FIX!!

I still think 'I Wanna Be With You' is faaaar superior to this.

 

Pretty much every song that's gone so far proves that ARTPOP isn't a great album oops. There are still a few to come that deserved to be lower than 'Dope' though.

FIX!!

Trust me, if it was a fix, Dope would've been #1 :coffee:

Put your hands all over my body parts

 

 

| 11 // MANiCURE // 6.64 (less 11s)

 

Missing out on the top 10 because of less 11s, we have MANiCURE. Multiple demos of the song surfaced online in the build up to the album. The album version is a loud, in your face assault with an electrifying guitar riff. It's about getting ready to go out and get a man/girl and just have fun with them. While the vocals can be jarring for some, it perfectly matches the distorting production and adds to the sense of crazed passion.

 

Here is what Gaga said about the song: This song is written, actually, in a couple of different ways. It’s written on the album as “MANiCURE:” capital M,A,N; lower case I; capital C,U,R,E. So, it’s either: “manicure,” “man I cure,” or [like in a song] “MANiCURE!” And this song is about getting ready to go out and catch a man, or catch a girl, you know, to fool around with; and so, while I’m singin’ all about, you know, [lyric from the song] “Put some lipstick on, perfume y’neck, and slip y’high heels on…” this record’s all about gettin’ ready to go out, and your manicuring your body, and your manicuring your spirit, and your mind, and then the chorus hits, and it’s all about being really shooken by this person that you run into; and how you need it, you want it, you have to have it. And it’s just sort of a mantra that repeats back and forth, about how you’re gonna get laid tonight.

Which means:

 

Been hurting low, from living high for so long

 

 

| 10 // Dope // 6.64 (more 11s)

 

MAKING THE TOP 10, it's the slowest, most stripped back song on the album. For that reason it stands out as being the only real ballad to feature on an otherwise loud and brash experience. Released as the album's second promotional single, it managed to peak in the top 10 in the US. Following her hip surgery and cancellation of the Born This Way Ball tour, Gaga became addicted to drugs, as a means to find relief from the pain of surgery and cope with her cancelled tour. The song is written about this addiction. Gaga's vocals are purposefully slurred throughout - she appears intoxicated even while singing it and it is all layered on top of a simple, minimal production. The result is a hugely divisive number about pain, addiction, loss and hopelessness.

 

Here is what Gaga said about the song: So, then you sort of get to the sad, end part of that story; which is that I became really addicted to marijuana. I know that sounds kind of crazy, because people think you can’t be addicted to it, but I guess I wanted to, kind of be honest about it because, I think a lot of people think you can’t be, and I started to use it as a coping mechanism for my anxiety and I’d smoke like fifteen to twenty joints a day — just numbing numbing numbing my body, my spirit - everything; and, eventually it makes you even more paranoid and sweaty, and kind of, worse than you were before you started smoking; and, I lived high for like a whole year, doing that — maybe a little longer. And, it was really hard for people around me to see me in kind of a withdrawn state all the time — even if I was creating, and I was happy making music and doing what I did — it was hard for them to talk to me, and y’know I’m usually like, a really articulate person, and I wasn’t so articulate anymore, and I was just kind of — not really *there* all the time. So, I wrote this song as an, “I’m sorry,” to all the people in my life that I really love — is that I’m sorry to my fans, to my boyfriend, to my parents, and I sing at the end, “that I need you more than dope” — and that’s the truth. So, here’s “Dope,” from ARTPOP.

Oh is 11 considered as top 10 because no.1 is considered a separate entity to the top 10 now?? That means Girls Aloud never missedthr top 10 and neither did the Spicy Ones!!!

 

| 11 // Dope // 6.64

Slash reflects on momentarily dying after drug overdose

 

https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/slash-reflects...-drug-overdose/

:magic:

 

SO happy Dope is top 10 even if it deserves even higher.

 

MANICURE is great too. I used to really dislike it but it's grown into a favourite now. Far too low for it too :drama:

Ooh great to see Dope in top ten and Manicure #11, correct order!

Sometimes I'm scared, I suppose

 

 

| 09 // Do What U Want (feat. R. Kelly) // 7.00

 

The second single, it was chosen after the big reaction it received upon being released as a promotional single. A synthing, R&B number, dealing with Gaga's treatment by the media: including those claiming the singer to be a hermaphrodite, gaining weight in 2012, her drug addiction and more. On January 10th, 2019, Gaga singer confessed her regret about working with Kelly, explaining that her thinking was "explicitly twisted" and that she had "poor judgement" at that time. Gaga vowed to support women who had been through abuse and by the next day had the track removed from iTunes and all streaming services. It has since been largely forgotten about in her back catalogue and has taken a complete nose-dive in popularity, including here!

 

Here is what Gaga said about the song: The lyrics are not only about, you know, the way that I feel now — sexually as a woman, in my life — it’s kind of like one of the greatest gifts you can give to a man, that you love, is just like, “Do what you want with me, I don’t care.” And then, at the same time, it’s about the press and the media, and it’s about becoming more and more famous, and really needing to figure out a way to — in my mind — to handle all of those things, and I’ve really, kind of navigated all of that by knowing that: they do what they want with my body — but that’s just the vehicle for my music and my records — but my mind and my heart, that’s what I get to keep, that’s the part that’s sacred, that’s what they can never have. ... you know, a lot of people write a lot of lies about me all the time, and a lot of people kind of write about [R. Kelly] all the time; so, we really really connected with this song, and it became like an emotional experience for me.

Great song regardless of what happened.

This song would surely reach #1 on the Hot 100 and would be one of the biggest hits of 2014, radio really said: just give us the video, Gaga.

The ninth position is of course result of the whole saga. I just cannot listen to the original with same ears any more.

A potential winner had it not been for the controversy!!

This song would surely reach #1 on the Hot 100 and would be one of the biggest hits of 2014, radio really said: just give us the video, Gaga.

 

This!!

Such a good song.

Wow 'Do What U Want' really tanked here, but I get why. Sadly the Xtina version didn't replicate the smoothness of the original very effectively :(

Let's blast off to a new dimension (in your bedroom)

 

 

| 08 // Venus // 7.02

 

Following the second single, we now lose what was initially intended to be the second single! It instead had to settle for only being the album's first promotional single. It was the final song to be produced for the album (done by Gaga herself alongside Madeon) and was inspired by "The Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli which is also included on the album cover. The song is about Venus, the Roman goddess of love, the planet, and sexual intercourse - all combined together in a chaotic few minutes that sends you to space quite literally. DJ White Shadow recently revealed that this is the song that Gaga plays to "get her hyped".

 

Here is what Gaga said about the song: "Venus" is the first song that I’ve done that I’ve produced myself. I did work on it a little bit with Madeon, he did some co-production, but this is really like: my record. And this song is, a hybrid of a couple different things. One of those things is Venus, the goddess of love, as we know in Roman and Greek mythology; and then, it’s also about the planets. So, this song is about faith, but it’s also about finding faith in other places — in the beyond — and, my experience with love being something that took me a really long time to find. So, it’s really psychedelic, and it really takes you on a journey, and I sampled Sun-Ra, “Rocket Number Nine,” which was later re-done by a French group, Zombie Zombie. So I kind of got this, a lot of different inspiration from the sort of futuristic-disco-meets-late-70s and jazz and this really kind of gooey deep-groove, and I spent a lot of time working on that bassline, making it just what I wanted it to be. (...) So, this song’s really about sex, but it’s about sex in the most mythological way.

Venus way too low. Shenanigans!

It's.. an experience

 

I will never forget the live performances of the song The X Factor one in particular