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Gaga has became renowned for poor release strategies and wrong singles choices as of late. Here is your chance as a little manager to have your say in what each era's singles and release promotion should have been —

'The Fame'
1. 'Just Dance'
2. 'Poker Face'
3. 'Paparazzi'
4. 'Boys Boys Boys' — 'LoveGame' was the correct choice of single for the US, but was heavily snubbed by UK radio at the time for its lyrics and was intended to be the 3rd single but later being replaced with 'Paparazzi' was a good move but then scrapping it together for the 4th single with an old music video - not so good move. It peaked at #21 on airplay which I feel manifests the song as the wrong single choice for the UK, whereas 'Boys Boys Boys' was a fan favourite at the time, catchy as hell, radio candy - and with a killer music video I think it would have been able to keep Gaga's top 10 streak intact!

'The Fame Monster'
1. 'Bad Romance'
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2. 'Telephone' (feat. Beyoncé)
3. 'Alejandro'


Perfect. As iconic as this record was, and how the likes of 'Dance in the Dark' and 'Monster' would have made smashing singles. I think had a 4th single been released it would have been a car crash despite how good it may have been. This was when the GP begun feeling a Gaga overkill, 'Alejandro' peaking at #1 on UK Airplay but achieving a low top 10 peak proved this imo.

'Born This Way'
1. 'Born This Way'
2. 'The Edge of Glory'
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3. 'Marry the Night'
4. 'Scheiße'

The main flaw of this era's singles was its midweek and friday releases >.> BTW would have been a #1 if it were not for the friday release. 'Judas' may be my favourite Gaga single but ultimately, it was the first dent in a very messy era. Airplay for the song was horrendous, and the song itself put a lot of listeners, GP and radios off of being a casual Gaga fan. TEOG as a pre-album single released on the correct day with music video hype would have been a second #1 easily!

'Yoü and I' was perfect for the US but an even worse mistake for the UK than 'Judas'. Whereas with MTN I think its #16 peak as a 5th single shows it would have been much more successful had it been released earlier. And then 'Scheiße' the album's obvious single and fan favourite would have killed it as a 4th single with that choreo she used on the BTW Ball incorporated into an X Factor performance and then a full-on dance choreo music video would have shot this right into the top 3 where it belonged!

'ARTPOP'
1. 'Gypsy'
2. 'Venus'
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3. 'Do What U Want' (feat. Christina Aguilera)
4. 'Swine'

You can deny and argue all you like but 'Gypsy' would have been eaten up by radio and the GP much moreso than 'Applause', and with an iconic VMA performance and a gorgeous music video to match I feel it would have been the #1 that 'Applause' never was and that it would have set up this era a lot better.

'Venus' as marmite as it is, I feel could have been a hit in the same vein as 'Anaconda' is right now. This song meant everything to Gaga and it not being released as a single by her management at the time ultimately lead to the ARTPOP demise. Its music video would have no doubt been one of her most insane showings to-date and imagine if she bagged that space performance at the time as planned!

Let's be honest, R. Kelly f***ed DWUW up, a Xtina studio version would have slayed LIVES. The 2 ultimate pop girl vocalists on one track with some vixen-like music video and mind-blowing live performance unlike the one on The Voice would have been f***ing immense.

'Swine' gets way too much hate on here. It's catchy and dancey as f***. All my friends and many casual fans love this song the most on ARTPOP from my knowledge. And I feel if she recorded the final version in the style of the SwineFest version with the piano - where at the time it was raved as the best song performed that night, the song itself would have turned out a lot better and who would even be able to picture its accompanying music video's shock factor!

(kath knows best)

This post has been edited by Kath ha Essence: 7th October 2014, 08:26 AM