Poker face (Lady Gaga) (LP 2964 - 2966)

Lady Gaga  The Fame (CD, Streamline Records, 2008) *****  

Lady Gaga  The Fame Monster (CD, Streamline Records, 2009) ****  

Lady Gaga  The Remix (CD, Streamline Records, 2010) ***  

Genre: NZ Music, pop 

Places I remember: Virgin Megastore Dubai

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Boys Boys Boys

Gear costume: Poker Face

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4

Active compensatory factors: I had to find out what all the Lady Gaga fuss was about (she was impossible to ignore in the late 2000s) and so I picked up The Fame on a trip into The Dubai Mall while living in Al Ain. It went onto high rotate in the Tiida during our travels from then on. 

The hits are brilliant slices of electro pop/ synth pop and dance floor killers (not that I was about to go clubbing anytime though). Not generally my thing but I'll make allowances for Madonna and Lady Gaga! What a voice!!

Of course, I then needed to grab other Lady Gaga albums as a consequence. Turns out these three albums are all sort of linked. 

The Fame Monster is an 8 track EP - a kind of darker addendum to The Fame, in that it looks at the downside of fame, and The Remix is exactly that - an album of remixes of songs from the previous two 'albums'.

Of course, given this was the Middle East, the cover of The Remix was heavily censored with black pen on the CD case but the songs couldn't be censored. It's an interesting set of experiments - clearly aimed at the dance floor, but I prefer the originals.

Where do they all belong? I also bought Born This Way but I didn't like it at all, so I sold that one off when I got back to NZ.