lady gaga 'fame-era' singles poll

"eh eh" is actually my 2nd or 3rd favorite of these -- i remember seeing the video on a gaga block on fuse and being like "shit, why couldn't this have been a US single"

lovegame

then

bad romance
paparazzi
poker face
just dance

i've actually come around to a couple of the earlier songs (in bar settings) but it's still "bad romance", though i love "alejandro" too. only one i don't really f/w is "love game" and i have no idea what an "eh eh (what can i say?)" is

"speechless" is still my favorite song of hers i think, though

telephone > bad romance >> paparazzi >>> alejandro > poker face >>>>>>>>>>>>>> just dance >>> eh eh >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> love game

eh eh is gr8

"Bad Romance"
"Telephone"
"Alejandro"
"Paparazzi"
"Just dance"
"Love Game"
"Eh Eh (What Can I Say)"
"Poker Face"

Paparazzi was the first Gaga song I liked straight away. I have retconned a love of Poker face. Still don't like Just dance.

(Basically agree with Lex almost entirely)

heard "bad romance" on the radio the other day & tho it's not my favorite single of hers it feels like the most important one to me in the context of her discography so far

anyway, personal favorite is "alejandro" -- after that it's "just dance" which i loved immediately & still do

i like "bad romance"/"telephone"/"paparazzi" equally pretty much

yeah i don't really fuck w/ "lovegame" either -- the bridge on that one is probably worse than the one on "poker face"

:( @ all the lovegame hate

bad romance it is for me

Paparazzi = Bad Romance > Poker Face > Telephone > Alejandro > Lovegame = Eh Eh > Just Dance

i had one of those life changing moments with bad romance when it just hit me in one big cascading flood!

"bad romance" does feel like the most important one, yes

the song quietly rivalling "telephone" for my personal fav is "monster". "we might've fucked, not really sure, don't recall" lol. i like how her labelling him a monster both diminishes him (the male voice interjections are on some dumb lumbering frankenstein shit) and elevates him ("he ate my heart and then he ate my brain", he still has total power over her).

ditto to surm

hearing "Bad Romance" on the radio is always a slight buzzkill for me w/o the extra stuff in the video version (harpsichord and extra vocals on intro, claps on the outro, etc.)

I think I want to bump paparazzi up to a tie with lovegame for me. I really love Paparazzi too.

:( @ all the lovegame hate

"disco stick" still makes me cringe completely soz :(

(same's true for "bluffin with my muffin" on "poker face" but the rest of "poker face" is insanely catchy)

yeah lex monster is like my favorite gaga song. the male part goes "i love that girl, she's hot as hell"

so great

that song is important i think bcuz it countered (tho likely not consciously) the criticism of early gaga detractors (myself included) that her songs were too ordinary to hold up to her image

speaking of "bad romance"

xxp or no no "wanna talk to her, she's hot as hell"

yeah "disco stick" is ridic but that's 1/2 the reason I love it, I think

"disco stick" is at least slightly batshit -- "bluffin w/ my muffin" is just terrible writing

don't really like any of these; paparazzi is probably the one i can sit through the longest without turning off though

"bad romance" also just SOUNDS like the song of a decade. culturally defining.

yeah - bw/mm is p horrible

i can never get into "Paparazzi," just a dreary melody and sad plopping drums, trying so hard to be dramatic or grand and ending up so banal

Automatically voted Bad Romance without even thinking about it, but probably should have been Paparazzi.

"speechless" obviously has a huge & great hook but i can't really give into the whole eltonness of it -- it's a bit too humorless, i think she kinda gets lost in it

x-posts to SD Really? idk I think it's pretty epic - I get really into singing it if it comes on in the car. I feel it, man. OK JK (sort of) but I do really love it.

speechless is SLIGHTLY too pigeonholed, but speechless is really a piece of work, and her voice on it is just o_O

i think the gaga line that makes me cringe MOST might be the princess diana reference in "dance in the dark" (in a song that i otherwise think is one of her strongest) - not so much because it's embarrassing wordplay or whatever but it's just such a weird, jarring misstep

"I left my head and my heart on the dance floor"

I only listened to the Fame Monster EP (8 songs) and love all of it. How enthusiastically should I go for the rest?

speechless is SLIGHTLY too pigeonholed, but speechless is really a piece of work, and her voice on it is just o_O

― i like lucy (surm), Thursday, February 10, 2011 4:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i pretty much agree w/ this but still fall slightly on the other side of the line

i've said it b4 but it's worth repeating . . . .

her voice on this part in speechless

And I know that it's complicated
but I'm a loser in love so baby
Raise a glass to mend all the broken hearts
of all my wrecked up friends

when the drums kind of drop out at the end

there are no words!

i find "speechless" genuinely moving in a kind of raddled sunset boulevard kind of way? it's an obvious trick but the james dean glossy eyes/johnnie walker eyes switch from verse 1 to verse 2 does work. also, i think some of her best live performances were of "speechless" - the piano in a glass box and then on fire, the surrealist piano on giraffe legs etc.

o wait it isn't even in the poll lol

it wasn't a single. in some ways i appreciate that she didn't pull a GGGB and mine the fame monster endlessly for singles, but...she really could have.

considering that there were 7-8 singles off a project that in many senses is considered one album, i don't know if the restraint your praising is actually there

i kinda consider the fame monster as a separate entity to the fame, despite the repackaging - it feels conceptually distinct enough, basically.

yeah but...i'm sure there'd be more than 3 singles if it was a completely distinct album and not an 8 song addendum to a preceding album

agree with some dude on "paparazzi"'s limpness

i would probably rank them

bad romance
telephone
poker face (after i went months hating on it lol)
alejandro
just dance
paparazzi
lovegame

i'm not actually sure how "eh eh" even goes

in fact it's almost exactly like GGGB in the sense that there were 4-5 singles off the initial album release, and then 3-4 more from the new songs added to the deluxe edition. (xpost)

had no idea the lyric in the first verse on alejandro that i could never make out was "she hides true love en su bolsillo" until i did it at karaoke

yeah but...i'm sure there'd be more than 3 singles if it was a completely distinct album and not an 8 song addendum to a preceding album

i'd call it a sequel, or "evil twin", or something, rather than an addendum. and it's more of an EP really (though the entire thing does show how meaningless these distinctions can be)

yeah but in terms of marketing and public perception and singles campaigns, the only difference between Fame Monster and Good Girl Gone Bad Reloaded is that one had 5 more new non-singles and one didn't, which doesn't make a huge difference in the bonus track-crazy world we live in.

Paparazzi: the sad-sack melody & delivery is the point and it is a point well-made.

but Bad Romance and Alejandro are right about equal with it

ok i'll rank these

Paparazzi
Alejandro
(gap)
Telephone
Poker Face
Bad Romance
Eh Eh (What Can I Say)
Just Dance
LoveGame

Underrated GaGa song from The Fame: Brown Eyes.

Bad Romance is titanic, so I voted for that...although I kind of adore most of these.

whats this about gaga has a new single out?

yeah when is it coming out!!??

and what about "you and I" -- have y'all heard that one? she premiered it on the today show or whatever like months ago? it's good! kind of like a sister to speechless

Alejandro

xp could you link it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muXg2qPFcKY

alejandro but only because it reminds me of ace o' base

alejandro but only because it reminds me of ace o' base

i think this is perhaps why i don't like it quite as much as i could/as others seem to

You and I is promising now, but it is going to be incredible with bombastic Speechless-style production.

Yes, I am excited for Born This Way.

:D :D

yea i really like you and i. takes me back to something, and sounds very her at the same time.

Has anything else leaked btw? Popdust seem to be covering it quite carefully, but I haven't been following as I should..

for whatever reason "Just Dance" has always been my favorite. I really love "Ehh Ehh" though, that was one of the first songs of hers I heard. I think The Fame is very patchy, whereas The Fame Monster is all solid tracks overall.

yeah echoing the "speechless" praise wrt her voice - probably her strongest vocal perfomance for me. i've also said this before but i love the little yell at the end there ("ohh boy WHY you so speechless). reminds me of courtney love almost

Speechless was my tune last year.....played it a lot during my depressed phase.

was the fame monster polled? every track should pick up at least a few votes

feel like it was (ilxor poll?) but i can't find it

so good i can't decide

just dance
bad romance

less good than those 2 & roughly in order

paparazzi
poker face
alejandro
telephone f/ beyonce

bad enough i don't care to distinguish or listen to them

eh eh (what can i say?) <-- lol
lovegame

bad romance just gives me a headache i liked the HALA dub of it tho

If a remix would qualify for the poll, I'd go with the Stuart Price remix of "Paparazzi" which is one guitar overdub away from being a long lost chillwave/NDW pop sensation. I like it more than the original.

"So Happy I Could Die" should have been a single release instead of "Alejandro" - tremendously great song that doesn't get namechecked that often.

Voted "Bad Romance" - about as unstoppable as an asteroid strike.

The very anonymity of "Just Dance" is attractive in retrospect -- like listening to Madonna's "Everybody" in 1986 and trying to divine how she became so massive.

She's still not as good a songwriter as Madonna was in 1985: she has a problem with either lame choruses or pedestrian verses. To me only "Alejandro" and "Just Dance" are complete in themselves.

You and I is promising now, but it is going to be incredible with bombastic Speechless-style production.

^^oh totally. unsurprisingly, i love it

happy in the club wit a bottle of red wine
stars in our eyes cuz we're havin a good time
eh-eh, eh-eh
so happy i could die
be ur best friend yea i'll love u forever
up in the clouds we'll be higher than ever
eh-eh, eh-eh
so happy i could die and it's alright

alejandro's tepid homage-ination is laughable in comparison to early madonna, dear lord

problem with the Fame Monster is I bought it during a very low point for me last year, which just so happens to correspond with a breakdown I had one night, so every time I put the cd on, those memories come back.

they should fade over time tho so it can be a fun album again and all.

"Bad Romance" it is. But many really strong ones.

As for "Speechless" it really should have been a single. Not least because, while great, her songs are all very stylistically related. With "Speechless" she might have had a completely different hit single, which would probably do her career good in terms of becoming long term.

Madonna would never have managed to stay on top for almost 30 years now if all of her subsequent 80s hit singles had sounded like "Holiday".

Just Dance in a walk for me.

With "Speechless" she might have had a completely different hit single, which would probably do her career good in terms of becoming long term.

I can't believe I agree with Geir. "Speechless" is her best song imo.

However, "Paparazzi" was when I finally gave up and started to like her. I personally think her first album is patchy as hell and like to think Monster is the real debut.

Another thing I find funny is that Gaga and others who take from Madonna really don't actually change their image or concepts from album to album. Closest I can think of is P!nk. I hope Gaga does something different image wise.

what does everyone consider the 'duddiest' tracks on The Fame?

For me, it's "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" (real boring hook), "Money Honey" (again, boring hook, and verse melody that is ok except for the last few notes), and "Boys Boys Boys" (meh)

my #1 is probably "telephone" but i'm gonna show "just dance" some love for being the not-so-secret proto-"telephone" song in gaga's arsenal ("i lost my phone / just dance / it'll be okay")

"telephone" for its two great videos, the original and the one done by the soldiers in Afghanistan

"Alejandro" = "Bad Romance" =/> "Telephone" >>> "Paparazzi" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Just Dance" > "Poker Face" > "Ey Ey" >>>>>>>>>>>> "Love Game"

LITERALLY FALLING OF THE EDGE OF MY SEAT WAITING TO SEE WHICH SONG WINS THIS ONE

paparazzziii

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . off

Another thing I find funny is that Gaga and others who take from Madonna really don't actually change their image or concepts from album to album.

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).

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

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

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

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

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

well sure if u wanna strawman me, i said the guys *in* the leather jackets i mean jeez man wtf

as i've said in the past, what makes bad romance special is the strength and emotion of gaga's melodic composition and vocal delivery as set against such a cold, hard beat. the disparity there mimics human experience quite well, and offers up a true representation of what it is like to reflect on love gone awry.

btw id like to clarify that yes my priorites are p much

1. cute boys
2. music

and if there was a board called ilcb i would post there as much as ilxor does here

ha

i sometimes have trouble deciding which is more important to me, too. love, on the one hand, is tough to argue with. but cute boys don't necessarily equate with love, and cute fades, and boys bail on you sometimes. my keyboard, though, and the records that i love -- that is permanent. i like that.

i think you just wrote gaga's next album.

until your computer crashes and you lost all the music you spent months making, but yes

stop. you know that happened to me recently. i now have 3 copies of everything i record in the house.

i know that's why i said it!

:D <3

i think you just wrote gaga's next album.

― tellysavalas (some dude), Thursday, February 17, 2011 5:11 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

btw i'm taking this as a compliment

And well you should!

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 like lucy (surm), Saturday, February 12, 2011 11:08 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That is ok surm. I understand what you are saying about Christina. I always thought she was going to be 2nd as far as blond pop singers of 00's.

Plus, "Bad Romance" winning is not a surprise as it is probably the only time Lady Gaga took all of her influences (Bowie, Madonna, maybe even Michael Jackson) and cooked up a pop anthem almost as equal to what they produced.

Paparazzi, really? Is that just because it's so different from the other tracks?

That chorus & bridge to "Paparzzi" is killer to me. Also, the synths weren't so prominent and annoying like earlier singles.

papaRAzzi

that note still kills me, the way she goes up to her head voice

thing that kinda bums me out about so many lady gaga tracks is the killer choruses matched with these weak monotonous verses. in so many of her songs it seems like the verses are just sort of her hanging around a couple of notes until finally she breaks into some brilliant hook of a chorus. the approach should be more compelling imo

i'm not by any means a huge madonna fan, but that is one area where madonna has her beat, i'm thinking.

Bad Romance has, like, three great hooks in one song and even the verses are also quite catchy by themseoves. Either one of the hooks could be a chorus to a pretty memorable pop song and this song has three of them in one song! While not unprecedented, it's pretty rarified air. No shock at the win or the margin of victory IMHO.

really shows how much momentum she got going around late spring '09 that the 4 singles released after that all got more votes than the 4 singles released before that

"telephone" is just the best thing she's ever done. STOP CALLING STOP CALLING I DON'T WANNA THINK ANY MORE

b's verse is a monster, the outraged counterpoint to gaga retreating into the music/the dancefloor

THE WAY YOU BLOWIN' UP MY PHONE WON'T MAKE ME LEAVE NO FASTER
PUT MY COAT ON FASTER
LEAVE MY GIRLS NO FASTER
I SHOULDA LEFT MY PHONE AT HOME CUZ THIS IS A DISASTER
CALLIN' LIKE A COLLECTOR
SORRY I CANNOT ANSWER

Technically that is a bridge, not a verse

Along with Hung Up and Hanging on the Telephone, this suggests that songs about people not answering the phone are, as a rule, brilliant.

"telephone" is just the best thing she's ever done.

Can actually get behind this.

Yeah "Telephone" is basically the only Gaga tune i'm likely actually to drop at a party.

"Telephone" is a useless mess imo, sounds like 2 stars desperate to work w/ each other settling for the first boring Rodney Jerkins idea they could agree on

Putting The Fame on for the first time in ages. It has to be one of the most front-loaded albums I own - there were six singles (counting international/promotional) and they're the first six tracks on the album! The upshot is that for that stretch, it's a shockingly consistent pop record. Yeah, "disco stick" is dumb (love the "hand on your - UNH!" bridge though) and "Beautiful Dirty Rich" isn't great, but still. As soon as you get past that point it's a lot more hit-and-miss. "Money Honey" is seriously short on ideas, and I just heard "Starstruck" and can't tell you how it goes. "Boys Boys Boys" is HUGE though!

Can't help but feel this album really got overshadowed by Fame Monster being so good, and by people really linking the first one narratively to the first couple singles before she really started winning tastemakers over. The lyrical themes aren't mind-blowing across the board but it's hooky, dance-able pop, in general feeling like there was a lot more effort-per-song than Born This Way - which just really needed another six months of percolation (and editing) IMO.

btw would have probably voted "Eh Eh" just because I am one of the song's few champions on ILX (or anywhere in the world?)

And wow... "Brown Eyes" is kind of crazy. Lost in the back of the album but it's the clearest indication of her allegiance to old-school art-pop, I mean the backing vocals are dead-on late-period Beatles filtered through "Karma Police." Is this a sound often deployed on pop records these days or something definitely Gaga?

I'm with you on "Eh Eh."

"telephone" is cool but idk it sorta feels like gaga doing a beyonce song

specifically a Beyonce song from Dangerously in Love ugh

i think it's cool that gaga worked with jerkins but it's kind of a forgettable moment in her discography (and i like it a lot more than stuff off her last album)

xxxpost re: "Eh, Eh" - I'm just such a sucker for the chorus and the way she says "Cherry cherry boom boom" - - - I know, intellectually, that it's a shoutout to her producer but I didn't know that when I first heard it and I've never been able to shake it as actually carrying content and doing emotional work for the song - - "cherry, cherry" as something light and summery and "boom-boom" as being that thing going up in smoke, but in a kind of cartoonish lighthearted way, appropriate to the song, which is about letting go of a relationship that was nice and has had no particular drama go down, but it's just time to move on.

I dunno, I dig it. I think I cited this somewhere in the big 2009 tracks poll when we were arguing about Taylor Swift and I was trying to make the case that somehow Gaga's songs felt like relationships I'd lived through or could basically understand, closer to ABBA's world than so many songs which seem to be about pretend people gleaned from watching too much TV. Not to say "Eh, Eh" is a major work - just that it rings true in dealing with a minor slice of life.

"Telephone" is HUGE though, I honestly did not realize there was anybody who didn't like that song!

It's boring

if you clipped B's part out of "Telephone" i would never think to compare it to any Beyonce song

^^^^

What on earth on Dangerously in Love does it even remotely sound like????

TS: "Telephone" vs "Paparazzi"

"Telephone"

What on earth on Dangerously in Love does it even remotely sound like????

ha – shorthand for singles-plus-filler

not that it much matters particularly but none of gaga's songs age well at all imo, i already find it difficult to talk about her in retrospect

we'll be wondering wtf that was all about in ten years time, probably on this same thread

"Telephone" is HUGE though, I honestly did not realize there was anybody who didn't like that song!

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, October 14, 2012 3:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

srsly. "Bad Romance" is her only single that compares. Also I would never guess it was Darkchild if I didn't otherwise know.