I've got my lube covered hands on a morsel of Auntie's highly anticipated 2nd effort
Born This Way today and I'm inflicted with magical solitude in exact inhabitance of what I expected-
COMPLETE AWE!.
Gaga ventured so far away from her previous audible works of art from her multi-platinum FAME and invited her followers into a more darker,vintage pop,8os induced,electric vs. light eclectic stadium-esque quality of a Mother Monster Manifesto Masterpiece! .Let's stumble into this epic fathom shall we...Popping the album off is the buzz single
Marry The Night which relies heavy on repetitive chorus lines and infectious lyrics.This song fucks all embodiments of the transition to night and it's perfect sense.Gaga exclaims,
"I'm gonna marry the dark,make love in the stars.I'm a soldier to my own emptiness.I'm a winner!" It's the intricate yum yum of an entree to start off to a feast of delectable audible treats.Next up is album title track
Born This Way,you already know what obese impact this song had on the atmosphere.It's talent subsided genre and was atop the charts for 6 consecutive weeks.It's a personal and influential favorite-this generations defunct version of
'Greatest Love of All'.
Strobe lights,lube and recreational drugs dominates the next track on this album.
Government Hooker begins with Gaga singing opera-like vocals and melts into this electronic tick-tock beat that immediately fucks my eardrums.Gaga gives us Marilyn Manson meets her vagina-the ultimate consent of rape singing ,
"I wanna drink my tears tonight,I wanna drink my tears and cry.Cause I know you love me baby!"This is one of those songs that will transform sidewalks to runways.It's imperative that you get your life off of it.
Taking negativeness from a relationship and embedding them in song,Gaga explored what she did on
Bad Romance with the same prelude but with a Biblical metaphor on the fist pumping
Judas.Staying true to distorted, monotone announcement vocals during the verses and pop cringed choruses throughout,Judas speaks volumes.
Americano is smothered with that same
Ace of Base rhythm that was popularized in the Fame Monster's
Alejandro while Gaga sings about injustice,same sex marriage and all the gusto of whats wrong and right in America with a Spaniard eulogy.Leave it to Gaga to doctrine on such topics in an unorthodox way.Love it.
Up next is
Hair,another pre-released buzz single in which Gaga signifies her whole individuality being equivalent to her hair.The saxophone embedded,electronica track blasts over Gaga singing,
"I just wanna be free,I just wanna be me & I wanna a lot of friends to invite me to their parties.Don't wanna change,and I don't wanna be ashamed.I'm the spirit of my hair and all the glory that I bare." It's pretty much a more solemn version of 'Born This Way'-charitable inspiration with abstract metaphor and delivery.
Pulling from speaking a native tongue in 'Americano' ,Gaga pulls another language (German) from under her peaked latex strapped bra in the beginning of courageous
Scheiße(
it's the word SHIT in German...yaaaas!).Gaga covers a topic she seldom preaches on -female empowerment.Gaga vamps,
"When I'm on a mission.I rebuke my condition.If you're a strong female you don't need permission." The beat belonging to this track is pure DISGUST.Like 'Government Hooker',the sound of this song shrieks the darkest corner of a rave with glow sticks and complimentary libations in your red cup-it kicks! <<<<---WERK Germanotta!
Things get deliciously creepy in the next track
Bloody Mary.Reminiscent of dark pseudo,twisted romantic songs like Kelis's
"Get Along With You" and Madonna's
"Devil Wouldn't Recognize You"-Bloody Mary pulls me into a diluted trance of ultraviolet muted colors and warmth that I familiarize with Gaga oh so well.It's most definitely a different lane for her that she masters diligently.Rebels stand up! is the sypnosis for the next track
Bad Kids.Gaga,once again, magnifies the weird and make it trendy and shuns conformity in today's society with lyrics ,
"I'm a twit.Degenerate.Young rebel and I'm proud of it.Pump your fist If you would rather mess up than put up with this.I'm a nerd,I chew gum and smoke in your face-I'm absurd.I'm so bad,but I don't give a damn I love it when you're mad!" This song will be paramount for those kids that frowns upon the rules and rebel towards cool.I fucks with it.
Gaga rides down the elongated mystical pavement of promise on the favorable track
Highway Unicorn (Road to Love).This track has obvious 8o's atmospheric strong rock ballad remnants that will have you falling in love with no regrets.
"Get your rugbugs ready to rumble cause we're gonna fall in love tonight!Get your rugbugs ready to rumble cause we're gonna drink until we die tonight!" yells Gaga over the bridge of the song.Something about a romance of vodka and dying on the highway doesn't sit too well with me until Gaga sings about it-she confirms my sanity.Next up is
Heavy Metal Lover .Like 'Judas' and 'Bad Romance' ,Heavy Mental Lover boasts about a different kind of love.Everyone needs it.Once again Gaga sets out on a different plateau of instruments with this scratchy,bass saturated,synth carrying,electronic ode to that crazy inconvenient love.Get you a piece! If Gaga couldn't amaze my justification anymore,she did just that on
Electric Chapel .Anyone who knows my meaning knows that I praise everything 8o's (
hence the 8o's tat emblazoned on my pecs) and this song scream 8o's.It sounds like a cut from a popular action-thriller-horror 8o's film-very cult,very alternative rock and especially likeable.I just can't/
Gaga's lazy,country tinged vocals over the hammered drums and piano punches is cause for cheers and smiles on the infectious
You & I .This song picks up where
Speechless left off and displays Gaga's sheer talent in dynamic vocals and as a affluent writer.The track signifies about a love put on hold then revived and put on hold again followed by the chase and the affirmation of finally realizing truth in knowing that you belong together.It's campy sentimental rock/country/folk charisma is just as triumphant to the ears now as it was when she performed it live on Oprah earlier this month.LOVE.///
Wrapping this epic-ness of a LP up is the glorious die hard love dance track
Edge of Glory."It's time to feel the rush,to brush the dangerous.I'm gonna run right to the edge with you where we can both fall in LOVE!" This song reminds me of another song that I worshiped of Gaga's
(So Happy I Could Die) -it puts me in that same euphoric trance.It's truly a beautiful song testing love and its many unlimited possibilities....and that saxophone breakdown in the bridge is just heaven incarnate.This song is going down as a classic in my life binder. I'm hanging on the moment with you Stefani.
Overall,I thought all the premature tracks that Gaga was releasing prior to the release would hurt the speculation of what the album has to offer in it's entirety.However, It's completely viable to the fact that those tracks were only the beginning.
Born This Way is an evolutionary upgrade from 'The Fame' & 'The Fame Monster'.Gaga propelled to new spectacularly unconquerable heights with this one.
The end.
