WFL.

Rihanna - We Found Love

          A compilation of drugs, sex, and remorse, Rihanna’s new video reaches new heights with its shock value. Racy, yes, but lacking a story line, most definitely not. Rihanna and her counterpart fall in love while bonding over drugs, as they “find  love in a hopeless place”. Throughout the entirety of the video, Rihanna is accompanied by an actor who eerily resembles her ex, Chris Brown, raising the question of how much the events in the video are actually reminiscent of their relationship. Violence ensues, as they come to the realization that their love only runs as deep as the drugs can allow. Guess Ke$ha’s song “Your Love is My Drug” does not always apply! Overall, an extremely well made video, both artistic and compelling. 

Her Minajesty.

Madre Monstere @ The View.

That Rihanna Reign.

Paul McCartney @ Yankee Stadium ft. Billy Joel

Beyoncé on GMA.

Set List:

Run the World (Girls)

1+1

Best Thing I Never Had

Single Ladies
End of Time

Florence + The Machine on GMA.

Set List:

Cosmic Love

Dog Days Are Over

You've Got the Love

MONSTER GODDESS: #1-17

RATED:

1. Bad Kids

2. Scheiße

3. Marry The Night

4. The Edge of Glory

5. Judas

6. Heavy Metal Lover

7. Born This Way

8. Highway Unicorn (Road to Love)

9. Hair

10. Yoü + I

11. Government Hooker

12. Electric Chapel

13. Fashion of His Love

14. Black Jesus + Amen Fashion

15. Bloody Mary

16. Americano
17. The Queen

Born This GMA.

Set List:

Edge of Glory

Judas

Bad Romance

Born This Way

Hair

Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way': A Track-by-Track Breakdown by Rolling Stone

"Born This Way" – 

Yeah, yeah: it's an "Express Yourself" bite. And yes: you've heard the song 700 hundred times in the last month. But Gaga's big hit sounds different in the context of the album that shares its name: like an experiment in the audacious plus-sizing of Eighties dance-pop.

"Hair" – 

Gaga is not the first songwriter to link self-esteem and liberation to free-flowing coiffure. (Remember that rock musical called, um, Hair? Remember "Whip My Hair"?) But she's definitely the most committed. "I am my hair!" she cries. Red One supplies the gale force hair-tousling synths. 

"Government Hooker" – 

The requisite "kinky" song – though what exactly Gaga is saying here isn't  clear: "I'll be your hooker/Government hooker," "I could be Mom/Unless you want to be Dad." But the techno-pop production, by DJ White Shadow, is gripping: a shape-shifting assemblage of buzzes, beeps and clattering beats. Choice couplet: "Put your hands on me/John F. Kennedy."

"Judas" – 

"Wear an ear condom" next time, Gaga sings in a track with one of the catchiest choruses on an album devoted to catchy choruses above all. Gagaologists will spend years pouring over the runes of that rapped bridge. ("But in the cultural sense/I just speak in future tense," etc.) The rest of us will be busy dancing to Red One's walloping production.

Further Reading: 

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lady-gagas-born-this-way-a-track-by-track-breakdown-20110518

By Jody Rosen

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