http://www.shoppingblog.com/pics/lady_gaga_rolling_stone_0609.jpg
― 1899 Horsey Horseless (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link
yea, and the stupid new yorker article
― surm, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link
tbh "lady gaga" and "hipsters" in the same sentence is making me a little queasy
― surm, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
it should be a policy to not respond to makeitpop threads but the answer to this one is easy: besides not knowing what you even mean by hipsters, or even if hipsters are giving a free pass to gaga, or if anyone should even care, i think the answer is largely because for a long while before she was a pop star gaga was a performer in presumably hip nyc clubs doing burlesque stuff and the like. she has street cred to put it one way, as opposed to brit or xtina
― let free dom ring (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
god she is such a horseface
it's basically impossible for her to be sexy
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
no one fucking likes lady gaga, what the hell is this guy talking about
― gangsta hug (omar little), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i would like to understand where she came from tbh
― DUDE, I DON'T LOSE (call all destroyer), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
also "poker face" doesn't sound like britney
― surm, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Lady Ga Ga writes her own material.
Yes, that is important.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
But whether she is the "new Madonna" or not, well, we'll get the answer to that in 5-10 years.
the phrase "new Madonna" should never be uttered again
― surm, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
ws, kinda
― i would never want a book's autograph (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
― gangsta hug (omar little), Wednesday, June 10, 2009 8:44 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
― pretzel walrus, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Her tunes are pretty good, the couple that I've heard anyway. She does not give good interview. I don't know whether hipsters give her a free pass or not. Who knows why hipsters do what hipsters do?
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
The Britney comparison is referring to her latest albums, not the Baby One More Time era music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FehBgQeVKFQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMeucO5dNTA
― makeitpop, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
A++++ troll
― iatee, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean, i understand, but the voice is like, not the same.
― surm, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Dee Snider looks great on that RS cover tho
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Obviously, Lady Gaga has a more appealing voice, but the attitude, the production, and the silly sexual innuendo seems interchangeable. Either record could have been released by either artist.
― makeitpop, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Lady Gaga: The Original Hipster Grifter
― 1899 Horsey Horseless (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
who is makeitpop a sock of?
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
can't be said enough
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Had this stuck in my head recently, thanks ILM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qRPzBrtYMQ
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
lady gaga, jay leno & dave matthews in one issue of Rolling Stone. I'm making a bee line to the newsstand.
― pj, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
1. Lady Ga Ga writes her own material2. Britney has never written a song
VERY important difference!!!!
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
no it isn't, shut up
― 1899 Horsey Horseless (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
geir stop
― let free dom ring (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
also percentage of the world that knows that lady gaga writers her own songs and isn't some label controlled robot is probably like 20%
― let free dom ring (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
also britney has written a song
― surm, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
much like after you hit suggest ban i think there should be a warning that reminds you that you are about to respond to a geir hongro post
― let free dom ring (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/10/article-0-0546671E000005DC-224_468x829.jpg
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
lol this is such an obvious trolljob w2g guys
― autogucci cru (deej), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
dunno if you're talking about makeitpop, geir, gaga or all 3
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I wrote a song, it's called "Geir, Shut the Fuck Up"
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I hear the lyrics are a little obscure to the uninitiated but the cognoscenti highly satisfying.
― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
― The-Reverend (rev), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
― pretzel walrus, Wednesday, June 10, 2009 8:50 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark
UH i know at least one person who never stops singing JUST DANCE
― 69, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:14 (fifteen years ago) link
ysi?
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
http://perezhilton.com/2009-06-10-the-hottest-tour-of-the-fall
― makeitpop, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
perez hilton, hipster
― da croupier, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Geir Hipstro
― krots tphns (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
okay, everyone all together:
FUCK YOU, KANYE
― 1899 Horsey Horseless (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
lady gaga music > lady gaga photos tbh
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link
defenestration > lady gaga photos
― 1899 Horsey Horseless (HI DERE), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link
what kind of free pass do you mean? a bus pass? a train pass?
― Local Garda, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:22 (fifteen years ago) link
1. she doesn't look that bad2. it doesn't matter what she looks like3. her music sucks
― krots tphns (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
the articles in that RS are unbelievable.
Jay Leno: THE INTERVIEW.
Anyway, I think people are more positive about LG because she seems largely self-made, while Britney is synthetic and talentless.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
haha lolz in what world is Perez Hilton a "hipster"
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
it doesn't matter what she looks like
clearly she would disagree
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
"i don't want to give the quietus my custom by clicking the link again but wtf was with john doran's defensive comment frenzy? nagl."
Best bit about that was how, when his argument got completely dismantled by fellow commenters he went into panic mode and resorted to ad hom-ish "LOL U CAN'T SPELL 'AVANT GARDE' LOL" tricks.
― unpredictable johnny rodz, Monday, 1 March 2010 08:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Generally I find this whole discussion about what black and white people listen to boring (why do they have to listen to different stuff in the first place?), but I still find that black people don't deserve to be underrated in that one believes they are only interested in manufactored and mass produced corporate pop. I would choose to believe black people are also able to understand artistic value in pop music, and pop music as having actual artistic merit rather than just business.
And Lady Gaga's fans are probably mostly white anyway.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 1 March 2010 09:23 (fourteen years ago) link
And btw I also hope the same goes for white middle class people. That they don't let the upper class moneymen steal all their money with manufactured plastic pop, and that the middle class aren't alone in actually preferring more artistically thought out music.
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 1 March 2010 09:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm still laughing/offended at the term 'archetypal ghetto hustler' that's some bullshit...The argument that black people do not really appreciate music with actual merit is totally false, you just have to look at the history of black culture and music to see that. As for Rihanna, she is only able to be 'weird and edgy' because she's been so successful and has such an aggressive and smart marketing, production team etc. Plus other artists clearly paved the way like Grace Jones, Kelis, M.I.A and if anyone is aping Lady GaGa it is only because that is what is selling right now. If you don't really write your own lyrics (LIKE BEYONCE) or generally have any creative input into your music/style/image/personality (like Rihanna) then clearly you're only going to be about what will make you lots of dollar. It really just comes down to money imo.
― RubyNoir, Monday, 1 March 2010 10:36 (fourteen years ago) link
The argument that black people do not really appreciate music with actual merit is totally false, you just have to look at the history of black culture and music to see that.
good to know
― the archetypal ghetto hustler (history mayne), Monday, 1 March 2010 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Lol sorry if I sound patronising
― RubyNoir, Monday, 1 March 2010 10:45 (fourteen years ago) link
nah u jus sound dumb
― plax (ico), Monday, 1 March 2010 10:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"dance like there’s no-one watching, sing like there’s no-one listening and fuck like you’re being filmed" Ewwww.
Good to see that people are still writing pieces with the subtext: "In your face, lame-o indie strawman, I am a rock critic who enjoys an enormously popular and widely praised pop star. Please give me a fucking medal."
― gotanynewsstory? (Dorianlynskey), Monday, 1 March 2010 10:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Rude
― RubyNoir, Monday, 1 March 2010 10:55 (fourteen years ago) link
If you don't really write your own lyrics (LIKE BEYONCE) or generally have any creative input into your music/style/image/personality (like Rihanna) then clearly you're only going to be about what will make you lots of dollar. It really just comes down to money imo.
Alternatively, it is a take it or leave it from the big A&R guys at the record companies: "Either you perform the manufactured stuff that we have made for you to top the charts with, or just forget about the entire deal".
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 1 March 2010 12:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow. Those John Doran comments: Doctor Dre a pre-gangsta electro star in a homo-erotic health care themed electro dance act)
― President Keyes, Monday, 1 March 2010 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
How would you describe World Class Wrekcing Kru if you had your tongue in your cheek? Have you heard the music/seen the photos?
Anyway, I'd just like to register my annoyance at The Quietus being called an indie site. Getting wound up by opinion pieces on the internet is your privilege. (For the extremely slow witted: we publish pieces designed to kick up a fuss about four times a year. The last one was on Florence and the Machine. The Guardian does it many, many, many times a day.) I didn't really think that much of the Mof piece, it just made me laugh out loud so I published it. If I were you I'd probably want to exercise my right by not clicking on my site. I'll really be suffering that 0.00001 pence pinch in my wallet until you and Dom Pass "accidentally" find yourself reading my us again.
But. We're not an indie site. We barely cover any compared to what we do (features wise) on leftfield music, post punk, synth pop, dubstep, metal, electronica. In comparison we barely cover it.
That's all.
― Doran, Monday, 1 March 2010 12:57 (fourteen years ago) link
"nah u jus sound dumb"
pots be calling kettle's, man.
― Spinspin Sugah, Monday, 1 March 2010 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
haha ok "spinspin sugah"
― jaded scorer (k3vin k.), Monday, 1 March 2010 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
leftfield music, post punk, synth pop, dubstep, metal, electronica
?O_o?, indie, indie, indie, not indie, indie
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 1 March 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
My name is Kevin.
― Spinspin Sugah, Monday, 1 March 2010 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
looooooool xp
― jaded scorer (k3vin k.), Monday, 1 March 2010 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
doran collabed with someone who wasn't indie or clueless or racist once. the quietus is the archetypal non-indie non-racist non-clueless website.
― zvookster, Monday, 1 March 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
For the extremely slow witted: we publish pieces designed to kick up a fuss about four times a year.
So I guess we can expect to find you here being defensive 3 more times this year after your hoped for fusses get kicked up.
― President Keyes, Monday, 1 March 2010 14:07 (fourteen years ago) link
lol when will people realize coming to defend your shitty thinkpiece on a message board only makes you look more dum
― noted schloar (dyao), Monday, 1 March 2010 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Um tbf he is a regular poster here, it would kind of be more incongruous to just pretend not to have seen it
― sometimes I feel like throwing my glands up in the air (DJ Mencap), Monday, 1 March 2010 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, my bad.
― noted schloar (dyao), Monday, 1 March 2010 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
*opens 'history of black culture and music' textbook*
― samosa gibreel, Monday, 1 March 2010 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
lol I did sound like a arse! but in my defense I was hungover and not really reading the post....not that that is really an excuse urgh. I liked the argument between the owner of the site and one of the commenters, that was the best part about the article.
― RubyNoir, Monday, 1 March 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
wow. [nabisco] should have saved his "using black ppl as pawns in games of music nerd one-upsmanship" for this maybe
― average dump from average gangsters (deej), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
ILM users see everyone as pawns in games of music nerd one-upsmanship
― T-R-A-P-S-T-R (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 04:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Even Lady GaGa can be celibate. You don't have to have sex to be loved.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304370304575151541851806562.html
why does lady gaga get a free pass when it comes to terrorism
― iatee, Friday, 2 April 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
ha that's already been taken apart hardcore by a couple different ppl
― goole, Friday, 2 April 2010 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I just like the title
― iatee, Friday, 2 April 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Are settlements more offensive than pop stars?
ans: nope!
― goole, Friday, 2 April 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
depends on the pop star
― Mr. Que, Friday, 2 April 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Lady Gaga > Israeli settlements > Katy Perry
― The Reverend, Friday, 2 April 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
My 6 year old cousin just overheard my sister playing Lady Gaga and she came asking her "why does she stutter in all her songs? Does she have a problem?" Never really thought about it but:
Just Dance: Just, j-j-just dancePokerface: po-po-po-poker face po-po-poker facePaparazzi: papa-paparazziBad Romance: Rah-rah-ah-ah-ah! Roma-Roma-ma-ah! Ga-ga-ooh-la-la!Telephone: I am sick and tired of my phone r-ringin.Future Love: I want a f-f-f-f-future man, I wanna f-fuck you as hard as I can.Monster: That boy is a monster, m-m-m-monster
― Moka, Monday, 5 April 2010 18:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Found another one:
Dirty Ice Cream: When you call or incessantly t-t-text me
― Moka, Monday, 5 April 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Well what do you think, she also stutters on her new single:
Alejandro, Alejandro, Ale-ale-jandro, Ale-ale-jandro.
― Moka, Friday, 9 April 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
yea this is a definite trick for her. i think she uses it to break up the pace in the melody. i like it.
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Friday, 9 April 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ "does she have a problem"
― 2 guys 1 gag (surm), Friday, 9 April 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Jack White 'Got Quite Into Being Lady Gaga' While Writing New Song
Lady Gaga is a lot of things: songstress, trend-setter, lover of little monsters, and, apparently, an inspiration to White Stripes singer Jack White. He said he thought about how she writes music and "got quite into being Lady Gaga" while writing a track for his band The Dead Weather, called "Sea of Cowards."
Jack said: "I was thinking of the type of song a contemporary musician would write, so I started thinking about Lady Gaga. I started thinking of how she would write the music to this song and got quite into being Lady Gaga in an odd way."
Despite Jack's foray into Lady Gaga musical territory, the rocker insists the group's second album builds on the sound established on their debut, Horehound, which was released last year and was recorded quickly in order to capture the band's energy.
― is it really that hard to spot all these fake british dudes? (velko), Monday, 10 May 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I realized I wasn't crazy about Poker Face after all
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 10:45 (five years ago) link
She seems like a fairly decent person (although she did once sue a chef into oblivion for calling herself Lady Aga), but the music is over-produced landfill.
The arc of her album sales is shaped like a soft letter L:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga_discography#Studio_albums
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 11:41 (five years ago) link
WRONG:
I like that song “Shallow.” The sort of thing you can picture a boy and girl doing on Lawrence Welk.— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) May 5, 2019
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link
really missing the point at which it seemed lady gaga's music was imminently going to turn into client
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link
Some grisly posts basically the whole way through this thread
― You can't see it but I had an epiphany (Champiness), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
she did once sue a chef into oblivion for calling herself Lady AgaI looked this up — seems like she sent a C&D letter, but there was no lawsuit
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 23:53 (five years ago) link
the cobrasnake era was fucking dark
― maura, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link