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Can't wait to buy this :)

 

Whats the difference between the 2CD Edition and the digipack?

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Can't wait to buy this :)

 

Whats the difference between the 2CD Edition and the digipack?

 

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UK Deluxe 2CD UK only, only the UK gets 'Again Again'.

 

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International Digipack 2CD

Limited edition, same tracklisting internationally.

PopJustice.com: right – so we've heard Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster and it's a pretty astonishing piece of work. Lyrically, sonically, melodically and conceptually it's right up there with its predecessor The Fame, with a definite feel of things moving in a new direction.

 

We know a lot of you are thinking that this is just a cash-in reissue of The Fame with a few tracks chucked on. It's not that at all – this is a collection of songs in its own right. When you buy this you will not be buying The Fame again in order to get at a couple of extra songs – you'll be buying a new album which just so happens to have a copy of The Fame in the same box.

 

If it helps make sense of things, imagine purchasing The Fame Monster 2-disc set then throwing the The Fame CD away. In fact that is what you should actually do when you get this. Throw The Fame out of the window. The Fame Monster is a real album with its own personality.

 

In brief: Eight tracks. Four potential singles. No $h!t songs. Here's a track by track:

 

Bad Romance

"Poker Face" reinvented. Can you believe that some people have said that this song sounds too much like "Poker Face"? As if anything could sound too much like one of the best songs of 2008/09? It would be like saying 'the problem with this restaurant is that the food is too nice and too reasonably priced', or 'the problem with this hat is that it makes me look too attractive'. Now imagine wearing an amazing hat in the world's best restaurant. THAT IS WHAT THIS SONG IS LIKE.

 

Alejandro

It sounds like this. And by 'this' we mean an amazing romantic post-Italotronic triumph.

 

Monster

Opens with snatches of dialogue ('Don't call me Gaga', 'I've never seen one like that before', 'Don't look at me like that') then launches into a story of Gaga pulling a "wolf in disguise". The chorus is a big chant of "that boy is a monster, that boy is a monster" and there are some 'Just Dance'-isms along the way too. There's a great breakdown for the middle eight: "I wanna just dance but he took me home instead, uh-oh there was a monster in my bed, we French kissed on a subway train, he tore my clothes right off, he ate my heart and then he ate my brain".

 

So Happy I Could Die

A mid-tempo number with some Tiesto-esque ravey bits, some references to The Act Of Masturbation, and a chorus lyric "happy in the club with a bottle of red wine, stars in our eyes 'cos we're having a good time, so happy I could die". Not a single but an important part of the whole 'Fame Monster' thing.

 

Speechless

At one point this was a big piano ballad but since Ron Fair's production has been added it's more along the lines of a 'Starman' or an 'All The Young Dudes'-type affair. This is the track about Gaga's father and it seems to be written from Gaga's mother's point of view. By the time the second verse comes around there seem to be strong hints of booze ("I can't believe how you looked at me with your Johnnie Walker eyes", "raise a glass to mend all the broken hearts" etc) so it seems this is the 'Fear Of Alcohol Monster' Gaga previously mentioned. The chorus is "I'll never talk again, oh boy you've left me speechless / I'll never love again, oh friend you've left me speechless" and one of the best bits finds Gaga singing "after all the boys and the girls that we've been through, would you give it all up if I promised boy to you that I'll never talk again, and I'll never love again, I'll never write a song, or even sing along…" This is a massive, massive ballad which doesn't sound like anything else you've heard from Lady Gaga and could do for her what 'Beautiful' did for Christina Aguilera. At the very least, it's a good lighters-aloft live anthem.

 

Dance In The Dark

The chorus to this is amazing – imagine RedOne to the next level with a massive emotionally-charged synth riff chucked in along the way. Actually the everything to this is amazing, it opens with the words "silicone, saline, poison, inject me" and the arms-aloft, four-to-the-floor chorus is a chant of "baby loves to dance in the dark, cos when he's looking she falls apart." There's another line about "she looks good but her boyfriend says she's a tramp" – it seems to be about women who are marginalised or who are in (mentally?) abusive relationships. We may have totally missed the point of this song, and if so 'apols' in advance.

Best bit: an almost pant-wettingly excellent, 'Vogue'-style rap breakdown in which Gaga lets rip: "Marilyn, Judy, Sylvia, tell them how you feel girls [something we couldn't quite make out] hot like Liberace, find your freedom in the music, find your Jesus, find your cutie, you will never fall apart Diana, you're still in our hearts, never let you fall apart, together we'll dance in the dark". AMAZING.

 

Telephone

A song about being pestered by someone on the phone when you're trying to have a dance in a nitespot. It's a little bit like Gwen's 'What You Waiting For?' meets Timbaland's 'The Way I Are' meets about fifty other things. "I cannot text you with a drink in my hand," Gaga notes at one point. The structure's quite exciting: quiet harpy intro / "kinda busy, k-kinda busy" bridge as beat kicks in / verse / chorus ("stop calling, stop calling, I don't wanna talk any more") / postchorus bit / 'The Way I Are'-style rap / Beyonce rap ("should have left my phone at home cos this is a disaster") / breakdown verse / "kinda busy" bridge / chorus / another bit / 'The Way I Are' rap bit / extra 'My Humps'-esque (but not really) "my telephone! My telephone!" outro, then "we're sorry, the number you have reached is not in service" operator message. We love Beyonce insisting that some bellend on the other end of the phone won't make her get her coat any faster. Bonus fact: The guest vocalist on this was going to be someone else, but then the guest vocalist wanted to put the song on her own greatest hits album, so Lady Gaga made alternative arrangements.

 

Teeth

A wobbly, stompy, bouncy marching song. Opens with a "don't want no money, just want your sex" line, includes lots of chanting of "Show me your teeth! Show me your teeth!", and a foray into Black Betty territory.

 

That's all from one listen – this album has loads more to give up from repeated plays and we can't wait to get stuck in properly. "Monster" and "Bad Romance" have elements of "Just Dance" and "Poker Face" but these seem like knowing nods back in the direction of "The Fame", while other songs – "Dance In The Dark", "Teeth" hint at what lies ahead for the next, third Lady Gaga album.

 

 

guess Britney missed out on the guest role :kink: im glad its Beyone tho!

Edited by Nate88

Just found this on a site...

 

Lady Gaga was interviewed on the Elvis Duran AM show on Z100 this morning. In the interview she said that she will release at least 4 singles of "The Fame Monster"

Fo reals? :blink: I'm not sure that she'll get away with that. She realistically has a second, or maybe third, single before people want a proper new album.
I reckon she could get away with releasing one more single after Bad Romance. It's pointless releasing 4 singles because the album is gonna sell bucketloads.

It's a new era though. I'm sure The Fame Monster is gonna be good, even Popjustice said there are four more potential singles, so three more should be ok... :unsure:

 

It means the 'proper' second album should come out next year around Sep-Nov!

• Unzipped.net reviews “The Fame Monster” •

 

“Get dressed and come outside,” I hear my friend—we’ll call him DJ Gaga—say over my phone. “I’m down the street, I’ve got a copy of Lady Gaga’s new album The Fame Monster in the car.” CLICK. I wake up Steve (the husband), we toss on some gym clothes, groggily stumble out of the house and into DJ’s car. Needless to say, this is something we’re dying to hear.

 

DJ hasn’t been to sleep since last night’s gig, which is why he’s waking us up, but since random $h!t like this happens to Steve and I all the time (like crashing the Kylie Minogue after-party in LA—what?) we’re not too flustered. We just pile into DJ’s pimped-out BMW and head toward Santa Monica, going with the flow.

 

 

“Don’t want to kiss, don’t want to touch, just smoke one cigarette and run…”

 

DJ skips “Bad Romance” because everyone’s heard that song and starts with “Alejandro,” a Spanishy dance track that’s unlike anything from The Fame, with touches of ABBA and Euro-pop mixed in. I’m not quite sure what it was about (still waking up) but she doesn’t want Ale… Ale… Alejandro to call her name, and I’m pretty sure there’s a Fernando, and maybe a Roberto or Gilberto mixed in too. Or maybe we’d just passed too many roll taco stands and I was feeling noshy. The song was, however, crystal clear and doesn’t start like the odd versions you hear on YouTube, proving that DJ has come through once more.

 

“He ate my heart and then he ate my brain…”

 

“Monster” is the next song where she’s talking about a boy who is, duh, a monster. I know they French kissed on a subway train, then he did all that eating. It’s another crazy dance track but I doubt it’s going to be one of the main singles.

 

“Speechless” is next and it’s quite different from any of Gaga’s other music. At times personal and painful, at other points reflective. It’s like “Brown Eyes” on The Fame, but bigger in both production and emotion. She’s speaking about some kind of close relationship, and where so many of her songs tend to be about having fun this feels largely based in the real world.

 

“She’s a tramp, she’s a vamp…”

 

By the time we reach Westwood we’re at “Dance in the Dark,” another fun tune with a lot of sex to it. At one point Gaga starts riffing off people’s names like Madonna did in “Vogue,” and I had this sudden vision of queens on a dance floor shouting along in unison. I’d mock them but I have no doubt Steve and I will be riffing along ourselves.

 

“Telephone” is another track… Are you f***ing kidding me??? Single #2. For sure.

 

“So Happy I Could Die” has Gaga asking you to meet her in a bar with a bottle of red wine.

 

“Teeth” is a hard song with heavy beats that make you want to bounce around to the rhythm and pump your arms in the air… until you realize you’re almost 40 and worry that you’re starting to look tragic, so instead you bop around until the cocktails have kicked in and then you don’t care what anyone thinks and start pumping your arms in the air again. Steve described it as, “One of those songs Wade Robeson will do some kind of stomping/python/swaying dance number on So You Think You Can Dance.” Truth.

 

Album finished, Steve and I return home (BTW, in good traffic the album can take you from Hollywood to Santa Monica and back). We thank DJ, then spend the rest of the weekend talking about what we heard. The whole album is bigger—with more confidence in Gaga’s singing and definitely more production backing from the studio. Of course it’s coming out just in time for the holidays, but can you fault the girl for being a smart business woman? Besides, The Fame Monster [Deluxe Edition] is worth the money. Where most re-releases toss on a couple songs that were castoffs from the previous album, this is a whole different album. It’s inspired by The Fame but doesn’t imitate it, and takes listeners on a new journey that they’ll be dancing along to well after the holidays.

According to gagadaily.com

 

"Alejandro" and "Dance In The Dark" will be released as digital singles from The Fame Monster in November. . GagaDaily will exclusively announce which song will become the second single next week.

 

So Alejandrao or DITD won't be the 2nd single? :huh:

 

Anyway here's their covers:

 

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:w00t: f***ing amazing covers!

 

Next singles are probably Telephone then Speechless... Wonder what the fourth will be :unsure:

Apparently both will be added to iTunes on November 10. Not sure if thats global or not.

 

Dont understand why they are doing this tbh. :huh:

I guess she's doing what BEP and Eminem did as well as a few others. But it confuses things for me.
Lady Gaga just announced on German TV that "Monster" will be an entirely new album, not a re-release! ^_^

Edited by AshDeluxe

they arent doing the release of the two songs on November 10 now...

 

cherrytreerec Lady Gaga's Alejandro & Dance in the Dark were going 2 b avail Nov 10 on iTunes but we weren't able to make it work. It's back to Nov 23rd.

 

cherrytreerec Lady Gaga's The Fame-Monster (The Fame album + 8 brand new songs including Bad Romance, Alejandro & Dance in the Dark) coming out on Nov 23.

Edited by Nate88

how has the album changed? the record label tweeted the above like 5mins ago...??

I've heard Gaga went nuts at her record label yesterday as they were wanting to charge an expensive amount that she didn't agree with for The Fame Monster.

 

How is it possible? These cds will be getting shipped out this week.

 

HMV have cds a week before release.

 

There is no way 1million albums can be produced and shipped in a week.

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