First of all, "Telephone" and "Alejandro" were great. I don't think anything could have made them look bad, per say, not even "Bad Romance."
But you want to release a strong single before an album's release or people won't want to buy it. Hence, pitiful sales for Black Eyed Peas' The Beginning.
What brilliant lyrical content? In the past four months, we've already had "We R Who We R," "Raise Your Glass" and "Firework" that say exactly the same thing. Not to mention (and I hate to repeat myself a million times, but...) "Express Yourself".
Nicole said it perfectly.
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Originally posted by Haus_of_Nicole
She said she wanted to write an inspirational anthem about many things, but chiefly a gay anthem. And she didn't recoil at that and use metaphors to mask and skirt around the issue. She said, plain as day, no matter if you're GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BI, LESBIAN, TRANSGENDERED LIFE. I mean when people saw those lyrics on GagaDaily their jaws dropped. Mine did.
What brilliant lyrical content? In the past four months, we've already had "We R Who We R," "Raise Your Glass" and "Firework" that say exactly the same thing. Not to mention (and I hate to repeat myself a million times, but...) "Express Yourself".
I'm sorry, but different wording or not, the phrase "We are who we are" has exactly the same meaning and intention as "Baby, I was born this way." Don't pretend like this is the first time someone has ever sung an "inspirational" dance anthem.
I don't feel that this is a "gay" track, when I listen to it all I hear is the amazing chorus I've been humming for about six months, and the great production flow of the song which is neat and straight-forwarded.
you want to release a strong single before an album's release or people won't want to buy it. Hence, pitiful sales for Black Eyed Peas' The Beginning.
Another single will be released before the album comes out. And probably 'countdown singles' too. Hopefully the second single will be stronger (to be honest) because it will be the song that sells the album.
It's probably true that no song has ever explicitly used that language in its lyrics before, but many have been gay anthems.
Of course there have been. I was talking strictly lyrically. She didn't try to pass off lyrics like "I party hard cuz I don't care and I'm free and I was born this way!!" as an anthem for minorities.
