Lady Gaga needs her own thread

No, I agree with "some reviewers", except Poker Face is terrible. But Fame Monster > The Fame. That's for sure. I'm kind of hoping Lady Gaga moves a bit away from the overproduced electropop sound.

but toward what?

I prefer the electropop sound. There still aren't so many acts like that today. Not counting Swedish and Norwegian acts, it's her, La Roux, Kylie Minogue and the odd track by other people such as Britney, Madonna and Rihanna. Still needs more.

Somewhere near the beginning of "Bad Romance", I hear "Kung Fu Fighting"! It is a good song, though, and seems to have a big crossover appeal. Oh, and whoever said something about Lady Gaga's weird anonymity upthread was OTM - I don't know whether it's a side-effect of some of those full-veil costumes (like at the VMAs), but her facial features keep swirling around endlessly, never actually settling on a memorable face. It's almost disturbing - like she has some mad Victorian attic-lady shit going on or something.

i mean, it's just makeup, costumery and cameras . . . . it was really cool at first, now it's kinda cool, and soon i'm gonna be ready to just see her in a pair of jeans and a fucking shirt

Ann Powers has been posting a live review of her show on Twitter tonight.

i would rather choke on my own vomit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNq1jSqakIQ

2nd song is ridic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8CUn2VsgzU

Is "Fever" the same song she gave to Adam Lambert?

I guess I'm the only person who thinks "Bad Romance" is a step backwards after "Paparazzi"?

Certainly it's bordering on derivative.

xp no you're right, it sounds like anime fanvid music

hahahahahaha. otm.

i definitely think Paparazzi kills Bad Romance's ass

i just heard the track MONSTER this morning. as i was listening to it, i was like, what is this amazing music. and as i was bending down to look at the itunes program on my boyfriend's macintosh computer, i knew what i would see in front of me -- the name "Lady Gaga." what do you know, there it was.

and btw musically i think this thread was a good idea. i don't want to have to consider the world of vacuous pop everytime i talk about a lady gaga song :D

Picking up a singles collection in 10 yrs is about how excited I can get for Lady Gaga

something about the placement of her voice in the mix in songs like Monster, Paparazzi and the verses (ONLY THE VERSES ffs) of LoveGame reminds me of like smart, *trashier* oldschool RnB.

and btw just to keep it real
http://www.dlisted.com/files/ladycacaforreal.jpg

girl has definitely had a job of the nose

my god, u r obsessed!

Somewhere near the beginning of "Bad Romance", I hear "Kung Fu Fighting"!

I heard that too, fwiw:

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=1625

i am not obsess! but im telling that monster song is kick ass

I do like Lady Gaga, but exactly where is that Gaga effect referred to in the original post here? The only hit from 2009 I can think of that is obviously influenced by Lady Gaga is is "Evacuate The Dancefloor" by Cascada. Some may add La Roux, but they have gone straight to the original source, namely 80s synthpop, and I don't really hear any Lady Gaga in their music.

lol i meant the nosejob thing, I am a little obsessed myself tho, can't stop watching youtube clips of her, it is amazing the energy and polish she brings to the crappiest of daytime tv spots.

oh well i mean i just saw a pic of her recently and her nose actually looked tiny (helped that she was wearing gigantic sunglasses)

so i was like hmmmm

this is all negated by how tiny her nose looks in three yr old clips 4 me

are u making fun of me?

wait what? no i mean yeah her nose is a schnozz in the pic u posted but it really isn't big at all in the way older youtube clips from before she was famous, so u kno, there's way worse things with that picture neway

that pic is just rock and roll tbh

The nosejob may as well be influenced by this woman though:
http://frecuenciax.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/a43amy-winehouse.jpg

no you are right "I know, right?" -- she does appear to have a normal-ish nose in the "before she was famous" youtube clips

i can't bring myself to watch anymore of those tho, it's like OK I GET IT, she played some legit shows BEFORE SHE WAS FAMOUS woooohooooooooo

http://i47.tinypic.com/4rb1gm.jpg

lol was totes gonna post that same picture

speechless isn't bad huh?

sounds like Queen, 'n she played it for the Queen

even hearing a little Beatles in this one

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.

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right. Teeth is fucking awesome.

Still prefer the electropop numbers. When she tries sounding like Queen, she ends up sounding closer to Mika instead. The electropop ones are all ace though.

Teeth is neither, really

saw some interview with her last night. it's like, i'm cool with the ideas behind her "art" -- but she needs to stop using the word "art" so much and dropping references to warhol and shit. it's like, she does have really good ideas, but she markets herself as such a cliche

yeah she needs to make "show don't tell" her mantra

gaagaaolaala-a

worst uhhh...."thing" ever to happen to music

goodnight

The only hit from 2009 I can think of that is obviously influenced by Lady Gaga is is "Evacuate The Dancefloor" by Cascada

heard this song every day when i was home over thanksgiving, god this is a piece of shit

i was thinking of that alexandra burke song maybe?

fucking HELL the synth madness going on under the first round of ra-ma-la-las on "bad romance"

basically playing "paparazzi", "bad romance", "telephone" and "teeth" incessantly now :/

I DON'T WANNA BE FREEEENCH

"he needs to stop using the word "art" so much and dropping references to warhol and shit."

Her interviews are the sole reason that it took me about six months to come around to her records. She reminded me of Placebo's Brian Molko acting if he was the first person in the world to have read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. "Yeah, there's this guy Andy Warhol. You won't have heard of him. He said this really interesting thing about celebrity…" (not a verbatim quote btw)

^^^THIS.

Would that I had been blissfully unaware, I could have enjoyed the music 10x more.