| |
Fan Base: Archived: Lady Gaga (#2)
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 17,223
|
Could it be, that if Taylor and Adele are releasing after September 30th, that Cheek to Cheek/ARTPOP could get ha a Grammy 
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/1/2012
Posts: 15,843
|
I want Gags to come back with somehting as big as Poker Face and then to be in a battle with Rihanna, Adele and Taylor. Let the best win!
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 4/6/2014
Posts: 10,308
|
Quote:
Originally posted by ELECTRAHEARTPOP
Could it be, that if Taylor and Adele are releasing after September 30th, that Cheek to Cheek/ARTPOP could get ha a Grammy |
No for ARTPOP
Yes for C2C
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 17,223
|
Quote:
Originally posted by GypsyLife
No for ARTPOP
Yes for C2C
|
Wouldn't it feel so good if ARTPOP got a nomination/won. 
ATRL would break.
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2013
Posts: 15,264
|
Not Tony Bennett telling the crowd at his show to buy C2C cuz Gaga needs the money  
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 12/1/2010
Posts: 23,572
|
ARTPOP is a collection of tracks that don't go together. Aura could have been on a soundtrack album instead. Donatella, Fashion!, Jewels N Drugs, Mary Jane Holland, and Dope would have made great app tracks. The rest, while good, missed their chance in 2012.
Now is the time for Gaga to get progressive. I don't care about hits. As long the next album is actually well thought out and doesn't try to be what it is not.
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 4/22/2012
Posts: 15,844
|
Is Gags going to release C2C when all those other albums? Mess
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2013
Posts: 15,264
|
Quote:
Originally posted by - JED -
Is Gags going to release C2C when all those other albums? Mess |
Gaga is releasing before the Grammy deadline!
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 3,272
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Pierrot
Here's an analysis that may change your mind of So Godly I Could Die 
 Why SHICD is the best
It's easily her best written song. I mean, I'm hard pressed to even think of another song with a triple meaning in it, let alone another Gaga song. The entire song revolves around the concept of Gaga "touching herself." The brilliance is in the really well-constructed lyrics in which Gaga makes this a triple entendre. When we first hear "I touch myself and it's alright," we immediately think of masturbation, which Gaga herself directly references in the opening lines.
I love that lavender blonde
The way she moves, the way she walks
I touch myself, can't get enough
However, she quickly opens up another possible interpretation.
I am as vain as I allow
I do my hair, I gloss my eyes
I touch myself all through the night
Vanity is introduced as a theme, and we're now aware that Gaga's "touching herself" means fixing her hair, putting on makeup, etc. Unlike the vanity explored on The Fame, however, this brand seems much darker in the context of the song. Whereas "Money Honey" and "Vanity" mock-celebrated this institution, So Happy I Could Die paints it as a way for Gaga to keep herself together during darker times. She is the broken wannabe-starlet doing her makeup in a seedy nightclub bathroom, not the post-Fame blonde we saw in her first era.
Finally, the third and darkest interpretation of "touching herself" rears its head with multiple listens and a little help from Gaga herself, who says that the song is about addiction:
And in the silence of the night
Through all the tears and all the lies
I touch myself and it's alright
Usage of heavier drugs, such as heroin, is associated with "touching oneself." Shooting up heroin would require touching yourself in order to properly inject the drug. Gaga reinforces this idea with the line I touch myself 'til I'm on track, and gives it a much darker meaning than what we initially see. Drug injection leads to darkening of the veins which are then called "tracks," hence the term "track marks." It really makes you reconsider the line "I am as vain as I allow." Maybe "vein" is the more appropriate spelling. It is this way in that the meanings fold in on themselves that makes this song so incredible.
I touch myself, can't get enough.
Everything about the song becomes twisted and more and more complex as the meanings unfold. Gaga can't get enough of herself in her unending vanity? She can't get enough of whatever drug she's addicted to? Suddenly what initially seemed like a throwaway guffaw about masturbation reveals an undercurrent of meanings.
Finally, we get to the chorus, which perfectly exemplifies why this song is so powerful. It's one thing to write a song about depression, addiction and vanity with lots of meanings. It's another to wrap it in the tone that Gaga chooses. She sings in an ironic, floating, pop-voice and seems genuinely thrilled as she sings
Happy in the club with a bottle of red wine
Stars in our eyes 'cause we're having a good time
Eh, eh, so happy I could die
Be your best friend and I'll love you forever
Up in the clouds, we'll be higher than ever
I know the first time I listened to this song I didn't think of the chorus as anything but sugar-sweet pop perfection, something that would make me think of good times with a friend. However, when you apply the other meanings discussed, even the bubblegum chorus is sinister. Up in the clouds, we'll be higher than ever seems to be extolling how happy Gaga and her friend/lover/whoever she is singing to will be, but is also talking about death by overdose. She really will be "higher than ever" if she ODs and is sent to heaven, "up in the clouds." This is a really clever but dark play on words, given all the more impact by her dreamy delivery.
Meanwhile, the entire song is decorated with "Eh, eh, aha, ahas" clearly meant to sound euphoric, but something is off about them, as if Gaga is faking the entire song. She is pretending to be happy and cheerful, but is depressed, alone and addicted to drugs. She puts on her makeup and does her hair and projects an outward joy, but has demons on the inside.
Meanwhile, who is she talking to? The object of "Be your best friend and I'll love you forever" and who she's telling to "Just give in" is made incredibly vague and obscure. The opening "lavender blonde" line may give us a clue that Gaga is talking to herself, again forcing us to reanalyze every line and watch new meanings unfold. It also reinforces the lonely, empty, echoing quality that the song has. Gaga is giving us the most unadulterated view we've ever had into her psyche. Marry the Night who?
In my opinion, So Happy I Could Die is one of her strongest songs because it shows how powerful pop music is. A lot of detractors of the genre think that pop has no deeper meaning and is just cheerful, disposable music. Gaga twists this expectation by giving us a perfect pop song: cheerful, seemingly expendable with a bubbly chorus about drinking and having fun. But underneath it all is her leviathan of drugs, sex, addiction, loneliness, fear of death, vanity and depression. "So happy I could die, and it's alright," she insists unconvincingly.
I could go on, this song is much too layered for me to ever say that there's nothing left to dissect, but I wanted to show how So Happy I Could Die is truly Gaga at her most Shakespearean. Dance In The Dark, frankly, pales in comparison to the subtlety and sheer brilliance contained in this sadly overlooked and underappreciated masterpiece. And my favorite part? You really can listen to So Happy I Could Die either way, as a happy pop song or a work of dark inner turmoil. It's a psychological experience and a true work of genius. It embodies everything that is right about The Fame Monster and everything that I love about Gaga's writing and take on pop.
Paragraphs sis. Where is your fave? |
Great read, what kind of flawless song  When will Artpop?
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 4/22/2012
Posts: 15,844
|
Quote:
Originally posted by BadMonster
Gaga is releasing before the Grammy deadline!
|
Do we even have a date? I'm so lost I thought it was going to be a christmas release 
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2013
Posts: 15,264
|
Quote:
Originally posted by - JED -
Do we even have a date? I'm so lost I thought it was going to be a christmas release |
Nope, it's coming in summer, most likely in August, but I wouldn't be surprised if she releases it during the break in the North American leg of the tour
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 13,761
|
Quote:
Originally posted by BadMonster
Gaga is releasing before the Grammy deadline!
|
September 30th 2019 is a Grammy deadline
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/1/2012
Posts: 15,843
|
She better get in the studio ith RedOne, write a song in 10 minutes ala Just Dance and release it ASAP
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 3/15/2013
Posts: 42,704
|
Quote:
Originally posted by - JED -
Is Gags going to release C2C when all those other albums? Mess |
Do you have no confidence in your Queen?
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2013
Posts: 15,264
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Optimus
She better get in the studio ith RedOne, write a song in 10 minutes ala Just Dance and release it ASAP
|
she should start sitting behind a piano like she did for her first two albums...come up with a melody herself and later have producers adapt it into an instrumental
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 12/1/2010
Posts: 23,572
|
SHICD sounds so current
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 4/6/2014
Posts: 10,308
|
Guys it's coming, Tony revealing C2C coming in September:
The little bit of name-dropping he did Saturday was surprising, as when he dedicated “The Good Life” to Lady Gaga, with whom he’s releasing an album in September. (He urged the crowd to buy it, “‘cuz she needs the money.”)
 at the joke
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 3/15/2013
Posts: 42,704
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Optimus
She better get in the studio ith RedOne, write a song in 10 minutes ala Just Dance and release it ASAP
|
I want this to happen so badly
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/1/2012
Posts: 15,843
|
Quote:
Originally posted by BadMonster
she should start sitting behind a piano like she did for her first two albums...come up with a melody herself and later have producers adapt it into an instrumental
|
TBH! She wrote Poker Face (?), Bad Romance, TEOG on the piano IIRC.
|
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/1/2012
Posts: 15,843
|
The intro of Poker Face sounds ICONIC. Hands down!
|
|
|
|
|
|
