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Boom Boom Room (Side B)

10.0

album

Boom Boom Room (Side B)

Palaye Royale

Side B is the antithesis to Palaye’s Freshman album, Side A. While through tracks such as Live Like We Want To and All My Friends celebrate life and the liberties at stake, Side B takes a much more intimate approach and appreciates the cycle of life in retrospect to the ending of everyone—death. In sounds such as the aptly named Death Dance, Palaye explores themes of religion and sex and how it affects them to such a degree that they are QUITE LITERALLY DYING because of it. Throw all of that together with a catchy tune and beat, and that’s where the name came from. Meanwhile, in slower, more sensual songs such as Dying in a Hot Tub and Hospital Beds talks about death much more directly from a lighter perspective. The first is self explanatory, with the narrator telling us that he’s dying, but it’s fine because he’s with his friends; meanwhile, in Hospital Beds, were told the story of a woman (who is presumably bed ridden) who still dances in the face of demise. Thoughout the entire album, each song focuses on death through a different lense. The final track, The Boom, seems to be the final culmination of the previous songs. We’re met with some mysterious narrator, different than the one we’ve grown accustomed to, presenting us with an idea: going to sleep and never waking up, and as you sleep, being able to dream whatever you would like. At a certain point, enough time would have passed that you would dream a dream about the life you were currently living, and then this process would repeat in an infinite multiplicity. At this point, the narrator establishes that you would be essentially God at this point. This is either an opposition to the rest of the album—that by sleeping forever in this manner, one may never die and become a god in their own right. It also may be the idea of what the narrator thinks is already going on-that we could just be consciousness formed by the sleeping mind of a being greater than ourselves, forever repeating realities in an ouroboros.

The Fame

9.9

album

The Fame

Lady Gaga

The Fame is unequivocally the best debut album of the 21st century, and there’s no competition. This album spawned a multitude of hits—Poker Face, Paparazzi, LoveGame, Just Dance, Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)—just to name a few. Not only that, it broke numerous records on its road to becoming one of the best selling and longest charting albums in history while simultaneously catapulting Lady Gaga into the music scene. Even though it was Gaga’s first professionally produced record, she happened to defy every expectation and create an emotionally rich dance pop album with enough sonically charged beats to shoot herself up the charts. She managed to do all of this while car hopping from parking lot to parking lot and playing any venue that would host her, relying off of sheer determination and luck. The product that resulted from that experience is a one-of-a-kind sentiment packed electronic album that revolutionized the genre and the music industry forever. Some topics covered are the effects of fame and how they change you (despite her lack of field knowledge,) materialism in Hollywood and in conjunction the rest of society, and freedom of sexuality and the right to love whoever you want, a clear indication of Gaga’s support for the queer community. The titular track described the luxuries of fame and everything positive about it over an electrically charged beat, while songs such as Beautiful, Dirty, Rich and Money Honey covet the nasty and bitter side of fame. Paparazzi accurately depicts the almost obsession-like grasp the real paparazzi have on celebrities, told through the lense of a gutrenching love ballad. Boys, Boys, Boys, and Brown Eyes are both traditional love songs; however, the former is an LGBT anthem and the latter is presented to an androgynous recipient. Through all of these factors, Lady Gaga managed to scrap together one of the best pieces of pop music in the 21st century and subsequently propel herself into stardom, forever engraved in history.

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