Leave it to 2009’s most ubiquitous Halloween costume to reinvent the record. Though in the pre-Lady Gaga era, the release of eight new tracks would be called an album (The Fame Monster, released this week), Miss Disco Stick has released them as an EP; she’ll also tack them onto her bestselling The Fame, and sell the pair of them as The Fame Monster (Deluxe Edition) in December, thus assuring her ascent as the post-9/11 Madonna. The Haus of Gaga curates its influences as immaculately as a fashion line, reinventing ABBA’s worldly flair (the cheesy “Alejandro”), Freddie Mercury’s operatic drama (“Speechless”) and a “Vogue”-era Madge (“Dance In The Dark”, which compares Gaga’s lot to JonBenét’s). Taking the trials of celebrity as its theme, three of Fame Monster’s songs display glimpses of the brilliant construction of Gaga: “Teeth” taunts the listener to “take a bite of my bad-girl meat,” “So Happy I Could Die” invites lesbo connotations, while “Bad Romance” bites Blue Velvet’s infamous “You put your disease in me!” epithet. There’s only one unanswered question: is this brunette-turned-blond too smart for her own good?