lady gaga 'fame-era' singles poll

Has ilxor always been this Perez Hilton like catty or have I been just speed reading the threads too much?

lol, i wasn't being catty in this thread, i don't think! just talked about a couple songs i like

he meant ilxor the website rather than ilxor the poster i think

i think the only great video she's done is "bad romance" though

― lex pretend, Friday, February 11, 2011 2:40 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

word to that, most of her other videos are either kinda boring or overloaded with overt attempts to be WTF or 'funny'. as much as i hate "Poker Face" it's probably her 2nd best video, although a very distant runner-up.

most of her stage performances >>>>>> her videos

just dance is the only thing i can stomach, reminds me of being in europe when it was blowing up.

he meant ilxor the website rather than ilxor the poster i think

I meant the website as a whole.

oh please. insinuating that i am negative when it comes to pop music is a joke. i ride no kind of trend high -- i think for myself, and i happen to think that Bionic has more than a tinge of desperation to its lack of focus -- in the same way that Back to Basics is way too homogenous in its focus to be considered truly genuine. it's awfully ballsy to go around accusing ilxors of forming an opinion because it's the thing to do - ilxors are a pretty smart bunch. i would think twice before making that kind of claim.

And when I meant hating on Christina or Lady Gaga is the thing to do I meant more pop music/gawker-like forums doing that. I never doubted the intelligence of the posters here. I have always respected the opinions of people here even though I disagree with them. I didn't know ILM was such serious business.

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to repeat my question. how good is the second cd of the Fame Monster?

The second cd of the Fame Monster is ten times better than the first one. Due to it being shorter and having a little more diverse in sound.

And when I meant hating on Christina or Lady Gaga is the thing to do I meant more pop music/gawker-like forums doing that. I never doubted the intelligence of the posters here. I have always respected the opinions of people here even though I disagree with them. I didn't know ILM was such serious business.

― Okay Pet Shop Boys Aren't That Bad. (lilsoulbrother), Saturday, 12 February 2011 17:33 (1 hour ago)

it's not. sorry for the serious words. i just reacted that way cuz i tend to be a very positive person when it comes to music and i really would like to see christina doing better. it's just, i feel she's made the wrong decisions.

i was ready for her to like take over the world when she came out with stripped

curious as to how people feel about "summer boy". i really like that one, prob more than any of these singles

most of her stage performances >>>>>> her videos

― lex pretend, Saturday, February 12, 2011 12:05 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

ehhhhh lost me there, the videos at their worst are at least kind of flashy and engaging, the try-hard community theater props & plots of her live TV appearances really put a chink in her armor of supposed unstoppable polished professionalism.

i prefer her recorded material to her live stuff

but i appreciate that she does the live stuff the way she does it

i don't know "summer boy"

"summmer boy" is okay - it sounds like No Doubt

i like no doubt sometimes

"summmer boy" is okay - it sounds like No Doubt

yeah, the first time i heard it i thought it was a gwwen stefani song, and was esp. confused b/c the person i was with had just finished playing one of her records

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damn, really didn't expect this big of a wipeout

yeah that's kinda surprising

nah i totally expected this

yeah me too

lol lovegame

this is p much what i expected but idg what makes bad romance special. always feels overcooked.

i like the dancers in the leather jackets in the love game video more than all her music combined.

overcooked is what i like about "Bad Romance." when she falls short of over the top it feels a little flimsy for me.

its like u pick everything terrible abt music to like sometimes

yeah i should really focus on the important stuff like leather jackets

well sure if u wanna strawman me, i said the guys *in* the leather jackets i mean jeez man wtf

as i've said in the past, what makes bad romance special is the strength and emotion of gaga's melodic composition and vocal delivery as set against such a cold, hard beat. the disparity there mimics human experience quite well, and offers up a true representation of what it is like to reflect on love gone awry.

btw id like to clarify that yes my priorites are p much

1. cute boys
2. music

and if there was a board called ilcb i would post there as much as ilxor does here

ha

i sometimes have trouble deciding which is more important to me, too. love, on the one hand, is tough to argue with. but cute boys don't necessarily equate with love, and cute fades, and boys bail on you sometimes. my keyboard, though, and the records that i love -- that is permanent. i like that.

i think you just wrote gaga's next album.

until your computer crashes and you lost all the music you spent months making, but yes

stop. you know that happened to me recently. i now have 3 copies of everything i record in the house.

i know that's why i said it!

:D <3

i think you just wrote gaga's next album.

― tellysavalas (some dude), Thursday, February 17, 2011 5:11 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

btw i'm taking this as a compliment

And well you should!

it's not. sorry for the serious words. i just reacted that way cuz i tend to be a very positive person when it comes to music and i really would like to see christina doing better. it's just, i feel she's made the wrong decisions.

― i like lucy (surm), Saturday, February 12, 2011 11:08 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That is ok surm. I understand what you are saying about Christina. I always thought she was going to be 2nd as far as blond pop singers of 00's.

Plus, "Bad Romance" winning is not a surprise as it is probably the only time Lady Gaga took all of her influences (Bowie, Madonna, maybe even Michael Jackson) and cooked up a pop anthem almost as equal to what they produced.

Paparazzi, really? Is that just because it's so different from the other tracks?

That chorus & bridge to "Paparzzi" is killer to me. Also, the synths weren't so prominent and annoying like earlier singles.

papaRAzzi

that note still kills me, the way she goes up to her head voice

thing that kinda bums me out about so many lady gaga tracks is the killer choruses matched with these weak monotonous verses. in so many of her songs it seems like the verses are just sort of her hanging around a couple of notes until finally she breaks into some brilliant hook of a chorus. the approach should be more compelling imo

i'm not by any means a huge madonna fan, but that is one area where madonna has her beat, i'm thinking.

Bad Romance has, like, three great hooks in one song and even the verses are also quite catchy by themseoves. Either one of the hooks could be a chorus to a pretty memorable pop song and this song has three of them in one song! While not unprecedented, it's pretty rarified air. No shock at the win or the margin of victory IMHO.