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Poll: Is Bad Romance a classic?
View Poll Results: Is "Bad Romance" a classic?
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Yes
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No
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Yes and the only people who don't agree are people who don't like Gaga.
It's literally one of the most successful singles of all time.
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Originally posted by Homebrand
A 2010s pop classic i guess.
I wouldnt call it a classic amongst the levels of songs like Umbrella, Crazy in love etc tho
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Umbrella a classic?
And yes, of course it is !
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Originally posted by Bang Up
It's literally one of the most successful singles of all time.
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It's already forgotten, although it was a nice bop back then.
I think PokerFace is her only classic, and still I am not sure... her music has aged so badly
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None of Gaga's singles are/will be classics.
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Originally posted by Bang Up
Yes and the only people who don't agree are people who don't like Gaga.
It's literally one of the most successful singles of all time.
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Both Poker Face & Bad Romance are iconic classics, that is a fact.
ATRL, try being objective for once
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Originally posted by Mariano
It's the best selling single by a female artist besides Tik Tok, Poker Face and Call me maybe Like I guess it's also overrated Worldwide right ?
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So what you're actually saying is that it's the fourth best selling single by a female artist, and not the best selling?
Also, you mean digital single, not just "best selling single". Don't gass her up too much.
According to wikipedia, it's sold 10M copies... So what about Rolling In The Deep and Firework? What about the female's featured on better selling singles?
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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no but Poker Face is
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Originally posted by Scheiße.
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Why does Rihanna have you so pressed
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Originally posted by theworldfamous
5 years ago I would've agreed with this but I think Rihanna's more recent singles (Only Girl..., We Found Love, Diamonds, etc.) completely eclipse Umbrella when it comes to being "timeless" and a "classic." The GP remembers those songs and associate them with Rihanna faster than Umbrella.
Bad Romance is starting to sound dated to me.
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I think people still associate Umbrella with rih more than her other songs, it is her signature song
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Originally posted by JimmyMinaj
So what you're actually saying is that it's the fourth best selling single by a female artist, and not the best selling?
Also, you mean digital single, not just "best selling single". Don't gass her up too much.
According to wikipedia, it's sold 10M copies... So what about Rolling In The Deep and Firework? What about the female's featured on better selling singles?
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According to wikipedia I am the King of the planet. go check it, not lying.
RITD sold 8.2M in 2011 alone which was as much as Born This Way sold in 2011. Of course by the end of 2012 RITD was a lot bigger than BTW, but it's not even close to Bad Romance, a song that sold 10M in 2010 alone, even though it was released October 2009 and sold at least 1.5 -2M WW by the end of 2009.
You may want to get your facts straight.
And Firework It was released around the same time Bad Romance was released (in the end of one calendar year) yet it didn't even make the list in 2011, whereas Bad Romance made it at number 2 in 2010 and was released in 2009. This means that Firework sold less than 6M copies WW throughout the whole 2011
Edit: And people acting like Umbrella is not a classic Umbrella, CiL, Toxic, Hung Up, Bad Romance and Poker Face are the only true classic and global songs the past decade. (I might have missed 1-2 songs so I don't mind being corrected).
Anyway Idk why are stans of Katy and the likes even here. Does Katy have a classic ? No. Does she has a song as huge as Bad Romance in general ? No.
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Originally posted by JimmyMinaj
So what you're actually saying is that it's the fourth best selling single by a female artist, and not the best selling?
Also, you mean digital single, not just "best selling single". Don't gass her up too much.
According to wikipedia, it's sold 10M copies... So what about Rolling In The Deep and Firework? What about the female's featured on better selling singles?
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It's not the 4th best selling single by a female, don't take everything someone says so seriously. But it is in the top 10 best selling digital singles of all time. And no it didn't sell 10M, it sold over 12M copies WW.
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The definition of a classic song :
A "classic" song or album needs to be not only remembered, enjoyed and recognized by the current or original generation of music fans who were around when the song/album was released, but the song/album needs to be remembered, enjoyed, and recognized by subsequent generations as well.
As far as I know 90% of the GP knows about Poker Face & Bad Romance today.
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Originally posted by Mariano
According to wikipedia I am the King of the planet. go check it, not lying.
RITD sold 8.2M in 2011 alone which was as much as Born This Way sold in 2011. Of course by the end of 2012 RITD was a lot bigger than BTW, but it's not even close to Bad Romance, a song that sold 10M in 2010 alone, even though it was released October 2009 and sold at least 1.5 -2M WW by the end of 2009.
You may want to get your facts straight.
And Firework It was released around the same time Bad Romance was released (in the end of one calendar year) yet it didn't even make the list in 2011, whereas Bad Romance made it at number 2 in 2010 and was released in 2009. This means that Firework sold less than 6M copies WW throughout the whole 2011
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Clock the pressed Nicki Minaj stan
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Bad Romance is one of the MOST RECOGNIZABLE SMASHES in the last 20 years.
Now firstly go check the word recognizable.
And secondly tell me isn't that enough for it to be a classic ? Like for real The moment you hear "Rah" you know it's Lady Gaga and her smash hit Bad Romance, Bye.
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Why are people bringing up sales receipts? What does that have to do with anything? Is Flo Rida's Low one of the greatest classics of all time?
Anyway, no. It, just like its video, is overrated to the highest heavens. Not even in Gaga's Top 20 songs.
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Originally posted by SilencePlease
It's already forgotten, although it was a nice bop back then.
I think PokerFace is her only classic, and still I am not sure... her music has aged so badly
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On April 14th 2010, Bad Romance became the most viewed video of all time on Youtube. So it wasn't just the #1 music video, overall it was the #1 video basically on the whole internet.
Source : http://mashable.com/2010/04/14/lady-...mance-youtube/
How many views did it have back than when it was #1 ?
180,000,000 views.
How many views does it have today?
606,000,000 views.
There is no need to say anything else, it's one of the most recognizable songs of all time, the minute the song starts everyone knows which song is it and who is singing it.
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At people saying Gaga's music has aged badly when most of their faves have returned to early 2000 pop and retro sounding songs. Show me any song from earlier decades that sound the same as Bad Romance, Poker Face or even GUY. The instrumentals are the epitome of "new"
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Originally posted by 2014
On April 14th 2010, Bad Romance became the most viewed video of all time on Youtube. So it wasn't just the #1 music video, overall it was the #1 video basically on the whole internet.
Source : http://mashable.com/2010/04/14/lady-...mance-youtube/
How many views did it have back than when it was #1 ?
180,000,000 views.
How many views does it have today?
606,000,000 views.
There is no need to say anything else, it's one of the most recognizable songs of all time, the minute the song starts everyone knows which song is it and who is singing it.
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You're making more of a case for the video than the song. Like, you could easily make the same argument for the current most-watched video on YouTube: Gangnam Style. Is that song a classic?
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Originally posted by SilencePlease
It's already forgotten, although it was a nice bop back then.
I think PokerFace is her only classic, and still I am not sure... her music has aged so badly
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I agree. It's weird, I really can't get into any of her old stuff anymore even though I was a big fan of hers way back when (I've never cared for Bad Romance though). I don't even have anything against her, it's just that her old songs feel so...stale.
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