The 'irony' stance is definitely wanting it "both ways", i.e. a sly wink to the knowledgeable that the 'pop kids' don't notice. Problem is, it doesn't take long until it's either "LOOK LOOK I'M IRONIC EVERYONE!!!" or "Ah heck, I'm enjoying this, let's go!"
Guess LGG is now the latter.
― Mark G, Friday, 13 November 2009 11:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
biggest problem w/ the first album was it didn't have any of the gaga 'personality' to it. it just sounded mad generic, like anyone could do it. saying 'but what if britney did pokerface' kind of proves my thinking - if she is going to act like this big special pretentious queen of pop, dont have generic 'could be done by anyone' songs. sure they were catchy, they are pop songs, most of them are.
all of the stuff from the second album sounds really good and like something i'd expect from her personlity tho, so i am coming around to it.
and whoever said her goofiness gets her a free pass upthread is otm.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 13 November 2009 11:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
Love Game is straight garbage. Thought 'The Fame' was pretty poor apart from 3 of the 4 singles.
― mdskltr (blueski), Friday, 13 November 2009 11:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
I cannot see Britney doing Poker Face. Britney is too passive as a vocal presence (especially nowadays) to pull it off.
― musically, Friday, 13 November 2009 15:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah, otm
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Friday, 13 November 2009 15:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
she could do the staccato talky parts, just not the big belting melodic part
― windows XD (some dude), Friday, 13 November 2009 15:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
I feel like Lady Gaga is the least we should expect from pop stars now: Memorable visuals and decent hooks. I find the whole thing grating when people act like she's some kind of innovative paragon.
― da croupier, Friday, 13 November 2009 15:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
i mean to say "I only the whole thing grating when..."
― da croupier, Friday, 13 November 2009 15:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
musically she's a bit like kanye west in that her songs sort of smush up these amazing, thrilling moments and melodies with intolerably irritating KMT affectations and lyrics, so one minute you're belting along with her and the next you're flinching.
― lex pretend, Friday, 13 November 2009 15:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
who will her Unexpected Collaborator be for her next album – Brendan O'Brien?
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 13 November 2009 16:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
All her singles grow on me gradually and I think eventually I will buy The Fame, but all I really have to add is that I keep wanting her to be "Lady O'Gaga," as in Queen's "Radio Gaga." Alternately, inserting her into David Bowie's "Lady Stardust" kinda works.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
inserting her into David Bowie's "Lady Stardust" kinda works.
::stuffs fist into mouth::
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Friday, 13 November 2009 16:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
The only time I have knowingly heard Lady Gaga was in August, over the coliseum PA during a High School Rodeo at the Minnesota State Fair.
― Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Friday, 13 November 2009 17:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
The only thing I wanna know is whether it's "Gaga" or "GaGa." It's the former on her official website, MySpace, and Wikipedia but the latter on AMG and IMDB. Billboard seems confused.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 13 November 2009 17:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
"paparazzi" and "bad romance" are also arguably her best songs, so that might explain the uptick in popularity on this board
― see-those-tit-ies (J0rdan S.), Friday, 13 November 2009 02:27 (17 hours ago)
mm. paparazzi is def one of the highlights of the year for me
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Friday, 13 November 2009 19:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
Okay, The Fame Monster is seriously perfect.
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 16 November 2009 04:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
Like, it makes her first album sound terribly amateurish in comparison.
you don't say!
― peed on tree (k3vin k.), Monday, 16 November 2009 04:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
no seriously.
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 16 November 2009 04:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
only one I'm not getting is "So Happy I Could Die," but I'll be listening to this album for a while so I don't count out warming up to it.
― musically, Monday, 16 November 2009 04:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
i can't imagine listening to lady gaga for a while, to be perfectly honest
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Monday, 16 November 2009 04:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
I love "So Happy I Could Die", it has this sort of early Pet Shop Boys, melancholic sound to it.
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 16 November 2009 04:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
I thought u liked Gaga surmy
i do but the idea of putting an album on makes me kind of sick. sorry i love u
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Monday, 16 November 2009 04:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
btw after hearing it once, i don't think i ever need to hear alejandro again. it's not even bad, it just doesn't sound like much
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Monday, 16 November 2009 05:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
alright i'm gonna download this
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Monday, 16 November 2009 05:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
I liked it better when I just assumed all of ILM hated lady gaga
― iatee, Monday, 16 November 2009 05:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
Wow. Didn't know she had a Speechless in her. It's very Beatlesesque perhaps? Maybe just the guitar solo. But epic balladry and so forth are a good look for her.
Teeth is a great little vamp that has a sort of...20s jazz and/or rockabilly air to it. So Happy etc. needs more time to ruminate.
― wrapped up, packed up, ribbon with a donk on it (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 16 November 2009 05:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
ZOMG
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 16 November 2009 06:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
I love the drums in the chorus to "Monster," they're very HI-NRG ish
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 16 November 2009 06:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
It occurs to me that "Bad Romance" is a bit of an inferior retread of Cyndi Lauper's excellent "Into The Nightlife" from the beginning of the year (or so?)... Same producer perhaps.
― Tim F, Monday, 16 November 2009 07:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
wow those youtube girls
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 16 November 2009 09:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
those youtube girls!!!! their other covers are awesome too - check out "obsessed" and "hello" in partic
best thing i'll see this week, better than gaga
― lex pretend, Monday, 16 November 2009 09:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
is a bit of an inferior retread of Cyndi Lauper's excellent "Into The Nightlife" from the beginning of the year (or so?)... Same producer perhaps.
late last year, not RedOne, produced by Swedes Astrom & Boback :)
― mdskltr (blueski), Monday, 16 November 2009 13:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
youtube girls!
― estebutt bannez (The Reverend), Monday, 16 November 2009 14:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
I didn't want to, but I'm kinda loving "Bad Romance."
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
one more resaon to not like her
― peed on tree (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:53 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
um, did this really just happen?
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 04:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
seriously tho, the Ooooh's in the chorus of that song remind me of something and i can't place it.
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 04:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
I like the "gaga aroro lala" weirdo part of the song but the rest is draggy.
― milliband (Abbott), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 04:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC, Monday, November 16, 2009 9:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
Me too. It gets played a lot where I work these days and I can't get it out of my head. I do agree with Abbott that the gaga aroro lala part is the best though.
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 03:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Dance in the Dark" is awesome.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 04:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
blergh i hate the chorus in "bad romance." the whole thing is just such a frankenstein of a song, and yeah a couple parts are fun ("gaga aroro lala" and "love love love") but nothing fits together nicely and then the chorus just bursts in with that ugly eurotrash synth and those 'woah-oh-oh's.
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 04:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
i actually like the chorus the most, even tho i strongly believe that the "woah-oh-oh's" part is ripped off something i can't quite put my finger on
but i totally agree that the song is too "frankenstein," and the pieces sound too forcefully fitted together
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 05:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
fwiw, i don't really love the "ra-ra-ga-ga" part
dunno why it just doesn't really move me either way
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 05:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'm caving too, "Bad Romance" is tremendous
― some dude, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 09:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
:-O
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 09:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
well it is
― my full five minutes of iguana time (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 November 2009 09:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
this worthless piece of woman destroys Beyonce's awesome new video in a sublime way
such a shame
― rizzx, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 09:52 (3 years ago) Permalink