Lady Gaga
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She talks about how Bowie and Mick Jagger are her influences but obviously that's bullshit and after listening to her album I realized a big part of what she is drawing from is Europop artists like Aqua and Eiffel 65. Stuff that gets played on pop radio all the time in Europe but has never been able to really gain a following here partly because the people making it always looked completely fucking ridiculous to an American audience. Listen to a Gaga track and you'll hear a lot of the same elements of those artists though - poppy rave music, super catchy, simplistic lyrics, and where you would usually have a instrumental break after the chorus they often stick in a second vocal hook which is usually gibberish (like the "mamama" in Poker Face).
So Lady Googoo takes this sound, which American pop was already trending towards (see Kanye, Jay-Z "Forever Young" etc) and makes it understandable for Americans it by adding slight R & B elements and throwing in terms like bitch, ho, player, gangsta. It's actually a genius musical style in terms of moving records because just like say a Jackie Chan movie it takes things down to a lowest common denominator that will sell globally. So I predict American pop and hip hop will dive headlong into this trend now that Lady Geegee has cracked the door open.
- people are still listening to Bowie and Jagger 30+ years later. what are the odds for her in 2040?prophet0NE
- Pretty high actually. People always remember "the best" pop music, like Madonna, Michael Jackson etcukit
- You're right I suppose. She will probably be reissued on NOW MUSIC Vol. 178.prophet0NE
- f*cking morons!********