4 STORIES
2008 · 00S
The most relentlessly joyful pop single of its decade is actually a first-person account of being too drunk to stand up, written in roughly …
2008 · 00S
A synth-pop juggernaut disguised as a casino anthem, "Poker Face" launched Stefani Germanotta into global stardom by smuggling queer bisexua…
2009 · 00S
A glittering, gothic dance-pop manifesto disguised as a love song, "Bad Romance" arrived at the end of the 2000s as both the culmination of …
2011 · 10S
The biggest self-acceptance anthem of the 2010s did not begin with Lady Gaga at all — it borrows its title and its soul from a 1970s disco r…