People in the music industry sure seem to like Beck's 2014 album Morning Phase. It won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year (beating Beyoncé's self-titled album), and Rick Rubin called it Beck's album "by far." Now, Lady Gaga has continued the trend by calling it "one of the greatest records ever made."
Speaking with The New York Times for the podcast version of the paper's new feature about MAYHEM, Gaga spoke about experiencing synesthesia, saying that she saw colours while listening to Beck's music.
She specifically cited Morning Phase, saying, "It was really a special piece of music. That album to me was like medicine — like audio medicine."
She continued, "I think just the way that he used those sounds. I was going through a lot with my fibromyalgia and pain, and I would listen to that album every day to kind of soothe myself. I turned it on every single morning. I remember Rick Rubin was the first person that ever played it for me. He played it for me before it even came out. It was so interesting because I had made Artpop, and Artpop was so noisy, and Rick, he loved Artpop, and he was like, 'Let's listen to this Beck record, I want you to hear this.' And he played it for me, and it was so easy to listen to, and so beautiful. The guitar sounded like bells, the strings — it's just a very beautiful piece of music."
Okay cool, but have Rubin and Gaga heard Sea Change, the far-superior 2002 album that Beck essentially rebooted to create Morning Phase?
Two and a half years after Morning Phase, Beck collaborated on Gaga's 2016 album Joanne, co-writing the track "Dancin' in Circles."