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The Fame Mons†er
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Recorded

2009

Released

November 23, 2009
December 15, 2009 (Super Deluxe Fame Monster Bundle)

Label

Streamline, Kon Live, Interscope, Cherrytree

The Fame Monster (stylized as The Fame Mons†er) is an Extended Play (EP) by American singer/songwriter, Lady GaGa. It was originally the re-release of her debut album, The Fame, but due to an argument with label Interscope, she is now releasing The Fame Monster as its own album. It will be released as it is, with 8 tracks on the disc. The deluxe edition will include the The Fame album as a second disc. At first, she wanted to release six new songs, however, later, she decided to include eight entirely new songs. The Fame Monster deals with the seamier side of fame, as experienced by Gaga over the course of her last history-making year. The album will be released on November 18 in Japan, November 20, 2009 in Australia/Germany, and November 23, 2009 in the US/UK/Canada. The album's first club-banging single "Bad Romance", produced by RedOne was released on October 27, 2009. On November 7, 2009 while on the German show "Wetten, dass..?", Gaga revealed that The Fame Monster will no longer be released as a re-release, but a new album. This is due to the label saying that it costs too much as a re-release. It was later confirmed by Cherrytree Records. MTV's The Leak (Exclusive Album Premieres) is said to be leaking the songs off The Fame Monster on November 17th. The album leaked shortly after Speechless leaked, both on November 15.

Writing process

This new theme started when Lady GaGa released a tweet saying only one word: "Monster" on May 22nd on her Twitter. For an interview with the Daily Star, Gaga explained the concept of "Monster":

“I have an obsession with death and sex.” Gaga says.“Those two things are also the nexus of horror films, which I’ve been obsessing over lately. I’ve been watching horror movies and 1950s science fiction movies. My re-release is called The Fame Monster so I’ve just been sort of bulimically eating and regurgitating monster movies and all things scary. I’ve just been noticing a resurgence of this idea of monster, of fantasy, but in a very real way.” Gaga adds to the Daily Star. “If you notice in those films, there’s always a juxtaposition of sex with death. That’s what makes it so scary. Body and mind are primed for orgasm and instead somebody gets killed. That’s the sort of sick, twisted psychological circumstance.”

For the press release, she explained further the concept: "On my re-release The Fame Monster, I wrote about everything I didn't write on The Fame. While traveling the world for two years, I've encountered several monsters, each represented by a different song on the new record: my ‘Fear of Sex Monster,’ my ‘Fear of Alcohol Monster,’ my ‘Fear of Love Monster,’ my ‘Fear of Death Monster,’ my ‘Fear of Loneliness Monster,’ etc.”

“I spent a lot of nights in Eastern Europe, and this album is a pop experimentation with industrial/Goth beats, 90's dance melodies, an obsession with the lyrical genius of 80's melancholic pop, and the runway. I wrote while watching muted fashion shows and I am compelled to say my music was scored for them. I also composed a ballad for the album, ‘Speechless,’ a song for my father, and it's my favorite work of all. I wrote every piece on the road - no songs about money, no songs about fame. I wrote it for my fans, so I wrote everything in between."

Artwork

During an interview with Rolling Stone, Gaga talked about the album cover:

My record label didn't want to put out that photo that's my album cover, with the brown hair. They were like, "It's confusing, it's too dark, you look gothic, it's not pop," and I said, "You don't know what pop is, because everyone was telling me I wasn't pop last year, and now look — so don't tell me what pop is, I know what pop is." It's funny, because I fought and fought and fought, and I actually ended up having two covers, because I wanted to do this yin and yang presentation with the covers. When I go to see what my fans are saying, I go onto GagaDaily — they see the cover and say, "I don't really like the blonde one, but the brown one is fucking sick. They love it, and I know what they love, so I make it for them, I don't care what anybody else wants.

Singles

The first single is titled "Bad Romance". A demo of the song leaked on to the internet mid-October, 2009. The finalized version premiered on the radio at 8:35 on October 19, 2009. The song was available to download via iTunes on the 27th; the music video premiered on Lady GaGa's own website on November 10, 2009. The video was only available to registered members of her site. A Vinyl Picture disk is rumored to be released with picture shots from the Bad Romance music video. This release has not yet been confirmed.

The second single is titled "Telephone". This was confirmed via gagadaily.com on November 12, 2009. This song features pop singer, Beyoncé.

Lady GaGa also confirmed in A Billy Bush interview that the ballad "Speechless" is going to be released as a single. The song encouraged her through her father's heart surgery. Joe Germanotta, her father, loves the song when performed by Lady GaGa on her grand piano.

Super Deluxe Fame Monster Bundle

SuperDeluxeFameMonsterPack

Super Deluxe Fame Monster Bundle limited edition.

  1. The Fame Monster (eight new studio recordings) with The Fame on the second disk
  2. "Book of GaGa"
  3. A lock of Lady GaGa's hair
  4. A Collectible Puzzle
  5. Pictorials
  6. A behind the scenes look at her creative process
  7. Pull out posters
  8. Themed fanzines
  9. A paper doll collection
  10. 3D glasses to view the forthcoming GaGa visuals
  11. Personal notes from Lady GaGa


Track Listing

To see every editions released of The Fame Monster

CD ONE (The Monster)

# Name Time
1. "Bad Romance" (Produced by RedOne) 04:55
2. "Alejandro" (Produced by RedOne) 04:37
3. "Monster" (Produced by RedOne) 04:09
4. "Speechless" (Produced by Ron Fair) 04:30
5. "Dance in the Dark" (Produced by Fernando Garibay) 04:48
6. "Telephone (feat. Beyoncé)" (Produced by Rodney Jerkins) 03:40
7. "So Happy I Could Die" (Produced by RedOne) 03:55
8. "Teeth" (Produced by Teddy Riley) 03:40

CD TWO (The Fame)

# Name Time
1. "Just Dance (featuring Colby O'Donis)"   4:01
2. "LoveGame"   3:36
3. "Paparazzi"   3:28
4. "Poker Face"   3:57
5. "I Like It Rough"   3:22
6. "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)"   2:55
7. "Starstruck (featuring Flo Rida and Space Cowboy)"   3:37
8. "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich"   2:52
9. "The Fame"   3:42
10. "Money Honey"   2:50
11. "Boys Boys Boys"   3:20
12. "Paper Gangsta"   4:23
13. "Brown Eyes"   4:03
14. "Summerboy"   4:13
15. "Disco Heaven" (International Bonus Track) 4:13
16. "Again Again" (UK Bonus Track) 4:13
17. "Retro Dance Freak" (Japan Bonus Track) 3:22

Outtakes

Lady Gaga said at multiple occasions that she could not add, nor take away any songs from this release. A rumored track listing was created by an online website, leading confusion because some online store used it (see the category for the songs title). As of now, there are no known outtakes. When Gaga performed on Saturday Night Live, she sung an improvised ode to New York on the beat of her acoustic rendition of Poker Face but this is not a real song.

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