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Lady Gaga's artRAVE ranks #4 in 2014 worldwide tours selling over 800K tickets so far. She has the #1 female tour. pic.twitter.com/WdapVlFVzJ
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.
I really like your posts but I know and I'm mad because I know that it will never gonna happen.
I still can't at people calling ARTPOP a flop. There are several pop girls who would kill for an era with a Top 5 multi-platinum song (Applause #4) with longevity, a Top 10 song (Dope #8), a platinum Top 20 single (DWUW #13), and a Top 40 song (Venus #35). And, on top of that, to have 1.8m sales WW and to debut at #1 on Billboard 200. This has been at least a moderately successful era. It's just not as overwhelmingly successful as her first three eras, which were historic and ground-breaking. Those who come for the album need to take several seats.
Honestly, Cheek to Cheek will probably be receiving less than half of the promotional treatment that ARTPOP did (which was measly at best). If we even got a single music video (similar to "The Lady Is A Tramp"), then that would be a blessing.
I'd even be surprised if it didn't just get pushed back or canceled overall. Which would be a shame, because I'm actually looking forward to its release.
C2C doesn't need to be a commercial juggernaut, just a critical one. It'll be the record that dilutes the anti-Gaga feelings among professional critics that hopefully draws them away from Angela Cheng-level bullcrap for Gaga's next pop record. Speaking of which... Cheng has been pretty quiet lately. Or else I've just been out of the hater loop.
Random query but would Gaga have been the front runner for the Grammy that Tony and Amy won had Amy not died? I wasn't following these things and don't know how much momentum Amy had prior to her passing.
I hope she does significant promo for C2C. Booking promo slots is Bobby's greatest strength (see: BTW promo schedule) so he better make himself useful and Gaga better not act like a depressed loser & start putting in work like she used to.
I still can't at people calling ARTPOP a flop. There are several pop girls who would kill for an era with a Top 5 multi-platinum song (Applause #4) with longevity, a Top 10 song (Dope #8), a platinum Top 20 single (DWUW #13), and a Top 40 song (Venus #35). And, on top of that, to have 1.8m sales WW and to debut at #1 on Billboard 200. This has been at least a moderately successful era. It's just not as overwhelmingly successful as her first three eras, which were historic and ground-breaking. Those who come for the album need to take several seats.
People just expected her to slay the world with every album even with a tarnished brand and they were shocked that she performed on the same level of some of their faves. I guess if Applause went number 1 only in the US many people probably wouldn't call this a huge flop era.
Random query but would Gaga have been the front runner for the Grammy that Tony and Amy won had Amy not died? I wasn't following these things and don't know how much momentum Amy had prior to her passing.
I don't think so... If Amy hadn't passed away, then they would have nominated the song Tony did with Michael Buble, I think (since it was technically the lead single). Amy wasn't taken seriously before she passed away, unfortunately. Many people cracked jokes about her uncontrollable alcoholism. And like so many other artists who have recently deceased (MJ, Whitney) people stopped making those jokes as often after her passing.
Did you notice that when Gags came into pop culture, everyone was trying to do his best and make a great hit. Back in 2009-2010-2011 pop music was at its peak tbh. And since 2012, when things started going down for Gaga, the good pop hits vanished. There was no one forcing them to step up their game. And since then pop music has been getting boring and boring. Hope that Gags can do something big again
You're so damn right! I hated 2012 tbh, it was full of songs with EDM breakdowns. Pop music is so boring nowadays. Nothing sounds fresh anymore, it's like no one's trying anymore, everybody just follows radio trends and ****. Also the pop scene isn't as exciting as it was in 2009/2010/2011.
My issue was never EDM breakdowns, it's just that everyone placed them in the most predictable part of the song and used it as a means to cover for their horrendously weak choruses. Even Swine is different in that it has two different breakdowns the and they're split (and uses an outro breakdown to finish up) and the song is not about stars, skies, wings, flying, or diamonds (the whole ethereal EDM generic lyric thing). The sound may have not been fresh in 2013, but she did try to do a few different things. Most of ARTPOP sounds like nothing on radio today even Applause with the vocal tones in the verses was immensely different from what anyone tried on pop radio the past 3 years.
