While a tad over-produced, “Monster” is also one of the greatest embodiments of Gaga’s imperial phase.

It absolutely sounds like something a Real Housewife would release. It feels like a rough draft of things she’d do better later on, though.Ī Star Is Born’s “basic pop song”, sung by Gaga’s Ali when she hits the A-list, also sort of bangs. This country bop is rich and husky, yet it can’t help but feel like Gaga trying on aesthetics rather than entirely immersing herself in a genre.Ī Queen-ish ballad that is, in hindsight, one of the most important tracks on The Fame considering how often Gaga would return to this well in the years after. Lots of retro pastiche and Elton sounds, with Gaga the theatrical showgirl at its centre, but tracks that never have lift off. Much of Joanne, Gaga’s most polarising album, swims in similar waters as the above. Very Elton John in its upbeat 1970s sprightliness, but incredibly forgettable. The lesser of Born This Way’s three blasphemy bangers, “Electric Chapel” is enjoyably icy but ultimately not that memorable.Ī cover of the Edith Piaf classic that is inessential but still lovely. It’s not a terrible track by any means, carried by its own slinky menace, but the sleaze oozing out of it means it’s probably best forgotten. “Do What U Want” is also hard to unearth nowadays – Gaga pulling it from streaming when new allegations of sexual misconduct against Kelly surfaced. Strangely autotuned at times, but this has a plucky, orchestral swooniness to it, too.Īn abject disaster because of the presence of R Kelly, while the never-officially-released video for it, directed by accused sexual predator Terry Richardson of all people (he’s denied all allegations of sexual misconduct), only adds to the horror. I Don’t Know What Love Is ( A Star Is Born)

It’s very “places 22nd at Eurovision”.ħ2. Gaga’s final delivery of “M-O-N-E-why so sexy?” remains orgasmic, though.Īn underwhelming mid-tempo number about the magical wonder of touring the world. The least interesting of The Fame’s many, many tracks about the allure of riches.

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