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 (3 years ago) Permalink
leona lewis has a fake tan? wtf?
― unban dictionary (blueski), Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:58 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think her next album will be good to fwiw
― plax (I know, right?), Sunday, 20 September 2009 17:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
some of the other songs on Back to basics, u would really like.
― surm, Sunday, 20 September 2009 18:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
pls
― Young Scott Young (sic), Monday, 21 September 2009 03:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
― surm, Monday, 21 September 2009 03:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
:(
this is a much better look on leona
― surm, Monday, 21 September 2009 03:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
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 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's easy to dance to music you don't like if it has a strong beat. I have danced to flo rida's "right round" on more than one occasion and I think that song is stupid as balls
― yo gotti gotti! (Curt1s Stephens), Monday, 21 September 2009 08:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
I like her a lot on the Wale song
― plax (I know, right?), Monday, 21 September 2009 10:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
'evacuate the dancefloor' is so great
― jabba hands, Monday, 21 September 2009 10:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
Cascada's very gagaist "Evacuate the Dancefloor"
awesome.
I look forward to the Bonzo Dog Gaga band.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Monday, 21 September 2009 12:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
fucking leona lewis' tan is like, vomit inducing
― surm, Sunday, 20 September 2009 18:51 (Yesterday) Bookmark
Ummm... doesn't she have naturally tanned skin, also known as being a black woman?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Monday, 21 September 2009 12:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
If you ignore the fucking ridiculous thing on her head, this performance is fantastic. I'm still not entirely convinced by the song but I am more convinced than ever that she's got some serious talent, which kind of makes how annoying she is even worse (ha, it's the "Kanye Effect").
― so says i tranny ben franklin (HI DERE), Monday, 21 September 2009 13:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
omg cannot believe i watched almost 1.5 parts of 3 part lady gaga interview where she says fame is a thing u can get and i got it like paris hilton did - its a pretty tedious pov
― ice cr?m, Monday, 21 September 2009 13:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
she seems to think shes pimped some deep understanding of the mechanisms of fame - but its more like wow look how crazy that girl is dressed o hey this song is stuck in my head isnt it
― ice cr?m, Monday, 21 September 2009 13:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Monday, 21 September 2009 12:53 (1 hour ago) Permalink
ummm, i know the difference between being black and having gross chemicals on your skin. thanks.
also lex, i think there was a poll on stripped! didn't dan start it?
― surm, Monday, 21 September 2009 14:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
anyway i think everyone gives gaga too much credit with all the buzz. it's like, that's what she wants...
she's just a talented, annoying pop star.
― surm, Monday, 21 September 2009 14:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
agreed completely, minus the talented part
― the nader of civilization (k3vin k.), Monday, 21 September 2009 14:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
idk she is definitely "talented" on a basic "can hit notes, write hooks" level, esp compared with the fucking amateurs we endure in the UK who can do none of those things, LA ROUX.
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 September 2009 14:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
i think she's talented but is not translating that talent into songs i can stand
― call all destroyer, Monday, 21 September 2009 14:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^^^^ this
I heard a disco remix of "Paparazzi" on Saturday that was really, really great and just made me even more annoyed and irritated with the original.
― so says i tranny ben franklin (HI DERE), Monday, 21 September 2009 17:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
cad otm
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 September 2009 19:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
I just saw that MTV awards performance she did. It was really affecting because of all the costumes and because it's basically melodrama. Her voice wasn't very controlled, but she's moving around a lot. You don't really notice because of all the stagework, though. The shakiness almost made the whole thing seem more dramatic.
That's the only thing I've ever heard her do, though, except the disco stick song. This one, this paparazzi song, was okay. If I had a recording of that performance I would not listen to it.
― bamcquern, Saturday, 26 September 2009 17:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
Wait wait. I just remembered that I wasn't really posting to share my opinion, but that I wrote to ask what people thought of that performance.
― bamcquern, Saturday, 26 September 2009 17:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
Paparazzi is such a beautiful song. video's pretty good too, it turns out.
― surm, Sunday, 27 September 2009 20:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
the VMAs were for me at least the first time she's edged into more entertaining than merely annoying territory
― guccislamic deejihad (some dude), Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
bottom right pic is Goldfrapp meets KISS
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Sunday, 27 September 2009 21:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
I love that term "Gagaist."
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 28 September 2009 01:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
i'm pretty much obsessed with these gaga mind control articles
http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=2614
― a goon boy (J0rdan S.), Friday, 30 October 2009 21:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
good lookin from this guy
i think i kinda like "poker face" now. stuck in my head so much :/
it's never quite satisfactory when i listen though, her voice is so flat and that bluffing with my muffin rap needs to die forever
― lex pretend, Friday, 30 October 2009 21:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
"bad romance" is MASSIVE
― a goon boy (J0rdan S.), Friday, 30 October 2009 21:59 (3 years ago) Permalink
A Taxonomy of Vorpal Jabberwock
xpost
― dabug, Friday, 30 October 2009 22:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Bad Romance" is great, and as I care about her less for no particular reason I become more comfortable with "Paparazzi" being just-plain-awesome.
― dabug, Friday, 30 October 2009 22:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
Here Lex, I'm sure you'll just love Chris Daughtry's rendition, which gets rid of the "bluffin/muffin" bit, thus making it perfect and very enjoyable to listen to. Really. Go ahead. Click it and see for yourself.
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― dabug, Friday, 30 October 2009 22:07 (3 years ago) Permalink
Show formatting help.
those articles are blowing my miiiind.
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Friday, 30 October 2009 22:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
what are they about? i don't have the patience to read them.
paparazzi is still giving me chills.
― oops i accidentally made it personal (surm), Saturday, 31 October 2009 18:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
i basically refuse to listen to any of her newer singles out of fear that i might like them
― k3vin k., Saturday, 31 October 2009 18:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol
― plax (I know, right?), Saturday, 31 October 2009 18:31 (3 years ago) Permalink