To touch on that Born This Way piss-fest I just missed, I just wanted to add a few notes:
- Bad Kids may have a pretty B-side chorus that hinders the package a great deal, but the verses and the complementary instrumental are smash-single-worthy. Actually, if the chorus was up to the par with the momentum presented in the verses (and that killer guitar riff in the background) then it could have been an anthem along the lines of Poker Face and Bad Romance. Unfortunately it was shoved in the middle of the listening experience where albums tend to get a bit mushy and stalled so understandably it's easy to peg it down to just a filler track. But I suggest that you all listen to it again (with earphones), and treat it like it was a heavily promoted single, and you'll BELIEVE in those verses. It took a long time for the song to hit me but when it did it motherfuckin' DID.
- Only recently did Electric Chapel finally jive with me on a major level. For so long I would just skip over that song but I was blasting it in the car a few weeks ago and it finally clicked with me. That thumping drum with her soothing, modern-Madonna-vocal layered over it... so sexy. It took me so long to realize that the song is about her trying to convert people into her cult, she's giving a tour of her own brand, saying that it's more meaningful than just "sex or champagne," but that even the more serious moments of her work are presented "under the disco ball." I love when a song is written intelligently using esoteric lyrics, and this song does it really well. Finally giving this song the credit it deserves.
- Government Hooker probably has the best vocals of her career layered on it, and I'm finding that a lot of my straight friends absolutely love this song. The biggest reason that I'm absolutely in love with Lady Gaga is because of her studio vocals. She knows how to engineer her voice to be cute, sexy, soprano-like or monotonous. Her voice was born to sing pop music and her vocals are especially impressive when bluntly making bold, successive statements. Government Hooker probably would not have been as successful a song if it was sung by another person.
