This was the time when I didn´t care about her cause I thought she was one more of these models with a mic with no talent. Damn it I was wrong, she evolved fast and showed real interest in music, knowledge, musicianship and VOCALS. Something I had never imagined around The Fame era. She really had to downplay herself to enter the mainstream music industry. That´s how sad the state it is in is. 20 years ago it would have been the opposite, she would have had to give her best and not hid her voice at all, more like the opposite. Now charts are afraid of people showing their talent it seems. Perfect climate for the talentless models.

That said songs like Poker Face were cute hits somehow and different from what was being played on radio at the time.