You're black, white, beige, POLLa descent: Lady Gaga - Born This Way (poll)

where is 'I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)' ?

- I don't really listen to any of it much these days
- God there are a lot of songs here, some of which I'd completely forgotten about. What on earth is "Fashion Of His Love"? WTF does "The Queen" sound like?
- "Scheiße", "Bloody Mary" and "Government Hooker" were my initial favourites, and are probably my favourites-that-actually-sound-distinctly-like-Gaga
- By the end of last year I was quite surprised to realise that my actual most-listened-to were "Electric Chapel" and "Heavy Metal Lover", which are my favourites-that-could-be-by-anyone-really

It's probably a measure of this album's failure that the generic ones that sound like whomever are better than the ones where Gaga's ~vision~ comes trough loud and clear.

xp I have never heard of that song? I didn't include the remixes on the deluxe edition because I couldn't be bothered

Hair
Scheiße
Bloody Mary

^^ still an awesome sequence imo

Songs I could vote for:

Born This Way
Government Hooker
Judas
Bloody Mary
Heavy Metal Lover
The Edge Of Glory

Yeah, wow, I've been listening to this on Spotify the last couple of days, it doesn't have all those special-edition tracks but I totally hadn't even noticed they were gone. Whooooof.

Also still think "Hair" is her worst single on any album.

where is 'I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)' ?

massive lol

Also still think "Hair" is her worst single on any album.

You can always put that comment where your heart ought to be.

Thank you for not saying I can always put that comment where my hair ought to be.

I would relisten to this album but I just discovered that the entirety of Honey's Dead is FINALLY available in the US, so

oh shut up: you know you'd want to hear Gaga doing "Far Gone and Out."

nobody better vote for americano

Think I may have accidentally erased "Electric Chapel" from iTunes.

It's not bad.

Well, kinda qualifies as one of lex's "generic ones."

i think at this point "scheiße" is the only song i get any real rush from

i hardly remember how most of the second half even sounds

I'm sure I've said this before but Marry the Night, Government Hooker, Bloody Mary, Scheisse, Heavy Metal Lover and Electric Chapel would have made a better EP than Fame Monster.

"government hooker" is theoretically catnip to me so i don't know why it is that i don't love it

Heavy Metal Lover over Schisse. The "I could be your girl girl girl girl girl girl, but would you love me if I ruled the world?" part is the apex of the album imo.

Really don't care about any of the rest.

Amazing number of people claiming to only like one song on this album.

i don't only like one song. i also like "bloody mary", "government hooker", "electric chapel", and "edge of glory"

why are all the people who Care About Lady Gaga so quick to write off her first actually interesting record

because it's wildly uneven and the lows are are actively, painfully terrible

that seems like part of the fun, of gaga

Bad Kids
Scheiße
Marry The Night
Government Hooker
Americano
The Edge Of Glory
Hair
Born This Way
Yoü And I
Fashion Of His Love
Judas

and then I stop caring

why are all the people who Care About Lady Gaga so quick to write off her first actually interesting record

― thomp, Tuesday, August 7, 2012 3:11 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

i don't know why anyone would find this album interesting if they didn't find "Bad Romance" interesting

you and i

Voted for "Marry The Night." Still my favorite track (structurally, it reminds me of Bowie more than anything else). Wish this would have been the second single instead of "Judas"

"Marry The Night" was supposedly going to be the lead single before she wrote "Born This Way" -- kind of suspect the reaction to the album would've been just as deflating, if not moreso, if that had happened

u know, my boyfriend always gets me into marry the night when i'm drunk and then i walk away feeling like i was just forced to dance at a batmitzvah or something

why are all the people who Care About Lady Gaga so quick to write off her first actually interesting record

― thomp, Tuesday, August 7, 2012 3:11 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

Probably because the people who Care About Lady Gaga thought her earlier stuff was more interesting?

Hair
The Edge of Glory
Marry The Night
...
[everything else]
...
Yoü And I

can i vote for this song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EejOAhfa5_I

torn between "highway unicorn" and "heavy metal lover"

I don't think it has shit songs (though I don't know the three bonus tracks), just too many of them. The sequence might be wrong too. By the time you get to "Highway Unicorn", you feel exhausted.
Also I think "Hair" should've been a single, with a radio edit. My other favorites are "Scheiße", "Goverment Hooker" and "Bloody Mary".

garibay is a terrorist

someone needs to look at that guy's history as a pop songwriter/producer and explain to me how he became the right hand man for this album

the RedOne tracks on this shit all over everything, "you & i" and "edge of glory" excepted. but even those pale in comparison to the RedOne singles off the first two records.

i mean i love "dance in the dark" but jesus

????

I don't really see any gap in quality between the Garibay and RedOne stuff on this album. And Garibay's history looks fairly undistinguished but not in a way that screams "run, run away"

Straight up lunacy.

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Voted "You and I," for the record. It gets to me.

Scheiße
The Edge Of Glory
Hair
Bloody Mary
Judas
Highway Unicorn (Road To Love)
Yoü And I
Bad Kids
Born This Way
Electric Chapel
Marry The Night
Heavy Metal Lover
Government Hooker
Americano

yes DC!!

bump

finally chose "Hair" over "You and I" and "Government Hooker."

i am glad you stood up and turned around

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hahahahaahah

wtf Heavy Metal Lover

dirty pony
i can't wait to hose you down

these are amazing, all-over-the-map results that exactly confirm lex's comment: "the one thing i find interesting about BTW is how everyone agrees it's patchy, a mess etc, but everyone's favourites and least favourites are completely different - absolutely no consensus WHICH the stand-out tracks are."

But I am glad to see "You and I" doing so well, especially against presumed favorite "Edge of Glory!"

DITTO !!

altho i think the lack of votes for Edge, given how Great it is, says something about the album as a whole

Nothing against "Edge" btw - I think it's a real spirit-raiser - but I'm a sucker for a good old fashioned story song with an emotional punch to it and "You and I" really delivers.

Did we ever discuss the weird phenomenon of there being like a billion versions, each dubbing over "Nebraska" with the local radio jurisdiction?

haha no, i never heard of that!

Oh, yeah! And then someone told me that "Nebraska" was personal Gaga code for this particular lover/mentor figure, ie the guy in the song, making it a really insane substitution, but I never checked into that. I've heard it as "Columbus" and then on a road trip, the very awkward "Detroit," which...yeah, not enough syllables there.

yeah, the umlaut in the title is a nod to Lüc Carl, who's from Nebraska

woah all this information

sürm sürm sürm i love ya!

I don't really see any gap in quality between the Garibay and RedOne stuff on this album. And Garibay's history looks fairly undistinguished but not in a way that screams "run, run away"

― REV LION (The Reverend), Thursday, August 9, 2012 4:15 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark

well garibay did basically the entire album... RedOne's three tracks were all high up on this poll

& none of that even accounts for RedOne's history with gaga

as someone who constantly hears or claims to hear vast differences between tracks by different producers on an album i really can't perceive any distinction between who did what on this album

Same.

Were some of the "Scheiße" votes meta?

thirded

mine was sincere (xpost)

sürm sürm sürm i love ya!

― some dude, Wednesday, August 15, 2012 3:05 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha müah!

Yeah, this album has a really consistent sound and feel IMO, which is maybe why it grates a little bit - there's something relentless about it, compared to Fame Monster, which is obviously shorter by a long shot, but also, the sonic variety between even "Bad Romance," "Telephone," "Speechless" and "Teeth" is really refreshing. Maybe that makes it more a "collection of songs" than an "album" but I like collections of songs.

as someone who constantly hears or claims to hear vast differences between tracks by different producers on an album i really can't perceive any distinction between who did what on this album

― some dude, Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:20 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark

well whatever. they ended up being better is the point.

I would gladly give back the entirety of this album to have never had to read anyone's thoughts on it.

i mean the three RedOne tracks were all in my top 5 so i can't disagree

I would gladly give back the entirety of this album to have never had to read anyone's thoughts on it.

― Eric H., Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:56 PM Bookmark

maybe you should open different threads, just a suggestion

i didn't know that about the different versions or the umlaut either!

the sonic variety between even "Bad Romance," "Telephone," "Speechless" and "Teeth" is really refreshing

one of the things that makes the fame monster so impressive is that it's never less than a coherent, unified package even when it's about as stylistically diverse as gaga has ever been

anyway, good two winners

"Heavy Metal Lover" is very Confessions-era Madonna.

i'm gearing up for a bit of a vinyl purge and i'm afraid this one is gonna go. if it was just a single disc of the best songs it'd be an undeniable Gaga masterpiece but the filler exhausts me. i don't even think the songs are that bad, but the production is very in-your-face and samey so it's hard to just take the album tracks as breathers in between the bangers.