The Remix
The Remix is a remix album, released in 2010, the U.S. singer Lady Gaga.
The remix album contains remixes of songs from the first two albums, The Fame and The Fame Monster. Many artists produced the remix versions of their respective songs, including Pet Shop Boys, Passion Pit, Marilyn Manson and The Sound of Arrows.
On the album cover Lady Gaga is pictured naked and wounded. Some parts of her body are covered with headlines. The cover image is from the Super Deluxe Edition of The Fame Monster and was photographed by David LaChapelle.
Some remixes of the album were already on their first remix EP " Hitmixes " available Like the previous albums, the remix album by critics was also well received, which Lady Gaga especially for the newly interpreted versions of their hits.
The remix album already achieved top rankings in Greece, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Japan and the UK and top twenty positions in many other countries. The remix album was recorded in Japan April 2010 gold.
Background
On 15 April 2010, the Guardian, the numerous artists such as the Pet Shop Boys, Passion Pit and rocker Marilyn Manson to Lady Gaga's remix album titled The Remix reported will be involved. The album contains various remixes of Lady Gaga's hits. The album was released in Japan on March 3, 2010, and contains on the Japanese version of the remix album 16 Remix versions of Gaga's hits. The standard version with 17 remixes was released on May 3, 2010. Manson worked among other things on the Chew Fu remix of LoveGame with, Passion Pit in the remix version of Telephone, the Pet Shop Boys made for the Remix of Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say). Other artists who were involved in the remix versions include Alphabeat, Frankmusik, Stuart Price and Monarchy and Robots to Mars. The remix album was released in the UK on 10 May 2010 and contains specially a British version of the album. On August 3, 2010, a third version of the CD was released with only 10 tracks in the United States.
The remix was released in two different cover designs: In the international and Japanese Cover with a half-naked Lady Gaga and the censored cover in the UK and the United States.
Criticism
Simon Cage from the Daily Express gave the album three out of five stars mixed and said: "Lady Gaga's talent ensures that the same album sold over and over again. [ ... ] This is Prima, [ ... ] but eventually it enough! ". Music critic JD Considine worked on the piano version of Poker Face and declared "the best song of her new remix album - their second album in nine months - not all songs are remixes, but the piano version of Poker Face, showing her inner Elton John. This shows Lady Gaga once from their better image, but it does not make them brilliant. " Matthew Richardson of Prefix Magazine gave The Sound of Arrows Remix of Alejandro, a mixed feedback, saying that they " have the remix deteriorated a lot, as it the original version of Gaga is also not fit their musical style to Latin pop song Alejandro ".
Title list
Japanese Version
International version
American version
Commercial success
After the album's release in Japan it reached the 7th place in the local music charts. On 17 May 2010, the album was certified gold in Japan for more than 100,000 units sold. Top rankings in Greece, Belgium, Canada and Ireland, and top twenty positions in many other countries. In the United Kingdom, the album debuted on May 16, 2010 to number 3 on the UK Album Charts. In the European album charts, the album debuted at number 7