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I love how the "taking and putting her jacket"-type moves in this video are all so true-to-life — if you see her live or watch a video of her live, she's always doing stuff like this hahaha. 

Every time I see the video in your signature, I do a double take because I think it's Alanis Morissette. 

Every time I see the video in your signature, I do a double take because I think it's Alanis Morissette. 

today in, everything terrifies me:
 
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-yale-whos-fleeing-america?
 
 

 
   

today in, everything terrifies me:
 
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-yale-whos-fleeing-america?
 
 

 
   

Was she, like, planning on an abuse/DV-theme for the cover album/EP? "Luka," "Voices Carry," and "Live To Tell" are all either about those things or popularly (mis)understood to be about those things.

I've been fantasizing over a MAYHEM AND IT'S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BUT ALSO STILL MAYHEM remix album that features a bunch of notoriously shelved/flopped/suppressed divas like Sky Ferreira, Jojo, Nicole Scherzinger, etc. 
 
Imagine what Sky — and her legendary status as a maligned celebutante — could bring to a remix of "Perfect Celebrity"? It's far from one of my favorite tracks on MAYHEM, but the sound and the lyrics would fit Sky so well… 
 
And if I'm going full fantasy with this, let's just imagine: "Shadow of A Man" ft. Azealia Banks

The album gets A LOT better when you throw out the final three tracks, put "Kill For Love" after "Zombieboy," and end the album with "Can't Stop The High." 
 
"Can't Stop The High" would have been the PERFECT closer for this album — a song that actually seems designed to end an album. As the final track, it'd work as a thesis statement for the whole record: you cannot stop this party; dance or die; etc. In a way, it'd almost imply you're about to restart the album and go right back to listening. Ending on this track would be a fabulous moment of Gaga giving a little bow and acknowledging, "Yeah, I f*cking did that, huh? Y'all really worked up now. Y'all can't stop the feeling I just gave you."
 
Instead, the album's last three tracks are absolute clunkers and feel hugely disconnected from the rest of the album's sounds
. DWAS = Dourly Waters-down the Album's Sound /// Die Without A Solo-single 

Gaga and her team really suffer from trying to react to every slight change in the GP's attitude toward what she releases. 
 
There's no way MAYHEM would've had three clunky ballads close out the album if it weren't for the (mind-bogglingly undeserved, considering the song) chart success of DWAS in the months leading up to the album.
 
If you remove Beast, Blade, and DWAS && instead have Kill For Love and Can't Stop The High as the final tracks, the entire album slides into perfect focus, it coheres into a whole, it becomes a unified work of art on the level of BTW or Jagged Little Pill or Ray of Light — an album that is so seamless, so well-integrated and focused, that you hear and experience it as one long story. It becomes something more than its parts, an overall vibe that you can feel just thinking about the album and never stop feeling as you move from song to song; it's A Wild Night Out, it's The Party, it's Dark Night of The Clubby Soul, it's an energy that does not let up once from start to finish. 
 
And come ON, "Can't Stop The High" is a perfect album closer if there ever was one. It's literally a declaration of not being able to stop the high that the album has unleashed. As the final track, it would be such a bold assertion of the album's generative power to excite and incite — that's the theme of a riot...

Gaga and her team really suffer from trying to react to every slight change in the GP's attitude toward what she releases. 
 
There's no way MAYHEM would've had three clunky ballads close out the album if it weren't for the (mind-bogglingly undeserved, considering the song) chart success of DWAS in the months leading up to the album.
 
If you remove Beast, Blade, and DWAS && instead have Kill For Love and Can't Stop The High as the final tracks, the entire album slides into perfect focus, it coheres into a whole, it becomes a unified work of art on the level of BTW or Jagged Little Pill or Ray of Light — an album that is so seamless, so well-integrated and focused, that you hear and experience it as one long story. It becomes something more than its parts, an overall vibe that you can feel just thinking about the album and never stop feeling as you move from song to song; it's A Wild Night Out, it's The Party, it's Dark Night of The Clubby Soul, it's an energy that does not let up once from start to finish. 
 
And come ON, "Can't Stop The High" is a perfect album closer if there ever was one. It's literally a declaration of not being able to stop the high that the album has unleashed. As the final track, it would be such a bold assertion of the album's generative power to excite and incite — that's the theme of a riot...

Love you Sky. Get better, Tonia!