The Fame Monster [Interscope, 2009]I liked the 14-track 2008 version of this album, augmented in this two-CD set by an eight-song EP of comparable quality. But only after being overwhelmed by the sheer visibility of her warp-speed relaunch did I realize how enjoyable and inescapable her hooks and snatches had turned out to be. Even if you consider her videos and such overelaborate, as I do, her songs are streamlined pop machines. Some are more efficient than others--I prefer the "Poker Face" hook as jacked by Kid Cudi and Lil Wayne to Gaga's sandbagging original. But even the slower ones have a way of taking off, in part because she writes lyrics like a paper gangster. The tell is "Money Honey," an apparent descent into ever crasser materialism that instead revives a short-lived slang usage of "money." His Jag, enjoyable. His kisses, money. A-
>>130881079Giving this anything over a C plus was too high.
>>130881474what did you expect from the proto-poptimist boomer subhuman known as cuckgau
>>130881474for some reason critics at the time convinced themselves that Gaga was some kind of postmodernist pop auteur
>>130881534call it what you like but at least she did later go off and make the music she wanted to make without worrying about commerciality while someone like Ariana Grande was just a vessel for songwriters' crap and had no thoughts or vision of her own.
>>130881534She is a good singer NGL. Certainly mogs Madonna.
>>130881079just so you know she's a trust fund kid who went to an elite Catholic school in NYC
>>130881079he said 'enjoyable snatch'. tee hee hee.
>>130881534as anon said in another thread Italians love experimental pop they can't resist it for some reason
>>130881698Based
>>130881079This is her best album because thirty minutes is the longest an album of this crap should reasonably be
>>130881569Madonna still has songs people remember and care about
>>130881534No way, baby. Lady Gaga is a legend. Easily the best pop star of my generation.
