69. critic score (26) 74. user score (1,030) 2008. LP. Lead single “Stupid Love” salvages the juddering sequencer of “Do What U Want,” kicks up the speed, and weaves Gaga’s past lead singles around it like Maypole streamers: the oncoming-juggernaut heft of “Bad Romance,” the melodic contour of “Born This Way,” the conceit of “Applause.”. Chopping everything up for a drum-and-bass tangent at the end? The song was written by Lady Gaga, BloodPop, Axel Hedfors ( Axwell ), Justin Tranter, and Johannes Klahr, and produced by BloodPop, Axwell, and Klahr. Specifically, according to Gaga lore, “Chromatica” is some kind of far-flung pink-prism Mad Max planet where “ballads are illegal.” Who doesn’t love world-building? Each individual part of it makes sense, kind of. But if anyone’s earned a trip to the house, it’s Lady Gaga, who is among the few big pop stars today who can legitimately be called a diva. The string interludes, composed with Morgan Kibby (M83, White Sea), separate the albums into three acts, each with its own filler. TRENDING. For all Gaga’s emphasis on Chromatica being an album meant to be heard start-to-finish with no skips, the sequencing is a bit off. For every shiny, poppy song like “Telephone” or “Hair,” Gaga’s recorded three more with wounds at the core: the personified fears of The Fame, the parts of Born This Way that are more darkwave or Warcraft than bubblegum; the bitter mess of 2013’s Artpop. And yet, unlike the empty famewhores climbing atop the shoulders of reality TV and tabloid journalism to notoriety, we know next to nothing about her personal life. ... pitchfork.com. 61. critic score (11) 65. user score (243) 2013. The songs feel like they were written for Lady Gaga rather than simply for any modern pop star. Themes recur: fragmented identity, soldiers to emptiness, drinking tears, dying a little when being touched. Pitchfork ' s Jillian Mapes felt that "Perfect Illusion" did not live up to its significant anticipation, criticizing the song's production and Gaga's vocal performance. Watch it … Sure; they’re godfamily, after all, and he’s a livelier duet partner than Tony Bennett or Bradley Cooper. LP. Elsewhere on The Fame Monster, she morphs into other stars-- Freddie Mercury on "Speechless", ABBA on "Alejandro", Madonna on "Dance in the Dark", Britney Spears on "Telephone", Kylie Minogue on "Monster", and Christina Aguilera on "Teeth". In that sense, she's the anti-Kanye, the anti-Eminem, and the anti-Winehouse-- the twists and turns of her private life don't inform her art. But unlike those artists, Lady Gaga isn't particularly attractive, and she uses this to her advantage by suppressing her vanity and making herself a slippery figure. Lady Gaga… The Fame. This week’s Pitchfork Selects playlist features Charli XCX, Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande, Jeff Rosenstock, Dijon, and more. Jul 15, 2012 at 11:52 PM . The whole thing sounds off, and when the sweet, singsong chorus arrives, it just sounds off even more. instagram.com. It’s the same drive that’s powered dance music, from disco to house to Gaga—turning a moment heightened, more fantastic, and, even at its most strobe-lit and artificial, somehow entirely human. On planet Chromatica, “Enigma” is otherworldly: the atmospheres light up violet, dragon’s eyes and phantoms abounding. 65. Lady Gaga has canceled Earth.She lives on planet Chromatica now. NEWS. Attacking that theme with zero-irony gusto that Eurovision would co-sign, going for it and never looking back? Lady Gaga has canceled Earth.She lives on planet Chromatica now. The track begins with a cold, stark beat, her vocals affectless and vocoded. Rather, she is whoever she wants to be at any time, and her art is as much the manipulation of that image and notions of modern celebrity as it is music or fashion. That was the idea, back in 2013. With incomparable flair, the pop diva returns to her dance-pop days with a fabulously fun and deeply personal album that is at turns bizarre, theatrical, and ambitious. But all of a sudden, for a brief time at least, she's the only real pop star around. She filled her résumé and interviews with style icon namedrops-- Andy Warhol and his notions on celebrity, the denizens of New York's downtown arts scene, and avant couture designers like Thierry Mugler-- but her singles betrayed none of the artistry that she insisted was part of her package. Lady Gaga was spotted in Chicago at the Pitchfork Music Festival on Sunday (July 15), fully enjoying herself at Kendrick Lamar‘s set. Yes, this is Stefani Germanotta’s return to all that is Lady Gaga: bizarre and theatrical and ambitious, swathed in electrodes, operating with a ga-ga-galaxy brain, delivering dance bangers for us canceled Earthlings. Their support for Gaga's classic house album comes after prominent magazine Discogs voted "Chromatica" as the Best Album of 2020, only behind alternative band Tame Impala's album. 21,866 talking about this. Uncoincidentally, the chorus recalls a certain other song about being heroic lovers, just for one night. Where a lot of The Fame felt like rote pop with overt "comments" on fame, Gaga's recently acquired actual fame allows her interactions with an audience to become a theatrical experience. It’s why her albums hold up surprisingly well. LP. Originally Appeared on Pitchfork. The climactic redemption of Ariana Grande collab “Rain On Me” comes about ten tracks too early, and “Free Woman” and “Fun Tonight” lose energy so close together. Maybe she'll get chewed up and spat out in the end, or maybe her chameleonic image changes are just Madonna's career at the speed of the Internet era and we're seeing all of her ideas at once. And instead of shoehorning references to celebrity into some tracks, she's borrowing elements and templates and simply focusing on quality control. The weird result is that, despite her flitting between personalities and personas, her music feels more like her own here than it did on her debut LP. Chromatica reverses this effect. "Poker Face" had about three big hooks, but next to her other singles-- which ran the gamut from forgettable fluff ("Just Dance") to "Muffin Top" ("LoveGame")-- it seemed like a fluke. Following the swearing-in of Harris as … It’s telling which Gaga moments have resurfaced from the early 2010s into current cultural memory: the deadpan, panting intro to “Monster,” or the sludgy-gothy “Bloody Mary,” which TikTok made even sludgier and gothier. Pitchfork - Somehow, someway, the Grammys are finally upon us. Lady Gaga has canceled Earth. "John Wayne" is a song recorded by American singer Lady Gaga, for her fifth studio album, Joanne (2016). She offered her equivalent of rootsy singer-songwriter fare on … Watch Now: Pitchfork Video. An ode to a literal sine wave, dropping decibels from the heavens? Remember that "Simpsons" Treehouse of Horror where the Krusty the Clown doll was trying to murder Homer? Pitchfork believes the fight for the album is between Gaga and Dua Lipa, but their choice for who SHOULD win is Gaga's "Chromatica". It's not an earworm so much as something designed to just take over a listener, to force them to pay attention the way Gaga's image seems to have done to people in recent months. They won the award over songs by Justin Bieber (“Intentions” [ft. Quavo]), BTS (“Dynamite”),... Read more on pitchfork.com. Even when Gaga dons freaky costumes or writes high-concept songs about Judas or swine, the artifice cracks. Pitchfork - Harry Styles kicked off the 2021 Grammy Awards tonight with a performance of his song “Watermelon Sugar.” Among his band members was Devonté Hynes (on bass), who also musically directed the performance. So much nu-house is producer-driven, its vocalists reduced to decorations if even credited; there is no risk of this with Gaga. Lady Gaga sang the National Anthem at the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris today (January 20). But Gaga’s lyrics are plainspoken, mostly free of religious metaphors and pretense; of the two high-concept songs on Chromatica, one is deliberately silly (“Babylon”) and the other (“Alice”) immediately yanks the metaphor back into reality: The first words are “my name isn’t Alice” and the song is inhabited not with white rabbits but the more terrifying creatures inside one’s mind. Lady Gaga's second record, containing "Bad Romance" and "Speechless", finds her coming into her own as both a songwriter and a pop star. In "Bad Romance" she alters whoever Lady Gaga the Pop Star might be into any number of female types-- at times recalling Britney Spears, Madonna, an Anime character, Angelique, Christina Aguilera, and Amy Winehouse. This past month, the pair have formed a … Lady Gaga Joe Biden Gaga came out to Childish Gambino’s “ This Is America ” and gave a short speech, saying, “Now is the time to vote like the country depends on it, because it does.” Follow all of Pitchfork’s coverage of the 2020 Grammy Awards. Turned out the problem was the doll had a switch on its back set to "evil" and with a flick of the wrist, it could be reset to "good." Everything here would be unmistakably her even if self-reference didn’t abound. ARTPOP. In 2020, a Lady Gaga dance album comes out as an unabashed revival of ’90s house music. The emergency in “911” refers to olanzapine, a fast-acting antipsychotic that Gaga says saved her life. The song charted in more than a dozen countries and received a generally positive critical reception. Yet instead of hopelessly retro, it comes off very modern, in part because U.S. pop and hip-hop is currently drawing heavily from Europop, hi-NRG, and dance music. In act two, “Plastic Doll”—the basic idea of which you can guess just by reading the title—would have been too on-the-nose on The Fame. And it's refreshing to have a big pop star communicating to us from afar, like pop stars used to. Chromatica’s two strongest tracks are near-total opposites. Elton John with two-thirds of Swedish House Mafia? It's almost as if we're experiencing a sonic present that's whitewashed most of the influence of backbeat sample-based hip-hop-- from Kanye and Cudi to Jason Derülo and the Black Eyed Peas, it's all presets and synths and dance. Chromatica loses the guitars but certainly handles heavy subject matter: PTSD triggers, antipsychotic meds, sexual assault. Lady Gaga joined Joe Biden at a drive-in campaign event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, giving a speech and performing her hits “Shallow” and “Yoü and I.” Check it out below. Chromatica is her first pop-pop album since 2011; unlike the non-“Why Did You Do That?” parts of the A Star is Born soundtrack and the beige acoustica of 2016’s Joanne, there’s not a ballad to be found. Lady Gaga’s new album, Chromatica, has arrived.It is the follow-up to 2016’s Joanne and the A Star Is Born soundtrack. If “Sine From Above” runs on WTF, “Enigma” runs on familiarity: Every musical and emotional beat arrives precisely on cue, as if the club had muscle memory. Página de información y humor sobre Lady Gaga. She lives on planet Chromatica now. Her music, meanwhile, has become subtler, more playful, and more well-rounded, extending the electro-pop bubble she lived in on her debut. She's still largely unknowable and also almost unrecognizable from moment to [#script:http://pitchfork.com/media/backend/js/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/langs/en.js]|||||| moment, as she contorts, disguises, masks and maims her face and body like a Matthew Barney or David Cronenberg creation. Listen below and follow our playlists on Apple Music and Spotify. Lady Gaga makes an appearance during Kendrick Lamar's Sunday set at Pitchfork Music Festival. If I had to guess, I'd say once she became hideously popular Gaga was able to take more control of her career, the early result being "Bad Romance", arguably the best pop single and best pop video of 2009. Then, between the VMAs and "Paparazzi", she came into her own. If anyone would write that, it’d be Gaga. The counterpoint never quite resolves with the melody, and the most painful lines (“Wish I laughed and kept the good friendships”) are tossed off, almost missable. "Monster" is a song by American singer Lady Gaga from her third EP, The Fame Monster (2009). Imagine an axis from bizarro transcendence to pure transcendence; “Sine From Above” is all the way at the left. Lady Gaga watches rapper Kendrick Lamar’s set at the Pitchfork Music Festival at Union Park in July. In the last few years, Lady Gaga has found new ways to show us the human inside of the fame monster. Now that her peers have caught up to her visual provocations, Lady Gaga seems less like an audacious pioneer than one among many, and Joanne feels tentative, an affront to the Gaga … In fact, most of Lady Gaga’s music since The Fame has been very personal. Sure, the choruses were also skybound on "Poker Face" and "Paparazzi", but they seemed bigger by working as a counterpoint to other elements of the song-- the odd way Gaga makes her voice go deep and guttural, the terrible sing-speaking she has ideally abandoned. It’s why her hard-rock dalliances largely worked, and why Chromatica feels more substantial than other artists’ throwaway dance turns. In that sense, she's a perfect 21st century pop icon-- a regular person willing to manipulate herself into whatever it takes at any given moment to be a star. (Scott Strazzante/Chicago Tribune) The Pitchfork Music … When Gaga sings, she sings out: not chill, not Idol-pretty, but unafraid to go there, whether there be throaty rasps or sotto-voice commands or feral desperation. Gaga's World Yesterday at 3:54 PM Con 4.1 millones de likes en Instagram, la foto que Lady Gaga subió ... con Adam Driver se convierte en su tercer post más popular de la red social. Pitchfork: Lady Gaga spotted but doesn't perform. It references Lewis Carroll 's 1865 children's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (No surprise that it sounds so European either-- it comes across like futurist pop music without any hints of hip-hop's influence.). It's also in her wearable art, and the way she deconstructs her own look-- rigid, robotic dance moves as if she's a puppet on a string, moving in crutches after being damaged by her outsized fictional celebrity in the "Paparazzi" clip. Pitchfork is the most trusted voice in music. Gaga ups the ante once again with her sixth studio album “Chromatica,” released on Friday, by introducing listeners to an imagined world. The art is often messy, the specific mess of art written from trauma. In that sense, it's almost template breaking-- reminiscent of stadium house with Gaga as a new KLF, fucking with us from the inside. LP • Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga. De acordo com as previsões do Pitchfork de "quem vai ganhar e quem deve ganhar" o Grammy 2021, "Chromatica", de Lady Gaga, vence a categoria de "Melhor Álbum Pop Vocal". But while Chromatica is a return to Gaga’s dance-pop days, that doesn’t mean quite the same thing now. It slots right into Gaga canon: Enigma is the name of her recent Vegas residency, and the snippets of sax that crest above the choruses recall the late E Street Band member Clarence Clemons on Born This Way. Yes, this is Stefani Germanotta’s return to all that is Lady Gaga: bizarre and theatrical and ambitious, swathed in electrodes, operating with a ga-ga-galaxy brain, delivering dance bangers for us canceled Earthlings. You may recall that Joanne was also called Gaga’s “most personal album.” That time, it was “personal” in the same way all pop stars’ unplugged albums get called that: the arrangements had acoustic guitar, and the AutoTune was kept to a tasteful touch-up. Pitchfork - Matthew Ismael Ruiz • 4h. The rest of The Fame Monster-- out late last year, while we at Pitchfork were wrapping up our 2009 content-- isn't as strong as its lead single (although the Queen-like "Speechless" comes close), but it at least stakes a claim that Gaga is a potential new Madonna rather than simply a new Katy Perry. While ranking Lady Gaga's lead singles from worst to best, Billboard listed "Perfect Illusion" as second-worst, ahead of only "Applause" (2013). (Pitchfork earns a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.). And, crucially, it nails the desire of meeting someone in all its urgency. By Greg Kot. Lady Gaga's second record, containing "Bad Romance" and "Speechless", finds her coming into her own as both a songwriter and a pop star. This is house music at its most shiny and immaculate, a genre made from ache and escapism, high strings and numbing throbs. But these are wonderful details, ones you can dance through now, then catch later. Postponed from January, the reconfigured pandemic-friendly ceremony will feature a mix of live and pre-recorded appearances, with a lineup led by Cardi B, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Megan Thee Stallion, Dua Lipa, and HAIM. According to Pitchfork, Gaga dubbed the album “a perspective, an opportunity to reframe pain into positivity.” The concept is fresh but the results fall flat. Pitchfork arrima su lista de mejores discos de 2020 al pop, pero sin Lady Gaga ni The Weeknd Gaga co-wrote and co-produced the track with Mark Ronson and BloodPop, with additional writing from Josh Homme who also played guitar. Yes, this is Stefani Germanotta’s return to all that is Lady Gaga: bizarre and theatrical … Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande have won the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Rain On Me.”. “Sour Candy,” the break-the-internet collaboration with K-pop superstars BLACKPINK, is sassy enough, but on a Lady Gaga album, and particularly this album, it feels out of place. Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande Win Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at 2021 Grammys “Rain on Me” won over songs from Justin Bieber and Quavo, BTS, Taylor Swift and Bon Iver, and J … Pitchfork is the most trusted voice in music. The other line about Chromatica is that it’s Gaga’s most personal album. Everything about "Bad Romance" is big but oddly clean and direct-- whooshing synths, jarring rhythms, and stratospheric choruses. And the video is part of the package: Like Madonna or Prince, it's impossible to separate the song from the performer. De acordo com as previsões do Pitchfork de "quem vai ganhar e quem deve ganhar" o Grammy 2021, "Chromatica", de Lady Gaga, vence a categoria de "Melhor Álbum Pop Vocal". Lady Gaga and Elton John? And on "Bad Romance", the lead single from The Fame Monster, she became kind of awesome. "Bad Romance", on the other hand, has two volumes: 10 and 11. That’s partly because there’s no Gaga until over a minute in, partly because we’ve literally heard it before: “Sour Candy” is at least the fourth pop song built on a sample of Maya Jane Coles’ “What They Say.” Then there’s the unavoidable fact that Chromatica is an album explicitly made for big communal dancefloors, released just before Pride month, a big celebratory mood, in a year when none of those things quite exist like they used to. It’s massive, it has a gravitational pull. Whether Gaga can keep up the streak is another matter. 63. critic score (29) 67. user score (1,090) 2011. Gaga comments on fame as she becomes more famous: It's in her record titles-- The Fame, The Fame Monster, "Paparazzi", "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich", "Starstruck". Styles was also joined by back up singers, a saxophone player, trumpeter, and more. Born This Way. It feels like sometime late last summer, someone flicked a similar switch on Lady Gaga. For about a year, she was nothing but a lot of talk and a badge-- only without the badge. Bad Bunny Will Wrestle at WWE WrestleMania 2021. All of a sudden, Eminem's claim that "nobody listens to techno" seems like a hell of a long time ago. It’s been 12 years since her debut album The Fame, released when “EDM” was just corporate jargon and “dance” meant stompy electroclash. To borrow the theater-kid saying, it’s big and wrong—yet so big, it’s hard to call it wrong at all.

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