I've had that experience before with classical music that speaks to my soul on some level, to the point of an extreme and unexpected emotional reaction but this one really came out of left field.

I objectively respect Gaga as a vocalist, composer, performer, and think a lot of her shit is pure underrated artistic fucking genius - even with the pretentious/whacko delivery/lyrics - but it's still not necessarily music I like in terms of something I 'enjoy' listening to. Enjoyed her early shit that was more pop and lost a lot of interest when she went full artsy-fartsy, but then caught this on the radio while driving and it hit me like a tonne of fucking bricks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd_M9A5xFlY

I'm a big 80's synth pop fag so right up my alley, but her vocals make it fucking amazing. Also her 'coming back' down to Earth to do something like that gave me such an overwhelming feeling of relief it just insta-melted all built-up cynicism I ever had about getting any enjoyment from her music ever again. So many good vocalists have been 'forever lost' to some shitty genre I don't like during my lifetime that I have built up a lot of bad feels about what could have been, so this bright glimmer just crashed right through all that darkness.

>also, fuck Taylor Swift and comparisons, I don't give a shit and take everything on its own merits

barf. it's been a big week for satanic cannibal pederasts

>>126978132 (OP)
I've never had any artist move me to tears through music alone honestly. Through concerts and performances sure they've moved me with their passion, but never enough to make me too emotional. Also I agree that Gaga is a really good vocalist, certainly one of the best at this moment and her voice has gotten better with age. But if I'm being honest I just don't like her doing ballads at all. I would like her new album a lot more if she had omitted Vanish into You, Blade of Grass and Die with a Smile. HBDYWM is an outlier because the song is kinda like a pop power ballad, which her voice is much more suited for. I see a lot of Taylor comparisons, which I agree with somewhat, but let's be honest, Taylor does not have anywhere near the vocalist ability to sing that song.

>>126978157
fpbp

>>126978584
>Also I agree that Gaga is a really good vocalist, certainly one of the best at this moment and her voice has gotten better with age
I was actually looking forward to Joker 2: Fuck-a-duck-a-doo, but what a fucking waste. Hire some bitch who can blow the fucking roof off and have her do that shit? I can't even wrap my head around that decision. All they had to do was not fuck that up and the movie would have had something.

This scene would have been fine with a better movie around it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxNjpQHvq_I

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>>126978132 (OP)
I understand this. This song made me feel something too. It was comforting and refreshing, I don't know.

>>126978132 (OP)
Do you also analyze The Hungry Catipillar as a literary work of art you weak faggot? Christ man, its fucking Gaga, the epitome of popslop. She still owes Madonna millions.

>>126984679
>She still owes Madonna millions
Regurgitated horseshit.

>>126980937
I never watched any of the Joker movies, but apparently she never sang this at all in the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdzWWkDXkis
Why even hire her to make a song that's this high effort to sing for promotional purposed and not use it in the movie at all?

>>126978132 (OP)
>Alice- Per Elisa (NOT that "Per Elisa", but an Italian song)
>Dysfori- Håll mina brutna vingar (Both "Album"-version and Acoustic demo)
>Moriarty- Cottonflower (But only a certain performance released via hibOO d'scene)
>Diana Ross- If we hold on together
>Kyle Landry's "Tale as old as time"-piano performance
>Pink Floyd- Dogs
>Jackson 5- Never had a dream come true
>La dispute- The castle builders
>Gillian Carter- Watching a friend die
>Jesse Cook with Hampig Djavorian- Fall at your feet (Live at the Rose theatre)
>To be gentle- Impulses
>Nina Simone- Ain't got no I got life

>>126978132 (OP)
fuckin hell

i get really into it sometimes when i'm playing bass to Starless, especially the heavy part at the end

>>126978132 (OP)
I remember when Synthwave was the new shit and told people it would be the new pop sound. Then the industry stole the style and sound and left all of the Synthwave singers in the dust lol

Mayhem was a great album
and will be a Grammy contender this year IMO.