The Fame Monster turns 10: 5 (3) Reasons why the album still matters

[cherubrawk]

Lady Gaga's #FameMonster is 10 today. Here are 5 reasons the album still matters https://t.co/QsLUwSklZT pic.twitter.com/95dGoCh5Bi
- SPIN (@SPIN) November 18, 2019
SPIN (Mara Reinstein): "Deluxe editions of successful albums with a few half-baked bonus tracks are common enough cash grabs. But most artists don’t bring 40 minutes of substantial new

Comments

[stewie_e]

I’m still mad she didn’t drop a new album after her Oscar win. Way to kill your momentum sis.

[cherubrawk]

same, now the rumored tea is her label has forced her to wait and release it in Q2 2020 ddddd.

[jarellano89]

Aha wow

[numbedtoe]

Her career is a bafflement of FIRE and years of missteps. It’s bizarre. Idk if it’s her or her people but she’s missed the boat more than once.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Whooooooo man I remember when the Bad Romance music video drop. That was i c o n i c and a moment. She was on top of the world after that.

Gaga definitely benefitted from the fact that NO ONE in the game at that point was doing anything interesting. There was so much filler artists that weren't gonna last past a year or 2 going around the time she debuted. None of the previous mainstream heavy-hitters were doing much either.

But to her credit she earned her success cause she was the only one putting in the WORK and time into her career. There was a clearly curated image and presentation that hit all the marks.

I always thought she maybe should've stayed in this era and image a little longer before it got too "all over the place" with the born this way era.

[wormsinthedirt]

Yeah, I remember the ONTD threads about the video lol <3

[genbu_no_miko24]

lol same!

[jogas]

Yesssss I was such a bb then how 😭😭

[mayjailer]

What's your favorite song on TFM, ONTD?

"so happy i could die"

[cherubrawk]

so happy i could die deserved more

[jogas]

That is a true bop

[matsjhummels]

mte!!

[numbedtoe]

Best thing she ever did.

I just still can’t fuck with her cause of the R. Kelly stuff. But if if we remove that, it’s wild to me that she had some fantastic jams and the voice to back it up and creatively never really landed again musically. She was gonna be the one and she wasn’t. The songs weren’t there. The gimmicks got tired.

But fuck I can’t believe it’s been ten years. 3-5 maybe. Fuck time flies.

[cheeseasauras]

no thank you for reminding me that i used to play this CD on my tiny, cheap and tinny sounding boombox and lay on my bed and sing along and cry to Speechless lmao.