I'm with you on Bad Romance -- I don't like that video, although I get that she was going for something specific. I like the Telephone video much, much better, and I also think it's a far superior piece of music.
I also think the conventions of club music produce vocalists to death. The Lady has better pipes that her producers sometimes seem to want her to have. She's no Brit -- there's real vocal talent and expressive range there, when the effects are stripped down. (cf the first verse of Telephone.) Bad Romance is a very bad track, on that point, IMHO.
(I admit before the court and on the record that I am a very very very amateur audiophile, tho. I know a lot more about instrumentation than about voice, and not much about electronic fiddling, except that it irritates me not infrequently. Overproduction of vocal tracks is like having mosquitoes whining in my ears while I am trying to hear something distant.)
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I also think the conventions of club music produce vocalists to death. The Lady has better pipes that her producers sometimes seem to want her to have. She's no Brit -- there's real vocal talent and expressive range there, when the effects are stripped down. (cf the first verse of Telephone.) Bad Romance is a very bad track, on that point, IMHO.
(I admit before the court and on the record that I am a very very very amateur audiophile, tho. I know a lot more about instrumentation than about voice, and not much about electronic fiddling, except that it irritates me not infrequently. Overproduction of vocal tracks is like having mosquitoes whining in my ears while I am trying to hear something distant.)