"Bakardi" is ridiculous too.
― DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Sunday, 5 April 2009 06:18 (fifteen years ago) link
The spelling I mean.
― DJ Mr. Face Stabba, M.D. (Whitey on the Moon), Sunday, 5 April 2009 06:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm listening to "Poker Face" for the first time and it's kind of insulting how many elements they recycle from "Just Dance"; the whole thing strikes me as completely unremarkable. Can someone please point out specifics of why this song is special or enjoyable? On a side note, the "pop music will never be low brow" thing was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, right?
― (The) (Fabulous) (Stevie D), Sunday, 5 April 2009 14:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i find Poker Face far more enjoyable than Just Dance because the melody pulls me in much more. I also love all the loopy editing on the vocals and the crunchy synths.
― Surmounter, Sunday, 5 April 2009 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
i hear how it's very similar to Just Dance but this isn't something i hear initially, only when it has been pointed out.
― Surmounter, Sunday, 5 April 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Really?? It was the very first thing I heard, especially in the intros. It's like they were locked in a room and had to create every song with exactly the same instruments/effects/etc.
― (The) (Fabulous) (Stevie D), Sunday, 5 April 2009 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah their first few seconds are almost indistinguishable
― a horrific scourge (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 5 April 2009 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link
i guess it just didn't seem that odd to me for 2 songs off the same album to use the same synth sounds
― Surmounter, Sunday, 5 April 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
these 2 songs relate to one another in a way that reminds me of how the songs on Confessions on a Dance Floor do.
― Surmounter, Sunday, 5 April 2009 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, I know it's extremely silly to attempt to critique lyrical content of modern pop music, but does anyone else find "Just Dance" particularly distasteful? "Go out and get grossly drunk and it's OK if you get raped or something because you can JUST DANCE YOUR CARES AWAY"
― (The) (Fabulous) (Stevie D), Sunday, 5 April 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
not really, that's a pretty common theme
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Sunday, 5 April 2009 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Someone needs to photoshop Andrei Arshavin into that show photo that was linked above.
― Maltodextrin, Monday, 6 April 2009 04:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i just had to google the lyrics to make sure there wasn't actually a line in the song that goes "it's OK if you get raped"
― l8080 gaga (some dude), Monday, 6 April 2009 04:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?em3106=227515_-1__0_~0_-1_5_2008_0_0&em3161=&em3281=
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Monday, 6 April 2009 08:54 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^^important video
― autogucci cru (deej), Thursday, 21 May 2009 06:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually this makes me really love the song while it's playing.
― Tim F, Thursday, 21 May 2009 08:03 (fourteen years ago) link
youtube
what a world
― oj da hoosman (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 21 May 2009 08:05 (fourteen years ago) link
muh muh muh maah
― r|t|c, Thursday, 21 May 2009 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link
can't believe i'm posting this, but a series of really good interviews w/lady gaga on youtube:
part 1part 2part 3
― Dominique, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
That Nosferatu YouTube is tremendous.
― kshighway, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
What in the fuck
http://12.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kq4it9PWag1qz6dydo1_500.png
http://blip.tv/file/2599151?utm_source=featured_ep&utm_medium=featured_ep
― James Mitchell, Sunday, 20 September 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Oompa Loompa, do-be-de doI've got anothercrap outfit for you
Oompa Loompa, do-be-de deIf you want to look like a toolthen dress just like me
Why not wear a bin liner to work?Look like an attention seeking jerk
Top it off with fake tan and a hatThen you'll look like a prat
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Sunday, 20 September 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't like the look of it.
Oompa Loompa do-be-de daIf you wear odd clothesyou can be a pop star
You will get a number one or twoLike the Oompa Loompas do-be-de do
Do-be-de do
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
she ugly
― surm, Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
christina aguilera has made uneven fake tan her trademark, its prolly an ironic reference
― plax (I know, right?), Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry bro but christina's tan never looked that bad! also she's actually hot
― surm, Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.realself.com/files/imagecache/blog/christina%20aguilera%20bad%20fake%20tan.jpg
I used to really hate xtina for a lot of the reasons that ppl hate on gaga now, but to her credit her pretension rocket never got off the ground while gaga's went into orbit.
― plax (I know, right?), Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, would Leona Lewis qualify as vacuous pop?
ok that tan isn't so hot but she does NOT always look like that
what are these "same reasons"? they seem SOOOOOO different to me
fucking leona lewis' tan is like, vomit inducing
― surm, Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
ew like i saw her on tv with that tan, and i really could NOT believe no one said anything to her. she likes like burnt sienna
― surm, Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
*looks
yeah for one, xtina had great songs.. xxxp
― the nader of civilization (k3vin k.), Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I dunno, I remember about the time of Stripped when she was, you know, expressing herself and stuff and I hated the production on almost everything she did and the way she sang, with I dunno what you call it, kinda like what country singers and alanis morisette do, where a syllable gets broken in two and the notes comes from a different part of the head, the way she did it made it sound like what a load of girls I knew who were into singing did when they wanted to sound like Mariah Carey. Also I was a huge Britney fan and I was true to the cause lol! Admittedly there is no comparison with Lady Gaga that is unfair, sorry x.
― plax (I know, right?), Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
ok. i know her singing style was weird. but like i said on a thread a while ago, she is working with Ladytron to "soften her style" or whatever. also, dirrty will always be fucking amazing, so will fighter and pretty much the entirity of stripped, trumpet singing or not.
― surm, Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
leona lewis has a fake tan? wtf?
― unban dictionary (blueski), Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah they are sooo different, but Candyman is a weirdly pretentious singe, much more wtf than any Gaga single IMO, and its kinda since then that I like her a lot more, that last single was fun and she seems like she would be kinda cool now, also amazing that she isn't a weirdo yet.
― plax (I know, right?), Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I think her next album will be good to fwiw
― plax (I know, right?), Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
well, the last xtina was a mixed bag, but on the whole it's really fuckin good (Back to basics). yes candyman was very pretentious and kind of annoying.
blueski i hope you're kidding. do i have to post pix
― surm, Sunday, 20 September 2009 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i never want to hear candyman again, but i liked that she put it out and it made me root for her more than anything on stripped which is not my bag
― plax (I know, right?), Sunday, 20 September 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
some of the other songs on Back to basics, u would really like.
― surm, Sunday, 20 September 2009 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
pls
― Young Scott Young (sic), Monday, 21 September 2009 03:02 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.leona-lewis.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/leona-lewis-sydney.jpg
― surm, Monday, 21 September 2009 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link
:(
this is a much better look on leonahttp://cm1.theinsider.com/media/0/69/53/leona-lewis.0.0.0x0.428x419.jpeg
― surm, Monday, 21 September 2009 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I think a lot of what is so infuriating about Gaga is that no matter how otherwise pretentious she is, that her music itself is far in the other direction of being totally workaday. If she could at least stick to one extreme, she would be more ignorable.
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 September 2009 04:54 (fourteen years ago) link
looks more like makeup than fake tan to me but i'm not an expert
― Young Scott Young (sic), Monday, 21 September 2009 06:24 (fourteen years ago) link
stripped is a pretty amazing album imo. needs a poll at some point.
i can't decide whether i'd rather gaga's music lived up to the image or whether her rhetoric lived down to the music.
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 September 2009 07:54 (fourteen years ago) link
My dislike of Gaga has lessened somewhat since I realised the following:
a) I really like Cascada's very gagaist "Evacuate the Dancefloor"; and
b) Few if any people actually appear to swallow her schtick wholeheartedly;
c) Only the disco stick song actively annoys me when it comes on the radio now.
If I ignore her copy she's basically just Dannii with a better hit rate?
She seems less of a "problem" in this regard than most other leading lights of nu pop. I'm much more likely to read something disagreeable in a Daniel Merriweather review than I am in a Gaga review.
― Tim F, Monday, 21 September 2009 08:15 (fourteen years ago) link
The other issue - and why Dannii is a relevant point of comparison here - is rule 5 of my taxonomy, namely that persistence is its own reward in the realm of camp pop. Each time Gaga pulls off some truly horrifying photoshoot, sh's actually wearing down your (or at least my) resistance so that next time you're (i'm) more likely to laugh with her rather than sneer at her.
I disliked Gaga from the moment I read the press-release accompanying my for-review copy of "Just Dance". But it's a truism to note that simply by hanging around and getting noticed and talked about, artists tend to seem less and less defined by their stage-managed debutante presentation over time, regardless of how much they try to shore it up.; One doesn't need to backlash against gaga so strongly now that the idea of gaga-backlash is engrained into her public image so unmistakeably.
― Tim F, Monday, 21 September 2009 08:20 (fourteen years ago) link
as i've said elsewhere, my resistance to gaga is on the verge of crumbling. it hasn't yet - thx for reminding me about "disco stick"! - but apparently i danced to "poker face" at a wedding last wkend :(
i mean, partially or even largely this can be put down to the regrettable rise of much worse people, la cunting roux. after dealing with elly jackson i find i have very little hatred left over for anyone else. except dan black, who thankfully hasn't become successful enough to annoy on a daily basis.
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 September 2009 08:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't get cascada at all tho. i don't hate it but i can't imagine having strong feelings, or ANY feelings, about it.
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 September 2009 08:36 (fourteen years ago) link