Lady Gaga's Fame Monster - the GREATEST Pop Era ever?
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- In 2009, with the release of the Fame Monster and its' three huge hit singles, Lady Gaga solidified her place as the biggest popstar in the world, and arguably the most significant since MJ and Madonna in the 80s.
With the release of 'the Fame' at the end of '08 and its re-issue 'the Fame Monster' a year later, Gaga dominated international airwaves & captured the media and the public’s imagination with her fearless performances and shocking style.
So just how did she do it? What was the original plan for the Bad Romance promo? Why did the producer of Telephone have to re-work Beyonce’s part? And why did Gaga grow to dislike the track and video? Which song from the album did her label want to be the third single? Who exactly came up with the idea for the meat dress? This mini-documentary explores these questions and more.
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00:00 Introduction
00:58 Legacy of Record
03:19 Background of Record
04:49 Bad Romance
07:26 Bad Romance Video
10:26 Telephone
11:54 Telephone Video
15:17 Alejandro
16:18 Dance in the Dark
17:04 Speechless
17:33 The Meat Dress
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I feel lucky to have lived this era. No popstar nowadays has reached this level of iconic
Damn right
YESSS! 😍😍😍😍😍🏳🌈🏳🌈🏳🌈
Same!
Plenty have before though. You all act is if Gaga is the utmost original.
@@bucknaked905they literally said nowadays not ever… and who even brought up originality? 😒
Gaga was EVERYWHERE during this time. You could not escape her, even if you tried. I remember even my cousins in West Africa knew her despite barely having access to internet and international TV. Her fashion, music, controversies and talent worked so well. The explosion of social media and the digital age also helped in making her a mega star. Her name is literally Lady Gaga. It doesn't get anymore iconic.
Truly international 😀
Oh PLEASE. Madonna did all this way back when without the help of social media. You kids are hilarious.
@@bucknaked905 All this? Don't know what u're talking about. Envy affairs i guess. Even MDNA started hatred towards Gaga because she saw the genius before her eyes with actual gift from God, and not fabricated off of the entire eroticism and lip-synching. For your info she also used the sexual revolution to her profit, so... Social media won't help you if you don't have what it takes, u know.
@@bucknaked905 Not you showing your age, loooool. Social Media just made Gaga's impact even stronger. Cry about it.
@@madhijkoite6340 Age has nothing to do with it. Her impact is but a ripple compared to the massive impact of Madonna who changed the world. Gaga just tried to re-hash all that. YAWN.
Gaga truly was a trailblazer. The most culturally significant artist of this century.
Yep I agree 😀
The hype after bad romance for her next video 'telephone' was so big at the time. The telephone video release was such a huge moment. People were like hanging off their seats at the time. Such a moment.
it was a moment 🙌
Gaga reached the level of fame and status that rock legends from the 70s, Motown artists in the 60s and Pop artists from the 80s have worked for their entire careers in 1 era
well said 👍
She was very famous but not on the level of Madonna in the 80s, Spicemania, or Britney. The fame is biggest after that with 1989 era and Teenage Dream era
This was also during early youtube time and everyday people were uploading her TV performances and interviews from around the world in every language. She had something new to wear at every single outing we were all glued to the screen.
Gaga made everything an event.
My god I was sooooo hooked on Gaga during this era! She was everywhere and she was everything! When I was in high school she dropped the Telephone video and I remember walking past a lot of computers with students all watching the video during their break or even during class, a cultural reset!
A cultural reset - exactly!!
Gaga's The Fame Monster Era reinvigorated the concept of the "event music video" which was made popular by the likes of Michael Jackson & Madonna back in the 80s & 90s.
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Lady Gaga Album was one of my first tattoos. People today don’t know how iconic it was for us when she first came out. She was EVERYWHERE.
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Fame Monster Gaga was born at the 2009 VMAs, after that bloody performance her imagery and music took a darker turn. I remember very vividly when Dance in the Dark leaked, it sounded so different... I didn't know her label intended to release it as a single, they were right, this song is far superior to Alejandro. I've never forgiven her for not giving us a video of this masterpiece.
Watching this video made me realize the Art Pop concept was redundant. The whole "put art back in pop" idea had already been done in her previous albums, there was no need to reaffirm herself as the bold artist she was, everyone saw it.
oh that's an interesting take on Artpop
Exactly, when I saw her perform I was scared of it for a couple days but then I realized that the blood wasn’t real and that performance was a big deal. If the Kanye thing never happened then that performance would’ve been talked about more the day after the VMAs.
Dance in the Dark takes me back in time such a simple time 😭🥰
my exact thoughts on artpop as well
As an older 😂pop consumer who forever thinks 1986 to 1992 was peak pop ..30 something me lived for how 2008 to 2012 was such a pop cultural reset! Scary to think it’s been so long already tho! 👴
Anyone who came up 2008-2012 and is still going is now a music veteran/old timer.
Unfortunately now we’re not even back where we started, but waay under
Gaga was an enigma when she first came out. She seemed superhuman.
yeah she seemed otherworldly
She still is
She still is. Her lyrics, musicallity, her range, i mean, she can sang multiple genre, can wrote an amazing lyrics, play instrument, can act. And the most important, the ICONIC
Bad Romance also managed to become the most viewed video on UA-cam for a short period of time in 2010, and the first video to surpass 200 Million views
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The Fame Monster changed my life, i was just a kid and was being educated on fashion, clubkid culture, synthpop and electro music, it told me not only it was ok to be weird and artistic but it was cool and i should push myself towards it, when christians and conservatives attack us so much it takes someone really brave to fight for us and that was gaga for me, it inspired me to fight for myself. There's never going to be a new gaga.
Great to hear it made such a positive impression on you. Gaga was really brave for being the artist she was - she could have been less political and inoffensive and had an easier life for herself.
I was in high school during this era. I actually remember coming back to school after Christmas break and everyone was talking about the Bad Romance video.
she definitely got everyone talking back then
@@jonnyharvey yes freshman year was was the paparazzi performance at the VMAS happened and then the next year was when she wore the meat dress what a time
Hell yeah, more Gaga content! LET'S GOOOOO
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THE LAST BIG POP STAR.
Sadly very true
Nah, there will be more dw :)
2009 was when I became a Little Monster because of Lady Gaga’s Paparazzi performance at the VMAs.
that was a spectacular performance. Genuinely jaw-dropping.
This Era changed the music scene forever, Gaga will always be a LEGEND, no matter what you might think of her, she is a true artist in every sense of the word.
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I see Bad Romance and Cant Get You Out of My Head as the 2 stand out pop songs of this century- and very similar in many ways- iconic video, icy electronic, killer choreography, futuristic soundscape and a powerful female presence...totally unforgettable and ahead of their time.
I guess they do have a lot in common
Ironically neither were number 1 hits in the US but were number 1 everywhere else
I would add toxic from Britney Spears too
I’ve been a Monster for 14 years; I appreciate this little walk down memory lane. As well as my favorite era. Yet I have one issue with it. You mentioned her other middle name (Angelina) yet not her more famous one: Joanne.
Sorry my mistake - for some reason I thought Angelina was her second name . I completely blanked on Joanne being her second name. Sorry. There are a lot of details which go into the video. I slipped on one
No sweat! I’m gonna share this with my other Monster friends to strike up conversation about the era. It’s my favorite, and the one that got me through a rough time in high school. Looking forward to your next Gaga video!
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There haven't been any artists since Gaga. All these newer pop stars are so lazy compared to past pop stars like Gaga, Katy Perry, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, etc.
True. Alot of artists do a lot of stuff but there is no thought behind it. There's always meaning behind every detail of everything Gaga does.
Literally artist now a days dont dance dont do anythin but sing ig its good but like gaga was literally one of the last truly iconic artist
So true. But who knows maybe there will be a popstar in the future who will bring that theatrical thing to pop music
Katy Perry didn’t really have that long of a run 😭
@@Only4_janettThey do dance though. 😭
"In B.G. times, that's Before Gaga times"
I'm using this for now on 😂
it's such a dad joke!!
I love Dance in the dark! I really wish it would have been a single. I saw her Fame ball tour which was magical. 🤩💫
it nearly was. I wonder what she would have done for the video. I guess we'll never know......
Liked and subscribed. I was absolutely fixated and obsessed with Lady Gaga during The Fame Monster era. She radically altered herself and her voice became more deep and operatic. She made music videos epic again. The other top of the pop stars felt this shift in pop culture and changed to the new standard set by Gaga. A true, talented icon and chameleon in pop culture.
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This era of Gaga and pop music really changed the music and performance scene for the better! Little Monster for Life!
Gaga is one in a lifetime . We are lucky to have her and be blessed to live in a Gaga world . ❤
So true - a once in a generation kind of superstar
Lady Gaga is an icon, I've been buying her albums from the beginning until today, she's part of my life. ♥
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This and Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream era are my Top 2 eras of all time, and we got them IN THE SAME YEAR
we didn't realise how good things were - it's been all downhill ever since
It's a fact that GAGA changed the pop culture and pop music at that time. She elevated the music industry so high that people stepped up their game. It's like that meme where the pop girlies were dressed with boring and bad choices of clothing.
Just Dance
Bad Romance
Poker Face
Telephone
Paparazzi
Alejandro
LoveGame
were all MASSIVE songs. cultural significant songs that will forever live on
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I reckon she will have another era this iconic
she'll have the biggest comeback!!
let's hope so 🤞
gaga and p!nk were literally my childhood, seen them EVERYWHERE!!!
Two legends 🙌🙌
I still remember the day the video came out - my entire flat rang in late to work to watch it together and from the opening "woaaAahhh ohhhh" we all fucking LOST IT.
At the end we all looked around at each other grinning our fucking heads off and my flatmate said "I think we just watched this generations 'Thriller'"
Absolutely fucken magical
That’s so cool - thanks for sharing 😀
Love the video. Please keep doing more GAGA
Thanks 😀
The VMA 2010 Meat Dress is SO ICONIC...I MISS THESES TIMES ON POP CULTURE😢❤
Truly iconic - even my grandparents were talking about it
Looking back, with a critical eye, it's rather stagger what she acheived
Her rise to the top was meteoric.
I feel like no one will come close to what Lady Gaga did during The Fame Monster, not even Gaga herself
she set the bar so high
Gaga grabbed Pop culture by the balls and made it her bitch!
There won't be another era as flawless as The Fame/Monster
Agreed 😀
Such a really great analysis. Lady Gaga is a true legend. The best and most complete female artist of this generation. ❤️
Thank you 😀
I liked "The Fame Monster," but I love love LOVED "The Fame." It was magical to witness and experience in real time. 😎⚡
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im soooo grateful to have been able to experience this era in real time. fame/fame monster era was the best time ive ever had with pop music
Gaga absolutely did not fell off
She did. She started flopping after her second album.
@@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024 BTW is one of the fastest-selling and most influential albums of all time, so whats your point?
@@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024 after TFM she made some of the most awarded and recognizable songs of this generation. She is NOT familiar with the word "flopping".
@@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024"After her second album" she had the second best selling album of the year WW behind Adele's 21... How's that flopping? 😅
@@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024You like to think that 😊
Amazing era and an amazing artist. RedOne handled the melodies whilst Gaga branded herself with exceptional lyrics and concepts. What a duo.
Yes they had such great chemistry. There are just some musical pairings that work. I hope they collaborate again😀
So proud to be a Little Monster ❤
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She is amazing! Nobody can be like her . Her music is incredible ,her style is super incredible. I admire her so much 💖 ❤️❤️
Me too - I’m a Gaga Stan for life 😀😀
It was INDEED the last hurrah of POP, 2009 for me is the Last and BEST Year for this Genre and Bad Romance solidifies her name as a Legend along with Michael Jackson... Long Live GAGA!
I think so - it felt like we were witnessing MJ level greatness
@@jonnyharvey Great content sir! I've already watched you video about "Why Pop Music is Dying", very insightful and full of history! Thank you for nostalgia, history, business, and music lessons sir!
There's a reason why a lot of global media outlets also cite Gaga as the world's last true global 360 star. Her impact since her career debut is insane, and it's so rare for an entertainer nowadays to sustain that type of impact in different industries.
The fame monster and teenage dream really were the last great pop eras sadly I mean of course you have dua lipa future nostalgia and taylor swift midnights but they haven't reached the level of 2000s pop music were every single and music video was inescapable I guess the internet killed big pop moments as no one buys magazines, watches tv, big celebrity commercials, award show ratings have declined as no one tunes in anymore to watch performances, and instead of listening to the radio people just go to spotify sticking to their playlist
Chromatica without COVID 19...
the internet changed music forever
Midnights is definitely THE era for the swifties. I don't think locals would understand the significance of that era not only for us, but for Taylor as well. 1989 is UP THERE with Katy's TD and Gaga's TFM though
I consider the fame and the fame monster as one era as the fame monster was an ep/a re release of the fame with deluxe tracks on a b side disk. I love this era. It was everything
2009 Gaga was so wonderful 😎⚡
i remember being a kid during gaga’s prime me & my best friend used to listen to her songs all the time great memories
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Oooh I can remeber waiting for new music video.... and VMAs. I also saw one of her The Fame Monster tour.
Recently I watched Gossip Girl for the first time (shame on me I know) and I saw THE episode with Gaga and I started crying.
It’s a really cool performance
Ps this channel is everything ! Getting to relive these eras with the details that have often been lost to time is amazing ! Thank you 🎉
thank you - that's so nice to hear 😀
Great video! ❤ And the bloopers… you are so adorable!
Thank you 🙏
Wowwwww amazing premise I'm on board!
_a star is born_
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thank you. thank you so much for making this.
Cheers - no problem 😀😀
Oh we love U for this. Ur videos are amazing 😻
Thank you 😀😀
It still shocked me that The Fame was part of a bigger game plan and narrative which lead to The Fame Monster. Who could have known?
It's a shame she doesn't like Telephone much. It must be hard for an artists to have a huge song, and a big part of that be because of someone else. I wonder if Rain On Me will suffer the same fate.
I really like your shirt! 💕
Cheers - thanks. I got in half price from A Days’s March 😀 Yeah I hope she doesn’t grow to dislike Rain on Me- I love that song
Very well explained! Loved it
Thanks 😀
you should do a Gaga vs Katy career since all the katy fans want to be disrespectful. Katy won some battles but gaga clearly won the war.
ok... sounds like you're still bothered by some bullshit beef
OMG YESS
I'd agree on that. Gaga has sold way more albums, way more critically acclaimed. And her last album was a UK & US no 1.
Do they? I'm sure it's a fraction of her fans and a thing of the past.
Gaga is a Oscar Winner
Katy?😂😂😂😂
I love your Lady Gaga content! Would love one on Born This Way and with the ARTPOP 10th Anniversary coming in November, I'd love to see your take on that era too because our girl was really going through it🥺
thank you - I love Gaga but the videos take so long cause Gaga covers so much ground
We cant help but stan. A Star WAS born
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thank you Love it !
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Screensaver mode in the bloopers, gets me every time! 🤩
I think I spend a lot of my life in screensaver mode
I’m just getting into pop music and lady Gaga’s career and even before listening I knew this album was iconic. Very nostalgic, good video
thanks 😀
Yeah I was also round this same time to, and I must admit i also liked listening to her songs too
No one did it like Gaga. Artists will have to do so much more to do what Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Gaga did.
Agreed 👍
I love the way you refer to her as her ladyship it’s so fitting
Agreed 😀
thanks man!
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The Bloopers at the end always have me gagging 😂😂😂😂
oh that's good 😀😀
Yass loved how you gave her justice sorry for the last comment you know your shit. Keep up the good work. ❤❤❤❤
it's fine - don't worry, thank you
Out of all of lady gaga songs bad romance is my favorite song
Great era! This was Gaga at her pinnacle. She set the bar so high that the expectations for her next album were really huge. It's a bit sad "Born This Way" didn't do as well, even though it was still a commercial success.
IMHO BTW was a great album but it didn't have anything as brilliant as Bad Romance or Pokerface
GAGA FOR PRESIDENT!!! I still stick to that line ;-0
She has never been able to recapture this sort of era,she has tried but the acting seems to have taken over.
I think she’s kinda disheartened by the music 😢
She did good stuff with RedOne
Who is able to "recapture" Your own peak? 😂 I never see this type of critics with other artists, onlu with Gaga. If seems that if a Gaga album isn't as big a TFM, she fell off or she's a flop.
i cant forget that time gaga concert here in the Philippines, she was bombarded by street rallies upon arrival
I think I read about that
@@jonnyharvey yeah she will never forget that concert so many people are rallying particularly from the religious org. Demanding not to continue the concert
Yes ❤
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havent watched the video, but IT IS A YES , definitely
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I love your Videos ♥️ but why only 480p 😭
Which video? I edit all videos in 1080p & virtually all footage I use is 1080p.
It is the Greatest pop era ever... Period
I agree 😀
Lady Gaga was the last big American pop star. Her first 2 albums changed pop culture forever.
And the rest of album have impacted too. All of them
She does seem to be the last great superstar
this is my favorite era of her
Mine too
The shirt you are wearing in this video is awesome, where is it from ?;)
And Gaga ❤
It's 'A Day's March' - I got it in a sale a few years back.
SHES THEE MUTHAF**KIN GOAT ✨
Commenters are saying Teenage Dream is better and I do agree, however TFM was 10x more original and exciting _at the time_ in my humble opinion. She brought so much excitement back to pop music that was missing after a decade of R'n'B and rock. Videos barely had dancers let alone 8+ minute dramas like Paparazzi and Telephone. Her older albums haven't aged well though - TD is far easier to listen to in 2023 than TFM, BTW or AP.
yeah I agree with most of that except the last part but everyone hears music differently so that's cool. Bloody Mary did go viral on tik-tok. Maybe I would feel they sounded dated too if I listened to more current music which I don't
I love GAGA so much - icon 💯💘
Can you make a video breakdown of Nicki Minaj? 🦄
I have just uploaded one that's partly about Nicki. I don't know that much about her tbh. If I do a video on her, what angle should I take?
Her best videos came from this album
I agree
As a Roisin Murphy fan I was incredibly bitter throughout the entirety of Lady Gaga's early career. It felt like she watched Overpowered's campaign play out and went "Now let's give that a budget!" But I digress. I actually really like the base album The Fame, but the Fame Monster never did it for me. I've never liked the post-chorus chant refrain epidemic that Bad Romance started, on top of that. I just think Paparazzi and Boys, Boys, Boys are 10000000x better individually than everything on TFM combined. But that's really more a testament to how amazing I think those two songs are lol.
yeah Gaga was definitely inspired by Roisin Murphy amongst many others.
remember when Bad Romance and Telephone was competing for VMA Video of the Year..it was Gaga vs Herself
The answer is YES
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You're very adorable. I love your channel. Hugs from Utah.
Awh, thank you 😀
I waiting for a born this way era video
Oh god- that would take forevvvver!!
I've said it a hundred times and will continue to say it: The early 2010s were the last greatest era!
It was a great era. How things went downhill afterwards
I don't understand the need to compare Madonna and Gaga.
They're both queens, both had their time. the world is big and full of space for more than 1 queen.
yes people need to stop pitting them against one another. There are lots of distinct differences between the two.
Amen 🛐
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What is it with all these guys commenting about Teenage Dream? Idk about America but in Europe Katy Perry finished after Roar
I mean chained to the Rythm did alright
Dark Horse was definitely big in Europe. Chained to the Rythm and Feels, kinda. And Swiss Swiss and Never Really Over were ok.
@@rao803exactly those were all hits everywhere but they feel the need to erase her💀💀
Bad romance, tiktok, firework, we found love - what an era
I know - it went down hill soon after
Answer: YES
I agree 😀
I thought Tick Tock by Kesha blocked Bad Romance from going number 1?
yes because it was the bigger song!
@@avpz omg imagine being this r worded!
It was not the bigger song. At the time, UA-cam views didn't count toward Billboard Hot 100 points, Bad Romance was the biggest UA-cam video of all time in 2009 and 2010, TikTok only had a slight lead inn digital sales and radio points. Bad Romance was the bigger song and overall 15-years later.@@avpz
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