We are not stepford wives of the 70's to consider HQ "vintage pop", it's mostly jazz except one TJK, wake up

2 minutes ago, Spicy Pisces said:

 

 

The way we got the modern version of this with Gaga yelling HAPPY MISTAKE @ Frederic 

8 years ago today 

 

One reason I wasn't disappointed with the film's soundtrack is that I've been familiar with these jazz/swing songs for a week now thanks to Harlequin, to be fair (My friend thought most of the songs were original and quite boring, and I had to explain to him they were 70-year-old covers ). At the same time, it's hard to imagine any other musical style fitting the dark and vintage tone of the film. I think it was the right choice, even if most of the audience doesn't know the songs. As I said, it's a bold film and that should've been appreciated more by the critics 

Okey so i finished the movie and my thoughts, i kinda liked it. it was kinda romantic to me, i liked that part of the movie. 

 

Critics: I think Gaga's dialogues should've been longer, every time she appeared she was singing. I wanted to hear more of her talking. 

And ending kinda seemed rushed??? I mean they could've easily cut one or two of the musical numbers and focus on the better ending. 

 

Rate: 7/10 ish. 

I cut 1 point because it was kinda slow

1 because of lack of gaga dialogues

1 because of kinda rushed and non sense ending. 

 

Side node: some ppl were blaming gaga for musical scenes, i heard voices of people saying is this gaga concert or smth? and yes couple people left the cinema. 

I hope a miracle happens and takes gaga out of this mess. 

 

In god i believe. 

14 minutes ago, hausofbryan said:

It's way more jazz IMO than pop. Even jazz / traditional pop or something would be ok. I don't think pop fits, since literally the only song fitting that description is HM.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think AM has a "Traditional Pop" genre label. It just falls under pop. For example I listen to a lot of Dean Martin and most of his albums are either "Pop" or "Vocal Pop" and they fall in the same vein as songs like That's Life. I just feel like it's a lot easier to label a song like Good Morning or That's Life as Pop (in the sense that Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, and Frank all have albums considered pop) than it is to label When The Saints or The Joker as jazz

Edited October 4, 20241 yr by TedLasso

Bringing a bit of positivity in here, by the end of the week she'll be the 5th artist and 3rd female EVER to reach 100m peak listeners on Spotify and that's absolutely great HQ was a great album (except the first 3 tracks), we still have an apparently career-best live show to look forward to and LG7 single is coming out in the next 3 weeks!

 

A question, since NOBODY wanted to see Joker at my local theater and I didn't felt like going alone I wonder if we already know if and where it will be available on streaming or VOD

Also I may or may not be streaming To Love Somebody on repeat. I can get past the couple of solo lines Pheonix has, and Gaga sounds amazing on the song lol

Edited October 4, 20241 yr by TedLasso

I went to see the movie tonight and 

 

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I didn't like it. Gaga is in very few scenes, I can't remember much actually. Crazy to think we were expecting a lead role. Musical elements were sometimes cringy, especially the ones performed by Arthur. The plot of this movie is so wild, so many random events which are not logical. I thought he will eventually get out of the asylum but he never did, the trailer suggests they would go on and destroy the city together. Harley is ok, but with or without her this movie could be the same unfortunately. They made her so dirty, like they tried to cut her out of this movie as much as possible. I was surprised she actually sung about moondust etc, many people who saw the movie before said she didn't mention those words, yet she did. Well, overall it was very boring movie to me, as I said I only enjoyed Gaga's moments and her singing was cute. Not gonna watch this again. Waiting for lg7

 

When do we do the Bradley/Joaquin collabs rankings

33 minutes ago, Lil Mxnster said:

I just watched JFÀD. My expectations were so incredibly low that, honestly, I wasn't disappointed at all  In fact, I didn't find it boring, I didn't yawn or fall asleep, and I enjoyed every scene with my eyes wide open. The pacing and editing were even better than the first film. I found the production design, performances and plot to be more risky, human and psychological, despite some flaws. While I understand why comic fans and those who dislike musicals might hate it, I was pleasantly surprised by the social commentary and the mental health topics through the film and I wouldn't mind watching it again. The song selection could have been better, with fewer but more complete performances. The musical numbers for The Joker and Oh, When The Saints, for instance, were standouts for their staging and their symbolism with the story 

 

Score: 67 

Yeah, seeing the 39 on rotten tomatoes and all the bad reviews here before the movie helped my enjoyment of it. My expectations were so low that I really enjoyed lots of moments 

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Gaga sold her character as someone who's been through so much **** that she became quiet but the truth is her character is just some crazy fangirl that loves serial killers. The original backstory in the film turns out to be a lie and she was rich and spoilt all along. Like her character doesn't have any depth at all. Her only role was to sing and prop up Joker. This whole 'Lee was broken by society' narrative wasn't told in the movie at all. It's the first time it feels like Gaga was tricking us into thinking her character was deeper than it really was. Some of her scenes almost felt like satire. It really wasn't that deep of a character to begin with as far as the final cut goes. All Gaga scenes were already in the trailer except for the last scene on the stairs which was already spoilt by paparazzi. Her only solo scenes were 15 seconds of her stealing the TV and walking up the stairs and then taking an elevator which all felt like pointless scenes. Also her arriving at the courtroom. All of which were seen in full in the trailer. Also there's so much solo Joker singing scenes in comparison to Gaga. 

 

Edited October 4, 20241 yr by SharGaga

18 minutes ago, Human Fly said:

Okey so i finished the movie and my thoughts, i kinda liked it. it was kinda romantic to me, i liked that part of the movie. 

 

Critics: I think Gaga's dialogues should've been longer, every time she appeared she was singing. I wanted to hear more of her talking. 

And ending kinda seemed rushed??? I mean they could've easily cut one or two of the musical numbers and focus on the better ending. 

 

Rate: 7/10 ish. 

I cut 1 point because it was kinda slow

1 because of lack of gaga dialogues

1 because of kinda rushed and non sense ending. 

 

Side node: some ppl were blaming gaga for musical scenes, i heard voices of people saying is this gaga concert or smth? and yes couple people left the cinema. 

I hope a miracle happens and takes gaga out of this mess. 

 

In god i believe. 

it's so weird how people try to "blame" the whole musical idea on Gaga, I've seen that around too. As if she just walked up to Todd and suggested it out of the blue when she was asked and included in the first place because Todd thought she could bring music into the movie. 

7 minutes ago, SharGaga said:

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Gaga sold her character as someone who's been through so much **** that she became quiet but the truth is her character is just some crazy fangirl that loves serial killers. The original backstory in the film turns out to be a lie and she was rich and spoilt all along. Like her character doesn't have any depth at all. Her only role was to sing and prop up Joker. This whole 'Lee was broken by society' narrative wasn't told in the movie at all. It's the first time it feels like Gaga was tricking us into thinking her character was deeper than it really was. Some of her scenes almost felt like satire. It really wasn't that deep of a character to begin with as far as the final cut goes. All Gaga scenes were already in the trailer except for the last scene on the stairs which was already spoilt by paparazzi. Her only solo scenes were 15 seconds of her stealing the TV and walking up the stairs and then taking an elevator which all felt like pointless scenes. Also her arriving at the courtroom. All of which were seen in full in the trailer. Also there's so much solo Joker singing scenes in comparison to Gaga. 

 

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The way they just had her dance like this gif on top of the table during The Joker scene

 

 

26 minutes ago, BOAZ said:

Bringing a bit of positivity in here, by the end of the week she'll be the 5th artist and 3rd female EVER to reach 100m peak listeners on Spotify and that's absolutely great HQ was a great album (except the first 3 tracks), we still have an apparently career-best live show to look forward to and LG7 single is coming out in the next 3 weeks!

 

A question, since NOBODY wanted to see Joker at my local theater and I didn't felt like going alone I wonder if we already know if and where it will be available on streaming or VOD

I don't believe anything has been announced regarding that yet, but I think if there's an issue getting bums on seats in cinemas then they'll push the VOD date up.

47 minutes ago, TedLasso said:

Also just noticed HQ still doesn't have the full album art on Apple Music, which is weird since all her other latest releases do (Joker Soundtrack, LFS, DOC)

What do you mean doesn't have the full album art? What does it look like

2 hours ago, GagaMegaFan said:

I have a feeling I'm gonna LOVE this movie because

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical

 

 

Can't wait for my screening in a few days.

 

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just kidding, but I thought the same thing, it did not work for me, hopefully it does for you

 

4 minutes ago, Jack! said:

What do you mean doesn't have the full album art? What does it look like

Sorry I meant full screen album art. Apple updated their covers a few years back where album art can take up the whole screen instead of just being a box when you're listening / looking at the album list

4 minutes ago, TedLasso said:

Sorry I meant full screen album art. Apple updated their covers a few years back where album art can take up the whole screen instead of just being a box when you're listening / looking at the album list

I think I saw a screenshot of someone listening to it last week and it looked like it took up the whole phone screen (the green colors of the bathroom blurred behind the track info/buttons 

Billboard numbers are usually a bit higher than HDD, right? Do you guys think Harlequin has a chance of jumping a few more spots?

1 hour ago, Moloko Plus said:

I don't understand the concept of paying for a movie ticket and walking out of the theatre mid-showing

 

Like if I pay $20 for a movie ticket I'm not going anywhere till those credits roll… even if it's the most dumpster fire movie

The concept is to tell everyone about it for attention.

Watched the film last night and whew.

 

The movie is not THAT bad, really. It's just painfully boring and such a slog to finish. Strongest part was the early act then went a steady downhill. joaquin was good and so was Gaga but good lord the script and the pacing...a choice I guess.

 

And I know that this is called Joker but it was marketed as being top-billed by Gaga and Phoenix and it's such a waste of Harley's character to witness her being relegated as a background character as the movie went on. It's also kinda funny that she just magically pops up every now and then lol

 

Todd when I catch you

 

3 minutes ago, Almodusa said:

I think I saw a screenshot of someone listening to it last week and it looked like it took up the whole phone screen (the green colors of the bathroom blurred behind the track info/buttons 

Weird, it doesn't do it for me

omg it just keeps going down

 

 

41 minutes ago, SharGaga said:

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Gaga sold her character as someone who's been through so much **** that she became quiet but the truth is her character is just some crazy fangirl that loves serial killers. The original backstory in the film turns out to be a lie and she was rich and spoilt all along. Like her character doesn't have any depth at all. Her only role was to sing and prop up Joker. This whole 'Lee was broken by society' narrative wasn't told in the movie at all. It's the first time it feels like Gaga was tricking us into thinking her character was deeper than it really was. Some of her scenes almost felt like satire. It really wasn't that deep of a character to begin with as far as the final cut goes. All Gaga scenes were already in the trailer except for the last scene on the stairs which was already spoilt by paparazzi. Her only solo scenes were 15 seconds of her stealing the TV and walking up the stairs and then taking an elevator which all felt like pointless scenes. Also her arriving at the courtroom. All of which were seen in full in the trailer. Also there's so much solo Joker singing scenes in comparison to Gaga. 

 

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I get them tricking us in interviews and promo since they didn't wanna spoil it, but really wish they dug deeper. I actually liked the twist and the fact that she is still a student of psychology, but wish we got some more scenes with that tying into her obsession with him and her views of society and the whole situation with Joker