14 DAY TRIAL // Lady Gaga has rapidly established herself as an artist who is a force to be reckoned with both in terms of artistic impact and of commercial success. The controversial Gaga is one of the top-selling pop artists of the moment, with many comparing her with a much edgier version of a young Madonna. And Gaga is far from done, as she has just announced she will re-issue her chart-topping album “The Fame.”
The re-release will be titled “The Fame Monster” and, of course, it will dwell on the same concept of fame as Gaga herself experiences it. However, what’s unique about the material is that it will also include no less than eight brand-new tracks, which will almost literally make of it a new album, instead of the same one re-released for the sake of an extra buck, music insiders are saying.
“Lady Gaga announced today that she will release ‘The Fame Monster,’ a re-package of her 4 million-selling album ‘The Fame.’ The album will include the entire breakthrough album ‘The Fame,’ along with 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 new version will be released on November 24, 2009. […] The first club-banging single, the RedOne-produced ‘Bad Romance,’ will be released in early November. Other collaborators on the new tracks include Teddy Riley, Rodney Jerkins, Ron Fair and Fernando Garibay.” Interscope announces in a statement currently making the rounds.
As it is to be expected from Gaga, the re-release is nothing less than a gift from herself to her fans. The album will include tracks that were not written for “The Fame” and that have been penned in the last two years, heavily drawing inspiration from her many journeys around the world. Just like with everything else Gaga, “The Fame Monster” too will be a highly personal work that will remove most of the artistic layers that cover Gaga from sight, leaving behind the artist and her experiences.
“I spent a lot of nights in Eastern Europe, and this album is a pop experimentation with industrial / Goth beats, ‘90s dance melodies, an obsession with the lyrical genius of ‘80s 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.” Gaga explains.