On August 19, 2008 a unique musician exploded onto the music scene when she released her debut album The Fame. Almost a year later on November 18, 2009 Lady Gaga released her second studio album containing eight new songs as a follow up to The Fame, she called it The Fame Monster. The eight songs were initially intended to be part of a re-released version of The Fame but Gaga announce that the songs were going to be a new album, not a re-release, because the songs represents a separate musical body of work and it did not need the songs of The Fame to support it. Another reason she gave was because she thought it would be too expensive for her fans to re-buy ‘The Fame’ for an additional eight songs.
The first album The Fame was made so anyone could feel like a famous celebrity. It showed the good side of fame but The Fame Monster dealt with the darker side, the bad side of fame, that Gaga experienced after her first album made her a superstar. She used monster as a metaphor for the less glittering side of fame.
The first song is also the first single, the title is Bad Romance. After the release of this song it quickly became a hit, like every other Lady Gaga single. The other songs are all very similar and pop-y, after I purchased this album I was a little disappointed in what I heard. I only really liked two songs. The other songs were just okay and I felt a little disappointed because the first album, The Fame, was so wonderful and the follow up was just okay. The songs aren’t profound and they don’t always seem to make since but they’re catchy and interesting and that’s how pop songs go.
Overall, The Fame Monster is defiantly not the most original or the best album made but it defiantly has character and is filled with everything that makes a pop song great.
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