base talk What was it like when 'Bad Romance' was released?

[Sabrina Carpenter]

i was 11 i think, it was such a moment 

 

what i'd do to go back to those times

[J a y]

Gaga writes "Bad Romance" on bus: https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/11/lady-gaga-bad-romance – My favourite article written about Gaga's music

[longjohn9898]

It was truly a pop culture moment that has yet to be surpassed in today's music landscape. Gaga was truly at the height of her powers, releasing hit after hit seemingly out of nowhere and rising to superstardom in an absurdly quick ascension that has been unmatched by anyone to this day. After Just Dance, Poker Face, Love Game, and Paparazzi, releasing the colossal song and career-defining music video Bad Romance was a power move only Gaga at the time could do. Personally, Poker Face was the song that made me fall in love with Gaga and follow her music and I really enjoyed The Fame, but it was the release of Bad Romance and took her iconography and success to a stratospheric level. The song and video were everywhere. At the time I was in college and my straight fraternity roommate showed me the video saying it was the "coolest thing [he'd] ever seen" and I pretended to have seen it only once before when I had definitely watched it about 50 times on repeat the night before 

 

It is fittingly compared to Thriller as one of the best music videos of all time. For Gaga it ushered in accolades and appeal that was more universal than ever before, and the following release of Telephone also made waves and was truly an "event" in a way that doesn't happen today. We had about 30 people who stopped studying surrounding one person's laptop in the library to watch the Telepjone video. Gaga has had much success since then and has evolved and shapeshifted throughout her career, but that time around Bad Romance was truly one of the most memorable and impactful on culture in general. As a little monster it makes me happy to reminisce about times like this because even if Gaga is successful now, there are things about that time period (VEVO, music videos being events, songs not being streamed) that you will never get back and for Gaga to make such a big splash in so little time, even her biggest haters have to admit she was the superstar pop icon of that time. 

[jadeabove]

She had the whole world in the palm of her hands. Then, when Telephone came out it was just as important and impactful. The whole Fame Monster album was to me the last extremely culturally relevant album along with Beyonce (2013).