Listening to this collection in its entirety, it is evident that The Fame Monster is the bridge between the party-girl persona of 2008 and the avant-garde artist of the 2010s. It normalized weirdness in the Top 40. It made it cool to be strange.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gaga’s Chromatica Ball was postponed to summer 2021. Fans, hungry for nostalgia, revisited her older catalog. Vinyl was backlogged for months, but CDs remained affordable. The became a top seller on Amazon Music and Target’s shelves in 2021, often priced at a budget $10–$13. lady gaga the fame monster deluxe edition2cd 2009 2021