From Rihanna to FKA Twigs, these artists defined a decade.
. Its first single and title track became a mission statement for the pop icon's entire career, normalizing the LGBTQ experience on a world stage and, most importantly, putting the word"transgender" on Top 40 radio.
This celebration introduced her 2011 epic, which packed together themes of youth, rebellion and freedom inside production that bridged the distant gap between Bruce Springsteen Americana and seedy Berlin electronic.
's deep cuts where Gaga unleashed her strangest, most intricately coiled concepts."Heavy Metal Lover" and"Government Hooker," two standouts, saw shiny metallic synths and grinding, machine-like bass get layered beneath twisted lyrics only Gaga could conceive:"I want your whiskey mouth all over my blonde south," she demands on one."I'm gonna drink my tears tonight," she confesses on the other.
Then there's a hair metal-broadway baby hybrid , an ominous guitar-led hook-up song with church bells , a ferocious dance cut where Gaga purposefully butchers the German language on beat , and an eerie, melodic pop-opera with cultish chants and Gaga's piercing shrill . While music trends are typically ripped from the biggest stars and repeated ad nauseam, nothing has come close to sounding likesince its release nearly 10 years ago. And that's because nobody could possibly replicate the oddities that boil inside Gaga's brain, especially from a time when she was consistently unleashing some of the most provocative visuals, songs and ideas into mainstream pop culture.
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