Lady Gaga, Pussycat Dolls and a Taxonomy of Vacuous Pop

once i bought one of her CD's, i thought it would be a fun thing to do. turned out i was wrong

hollaback girl sounds like it was written by Uncle Kracker

yeah well you NEVER buy CDs by any of these people, they are rather blatantly singles artists

i do love hollaback tho, kind of a lot

good

lol curtis

i would pay $40 to see uncle kracker cover "hollaback girl" while dressed as stefani and dancing w/ the harujuku girls

I... would not

I'd pay $40 not

I apologize for my attitude on this thread. I've been listening to top 40 radio regularly again for the first time since like 2003 and it's making me cynical

so that hardbody brooks & dunn zing was like top 40 roid rage then?

Chuck is OTM regarding her quasi-electroclash schtick (which is kind of what I was getting at re: the overall American Apparel aesthetic here), especially considering her vague aspirations to some kind of performance art (which she talks up incessantly, but which I have yet to see manifest itself in the recorded output).

As for the synths, they sound to me like the pretty standard sounds used throughout trance music for years. Her main trick seems to be to layer a bunch of "supersaw" type chords, big buzzy monsters, and offset them with a slightly different lead -- not sure how to describe it, but kind of hollow, tubular and striated. It's not a bad trick. But I don't think there's anything crazy inventive about her synth work that you couldn't find done with more nuance in Depeche Mode or The Knife. (But I'm not gonna tell Mike what kind of synths he should like; that's just my read on their precedents.)

especially considering her vague aspirations to some kind of performance art (which she talks up incessantly, but which I have yet to see manifest itself in the recorded output)

reminds me of someone else...FISCHERSPOONER. Empire Of The Sun making similar worrying noises recently too.

ah yes, but fischerspooner have the deitch imprimatur, therefor they are FOR RILLZ!

I thought it was kinda funny when Fischerspooner did it, and I'm sure someone's gonna google a quote that proves me wrong in five seconds, but they always came across in interviews as thinking the whole thing was pretty ridiculous and funny too.

yeah well you NEVER buy CDs by any of these people, they are rather blatantly singles artists

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― Wes HI DEREson (HI DERE), Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:33 AM Bookmark

Love Angel Music Baby is a dope album tho

This is true.

the way she enunciates the d in "he can't read my poker face" is nice

also i'm unsure why the "puh-puh-puh poker" bit confuses ppl so much, i thought there was plenty stuttering happening in music these days

this song is like taking over my life right now

"confuses" isn't really the right word for the reaction that part gets from people.

what is it?

"revulsion"

:(

it revulsions people

lazy sry

funny kinda

i gotta say, her performance on idol tonight was kinda awesome

http://t.love.com/200255707

dunno why "poker face" has to have that awful "puh-puh-puh-puh-puh-puh poker face" part in it but oh well

btw i never thought i would like someone if they became MORE like nellie mckay but whaddya know

dunno why "poker face" has to have that awful "puh-puh-puh-puh-puh-puh poker face" part in it but oh well

lol that is the best part

judging various parts of "Poker Face" seems like a fools game to me considering they all suck

"Poker Face" has pretty much the same problem as the Veronicas' "Untouched" -- big awkward gulf between the melodic chorus and the inane talky verses with cheesy vocal filters. "Untouched" kind of survives that problem because the hook is great, "Poker Face" not so much.

"Untouched" also survives because of the frantic energy in the inane talky verses.

She's got the #1 single again.

well what can you en expect in a world that embraces Flo Rida

I'll take no-personality-ass Flo Rida over smug, hatable Lady Gaga any day of the week, thank you.

Reverend hitting it hard time and time again on this thread. Good sir you are a service to us all.

He is, and these other remarks -

especially considering her vague aspirations to some kind of performance art (which she talks up incessantly, but which I have yet to see manifest itself in the recorded output)

reminds me of someone else...FISCHERSPOONER

- really, really OTM. It made my eyeballs bleed a bit.

ooh Poker face is no.1?!! see, i'm not THAT late on this one

judging various parts of "Poker Face" seems like a fools game to me considering they all suck

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LOL

waht

http://i44.tinypic.com/2z4fx9s.jpg

(after you get over the pantyhose shock: I hope those guys are dancing)

jesus christ

no words

her existence is a joke, right?

then the joke is on me

we're all soaking in the joke

ewww

There's some flesh-colored panties on under there right?

But re: Poker face, the melodic chorus really is so much better than the rap-lite verses and especially the pu-pu-pokerface breakdown which is just awful. Same deal, to a lesser extent with Just Dance, the verses are actually cool but her "hip hypnotic gin-n-tonic chronic" bridge thing kinda derails the song, and the version with Kardinal Offishull or whatever retarded way he spells his name is even worse. How did this schmuck become the go-to Canadian dancehall guest MC for pop songs? That Dangerous song was banging but would have been so much better with a better rapper on it.

"i'm bluffin' with my muffin" ?!?!?!?