Video: Lady Gaga - Alejandro (Official Music HQ) The Fame Monster Speechless Telephone

Backtracking is our recurring look back at some of pop's forgotten albums. Because, dammit, Miley Cyrus needs to start respecting her elders. Ah, Ace Of Base. Only in the reactionary, post-grunge 1990s could Americans have briefly embraced such a pop phenomenon. Something about the reggae-inflected synth beats and icy detachment of the Swedish quartet—siblings Jonas, Jenny and Malin Berggren, and their pal Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg—had us going bonkers for The Sign (or Happy Nation , as it was titled outside the U.S.). And yet, when AOB's sophomore album The Bridge [...]

So it seems that everyone’s had their say on Gaga and The Fame Monster so we thought we’d wait a while before giving our thoughts. Or we’ve been very busy over the past few weeks and also we are rubbish at stopping listening to the music and starting to write about it. Anyway a combination of these things means that this is a bit later than planned. The Fame Monster is officially Lady Gaga’s second album and there is progression here considering the short amount of time between releasing singles from and promoting The Fame and releasing this. [...]