Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster Album Review

The Fame Monster is the second studio album by American recording artist Lady Gaga released on November 18, 2009. The album’s eight songs were initially intended to be part of a re-release of Gaga’s debut album “The Fame”.
However, Gaga announced that the new songs would be available as a stand alone album, as she thought the re-release was too expensive and they are unfair overall and that, as the piece represents a separate conceptual and musical body of work, it does not need the songs of The Fame to support it.
A Super Deluxe Fame Monster pack containing the two releases will be released on December 15, 2009.
Says Lady Gaga, “In the midst of my creative journey composing The Fame Monster, there came an exciting revelation that this was in fact my sophomore album. I would not add, nor take away any songs from this EP, it is a complete conceptual and musical body of work that can stand on its own two feet. It doesn’t need The Fame.”

The album deals with the darker side of fame, as experienced by Gaga over the course of 2008–2009 while travelling around the world, and are expressed through a monster metaphor. The composition takes its inspiration from Gothic music and fashion shows.

Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster Track Listing

Standard Edition

1. “Bad Romance” - 4:55
2. “Alejandro” - 4:37
3. “Monster” - 4:09
4. “Speechless” - 4:30
5. “Dance in the Dark” - 4:48
6. “Telephone featuring Beyonce” - 3:40
7. “So Happy I Could Die” - 3:55
8. “Teeth” - 3:40

The Fame Monster, in three different versions - a standard version of the new 8-song album; a deluxe version which includes both The Fame Monster and her massively successful debut album The Fame; and this collector’s edition super-deluxe art book version, which includes both albums, fanzines, 3-D glasses, paper dolls, a puzzle, pictorials, a lock of Lady Gaga’s hair and other surprises.

“Bad Romance” was released as the album’s first single. It topped the Canadian chart while reaching the top ten in the United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Ireland and Sweden.

Lady Gaga is the first artist since the inception of monitored airplay to chart four #1 hits at Top 40 Radio - “Just Dance,” “Poker Face,” “LoveGame,” and “Paparazzi.”

Album Information

Released November 18, 2009
Recorded 2009
Genre Pop, electronica
Length 34:12 (Standard edition), 1:31:25 (Bonus disc edition)
Label Interscope, Cherrytree, Streamline, Kon Live
Producer Fernando Garibay, RedOne, Space Cowboy, Darkchild, Teddy Riley, Ron Fair

The Fame Monster Album Trailer