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Featured Review:  The Fame Monster — Lady Gaga
Review by Ave


The Fame Monster lives up to its odd name….and then some. This 8-track album proves to employ a range of musical influences as wide as on The Fame. The first song and single from the CD is “Bad Romance”, a song that uses infectious verbal and rhythmic repetition that has served Lady Gaga well with her past hits (p-p-p-pokerface) and stole my heart immediately. If her penchant for the dramatic wasn’t obvious before, it certainly is after listening to “Alejandro” and “Dancing in the Dark”; both contain haunting melodies and lyrics, particularly the latter which contains a shout-out to several famously deceased women in such a Vogue-esque fashion it could be Madonna herself, and I got goose bumps on the line “together we’ll dance in the dark”. Gaga has the potential to be the queen of electronica, and would already have the crown if it weren’t for her obvious refusal to be a one-dimensional artist, which can be seen in the tracks “Speechless”, a‘70’s inspired ballad and a true exhibition of Lady Gaga’s singing talent, and “Teeth”, which can only be described as….actually, I don’t know how to describe it at all, I really don’t. The Gaga/Beyonce song “Telephone” is one of the catchiest songs I’ve heard in a long time, mixing elements of pop and hip-hop over a heavy dance beat. The only possible low-point of the album is “So happy I could die”, which has an obvious dip in the energy and lacking the electronic and lyrical integrity that I’ve come to associate with Lady Gaga, though odds are, the more I listen to Fame Monster, the more I’ll like it. Lady Gaga embodies so much in her image and music that I feel is lacking in the business these days: fearlessness, range, liberation and The Fame Monster contains all of it fully and unapologetically.
 
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