Born Dis Wei.

I actually like the song, especially after listening to it on repeat a few times. It's just kinda disappointing in my opinion, at least in comparison to her last singles. Bad Romance was EPIC and refreshing. This sounds a little dated. It's also a little too gay for my tastes. As a straight fan of hers, I know I won't be blasting this in my car. I realize that there are 19 other tracks to listen to, but lead singles tend to be the best song off the album. Do I think it will be a good album? Yes. Album of the Decade? lolno.

The only reason I pointed out the Madonna similarity was because GaGa fans love to think that everything she does is original. It's annoying. These days, when a female artist does something outlandish, they're "copying" GaGa, yet when GaGa blatantly copies from her predecessors, she is "paying homage".

3. That's not the same thing. Having a white woman, born into privileged and wealthy family, use such a degrading term is offensive. She is grouping all Hispanic females as Cholas in a song that is supposed to be about loving yourself and equality. Same with the term "Orient" to refer to Asians and grouping middle easterns as "Lebanese". Tupac said in a documentary the excessive use of the n-word was because the term, at least to Rappers, now means buddy, or friend, while the term used by anyone else can be taken for that or as an insult. Early hip-hop artists were simply changing something bad to something good for themselves. Also notice how no mainstream white rapper (well, these days that's only Eminem) has ever used the n-word.

I guess I'm just different than you, brah, when it comes to singles, as, even though I love Bad Romance, my favorite track off The Fame Monster is Telephone. My point is that while, yes, I agree Bad Romance was a better single than Born This Way, singles are not always indicative of the quality of the succeeding album.

On top of that, music is completely dynamic, and songs that were once great die out and, most importantly, the vice versa, that songs that were once downplayed become enormous hits. A perfect example of this would be Katy Perry's Teenage Dream, where the first single off the album was Teenage Dream itself (iirc); it was either that or California Gurls. Point is that both were released as singles, and everyone loves them. But check the iTunes charts - what's the one song still in the Top 10 from that album that people adore, and didn't really make into a big hit until recently? Firework. And I'm sure many of you can think of examples from more classic albums of the 70s-90s that have made resurgances in the past decade.

The bottom line is that you can't judge a book by it's cover, or an album by its first single. Does that mean we can't prep our judgmental criticsm with a first taste? Not at all. People should always be critical of new things, but shouldn't also shut their minds off to the rest of the meal if they don't absolutely love the first bite. Want a more relevant example to this forum? How many people hated Big Bang, or any of the last few major patches, when the first extraction notes were released from a first patch? Definitely a lot, especially Magicians petitioning to quit with their new cooldowns. Then pomegranate got fixed and everything's hunky dory.

So "Album of the Decade?" It definitely could be, but I'll bet my money alongside you that the answer is "lolno," not because the first single wasn't unbelievably epic, but because we still have 9 years of musical creation to go.

Completely agree with bolded.