Lady Gaga needs her own thread

well now i do

i have a half-baked theory going on that gaga's early bog-standard generic stuff was a trojan horse for what she really wanted to foist on the world, and "speechless" and "teeth" bear this out rather

Of course, that's sort of how Eminem started out, too, and for all the subsequent highs, we all know how that turned out.

Eminem started out with bog-standard stuff?

http://www.crossphazer.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/eminem_infinite_cover.jpg

well ok, but that wasn't exactly his public first impression. that's pretty much equivalent to gaga's bar band gigs upthread

yeah "Bad Romance" has always reminded me of "Don't Bring Me Down"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs95QrCOvng

Apparently this is Megan Phelps' (of Westboro Baptist Church infamy) version of "Poker Face":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhyx1wtP9S0

I thought those were the lyrics on screen for a moment

i heard Monster coming out of someone's earbuds on a train today. it was exciting. i tried to give him the "oh, i know" look but i'm not sure if he caught on

What's the "Oh, I know" look, surm?

http://raraahahahromaromamagagaoohlala.com/

xp lol i'm not really sure, which is why i don't think he got it either

http://raraahahahromaromamagagaoohlala.com/

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the Monster line "Wanna talk to her, she’s hot as hell" is my favorite pop lyric of the moment! yay

http://i49.tinypic.com/2m7xksp.jpg

A+

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1246267/Schoolgirl-10-accidently-hanged-dressing-gown-cord-danced-Lady-GaGa.html#ixzz0dmdoO35R

There is absolutely no reason Lady GaGa's name should have been used in that headline. Pathetic. Definitely a horrifying tragedy, but no reason to publicize it like that.

Is this why you Britishers hate the Daily Mail?

tip, iceberg

That Oprah performance where she's hitting the car windshield w/ a mace and trying so desperately to make it dramatic confirms that she's still biting off more than she can chew with the crazy setpieces (see also: awkwardly sitting at the piano in crazy outfit on SNL, looking down to make sure her fake blood was running on the VMAs). So much of what she does could be awesome if it came off effortless and not so amateurish.

do u like any of her other newer songs besides BR?

I think I've only heard a couple once or twice, and they didn't stick, but again haven't really givent hem a chance to. What are the best ones?

I'm big on "speechless", which is sort of a weird billy joel/queen ballad, and "alejandro" is nice too

monster. alejandro is eh

oh and TEETH

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/2/3/c/23cf3beb3bd3c2199734e20bc363bcfc.gif

Apparently, Daily Mail hate Lady Gaga.

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

one of our local drag performers made a vid to Bad Romance. it's good, y'see:

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/L33CqwDq3Lo&hl=en_US&fs=1&";></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/L33CqwDq3Lo&hl=en_US&fs=1&"; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

it's my first time trying to embed anything and I fucked up! nooooooooooooo here's the normal link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L33CqwDq3Lo

oh wtf

"alejandro" is massive imo

lol @ amon gif

welcome to ILX, Ivan

i find "speechless" genuinely moving and "telephone" is such a banger. SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE I LIVE IN GRAND CENTRAL STATION! the crookers remix is great too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAme2dwt--g

yes that is good

I like "So Happy I Could Die" - very nice, striking chord change at the end of the chorus. "Alejandro" is AWFUL though.

I was also really annoyed by this live performance of "Speechless", where at one point she paused and adopted an anguished facial expression, presumably as a heavy-handed means of achieving pathos.

brainflash/fart: LG should cover the title track from Bowie's "Diamond Dogs". I mean, the lyrics are perfect for her.

Ozzy Osbourne likes her

From some of the stage clothes that he used to wear, I can understand why.

So what's this "Retro Physical" song that just leaked out? It's good, but I need to put in context with something. I mean, songs like these don't just get thrown away and unused, do they?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brWT-Skj_Gc

swagger jacker. sounds like Glass Candy.

it's old, like 2007-2008

It is? Somehow that makes me like it even more.

"Speechless" is the weirdest hybrid of Neko Case and Oasis. It's actually not bad, which is even weirder.

Lady Gaga article in the WSJ, pretty interesting analysis if nothing spectacularly novel:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704094304575029621644867154.html?mod=djemLifeStyle_h

xp yea but there's also something strongly burlesque to it, in the style of a western -- something you would expect to hear in a saloon scene in a movie by quentin tarantino.

Bad Romance and Dance in the Dark just made sense for me this morning. buggin. Dance in the Dark is wonderfully subtle and epic at the same time. and Bad Romance actually made me cry :/