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[botherd]

SO, BORN THIS WAY. It's all kind of cheesy and embarrassing and the spoken intro makes me want to stab myself in the face, BUT I STILL KIND OF LOVE IT? It's no Bad Romance, that's for sure, and I'll be disappointed if there aren't better songs on the album, but IDK, it's kind of irresistable. What does everyone else think

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[immortality]

I think 'Born This Way' is sort of alright, but it's no 'Bad Romance' or 'Poker Face' or anything like that. I think Gaga doesn't really sound like herself here -- someone compared her to sounding too much like Madonna and I agree.

Yay, interview! Go team you!

[botherd]

Yeah, it's definitely a different sound for her and the Madonna similiarities are really overt. (Express Yourself was trending on Twitter because of this song, lol.) I think for this album she really needs to create her own sound, and I'm hoping that's what we'll get with the other tracks because this song is a bit derivative. But I still really enjoy BTW, probably because I grew up on a diet on cheesy 90s pop.

[immortality]

Yeah, it's definitely a song to listen to, but it's not gonna be in my top five. Hopefully the rest of the album blows me away. (The problem with BTW I think is that she's trying too hard to appeal to the ~gay community~ and it feels almost condescending.)

[botherd]

Yeah, I see that. I think she's totally sincere in support of the gay community but it definitely sounds like she was trying to write a GAY SONG FOR GAYS. And that sort of feels like erasure of a large part of the LGBT community, because these kind of "gay anthems" are always specifically geared towards gay men. (Obviously I'm generalising hugely about the sort of music that appeals to different people, but you know what I mean.)

[immortality]

Yeah, I mean, I don't doubt that she cares and I'm glad she does, but ... come on! I don't like how the ~gay anthems~ are always subtley geared towards men (Born this Way, Katy Perry's ~Firework, etc). I think songs like Pink's Raise Your Glass and even Poker Face are better gay anthems because it's not being annoyingly all THIS IS A GAY SONG FOR GAY PEOPLE. Pink is totally a homo and her song is more ~generic, while Poker Face is about desiring to sleep with a woman, but not so in your face that you're like, okay, stop it. (But I feel like Gaga feels she can flaunt it because she's bi, but it's just like ... no.)