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The Fame Monster est le deuxième album de la chanteuse américaine Lady Gaga. Il sort le 18 novembre 2009 et contient huit chansons qui devaient à l'origine être ajoutées dans une réédition du premier album de Gaga, The Fame. Toutefois, après des pourparlers avec Interscope, le label de Gaga, l'album est vendu séparément et devient donc une œuvre autonome. Une version super deluxe de l’album, nommé Fame Monster Pack contient les deux disques en plus de marchandises additionnelles, incluant une mèche d’une des perruques de Gaga, sort le 15 décembre 2009.
L’album traite de la facette plus sombre de la célébrité que Gaga a vécue lors de sa tournée The Fame Ball Tour de 2008 à 2009, durant laquelle elle a traversé le monde. Chaque piste incarne un monstre, qui est une métaphore pour représenter une peur. Gaga compare le thème de son premier album et celui de The Fame Monster avec le Yin et le Yang. Photographiée par Hedi Slimane, la pochette de l’album est de style gothique, esthétique que les membres de la maison de disques de Gaga n’ont pas approuvée jusqu’à ce que celle-ci les convainque d’accepter la thématique de la séance photo. La composition de l’album est puisée dans la musique gothique et dans les défilés de mode. Bien reçu par les critiques musicaux, l'album est salué pour les chansons Bad Romance, Telephone ainsi que Dance in the Dark.
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It’s hard to believe that just a year ago nobody had heard of Lady Gaga. Now, she’s a proper pop star ”“ a genuine household name on both sides of the Atlantic, with a fair degree of cultural traction. And she has achieved this with a blend of hooky tunes and outrageous outfits, a mix that Madonna once offered.
It’s all old-fashioned, really. That sci-fi clobber of hers, and her interviews where she talks up the Warholian nature of her project, flatter to deceive: this music is nowhere near as mould-breaking as she would have you believe. It’s a sound that Britney Spears purveyed on her last two albums, but for young fans of this sort of electro-ish RnB who probably consider Spears too old and can no longer identify with a harried mum of two, Gaga is providing a fresh alternative, and this has allowed her to sell four million copies of her debut album, The Fame.
And now those four million are being treated to a sequel, of sorts ”“ The Fame Monster is available as a bonus disc on The Fame’s re-release, and its content can be downloaded separately. Among the eight new tracks are the new RedOne-produced single Bad Romance, which features cheesy rave synths, the now typically Gaga stomping beat and a controversy-lite lyric (“I want your ugly, I want your disease”). Melodically, it recalls Black Celebration-era Depeche Mode and keeps up Gaga’s habit of referencing herself in her songs. Admittedly, Warhol would have loved it.
Elsewhere there is the superstar duet with Beyoncé, Telephone, produced by Rodney Jerkins (less stellar than it sounds); So Happy I Could Die, which is brazenly Auto-Tuned Europop that telegraphs Gaga’s Sapphic tendencies (“I love that lavender blonde... I touch myself and it’s all right); Alejandro, which moves at an Ace of Base pace; the generic machine RnB of Dance in the Dark; and Speechless, which is a bit like Pink in ballsy rock-ballad mode.
It’s hardly original, and nor is it exactly a triumph of DIY feminist invention ”“ look at the number of people listed on the CD credits, many of them men. But she’s bringing eccentric couture to the masses and is certainly fun to have around ”“ The Fame Monster is also available as a collector’s edition containing, among many other essentials, a lock of her hair and a paper doll collection. Now that’s Gaga.
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