DJWS gets 'hate' because out of the big three (RedOne, Fernando, DJWS), her songs with him are the worst
"Americano"
"Bad Kids"
"Black Jesus † Amen Fashion"
"Bloody Mary"
"Born This Way"
"Electric Chapel"
"Government Hooker"
"Highway Unicorn (Road to Love)"
"ARTPOP"
"Applause"
"Do What U Want"
"Jewels N' Drugs"
"MANiCURE"
"Sexxx Dreams"
"Swine"
"Stuck on ****in' You"
"Cake Like Lady Gaga"
Only a few keepers tbh
She has lot of disposable filler songs with Fernando as well but TEOG, MTN, Heavy Metal Lover, Dance In the Dark make up for them
Get her on some collaborations over summer/autumn while she's touring (preferably a banger with Zedd and a chilled R&B with Kendrick or whatever), with Cheek to Cheek out in September with a couple of performances here and there. Hopefully this could gain some positive press and get the public back on her side.
Y'all write her off as a Michael Jackson sized publicity mess. She's put out an album that's underperformed and she's acted a bit pretentious. She'll be fine.
DJWS gets 'hate' because out of the big three (RedOne, Fernando, DJWS), her songs with him are the worst
"Americano"
"Bad Kids"
"Black Jesus † Amen Fashion" "Bloody Mary" "Born This Way" "Electric Chapel" "Government Hooker" "Highway Unicorn (Road to Love)" "ARTPOP"
"Applause"
"Do What U Want"
"Jewels N' Drugs"
"MANiCURE"
"Sexxx Dreams"
"Swine"
"Stuck on ****in' You"
"Cake Like Lady Gaga"
Only a few keepers tbh
She has lot of disposable filler songs with Fernando as well but TEOG, MTN, Heavy Metal Lover, Dance In the Dark make up for them
The bolded deserve applause.
BTW (and HU) were a collab effort by Garibay and DJWS yes?
How is DWUW badly produced? How is Applause overproduced?
You all throw around some buzzwords and get your little reads in but in reality, you are just pop music fans with no musicality or knowledge of the technicality of tracks.
DJWS gets 'hate' because out of the big three (RedOne, Fernando, DJWS), her songs with him are the worst
"Americano"
"Bad Kids"
"Black Jesus † Amen Fashion"
"Bloody Mary"
"Born This Way"
"Electric Chapel"
"Government Hooker"
"Highway Unicorn (Road to Love)"
"ARTPOP"
"Applause"
"Do What U Want"
"Jewels N' Drugs"
"MANiCURE"
"Sexxx Dreams"
"Swine"
"Stuck on ****in' You"
"Cake Like Lady Gaga"
Only a few keepers tbh
She has lot of disposable filler songs with Fernando as well but TEOG, MTN, Heavy Metal Lover, Dance In the Dark make up for them
Excluding a few, nearly all of those are great though. And even the ones I don't admit to liking are guilty pleasure bops. Paul > Fernando imho.
Release in September so it qualifies for 2015 Grammys. Pick the most commercial sounding track as a single (could be an original track, could be a more obscure cover) to promote the album. Perform it at the VMAs, arriving in a period car with Tony on her arm. 1920s style performance, have it aired in black and white, with Gaga and Tony performing in a little smokey downtown NYC club - on stage. The video for this track is also black and white, very behind-the-scenes classic 1920s following Gaga and Tony getting ready for a performance in an intimate bar - ending on stage.
Hold off further personal promo appearances together until November, when they can release a holiday appropriate single to get festive airplay and film a holiday special which is part interview, part behind-the-scenes recording of C2C and part live show shot in a club. It's aired on HBO (US) and BBC (UK) around Christmas. For the UK, film Jools Holland's Hootenanny together which airs on NYE and perform New York, New York in Times Square live. Make one or two late night show appearances, too.Things will die down until the Grammys where they hopefully win a few awards and perform again. She'll probably be launching Album #5 too around then.
In terms of content, I'm hoping for a mixture of classics, obscure covers, perhaps a jazz/blues version of a Gaga hit and ideally an original track or two. Visually, I think black and white candid, Terry Richardson-meets-Brassai would be awesome.
I doubt C2C is going to be a smash hit or anything, but they really will need to push it. A special project like this shouldn't just be chucked out and left to fend for itself. Strategically, this is a reminder of how talented she is.
Release in September so it qualifies for 2015 Grammys. Pick the most commercial sounding track as a single (could be an original track, could be a more obscure cover) to promote the album. Perform it at the VMAs, arriving in a period car with Tony on her arm. 1920s style performance, have it aired in black and white, with Gaga and Tony performing in a little smokey downtown NYC club - on stage. The video for this track is also black and white, very behind-the-scenes classic 1920s following Gaga and Tony getting ready for a performance in an intimate bar - ending on stage.
Hold off further personal promo appearances together until November, when they can release a holiday appropriate single to get festive airplay and film a holiday special which is part interview, part behind-the-scenes recording of C2C and part live show shot in a club. It's aired on HBO (US) and BBC (UK) around Christmas. For the UK, film Jools Holland's Hootenanny together which airs on NYE and perform New York, New York in Times Square live. Make one or two late night show appearances, too.Things will die down until the Grammys where they hopefully win a few awards and perform again. She'll probably be launching Album #5 too around then.
In terms of content, I'm hoping for a mixture of classics, obscure covers, perhaps a jazz/blues version of a Gaga hit and ideally an original track or two. Visually, I think black and white candid, Terry Richardson-meets-Brassai would be awesome.
I doubt C2C is going to be a smash hit or anything, but they really will need to push it. A special project like this shouldn't just be chucked out and left to fend for itself. Strategically, this is a reminder of how talented she is.
So Gaga's been having meetings about Cheek to Cheek all week. I think it's definitely looking to be a bigger release than initially planned.
This could be also her last contracted release.
