TFM was her best era because she had a great balance between commercial success and experimenting... She needs to get back to that ASAP

All I know is that for her next album she better come through with a club bangin lead single

I don't want her to go backwards, but she tried TOO hard with this album.

Promotional overload, production overload, theatrics overload (to a try-hard level), etc.

I know she's passionate about her work, but she needs to stay balanced between wanting to succeed and then putting in the promotion as if she's a little-known indie act.

J***S

I'm not saying I want her to make another bad romance... Or go back to TFM style music but just to keep commercial success in mind and pack the album with a few more commercial songs and still experiment

Someone understands.

She's still COMMERCIAL, people are throwing that word around way too easily. If she weren't, the album wouldn't have shifted 8m+ copies.

Her singles need to be more tailored for radio however.

The lyrics are a mess, but I'm sure Gaga and RedOne thought it would be the next Bad Romance

This. At some point, you have to let the music just speak for itself. I don't know that the five singles necessarily would have if you take away the massive promotion/hype. Hype/TF/TFM caused BTW. Judas speaks for itself. TEOG had a messy release/video. Y&I was old to begin with, and we all are witnessing MTN.

Marry The Night/Scheisse/Born This Way/Hair/The Edge of Glory aren't commercial enough?...


I think she needs something like Bad Romance, but not musically, culturally.

But she has better songs than BR, doesn't she?

Part of the excitement of TFM era was the rarity of her appearances, and how major those dates would end up being.

BTW era changed in the sense that we've been promised at least one TV performance almost weekly... Sometimes even like 3 times in the span of two weeks.

The only song you listed that's "commercial enough" is The Edge of Glory. MTN is very personal (get Ginger ready?), Scheisse (while a catchy song, has faux-German/gibberish) and Born This Way can be polarizing. Hair is somewhat more commercial than the previous songs, but I think people could be put off by the juvenile subject matter. I don't know though.

Agreed. Sometimes less is more, especially when you're releasing singles so closely together. She could have created even more hype by not doing as many appearances/promo as she did, causing shows to want to book her even more. Creating this false sense of exclusivity could have helped. Either way, I've lost track of her performances this era, and that's something that didn't happen during TF/TFM.

No
Those songs could have been HUGE with a correct release and video, but now it's too late, none will smash anymore.