Lady Gaga
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I quite like her but I hate the general sheep following that just applauds her the whole time for anything she says.
I just watch her on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross and pretty much anything she said, no matter how general and non-inspiring a comment, she'd get mass applause from the audience.
It just seemed that when there was a moment where the audience weren't cheering for her, she'd just turn to them, pretty much mid-sentence, and say "I just love my fans" to get a huge cheer.
I do like her and find most of her music catchy if a little forgettable down the line (as pop generally is), I just get irritated by the hypocrisy of most of her fan base. The people that say "I love how she has the confidence to dress up so crazy" also probably laugh at your everyday goth or hipster. I think the only reason the majority of people seem to love the way she dresses is because they either just like her music or because the media keeps telling them to do so.
I don't understand what makes her so heroic. She's from a wealthy background, recovered addict, spends all her money on herself, makes music and dresses up in costume all the time.
I've seen on at least 3 interviews (not with her) where her name has been brought up and she's been dubbed "the voice of the generation". I find this ironic as she really doesn't have much to say...
- prophet0NE0
the deal with her is she's the now and not the later. she's packaged for mass appeal - her music, her image. people seem to be losing their minds over her but that's just how it works. remember when the spice girls roamed the earth?
- I don't think she's packaged for mass appeal at all. you can't say her looks are typical.Gucci
- fair enough, but to her mainly young, female fanbase she a risky, cutting edge fashion icon.prophet0NE
- i think this is very appealing to her fans as she is always larger than life, many aspire to be like this.prophet0NE
- it's not typical at all, but what many dream of becoming. living instead through tv/blogs/mags.prophet0NE
- and if she's not packaged for mass appeal, then how is it everyone on earth knows of her?prophet0NE
- ukit0
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!********
- ukit0
This guy was the like godfather of that style BTW - what happened to him??? LOL
- deadKiggen
- *cough, scat wasn't invented by John Scatman dude, are you crazy?********
- http://en.wikipedia.… Try Louis Armstrong and Jazz********
- Did I say he invented scat? LOLukit
- ********0
I think this is grossly superficial, disposable, inconsequential, over-the-top, crass, consumerist pap - and I quite like it.
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Actually - why all the hate ... this is very good; aside from the pop stuff, she's very talented.
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- ukit0
This is pretty funny (from the same show), they keep panning to a guy playing a guitar when there's no guitar in the music at all.
- "Just stand there and make it look like you're playing...we're not really singing either."ukit
- true ukit - but what about the video above?********
- Hey, I said above I agree she writes good pop songs.ukit
- Actually I don't think there's anything more special about being able to sing and play a slow song on piano and live instruments, people always equate it with talent but the artificial sounding dance music takes talent as well.ukit
- instruments. People always equate it with talent but the artificial sounding dance music takes talent as well.ukit
- Yeah maybe, but I'd say, in that case - the talent is spread more thinly in more areas.********
- But she does write her own songs which makes her way more talent than your Britney or Christinaukit
- ukit0
All these rap artists using the Euro dance sound now
- forever junos and korg m1's...prophet0NE
- do the rolex sweep.
http://www.youtube.c…
prophet0NE - LOL Midget Michael Jackson http://www.youtube.c…ukit
- haha shit i got a juno and m1. time to jump on this trend and make $$$$$inteliboy
- i've got an M1, and one day a Juno will be mine. but first i must figure out this yamaha QX3...prophet0NE
- Can you say Alphaville sample!?
http://en.wikipedia.…) 1984********
- ********0
During a performance of Bad Romance, the closing song to her Monster Ball tour, in New Zealand she could barely stand and ended up singing half the song on her hands and knees while she swung her head around.
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- MarleyMarl0
that video is the biggest pile of shite. why is everyone going off like it's best thing since sliced wonder bread.
- bliznutty0
"I told you that bitch crazy."
- dragonfruit0
that video is shit, the music is horrible and i hate the reference to the all seeing eye thing. makes me sick
