“The Fame Monster”: Another Lady Gaga Sensation
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January 21, 2010 • Kyron Richard
Filed under Arts and Entertainment, Music Reviews
After romping through 2009 with hits such as “Just Dance”, “Poker Face”, “LoveGame”, and “Paparazzi” with her debut album, The Fame, Lady Gaga returns to tackle the ending of an old decade and the beginning of a new one with her album, The Fame Monster. Taking consideration of the holidays and the economy, Gaga released two versions of her new album. One version contains the 14 original The Fame tracks along with 8 new songs at a bargain price. The other version simply includes the 8 new songs for the Gaga fans who already purchased her debut album.
The new songs include the hit single “Bad Romance”, as well as “Telephone”, and “Monster”. After reflecting upon fame and love in her last album, Gaga takes a new darker tone in this album. It is clear to any fan or nonfan that The Fame Monster is quite different from its predecessor. From “just dancing” to “bad romancing” it is clear Gaga is changing as an artist, and I think we all want to stay for the show.
Yet the charts don’t seem to notice the difference. Her first single,” Bad Romance” has consistently stayed high on the charts, just losing to Jay-Z and Alicia Key’s “Empire State of Mind” and Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” for the number-one spot atop the Billboard Hot 100 (US). Yet Bad Romance is still sporting number one on the Dance/Club Play Songs Chart as well as number two, three, three, four, and four on the European Hot 100, Radio Songs, United Kingdom Hot 100, German Hot 100, and Pop Songs respectively. Telephone, just released on the Hot 100 and Pop charts, is staying in the Top 50, and looks like it will soon become another Gaga sensation. So far, the 23 year old star will enjoy the same success in 2010 as in 2009.
To reward her for her 2009 success, Gaga “earns the coveted honors of the year’s top new artist, top Hot 100 artist, top female Hot 100 artist, top Hot Digital Songs artist, top Pop Songs artist, top Hot Dance Airplay artist, top Dance/Electronic Albums artist, and the top Dance/Electronic Album” from Billboard. On the United World Chart Gaga sports the number one single with Poker Face and a number five single with “Just Dance”. “Paparazzi”, “Bad Romance”, and “Love Game” also charted a twelve, twenty seven, and thirty seven respectively – the songs are given points according to sales and airplay. Gaga was even named Barbara Walter’s second most interesting person in 2009; only losing to the First Lady, Michelle Obama. So no matter what her success in the new decade will be, we can always remember the Lady Gaga of the late ‘00s.
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I think that the best song on that album is Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say). No offense to ANY of her fans, because I am a fan too, but this may be her only down to Earth songs.
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