I ARE DC. We used to hold Performances at our House. I had there Bio too and Pasted a bunch of there Pictures in the blank pages XD)

21. It’s Gonna Be Me - N*Sync

22. Party Up - DMX

23. Sexual (Li Da Di) - Amber

24. Country Grammar - Nelly

25. Aaron’s Party (Come Get It) - Aaron Carter (gag one my Nieces had a Huge Crush on him as a Kid...)

2001

1. Hanging By A Moment - Lifehouse

2. Fallin’ - Alicia Keys

3. All For You - Janet Jackson (She was My First Musical Girl Crush)

4. If You’re Gone - Matchbox Twenty

5. I’M Real - Jennifer Lopez ft. Ja Rule (I remember when My Niece and I would perform this,She was Ja Rule lol)

6. Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me) - Train

7. Let Me Blow Ya Mind -Eve ft. Gwen Stefani

8. Thank You - Dido (liked it when it first came out. until it got overplayed.)

9. Hit ‘Em Up Style (Oops!) - Blu Cantrell

10. Independent Women Part I - Destiny’s Child

11. Again - Lenny Kravitz (Was never a Fan,unlike My Sister)

12. It’S Been Awhile - Staind

13. Stutter - Joe ft. Mystikal

14. It Wasn’T Me’ -Shaggy ft. Ricardo “RikRok” Ducent

15. U Remind Me - Usher

16. Where The Party At - Jagged Edge With Nelly

17. Angel - Shaggy Featuring Rayvon

18. Ride Wit Me - Nelly Featuring City Spud

19. Peaches & Cream - 112

20. Follow Me -Uncle Kracker

21. Drive - Incubus

22. What Would You Do? -Alicia Keys

23. Survivor -Destiny’s Child

24. Lady Marmalade -Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya & Pink

25. Ms. Jackson -OutKast

2002

1. A Moment Like This - Kelly Clarkson

2. Hot In Here - Nelly (Omg I remember Dancing to this at a School Dance...)

3. Complicated - Avril Lavigne

4. Girlfriend - N Sync & Nelly

5. Sk8er Boi - Avril Lavigne

6. Can’t Fight The Moonlight - LeAnn Rimes

7. Dirty - Christina Aguilera (I Memorized All her and Brit’s Dances)

8. A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton

9. Heaven - DJ Sammy

10. Gimme The Light - Sean Paul

11. The World’s Greatest - R Kelly

12. Jenny From The Block - Jennifer Lopez Featuring Jadakiss & Styles

13. Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American) - Toby Keith

14. Goodbye To You - Michelle Branch

15. Can’t Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue

16. The Game Of Love - Santana Featuring Michelle Branch

17. Young’n (Holla Back) - Fabolous

18. She Hates Me - Puddle Of Mudd

19. Starry Eyed Surprise - Oakenfold Featuring Shifty Shellshock

20. The Middle - Jimmy Eat World

21. Say I Yi Yi - Ying Yang Twins

22. Just A Friend 2002 - Mario

23. Hey Baby - No Doubt and Bounty Killer

24. Work It - Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott

25. U Don’t Have To Call - Usher

2003

1. In Da Club - 50 Cent

2. Crazy in Love - Beyonce w. Jay-Z (I do prefer the slower sexier ver now though)

3. Get Busy - Sean Paul (I just hate Sean Paul really)

4. When I’m Gone -Three Doors Down

5. Ignition - R Kelly (makes Me Think of MJ now since there’s a video of him Dancing in his car to this ♥)

6. Baby Boy - Beyonce w. Sean Paul (I remember being so proud of myself once I mastered her Flip/Roll from The MV)

7. This is the Night - Clay Aiken

8. Bring Me To Life - Evanescence

9. Right Thurr - Chingy

10. Unwell - Matchbox Twenty

11. Picture - Kid Rock w. Sheryl Crow

12. Drift Away - Uncle Kracker & Dobie Gray

13. Get Low - Lil’ John & The East Side Boyz

14. Beautiful - Christina Aguilera

15. I’m With You - Avril Lavigne

16. Miss You - Aalyiah

17. 21 Questions - 50 Cent & Nate Dogg (only like this song because of Nate Dogg)

18. Shake Ya Tailfeather - Nelly, P. Diddy and Murphy Lee

19. All I Have - Jennifer Lopez & LL Cool J

20. I Know What You Want - Busta Rhymes & Mariah Carey

21. Magic Stick - Lil’ Kim w. 50 Cent

22. Bump Bump Bump - B2K and P. Diddy

23. Flying Without Wings - Ruben Studdard

24. Here Without You - 3 Doors Down 

25. Work It - Missy Elliott

2004

1. Yeah! - Usher (My Friends and I Memorized this Dance...lol)

2. Burn - Usher

3. This Love -Maroon 5

4. The Way You Move - Outkast

5. If I Ain’t Got You -Alicia Keys

6. Hey Ya! - Outkast

7. I Don’t Wanna Know - Mario Winans

8. The Reason - Hoobastank  (makes me think of one of My Ex’s...)

9. Confessions Part II - Usher

10. My Immortal - Evanescence

11. Naughty Girl - Beyonce

12. Let’s Get It Started - Black Eyed Peas

13. My Boo - Usher and Alicia Keys

14. She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5

15. The First Cut Is the Deepest - Sheryl Crow

16. Toxic - Britney Spears

17. Someday - Nickelback

18. I Believe - Fantasia

19. Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson

20. Slow Jamz - Twista

21. Dirt Off Your Shoulder - Jay-Z

22. Freak-A-Leek - Petey Pablo

23. The Way - Clay Aiken

24. Numb - Linkin Park (LP makes me Depressed though)

25. Dip It Low - Christina Milian 

( I still have alot of these on My Pandora tbh)

2005

1. Sexy Back - Justin Timberlake

2. Hips Don’t Lie - Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean

3. Promiscuous - Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland

4. Everytime We Touch - Cascada

5. Temperature - Sean Paul

6. S.O.S. - Rihanna

7. Beep - Pussy Cat Dolls

8. Waiting On The World To Change - John Mayer

9. Pump It - Black Eyed Peas

10. You’re Beautiful - James Blunt

11. Maneater - Nelly Furtado

12. Single - Natasha Bedingfield

13. What Hurts the Most - Rascal Flatts

14. Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It - Dem Franchise Boys

15. Walk Away - Kelly Clarkson

16. It’s Goin’ Down - Young Joc

17. Dance, Dance -Fall Out Boy

18. Smack That - Akon & Eminem

19. I Write Sins, Not Tragedies - Panic! At the Disco

20. We’re All In This Together - High School Musical Cast

21. Ms. New Booty - Bubba Sparx

22. Rompe - Daddy Yankee

24. Check On It - Beyonce Featuring Slim Thugg

25. Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol

2007

1. The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani & Akon

2. Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne

3. Irreplaceable - Beyonce

4. Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood

5. Crank Dat - Soulja Boy

6. Rehab - Amy Winehouse

7. Umbrella - Rihanna

8. Hey There Delilah - Plain White T’s

9. Glamorous - Fergie

10. I Wanna Luv U - Akon

11. Bubbly - Colbie Caillat

12. Walk It Out - Unk

13. Don’t Matter - Akon

14. Fergalicious - Fergie

15. Lip Gloss - Lil Mama (I remember Hating her...)

16. Candyman - Christina Aguilera

17. Break It Off - Rihanna

18. S.O.S. - Jonas Brothers

19. Stronger - Kanye West (like the song not the artist)

20. Thanks For The Memories - Fall Out Boy

21. Pop, Lock and Drop It - Huey

22. Shut Up and Drive - Rihanna

23. Because of You - Ne-Yo

24. Home - Daughtry

25. Tattoo - Jordin Sparks

2008

1. So What - Pink

2. Just Dance - Lady Gaga

3. Leavin’ - Jesse McCartney (he reminded me too much of Aaron Carter)

4. I’m Yours - Jason Mraz

5. Gives You Hell - All-American Rejects

6. Damaged - Danity Kane

7. Shake It - Metro Station

8. Love Story - Taylor Swift ( I didn’t like Taylor back then)

9. When I Grow Up - Pussycat Dolls

10. I Kissed A Girl - Katy Perry

11. Don’t Stop The Music - Rihanna

12. Burnin’ Up - Jonas Brothers

13. Low - Flo Rida featuring T-Pain

14. Calabria - Enur featuring Natasja

15. Love Like This - Natasha Bedingfield and Sean Kingston

16. 7 Things - Miley Cyrus

17. Lollipop - Lil Wayne

18. Pocketful of Sunshine - Natasha Bedingfield

19. Circus - Britney Spears

20. Summertime - New Kids On The Block

21. Our Song - Taylor Swift

22. All Summer Long - Kid Rock

23. Closer - Ne-Yo

24. Viva La Vida - Coldplay

25. See You Again - Miley Cyrus

2009

1. Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas

2. I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas

3. I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) - Pitbull

4. You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift

5. Lovegame - Lady Gaga

6. Don’t Trust Me - 3OH3!

7. Please Don’t Leave Me - Pink

8. Right Round - Flo Rida ( I HATE this version)

9. Poker Face - Lady Gaga

10. Goodbye - Kristinia Debarge

11. Say Hey - Evan Taubenfeld Michael Franti & Spearhead

12. New Divide - Linkin Park

13. The Climb - Miley Cyrus

14. Best I Ever had - Drake

15. Good Girls Go Bad - Cobra Starship Featuring Leighton Meester

16. Lucky - Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat

17. Waking Up In Vegas - Katy Perry

18. Paranoid - Jonas Brothers

19. Wanted - Jessie James

20. Fire Burning - Sean Kingston

21. Not Meant To Be - Theory of a Deadman

22. Love, Sex and Magic - Ciara & Justin Timberlake

23. Use Somebody - Kings of Leon

24. Day N Nite - Kid Cudi

25. Hoedown Throwdown - Miley Cyrus

[gaga-chronicles]

There were two Lady Gaga shows happening Sunday night at Toyota Center.

One was the pop spectacle behind current album "Joanne." There were raised platforms, lots of cowboy hats and too many costume changes. (Seriously, she left the stage every three or four times.

"Now you know how I feel about this place. Last time I was in Houston we were playing the Super Bowl, thank you so much," she told the crowd.

"Get on your motherf***ing feet. You had one hell of a year with that Hurricane Harvey."

The second, however, was much more somber. Gaga dedicated much of the show to Sonja Durham, her best friend from Houston who died in May of breast cancer. She mentioned her frequently and often said she was near tears.

"I'll never forget looking her in the eyes and her saying, I'm gonna live forever.' I knew she was gonna die," Gaga said during a piano rendition of "The Edge of Glory. "But we were on the edge together."

She turned the end of the show into a full-on tribute. Gaga clutched a photo of herself and Durham as she sang "Grigio Girls," a song she wrote for her friend. She also turned "Million Reasons" into a posthumous dedication.

"She fought like hell – to her last breath," Gaga said between verses.

It was a dark, uncomfortable sequence of events. Some of the crowd sang along. Others cheered. Clapping didn't seem like the right thing to do.

But that place of discomfort is where Gaga so frequently lives. She's used her pain, in music and in the Netflix doc "Gaga: Five Foot Two," as a way to connect with fans.

For newbies, the procession may have felt exploitive. But for Little Monsters, it was another reason to love her even more.

As a live performer, Gaga is at her best when she isn't trying so hard. She's not the most natural dancer. There were too many long pauses for dramatic effect. But she was in good form during hits "Poker Face," "Alejandro" and "Bad Romance" in a feathered mask.

Vocally, she's only gotten stronger, the rasp in her voice adding layers of emotion to the lyrics. There was lots of fringe, expressive dancers and an intricate series of risers and bridges that carried her to a smaller stage at the back of the venue.

The strongest sequence came during her fizziest hits: "Just Dance," "LoveGame" and "Telephone," still her best single to date. There was no pomp, just super-pop.

She espoused equality, of course, and reminded the crowd that "There is nothing more powerful in the world than kindness."

That sentiment played into a moment when she read aloud a letter from a fan near the front of the stage. He called Gaga "my cure" just before she sang – surprise – "The Cure." So maybe it was planned. But the look on his face, like that of so many in the crowd, was one of pure joy.

[enuffula]

Antichrist Superstar

Okay, now we’re getting to the album with the explicitly controversial title. Portrait of an American Family had a creepy doll cover. Smells Like Children’s is supposed to look like some mashup between the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Wicked Witch of the West. They were both characters who came off as, well... you know. And there was that Wonka font for good measure. Basically, the album cover had a “kids are in danger” vibe. But neither of them were supposed to elicit personal offense at first glance. Maybe something similar to aesthetic offense. While he and the band are all about dat straight-up grotesqueness, there’s a liberal amount of subverted innocence, too.

This album doesn’t really have that. Unless you take Christianity for the innocence that’s being subverted. (I feel like I might need to have a disclaimer saying I’m a Christian for each Marilyn album I go over.) It’s redundant to say that not only is he a shock rocker, he also has a lot of strong criticisms against how Christianity is practiced (in America). At this point, I don’t know if other belief systems are ever criticized in his work.

But going to “edginess on purpose”, the title is a play on Jesus Christ Superstar. I haven’t seen it yet but from what I’ve read it is a musical that shows the very human side of Jesus. Many fundamentalists do not like JCSS. Marilyn almost certainly knew that and he wanted to show them what true blasphemy looked like.

Cycle I: The Heirophant

“Irresponsible Hate Anthem”: At first I was worried at the beginning because I don’t care for screaming masses that much. Anyway, this song. This song. “I was not born with enough middle fingers”? Honestly, flipping the bird just looks immature and cringeworthy to me like 97% of the time. That may be because there was this bully in my math class when I was eight and one time he told me to stick my middle finger up and I was like “Okay?” because I didn’t know what it meant. The teacher saw it and looked shocked but it only took her a few moments to guess I was innocent. XD Luckily, by the next year when I had homeroom with him, he was actually nice.

“The Beautiful People”: Not really sure what to write about this.

“Dried up, Tied, and Dead to the World”: “You ride but cannot be ridden/Pinch this tiny heart of mine/Wrap it up in soiled twine.” This part stands out to me, for some reason. At first I was thinking of… baseball. There’s “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath that contains the line “Bit my pretty red heart in two” which is, well, pretty for such a sad poem.

“Tourniquet”: The description “made of hair and bone and little teeth” make me think of a messily long-haired bony woman with big gums.

Cycle II: Inauguration of the Worm

“Little Horn”: *checks the wiki as I now feel the need to before listening to a new song* Wow, I thought this one zombie nightmare I had once was terrifying. It was the kind of bad dream where you wake up and lay there, waiting for your heart to stop thumping so hard. There were these undergrown zombies with horrible green skin. They were silent and they had no eyes. We were in a forest and they were standing on these flat-ish stones and as I turned to leave more were coming down a road. There was a sign that said “Based on a True Story”. What really made this terrifying was that later as I was walking my dog I came across this wild animal carcass with rotted out eyes.

“Cryptorchid”: Kept reading this as “Cryptorchild”, which sounds like some kid who spends time down in crypts just chillin’. It’s a catchy, but disturbing (of course), song with a fitting title. By “fitting title”, I mean it’s name for a medical condition that has to do with genitalia and I would expect nothing less from Marilyn.

“Deformography”: Wondered if this would be about teratophiliac porn. It might be?

“Wormboy”: Do you, Marilyn? Do you know that you are “slipping away”? Hope not because we still have two more albums to get through until “Slutgarden”.  

“Mister Superstar”: Before there was “Paparazzi”, there was...this. It’s much more raw and dirty. “Dirty” isn’t really how I like to describe sex but when you got your obsessed fan going “I want to get sick from you” and some other lines I would prefer not to type... By the way, please check out “LoveGame (Chew Fu Ghettohouse Fix)” by Lady Gaga. He’s featured in it. They’re both Interscope artists.

“Angel with the Scabbed Wings”: This is a title I like. Good imagery. Reminds me of how in Brit Lit we read this poem by William Blake called “The Sick Rose” that sounded pretty. Then the teacher told us what it was really about and it still sounds pretty but I’ll confess I was a little shocked.

“Kinderfeld”: Nope. Reading the wiki before giving a track a listen is a good idea.

Cycle III: Disintegrator Rising

“Antichrist Superstar”: It annoys me when an artist gives an album the same name as a track. “Pissing well” might make a good colloquialism for urinal if it is not already.

“1996”: A lot of anti’s there.

“Minute of Decay”: There’s a Family Guy reference I want to make here but I also don’t want people to know how much of that show I’ve watched over the years. I’ll just say it came from “Prick up Your Ears”.

“The Reflecting God”: Is there a word for someone who is no longer a virgin? I don’t mean “slut”. I mean like someone who has (at least a little) experience? There’s this weird reverence around, not virgins, but the concept of virgins.  

“Man That You Fear”: I’d rather not listen to this because, again, I read the article.

“Track 99”: Not really sure why this was included.

There are some B-sides.

“Apple of Sodom”: So there was on a soundtrack for some movie called Lost Highway. Because I have no seen that, I can’t say how fitting this song is. But today I watched Dune, which is another David Lynch movie, for the second time. I actually like it a lot. Or at least like the first hour of it. Kyle MacLachlan was bae in that.

“Long Hard Road out of Hell”: This is also the name of his memoir. It can’t be as bad as (what I’ve read of) Not That Kind of Girl so I might read it.

“The Suck for Your Solution”: This was apparently for some Howard Stern movie. I don’t know enough about the man to add judgment. I haven’t really been judging these last dozen songs but they aren’t really standing out to me.

“P Is for Porno”: A demo for “Deformography”. I do prefer the new title.

“Little Black Spots”: I don’t know what the title means but this is a demo version of “Cryptorchid”. Right now I want to point out how I like the line “The time has come for bitter things.” It is probably a reference to Disney’s 1951 version of Alice in Wonderland, which is one of my favorite movies of all time.

“Wormboy Gets His Wings”: Another demo. Shortening the title was probably a good move.

“Astonishing Panorama of the End Times”: The beginning I like, good and upbeat. Of course, it quickly becomes controversial. XD

“Suicide Snowman”: Given the subject matter, I’d prefer not to listen.

“Art of Dying”: The link on the wiki sent me to “The Reflecting God”.

“D Is for Dirty”: Not much to say here.