The Fame
*The Fame* introduced the world to one of the 21st century’s most captivating divas. With their stomping club beats and soaring synth hooks, tracks like “Just Dance” and “Poker Face” will make you want to hit the dance floor immediately, but Gaga also shakes things up with eccentric cuts like the piano-driven electro banger “Paper Gangsta” and the futuristic power ballad “Brown Eyes.” Bringing new drama to dance-pop, Gaga is thrilling throughout, whether she’s lost in romantic obsession on “Paparazzi” or strutting her sassy stuff on “Money Honey.”
"Fame, doing it for the fame / 'Cause we got a taste for champagne and endless fortune." So goes the chorus of the title track of Lady Gaga's The Fame, handily summarizing the celebration of shallow club culture that pervades the record. But while Gaga's synth-addled songs are at their core an inspiration to, as the…
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