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Sophii3x · 26-10-2009, 09:37 PM

Exactly Gary, glad someone else sees it

Ooh Ross are you going to the Cardiff show? I might, if I get tickets.

Ross · 26-10-2009, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Sophii3x

Exactly Gary, glad someone else sees it

Ooh Ross are you going to the Cardiff show? I might, if I get tickets.

Yeah definately, gonna order 4 tickets. They go on sale Friday 9:00am I'm not in work till 1:00pm but I need to get these tickets just to relax myself otherwise I'll be on edge lol. Plus I get paid Friday, it's all goood.

MrGaryy · 26-10-2009, 09:54 PM

how much are tickets anyway?

haha Sophie. I miss the old her too!

and her hair was way nicer then imo.

30stone · 26-10-2009, 09:56 PM

Anyone who likes gaga like little boots?

I thought they were quite alike.

MrGaryy · 26-10-2009, 09:58 PM

I adore Little Boots but I see them as very different artists. GaGa is a lot more commercial and a lot more flamboyant where as Boots is a tad more niche and much more electronic. I probably prefer Little Boots, but like both.

Ross · 26-10-2009, 10:02 PM

£27.50 tickets are for Cardiff anyway.

30stone · 26-10-2009, 10:04 PM

I agree with the commercial thing, but i think they sing kinda the same songs have similarities.

Zac · 26-10-2009, 10:04 PM

If your face graced the covers of magazines…If you had performed on television shows around the globe…If you had sold over 20 million records worldwide…Would you be willing to walk away from it all? Lady GaGa would!

Appearing on the syndicated Kidd Kraddick in the Morning show this morning, Lady GaGa told host Kidd Kraddick, “Family is everything to me.” GaGa’s father’s heart was only receiving a third of the blood a healthy heart receives daily, but he didn’t want the surgery to repair a leaky heart valve. GaGa told Kraddick, “It was really bad, but I looked at him and said, ‘If you don’t have this surgery, I’ll quit music and take care of my mom and sister. I can’t go on without you and you have to do it.’” GaGa’s willingness to walk away from it all to take care of her family is what made her father agree to move forward with the surgery. She said, “I know I sing about non-traditional things, but I’m a very traditional Italian girl from New York.”

While sitting in the recovery room with her father after his surgery, GaGa received a phone call from her manager who said, “Tell your daddy his daughter is going to be the first one to have her first four songs be number one in America.” And even though he was heavily sedated, GaGa told Kraddick that her father heard her and spun his finger around like “Whoopie!”

After winning three “Moon Men” at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards — for Best New Artist, Best Art Direction and Best Special Effects — GaGa is one of the most widely-known and best-loved artists in the world. GaGa began her career at the age of 14, performing at open mic nights in New York City clubs. She received early acceptance into NYU’s coveted Tisch School of Arts where she finely tuned her songwriting skills. GaGa later withdrew from school to work full-time on her music career. Through her songwriting work at Interscope, GaGa met Akon, who talked the label into signing her. Her debut album “The Fame” has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Dance Recording and has sold over 20 million digital singles and 4 million albums worldwide. Lady GaGa is embarking on her first headlining tour at the end of November. Her “Fame Monster Ball” tour will visit 34 cities nationwide. Also, her debut album “The Fame,” which was originally released in 2008, will be reissued on November 24, 2009, under the new title “The Fame Monster,” featuring eight new songs.

Zac · 26-10-2009, 10:07 PM

Right – so we’ve heard Lady Gaga’s ‘The Fame Monster’ and it’s a pretty astonishing piece of work. Lyrically, sonically, melodically and conceptually it’s right up there with its predecessor ‘The Fame’, with a definite feel of things moving in a new direction.

We know a lot of you are thinking that this is just a cash-in reissue of ‘The Fame’ with a few tracks chucked on. It’s not that at all – this is a collection of songs in its own right. When you buy this you will not be buying ‘The Fame’ again in order to get at a couple of extra songs – you’ll be buying a new album which just so happens to have a copy of ‘The Fame’ in the same box.

If it helps make sense of things, imagine purchasing ‘The Fame Monster’ 2-disc set then throwing the ‘The Fame’ CD away. In fact that is what you should actually do when you get this. Throw ‘The Fame’ out of the window. ‘The Fame Monster’ is a real album with its own personality.

In brief:
- Eight tracks.
- Four potential singles.
- No **** songs.

Here’s a track by track.

‘Bad Romance’
Waffle: ‘Poker Face’ reinvented. Can you believe that some people have said that this song sounds too much like ‘Poker Face’? As if anything could sound too much like one of the best songs of 2008/09? It would be like saying ‘the problem with this restaurant is that the food is too nice and too reasonably priced’, or ‘the problem with this hat is that it makes me look too attractive’. Now imagine wearing an amazing hat in the world’s best restaurant. THAT IS WHAT THIS SONG IS LIKE.
Verdict: 7/8

‘Alejandro’
Waffle: It sounds like this. And by ‘this’ we mean an amazing romantic post-Italotronic triumph.
Verdict: 7/8

‘Monster’
Waffle: Opens with snatches of dialogue (’Don’t call me Gaga’, ‘I’ve never seen one like that before’, ‘Don’t look at me like that’) then launches into a story of Gaga pulling a “wolf in disguise”. The chorus is a big chant of “that boy is a monster, that boy is a monster” and there are some ‘Just Dance’-isms along the way too. There’s a great breakdown for the middle eight: “I wanna just dance but he took me home instead, uh-oh there was a monster in my bed, we French kissed on a subway train, he tore my clothes right off, he ate my heart and then he ate my brain”.
Verdict: 6/8

‘So Happy I Could Die’
Waffle: A mid-tempo number with some Tiesto-esque ravey bits, some references to The Act Of Masturbation, and a chorus lyric “happy in the club with a bottle of red wine, stars in our eyes ‘cos we’re having a good time, so happy I could die”. Not a single but an important part of the whole ‘Fame Monster’ thing.
Verdict: 5/8

‘Speechless’
Waffle: At one point this was a big piano ballad but since Ron Fair’s production has been added it’s more along the lines of a ‘Starman’ or an ‘All The Young Dudes’-type affair. This is the track about Gaga’s father and it seems to be written from Gaga’s mother’s point of view. By the time the second verse comes around there seem to be strong hints of booze (”I can’t believe how you looked at me with your Johnnie Walker eyes”, “raise a glass to mend all the broken hearts” etc) so it seems this is the ‘Fear Of Alcohol Monster’ Gaga previously mentioned. The chorus is “I’ll never talk again, oh boy you’ve left me speechless / I’ll never love again, oh friend you’ve left me speechless” and one of the best bits finds Gaga singing “after all the boys and the girls that we’ve been through, would you give it all up if I promised boy to you that I’ll never talk again, and I’ll never love again, I’ll never write a song, or even sing along…” This is a massive, massive ballad which doesn’t sound like anything else you’ve heard from Lady Gaga and could do for her what ‘Beautiful’ did for Christina Aguilera. At the very least, it’s a good lighters-aloft live anthem.
Verdict: 7/8

‘Dance In The Dark’
Waffle: The chorus to this is amazing – imagine RedOne to the next level with a massive emotionally-charged synth riff chucked in along the way. Actually the everything to this is amazing, it opens with the words “silicone, saline, poison, inject me” and the arms-aloft, four-to-the-floor chorus is a chant of “baby loves to dance in the dark, cos when he’s looking she falls apart.” There’s another line about “she looks good but her boyfriend says she’s a tramp” – it seems to be about women who are marginalised or who are in (mentally?) abusive relationships. We may have totally missed the point of this song, and if so ‘apols’ in advance.

Best bit: an almost pant-wettingly excellent, ‘Vogue’-style rap breakdown in which Gaga lets rip: “Marilyn, Judy, Sylvia, tell them how you feel girls [something we couldn't quite make out] hot like Liberace, find your freedom in the music, find your Jesus, find your cutie, you will never fall apart Diana, you’re still in our hearts, never let you fall apart, together we’ll dance in the dark”. AMAZING.
Verdict: 8/8

‘Telephone’
Waffle: A song about being pestered by someone on the phone when you’re trying to have a dance in a nitespot. It’s a little bit like Gwen’s ‘What You Waiting For?’ meets Timbaland’s ‘The Way I Are’ meets about fifty other things. “I cannot text you with a drink in my hand,” Gaga notes at one point. The structure’s quite exciting: quiet harpy intro / “kinda busy, k-kinda busy” bridge as beat kicks in / verse / chorus (”stop calling, stop calling, I don’t wanna talk any more”) / postchorus bit / ‘The Way I Are’-style rap / Beyonce rap (”should have left my phone at home cos this is a disaster”) / breakdown verse / “kinda busy” bridge / chorus / another bit / ‘The Way I Are’ rap bit / extra ‘My Humps’-esque (but not really) “my telephone! My telephone!” outro, then “we’re sorry, the number you have reached is not in service” operator message. We love Beyonce insisting that some bellend on the other end of the phone won’t make her get her coat any faster. Bonus fact: The guest vocalist on this was going to be someone else, but then the guest vocalist wanted to put the song on her own greatest hits album, so Lady Gaga made alternative arrangements.
Verdict: 7/8

‘Teeth’
Waffle: A wobbly, stompy, bouncy marching song. Opens with a “don’t want no money, just want your sex” line, includes lots of chanting of “SHOW ME YOUR TEETH! SHOW ME YOUR TEETH!”, and a foray into Black Betty territory
Verdict: 6/8

That’s all from one listen – this album has loads more to give up from repeated plays and we can’t wait to get stuck in properly. ‘Monster’ and ‘Bad Romance’ have elements of ‘Just Dance’ and ‘Poker Face’ but these seem like knowing nods back in the direction of ‘The Fame’, while other songs – ‘Dance In The Dark’, ‘Teeth’ hint at what lies ahead for the next, third Lady Gaga album.

Zac · 26-10-2009, 10:12 PM

Uh how do I upload a mp3 file to this thread?
I'm trying to get No Way up for y'all but I can't add it as an attatchment soo...

Zac · 26-10-2009, 10:13 PM

Wiki have removed Gaga's name from this list now, see:

Week 6 (14/15 November)
Theme: TBA
Celebrity mentor: TBA
Celebrity performers: The X Factor finalists ("You Are Not Alone") and one other TBA

Zac · 26-10-2009, 10:15 PM

New pic of Gaga on the set of Gossip Girl with Penn Badgley and Leighton Meester. The episode will air on November 16th.

MrGaryy · 26-10-2009, 10:17 PM

Telephone sounds HOT.

just upload it to Mediafire Zac, its free!

Zac · 26-10-2009, 10:17 PM

oh okay!

Zac · 26-10-2009, 10:21 PM

Soulja Boy mentions Lady Gaga's name in his new song 'I Can Make These Hoes Dance'. Skip to 02:28 to hear it!

Youtube video

Zac · 26-10-2009, 10:22 PM

'No Way' untagged:
http://www.mediafire.com/?unjmjydk2mk

Zac · 26-10-2009, 10:25 PM

Apparently, Space Cowboy has collaborated with Gaga on 'Monster' and 'So Happy I Could Die'.
I hope this is true! I fxcking love him.

Zac · 26-10-2009, 10:28 PM

Apparently, last week on BBC Radio 1 during the Robbie Williams week they confirmed that Gaga would be on TXF. So if this is true, she will be the mentor, right? because she's the only one bar themselves.