The immense, staggering technopastoral, disco dystopian despair over not finding a light-bulb (Dance in the Dark) vs the creative power-cut rut of Speechless and trying to undercut Girls Aloud with the gummy blowjob anthem Teeth, The Fame Monster's highs soar so high and were Gaga's absolute ceiling, but the duds are equally unequivocal.
Mayhem isn't introducing and inaugurating an icon so can't really compete with a jawdropping impact that can't be made twice. It's impressively her most consistent album.. but the mammoth queer-baiting TFM is TFM and immediately hall of famed herself.