Tag: Lady Gaga

audio review : GUY ( song ) … Lady Gaga

The title acronym, which stands for Girl Under You, is, at best, pointless. This is a love song from Lady Gaga to a guy she wants to mount and fuck her, but the pun, which refers to her as a “guy”, makes no sense. As far as casual listeners, unaware of the conceptual specifics, are concerned, she wants to be a male. Past penis rumors suggest that might actually be the case.

She sounds like a female though. Unfortunately her voice is never laid atop any pleasurable melodies. The chorus, sang over bombastic synth sounds, is ironically weak. Despite what’s promised on the starting monologue, the song doesn’t offer anything particularly “new” or “exciting”, unless, of course, you happen to be Lady Gaga or the gentleman she’s singing to.

my rating : 3 of 5

2013

audio review : Artpop ( album ) ... Lady Gaga

audio review : Mary Jane Holland ( song ) … Lady Gaga

The title is Holland but the chorus says “Hollands”. One spelling is the last name of a girl who I think is supposed to stand as a metaphor for marijuana, but which is it? That distinction, without an explanation from the artist, comes across as a glaring mistake. Not that the song would be something special otherwise.

It’s a noisy party in The Netherlands, but the only fun parts for me are the aforementioned chorus sections, which come after a bridge that sounds more like a chorus than the chorus. The aesthetic high can be heard in the final forty seconds; especially when the music subsides and a woozy Gaga goes, “Hoo-hoooo!”

my rating : 3 of 5

2013

audio review : Artpop ( album ) ... Lady Gaga

audio review : Jewels N Drugs ( song ) … Lady Gaga ( featuring TI + Too Short + Twista )

Structurally this one is a bit of a mess. There are two hooks; the second and best of which doesn’t come until after the halfway point. “We know how to make that money,” Gaga sings, so she doesn’t want yours. She has her own Jewels too. What she wants is your Drugs and your “love”; the former of which she can buy with all the money she has and the latter of which is an irrelevant subject nothing else in the song deals with.

The Too Short feature is surprising. As long as he’s been rapping, I don’t think he’s ever been featured on a song by an artist this popular before. There should only be one verse by one rapper though; of the three, I’d pick TI; and his verse should come not at the beginning but about where Too Short’s is. Three rappers with little to no association with each other only crowd the song in an awkward trap remix sort of way.

my rating : 3 of 5

2013

audio review : Artpop ( album ) ... Lady Gaga