that being said, I do like the Jane Child cuts & remixes better than anything Gaga has ever done.

but if you think about it, none of those type of quirky 'pre-alternative' female pop stars really got looks after their first big album in that 89/90 era: Jane Child, Neneh Cherry, Lisa Stansfield, even Tracy Chapman in a way never really approached the level of their first albums when everybody jocked them as the hot new thing.

Thing is almost all of them had joints on their follow-ups as well but they weren't 'fresh' anymore to the mainstream public.