The best pop song of the last 20 years.
Sorry Gaga haters. It’s a fact.
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The best pop song of the last 20 years.
Sorry Gaga haters. It’s a fact.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 21, 2020 10:31 PM |
Partially because “Baby One More Time” is now 21 years old.
I didn’t realize how much Gaga had lost her touch melodically until I revisited The Fame Monster a few weeks ago. It’s almost sad how much better her early music is than Chromatica.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 27, 2020 12:12 PM |
I don't think there will be much argument here. This is Gaga's peak, and the rest of her career has been trying to regain that uniqueness including in "Shallow", where she depended on the same Ra-Ra-Ra hook.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 27, 2020 12:14 PM |
Wrong. Booty Wave is the best pop somg of the last 20 years.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 27, 2020 12:17 PM |
It’s a great pop song. Another one for consideration: Single Ladies by Beyoncé.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 27, 2020 12:28 PM |
It’s a perfect song. And a great video.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 27, 2020 3:29 PM |
Eh, it's fine. It's better than 90% of the shlock out there, I agree. But the 'best' pop song? I doubt that.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 27, 2020 3:33 PM |
It’s shit like all of fugga’s music and her face!
by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 27, 2020 3:35 PM |
I love Lady GaGa as a person, but her music's always just - meh - nothing that special.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 27, 2020 3:36 PM |
snore
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 27, 2020 3:45 PM |
While Bad Romance is great I think LoveGame has a better hook. And I get a cheap thrill from the words disco stick.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 27, 2020 3:46 PM |
This doesn't reflect well on the state of pop songwriting...
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 27, 2020 3:46 PM |
Single Ladies is horrible
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 27, 2020 4:06 PM |
Came out in 2001, and sold much better than Bad Romance, and its a better dance pop song than anything Gaga EVER created.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 27, 2020 4:07 PM |
I prefer "Poker Face", "Paparazzi" and "Do What U Want" (although the last one is tainted by R Kelly).
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 27, 2020 4:11 PM |
R13 yeah but we can thank Cathy Dennis for that one.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 27, 2020 4:18 PM |
Her first two albums were her most interesting and best. The Fame was more innovative, with some confounding sounds and lyrics, and Fame Monster was a little more slickly produced but still really creative. I agree that Bad Romance (especially the video’s styling) was an apex.
I do wonder what happened. She went from being a pop trifle to a Very Serious Social Justice Warrior, and honestly “Born This Way” is not a very good song. I like “Bad Kid” OK, but she does fail for me when she tries to mesh dance music and serious messaging. I think that’s part of what brings down Chromatica. I read a couple of reviews that say Chromatica is her best and most cohesive album, but there’s nothing on it that stands out as memorable to me. It’s good pop music all the way through, but it feels paint by numbers.
“My name isn’t Alice, but I keep lookin’ for Wonderland” is...OK? Who cares?
“When I was young, I prayed for lightning...I found myself without a prayer/I lost my breath but no one cared” is self-aggrandizing Madonna dreck.
Wrong direction lyrically, Gaga. Shut your Playboy mouth and break out your disco stick.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 27, 2020 4:31 PM |
I like Gaga, but she was propped up by RedOne and Fernando Garibay early on.
Left on her own, we get those hookless piano bar songs that don’t translate into great pop, even when retooled with a dance beat.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 27, 2020 4:48 PM |
Agree. RedOne and Rob Fusari made great music with her, and an unbridled Nicola Formichetti visually styled her to become a pop culture idol.
Apart from them, she has proved she has tenacity and real performative talent, but her songs have lost their magic and when she goes for shock and awe with her visual style these days, she comes across more like a rent-a-Gaga than a creative visionary.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 27, 2020 4:56 PM |
I'd vote Sia's Chandelier or Adele's Hello over this mess.
Katy Perry's Dark Horse, too.
Rihanna's Umbrella, Diamonds...
All better than this.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 27, 2020 5:38 PM |
This new song “Plastic Doll” sounds like it was written for Katy Perry. From the opening instrumentation to the way that Gaga performs the vocals, it sounds like Katy Perry. Why would Gaga reduce herself to paint-by-numbers pop?
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 27, 2020 5:45 PM |
I do like this track a lot. It has a mid-90s dance-pop percussion, and the lyrics, trite as they are, make sense to me with the “sweet” K-pop vocals juxtaposed against Gaga’s comparatively “sour” voice.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 27, 2020 5:49 PM |
The more I listen to Chromatica the more I like it. I love Sine from above and 911.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 27, 2020 6:18 PM |
R23 I like Sine from Above except that the misspelling of “sign” suggests there’s going to be some kind of mathematical analogy and there is none. “I heard a sine” is a stupid line. And Elton John’s role feels gratuitous.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 27, 2020 6:24 PM |
R19 “Chandelier” is a great call and an absolutely magnificent song. It has, what, three distinct hooks? Brilliant vocal, too.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 29, 2020 6:10 AM |
Bad Romance is great but I wouldn't put it in my top 10 songs of the century. I'd argue Alejandro is her finest moment.
Chandelier, Can't Get You Out Of My Head, Call The Shots and Crazy In Love would probably be in my top 10, along with this:
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 29, 2020 6:27 AM |
It really is. It's a genius-level piece of pop music. Wildly inventive lyrically, thematically, and aesthetically (the video)
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 20, 2020 7:52 PM |
And Single Ladies is horrible
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 20, 2020 7:53 PM |
I prefer Paparazzi because of the video with Alexander Skarsgård
by Anonymous | reply 29 | July 20, 2020 8:15 PM |
I cringe when I hear the whoa oh oh, oh oh oh part of Single Ladies. Awful song all around.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 21, 2020 1:13 AM |
Genius??? I see Stef found her way here.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | July 21, 2020 1:23 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 21, 2020 3:58 AM |
R33 I’m loving the way disco has found its way back to pop music. Doja Cat (who is fabulous), Dua Lipa and Carly Rae Jepsen are all using it to great effect.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 21, 2020 12:00 PM |
Love Bad Romance. Among other great pop hits of the last twenty years is Chris Brown - With You. Just magnetic.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 21, 2020 4:34 PM |
Still sounds fresh 13 years later. Come back to us Riri!
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