Born This Way
I don't think I've ever done a review for an album before, but there's a first for everything I suppose. The new Lady Gaga album was on sale for 99 cents yesterday, so I went ahead a jumped on it--so long as I liked just one song in addition to the title track Born This Way, I figured I was getting my money's worth. I almost never enjoy Gaga's songs until I've heard them a dozen* times or so and they kind of get stuck in my head. While the album itself I wouldn't pay the full $6.99 Amazon MP3 price for (at least, that's the price today for the version of the album I got yesterday), there are a few songs I've liked enough to not regret my decision to download while it was on sale. Overall, here's my impressions of the various songs on the album, listed in the order that I decided each song belongs in each category:
Songs I liked the first time through
Yoü And I
Judas
Songs that required 2 or more plays
Born This Way (though I heard this whenever ago when the single was first released)
Americano
Songs that required 5 or more plays
Bad Kids
Scheiße
Songs I'm still not thrilled with
Bloody Mary
Marry the Night
No opinion so far
Highway Unicorn (Road to Love)
Heavy Metal Lover
Hair
Government Hooker
Electric Chapel
Edge of Glory
Of those "no opinion" songs, I'm thinking "Heavy Metal Lover" & "Government Hooker" I'm going to like eventually, it's just going to take time for those two to grow on me. No clue about the others yet, though. Regardless, I got two songs I love and four more that I like--more than worth the dollar spent on the album, and maybe (almost) worth the retail price, even.
*In this case, "dozen" = I haven't got any clue how often it really is.