If she did The Edge of Glory right after Born This Way (with a good music video) it would have gone straight to #1. After that the hype could carry the rest to top ten positions.
Judas should have been a promo single, released with the same music video. The controversy was good publicity.
This is debatable, but a valid opinion. Saying Bad Romance was a "miss" as a song is not. I mean, you said Bad Romance was a miss but Alejandro and Judas were "hits"?
I was only talking about the production but BORNTOSLAY took it to another level
I don't think Bad Romance's production is spectacular as compared to the other songs I listed.
The era would have been so different if Gaga opened with The Edge of Glory. It would have been #1 longer than BTW. We wouldn't have the comparisons to Madonna, but probably Cher. That wouldn't suck though - they are friends.
I was only talking about the production but BORNTOSLAY took it to another level
I don't think Bad Romance's production is spectacular as compared to the other songs I listed.
I wasn't fighting, we stan for the same bitch and we were having a discussion about two songs of her songs, don't tell me we didn't have fun, both songs are great anyway!
We were talking about Gaga's next era on GagaDaily, and maybe BTW wasn't so ****** after all.
Led Zeppelin's third album was torn apart by critics, but then their fourth album IV is often referred to as their masterpiece. Madonna's third album True Blue is her best selling studio album and she followed that up with Like A Prayer, which is seen as her masterpiece. Britney ripped her audience in half with her third album, but followed it up with In The Zone, which finally gained her critical acclaim. So it definitely goes both ways.
The fourth album era (or third LP for her) is always really a defining moment, along with the album that follows. You're beyond the introduction phase so you need to flex different colors and show you can stand the wind of change as years go by.
What Gaga did with Born This Way was establish that critical acclaim and experimental edge BEFORE her fourth era/3rd LP, so she can actually play it a bit safer and not have to stick her neck as far out as Christina/50 cent/etc. She jumped a step in the usual industry set-up.
She moved way ahead of past artists by fracturing/scaring some of her fans away earlier on in her career, while she had the hype and momentum to rebound. If she did that with a later album, that may have not been the case. (Christina) She probably figured "I can lose some wind and some fans now while the media keeps chasing me around, but who knows where I'll be 2 years from now."
Now, after a rather rocky album era and some backlash, she's still seen as the top bitch in music and can do whatever she wants with her 4th era. That's a great luxury.
I guess we'll see if she utilizes that freedom to make something big out of this next single.
I remember GaGa said something like she literally studied fame before starting her career. She knows what she's doing.
That's just for information though. Nothing about my own personal opinions 
