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Tell me what you think of Gaga. What do you think her success says about the music industry right now? Are we fed up with the Mickey Mouse club and desirous of darker musical fare? Does the complexity and artwork of Gaga’s videos (and live shows) signal a change in consumer desires or is Gaga just a classed-up freak show?
Back up your critique (if any) with links to the music you prefer so we can enjoy it as well!
As for me, I kinda like her attitude.
Fire away!
Is this music? It has a beat with lyrics so I guess it’s music. Gaga would not stand out from the crowd if not for her bizarre antics/costumes. Take her music alone and it doesn’t sound much different from Britney Spears. This video would have given me nightmares as a child.
Can I just say I really love this. LOVE this. She has something so of its time that I don’t care if it has been packaged and brainstormed and contrived in a record company board room. Or whether she is just a genuinely strange girl who accidently captured the mood. It just seems right. Edgy and popularist all at once. And isn’t the high concept fashion and design simply the culmination of what fashion and dance music have been working towards for years? Look at David Bowie and you see where she gets it.
I had never seen that vid up until now. Can’t stand the song, but I loved the spark-shooting fembot at the end. Some pretty strong death / power / dominatrix tendencies there, LG!
You can actually hear her classically-trained jazzy singing voice / range here: Lady GaGa – Poker Face (Acoustic Live @ AOL Sessions) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxhyoOX_um8
(I think Christopher Walken does the BEST version of this song, hands down.)
Gaga reminds me of the nonsensical anti-art of the Dada movement. Some might think this is brilliant reaction to pop music, but I just don’t care for her.
Of course, I can’t really defend my position because I love Tori Amos and Beck, and they’re just as random and bizarre. (I once saw Beck in concert dancing to music made with bottles of colon cleanser, filled with dried beans.)
I was initially annoyed by Lady Gaga when she came out with Pokerface, but soon that song along with the rest of her music grew on me. Now that I have seen her performances and heard her music, I have come to respect her um…creativity. There is definitely something to be said for someone who crosses boundaries most wouldn’t. She’s definitely different, and I like that.
Gaga is a one-woman Pop renaissance.
As far as the consumer sea-change goes, GaGa is an advertisers dream. You put your product in her video, and you’re good to go (ask Baby G watches, iWin.com, Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Beats by Dr. Dre, Hello Kitty, Johnson & Johnson baby powder, etc.) In general – music, marketing, etc. – the breaker is that GaGa’s work has the artistry behind it that’s been lacking in recent pop music. The authenticity of work is undeniable, and if nothing else the consumer shift is from artificiality to that authenticity. That said – the root of the post: GaGa herself…
It is quite easy to dismiss her as a freakshow Britney, Christina, etc. (i.e. someone we’ve “all seen before”); however to look at her career thus far, her motives, methods, and messages is to see that really, we have never seen anyone quite like her before. She has complete creative control of her work (via the Haus of Gaga, a 21st century Warholian Factory of artists, friends, and NASA engineers who create her live shows, concepts, videos, etc.). Neither Britney, Christina, nor Madonna wrote their own music on debut albums (nor has anyone posted her record four number one singles off of a debut). No recent pop star of her style or mainstream and crossover appeal has had her credentials (played piano by ear at 4, offered a position at Julliard at 11, wrote first composition at 13, offered position at Tisch at 17). There’s talent behind those smoke and mirrors, and beneath the wig.
Split hairs aside, GaGa knows exactly what she is doing and knows her place in pop culture. The deliberate execution and control of her image and brand is unparalleled. She makes art, and she is her art completely. Her music is a mere byproduct of GaGa the artist; Bad Romance is a key example of how the song in and of itself is incomplete without the visual piece, and neither convey completely without GaGa at the core.
She is McLuhan’s medium-as-the-message embodied; it doesn’t really matter what a disco stick is, what matters is who’s holding it.
As far as music goes I’m a fan of a quite a few, but I’ll leave it at: Mark Ronson, Kanye, GaGa, Miles, Madonna, Lily Allen, Mars Volta, Amy Winehouse, Wale
For no discernible reason whatsoever? I heart Gaga.
Love her music, love her weirdness, just enthralled with her awesomeness.
It makes not sense to me why though?
I was so mortified after watching this video that I wet my goddamn britches! And you know seth? I thought about dressing up as her for Halloween next year but, I’m afraid the neighbors would be so terrified that they wouldn’t even come to the door & give my kids a piece of candy! Either she is smoking the hell out of a crack pipe or the damn fruitcake is on a new drug that nobody even knows about. And Get this shit! A few weeks back she appeared on the early morning talk show with Kathy lee Gifford and they acted as if some angel walked out dressed in her Sunday best and a glowing halo! What in the flying fuck is this woman on? And why in the flippin goddamn hell are people acting like this is normal? This is not normal and it is not OK! And hell yes this says alot about the society we live in right now!
I look by her darkness, her kookiness, her out-thereiness, and just love the fact that she seems to be doing what she wants. Kudos to her.
Lady Gaga is Gen Y’s Madonna.
::glaring at Seth ::
Bad Romance has been playing on my iPod since Nov. 17.
Just ONE song turned me on to an addiction.
You saw it here, first.
I caught myself seriously dancing to it this morning.
(thanks) (keep the tunes comin’)