Lady Gaga needs her own thread

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.

― wrapped up, packed up, ribbon with a donk on it (Alex in Montreal), Monday, November 16, 2009 5:59 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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.

it's like, part of the reason why pop music is so fun is that the artistry in it doesn't have to be so serious. it can be, and should be taken as such at times, but to brand genuinely fun work with a label as generic as "art" or "warhol" seems dumb

to brand genuinely fun work with a label as generic as "art" or "warhol" seems dumb

Or ... smart? I'm curious where she goes with all this. Frankly, the thing that bugs me the most about huge pop stars like Madonna or Beyonce or Rihanna or Mariah or whomever is their total inability - or refusal - to wrestle with the precepts of postmodernism. When any of them do try, it just seems so ... managed. Or mannered. Or maybe in the case of Gaga, dumb. Don't know if she'll do it, but if Gaga ultimately delivers on her nascent subversion (dormroom variety or no), I'd be very happy, because I can't think of the last pop star (US pop star, at least) that pulled that off and had so much apparent fun in the process.

i guess there's a happy medium. she just seems so pleased with herself.

who the fuck wants postmodernism from their pop stars?

in theory i kinda do but in practice i want it to happen by accident

maybe I missed her earlier, annoying interviews, but big interviews namechecking Cindy Sherman and coming out with lines like this actually make me feel better about being such a sucker for "Bad Romance"

"Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves," she said. "I guess what I am trying to do is take the monster and turn the monster into a fairy tale."

"If you're on an island, stranded, and all you have is sticks and leaves and pineapples, you're gonna make a boat out of sticks and leaves and pineapples," she said. "I view glamour and celebrity life and these plastic assumptions as the pineapples. And I spend my career harvesting pineapples, and making pies and outfits and lipsticks that will free my fans from their stranded islands."

i'd probably make pina coladas and chill first but each to his own

or this (this story, great example of an interview trying to come off knowing and snide and just utterly humiliating themselves)

Gaga insists on explaining the concept of her show, which is on the wildly original theme of evolution... So far so predictable, but then she goes on: “My evolution is from the beginning of time, so I start as a cell [she shows me a costume like a geodesic dome], and then I become a vertebrate, and then I become a full animal, and there’s the birth of the economy, and trade and war, and then it’s the Apocalypse. Because we as a society are taught politically and religiously that the Apocalypse is coming, it’s on its way. But what I’m saying with my show is, ‘We’re there right now: this is the Apocalypse.’ The fact that we’re surrounded by cement and we’ve already killed everything means the Apocalypse has happened.

"So the idea for me is to give a sense of repose and solace to my fans, that we’re here, we did it already, and now it’s about accepting where we are and looking more joyfully into the future."

i kind of like those ideas. i like the idea that she's taking ugly things and making them beautiful, to be honest. and it helps the case that she's kind of ugly, herself. but i guess she is repping for a kind of uber-creativity, when it comes to human error and potential. that's pretty cool.

i have never read any interviews w/ her and i think both of those quoted passages are wonderful. brilliant, fun and subversive and a very good way - an inspirational, forward-thinking & creatively engaged way. and that's exactly what i got from her songs and videos without reading the interviews anyway, so i think she does do the "show don't tell" thing pretty well.

i like the idea that she's taking ugly things and making them beautiful, to be honest. and it helps the case that she's kind of ugly, herself. but i guess she is repping for a kind of uber-creativity, when it comes to human error and potential. that's pretty cool.

― Do you love me now? (surm), Thursday, December 17, 2009 5:22 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is what i love most about her, and why i mentioned marilyn manson upthread.

OK, so I've got a chance to see the traveling performance art installation that's called Lady Gaga at the Nokia Theater tonight. Will report back on Illuminati agents, theosophical rituals, and orbiting mind control lasers.

I'm kind of over Gaga talking about 'art' and am now more annoyed with the lip service she pays to her fans. MTV asked her who her favorite artist of the year was and she said "my fans," come the fuck on.

an early xmas gift: fred phelps has discovered lady gaga!

http://jezebel.com/5433133/reverend-fred-phelps-god-hates-lady-gaga

"THOU HADST A WHORE'S FOREHEAD"