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专辑综评

• The Fame [Interscope, 2009] *

• The Fame Monster [Interscope, 2009] A-

• Born This Way [Streamline/Interscope/KonLive, 2011] A-

• Artpop [Streamline/Interscope, 2013] A

• Cheek to Cheek [Streamline/Columbia/Interscope, 2014] B+

• Joanne (Deluxe Edition) [Streamline/Interscope, 2016] *

• Chromatica [Interscope, 2020] **

• Love For Sale [Columbia/Interscope, 2021]  A

《Love For Sale》近期取得RC乐评A级专辑认证。目前Lady Gaga共取得四张A级/A-级专辑认证，稳坐五大第一宝座，噶迷们吹起来！

The Fame [Interscope, 2009]（《超人气》/《魅力无限》）
Shallowness at its most principled ("Just Dance," "Paper Gangsta"). *

最具原则性的肤浅音乐。*

推荐曲："Just Dance," "Paper Gangsta"

The Fame Monster [Interscope, 2009]（《超人气魔神》）

I liked the 14-track 2008 version of this album, augmented in this two-CD set by an eight-song EP of comparable quality. But only after being overwhelmed by the sheer visibility of her warp-speed relaunch did I realize how enjoyable and inescapable her hooks and snatches had turned out to be. Even if you consider her videos and such overelaborate, as I do, her songs are streamlined pop machines. Some are more efficient than others--I prefer the "Poker Face" hook as jacked by Kid Cudi and Lil Wayne to Gaga's sandbagging original. But even the slower ones have a way of taking off, in part because she writes lyrics like a paper gangster. The tell is "Money Honey," an apparent descent into ever crasser materialism that instead revives a short-lived slang usage of "money." His Jag, enjoyable. His kisses, money. A-

尽管我喜欢这张收录14首歌的2008年版专辑，且新收录的8首旗鼓相当的新歌构成的双碟套装更是锦上添花。但直到她举世瞩目的豪华版专辑以迅雷不及掩耳之势再版发行后，我才意识到Gaga歌曲的hook和不同桥段是多么有趣且令人欲罢不能。即使你与我同样认为她的MV过于繁复，她的歌纯粹都是pop流水线产物。一些流水线歌曲的确比其他歌更出挑——我偏爱被Kid Cudi和Lil Wayne升值的（他们的）“Poker Face”，而不是Lady Gaga这首丑态毕露的原创歌曲“Poker Face”。但即使语调较慢的歌曲也有流行的办法，部分是因为她装腔作势像地痞流氓一样写歌词。全专都讲述着“Money Honey”的故事，但这首歌显然是向更粗俗的物质主义堕落，而不是复兴“money”其他曾昙花一现的俚语用法。他的欢愉，怦然心跳。他的亲吻，纸醉金迷。A-

Born This Way [Streamline/Interscope/KonLive, 2011]（《天生完美》）
First of all, avoid the "Special Edition." Of the three extra songs, only "The Queen" would be a decent B side, and the remixes are as unnecessary as usual. Even at normal length, moreover, this isn't up to The Fame or The Fame Monster. But both of those keep growing, and with its mad momentum and nutty thematics, this one could too--despite being laid down on tour trailed by 28 semis. Ever the non-Catholic, I let "Judas" and "Bloody Mary" slide while going all googly-eared for the hilarious "Hair," where the nimbus of every woman's vanity becomes the cutting edge of every woman's freedom, and "Americano," a marriage proposal to a Chicana in a flowered skirt that's as sincere and unreliable as The Fame Monster's "Alejandro," where the title inamorato keeps morphing into Fernando and Roberto. This lags seriously only on the one with unicorns in it, a no-no not even Gaga can safely defy, and a big closer that just doesn't take the whole effort over the top where it belongs. The country song in particular is a hoot, which reminds me that the title track wasn't inspired solely by "Express Yourself." Close your eyes on the refrain and you can almost hear Carl Perkins lining out "You've got the right string baby but the wrong yo-yo." A-

首先，先抛开豪华版专辑说，三首加曲中只有“The Queen”够格充当B面歌曲，剩余的混音歌曲一如往常充当累赘。尽管就普通版专辑说，也没达到旧作《The Fame》或《The Fame Monster》的高度。但那两张专辑凭其疯狂的势头和独特的怪兽美学还在持续升值，这张专辑本可以达到这种高度——尽管因巡演落后了28个半决赛。尽管我并非天主教徒，但我直接跳过“Judas”和“Bloody Mary”听诙谐的“Hair”，该歌曲凝聚了每个女人的爱美之心，进而演变为追求女性自由的前卫先锋，“Americano”讲述的是向一位身穿花短裙的墨西哥裔美国女子的求婚故事，就像《The Fame Monster》里面的“Alejandro”一样诚挚却不可靠，最终变成费尔南多(Fernando)和罗伯特(Roberto)那样的人。专辑在带“Unicorn”的歌曲（指“Highway Unicorn（Road To Love）”）的时候变得拖沓至极，一个连Gaga都不敢轻易打破的传统象征，专辑收尾曲没做到但本可以轻而易举地将专辑带到一个应有的高度。专辑同名曲的乡村版特别出彩，让我想到这首歌不只受“Express Yourself”启发。闭上眼睛听副歌，你几乎可以听到Carl Perkins说“宝贝，你的琴弦对了，但你的溜溜球错了。”A-

Artpop [Streamline/Interscope, 2013]（《流行艺术》）

"My artpop could mean anything," the title song boasts proudly. So as befits the dilemma our self-made superceleb's hype overkill and musical overproduction have gotten her into, Gaga's fourth album in five years was both grossly grotesque, as in "Swine"'s "You're just a pig inside a human body," and aptly cartoonish, long on bright, brash, overstated outlines. In "We could, we could belong together," the "we" is in fact art and pop. But this being Lady Gaga it's also S-E-X. It's "Venus" connecting rocket ships to both oysters and Uranus. It's "GUY" standing for  Girl Under You. It's "sexxx Dreams"'s sex dreams. It's songs and conceits that pop all over the place. A

"My artpop could mean anything,"（歌词：“我的流行艺术可以是世间万物”，）专辑同名曲自豪地吹嘘道。所以与这位白手起家的超级巨星的过度炒作和过度制作的音乐 让自身陷入双重困境相吻合的是，Lady Gaga五年来的第四张专辑听起来既怪诞至极，如同“Swine”里的（歌词） “You’re just a pig inside a human body”，又恰如其分地富有卡通效果，叙述其瑰丽、傲娇又浮夸的概念： 在（歌曲“Artpop”）歌词 “We could, we could belong together,” 中，“We” 实际指艺术和流行两个词。但这对Lady Gaga又意味着S-E-X 一词。“Venus” 借用火箭与“Uranus”（天神乌拉诺斯）和“oysters”（牡蛎）联系在一起、“G.U.Y.”指“Girl Under You”（你身下的女孩）、以及 “sexxx Dreams” 指“sex Dreams”（春梦）。流行和她的自负遍布专辑的每处角落。A

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek [Streamline/Columbia/Interscope, 2014]（《爵对经典》）
I'm agnostic at best as regards the urban legend of Bennett's ageless cool. It's too classy on his end and too voguish on that of his eager young admirers. But this guy isn't just 80--he's 88, old enough to awaken in a 72-year-old like myself something approaching the dreams of immortality he instills his thirtysomething partisans. Granted, it's his twentysomething partner who provides the elan vital here. Gaga grabs these standards as Linda Ronstadt never did and Annie Lennox should be tried for trying--rock-'em sock-'em uptempo, not quite overripe on ballads, and having a ball both ways. In a true collaboration--both solo turns fall flat--it's her enthusiasm, her vulgarity, and the liberties she takes with the tunes that make the concept sing. That said, however, Bennett always sounds like he has some left in the tank. It's inspirational, I admit. B+

我充其量只是个不可知论者，对Tony Bennett经久不衰的都会传奇魅力浑然不觉。对他来说过于典雅，而对他那些热切的年轻粉丝来说又太时髦了。这家伙可不止80岁，今年88岁了，德高望重到足以对我这样72岁的老头指点迷津，向他30多岁的粉丝灌输不朽的梦想之类的道理。当然，他二十几岁的搭档为这张专辑提供了至关重要的活力。Lady Gaga做到了Linda Ronstadt从未做出的效果，而Annie Lennox应该尝试该领域——快节奏的摇滚，不迂腐的民谣，游刃有余于两种风格。在一场真正的合作中——双方的独唱片段都显得平淡——是她的热情、粗鄙话语和她对歌曲的自由演绎，让这个企划的概念生动起来。然而，尽管如此，Tony Bennett听起来总是满腹经纶的样子。我承认，这很鼓舞人心。B+

Joanne (Deluxe Edition) [Streamline/Interscope, 2016]（《乔安》（豪华版））
It's definitely not the best way to prove you're a Real Girl to reserve the three Realest songs on the album for fans so besotted they'll pay extra for them ("Grigio Girls," "Just Another Day," "Angel Down [Work Tape]") *

这绝不是展现你真性情的最好方式，将豪华版专辑中3首最赤诚相待的加曲献给粉丝，如痴如醉的粉丝心甘情愿地为这三首歌支付额外的费用。 *

推荐曲："Grigio Girls," "Just Another Day," "Angel Down [Work Tape]"

Chromatica [Interscope, 2020]（《神彩》）

Lop off the first four tracks and you'll end up with a pretty good album about a talented singer, songwriter, and actress who once upon a time was an elaborate cartoon ("Babylon," "Free Woman," "Fun Tonight") **

剪去专辑前四首歌，你就会得到一张非常不错的专辑，关于一位才华横溢的歌手，词曲作者，演员，曾经是精致卡通人物的故事。 **

推荐曲："Babylon," "Free Woman," "Fun Tonight"

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga: Love For Sale [Columbia/Interscope, 2021]（爵爱经典） 

The news that this pair were revisiting their cross-generational gimmick seven years after its launch got no rise out of me，because while Cheek to Cheek was definitely enjoyable，it was often no more than that. And while the duo＇s young distaff half had since emerged from her shrewdly individualized carapace of glam-pop celebrity to prove a gifted actress and adaptable all-around entertainer with a high alto of near-Ella sweetness and definition and the brains to begin the "It's De-Lovely" opener with its semi-recitative "tinpantithesis" prologue，her senior partner had not only turned 95 but been diagnosed with Alzheimer's way back in 2016.But I failed to register two things. First，all 12 titles are by pantheon wit-and-a-half Cole Porter，who not only devised the term "tinpantithesis" but festooned“ Let's Do lt " with “Lithuanians and Letts do it..” Second，Alzheimer's has been found to be much easier on your verbal memory if you are singing，at which point lyrics you could once recite verbatim pour past your vocal cords and into the air as if they were notes on a scale,as they also are.Of course,this assumes you retain a larynx worthy of the name,which not every singer of 75 much less 95 can claim.Anthony Dominick Benedetto still has one—he sounds leaner,a bit drier,but also capable of enunciating every word in a long-cultivated New York accent whose miraculous juiceand intuitive smarts could make an 80-year-old hope for a longer life than many would consider seemly.A

关于这对搭档在七年后重出江湖再次合作爷孙炒作的新闻，我见怪不怪，因为尽管《Cheek to Cheek》绝对是场听觉盛宴，但也不过如此。同时这对组合里的年轻女人早已从精明个性的华丽流行歌星摇身转型为天赋异禀的演员和样样精通的全能艺人，媲美近似Ella（Fitzgerald）甜蜜本色的中高音，机灵地以半吟诵式的“tinantithesis”歌曲《It’s De-Lovely》开场专辑，她的资深合伙人不仅已经95岁了，还在2016年被诊断出老年痴呆症。但我还没注意到两件事。首先，专辑12首歌曲名称都是由智慧超群的Cole Porter创作的，他不仅发明了“tinpantithesis”这个词，并在“Let’s Do it”写出金句歌词“Lithuanians and Letts do it..”。其次，有研究表明阿尔茨海默氏症患者在唱歌时，口头记忆会容易得多，这时，你曾经可以逐字背诵的歌词会经你的声带倾泻到空气中，好像它们是一个音阶上的音符，它们也确实是这样。当然，这是假设你有一个名副其实的咽喉，不是每个75岁的歌手都能拥有，更别用说95岁的。Anthony Dominick Benedetto（Tony Bennett本名）仍拥有着金牌嗓音——尽管听起来更精练，更干爽，但也能用长期培养的纽约口音清晰地讲出每一个字，他神奇的活力和直觉的智慧可以让一个80岁的人对超出常理地活得更久抱有希望。A