Why does Lady Gaga get a free pass from hipsters?

matt i agree w u--kevin u are being stupid

Does anyone else remember being bombarded LG with full page ads on the myspace login screen for like a month and then huge banner ads after that?

Some folks are making it sound like she had some kind of organic home grown success. You don't get that kind of promo without a lot of corporate PR dollars behind you. It seems like they have spent a lot of money to push her image and her single into Clear Channel radio. Not that it is shocking or unusual for this to happen with pop music, but in her case it seemed really evident in a way that you wouldn't see with a Britney.

yeah...for like 6 months last year i thought of LG as a really failed major label push, MTV played "Just Dance" constantly but I didn't hear anything about here anywhere or think it was getting played much on the radio...then before i know it the song goes #1 and she's suddenly inescapable.

this thread was supposed to be classy but you people ruined it.

hahaha oh man kudos

40+ Israeli transvestite essentially means you're referring to Dana International, right? I see it.

yeah + my Israeli aunt, but let's not get into that.

sorta dissapointed i wasn't the first one who thought tranny, guess i am normal after all.

i don't think she's ugly though, but the whole female singers have to be naked and sing about sex all the time gets on my nerves.

like dancing with some clothes on can't be.... er.. sexy. ;)

problems with this thread:
- the insane generalization that Lady Gaga gets a free pass from anyone.
- the use of the word hipster
- homophobia

i really like the idea of 'Man GoGo' as a handle.

more like trannyphobia

I don't think GaGa is ugly at all.. and her body is great.

― Monday Nite Tranny Party (The Brainwasher), Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:09 PM (2 hours ago)

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that's just a bad photo... I could find a bad photo of pretty much any hot celeb.

not zac efron.

My own problem with Lady Gaga (and I'm assuming it's more or less ILM's problem, but I could be wrong) is that her music/image seems to be a lot less interesting than that of artists in the same vein and who haven't even come close to achieving the same commercial success.

problems with this thread:
- the insane generalization that Lady Gaga gets a free pass from anyone.
- the use of the word hipster
- homophobia

― the table is the table, Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:07 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark

u left off both 'sexism' and 'makeitpop'

and 'geir'

i dunno BW, it say "ultimate lady gaga" right there

lol xpost

I don't think she's ugly. Some of her photos look amazing. A lot of them don't. But the ones that don't aren't so much cases of "bad photo day" and more "I really don't like the visual you're consicously aiming for there."

yupyup, she is hella pretty and sometimes even dressed really interestingly. i haven't gone back and checked, but i feel like here was some love for lg on the rolling pop thread. why is barely anyone sticking up for her here? the tunes are really mostly not bad, and i like a few alot.

I just checked out the video for You Belong by Hercules and Love Affair and it is a shame that they did not have the kind of commercial success that Lady Gaga is having. Obviously they are being marketed differently and are aiming at different audiences but Hercules embodies much of the same content as is just some much more interesting and well executed.

I'd like to see something as blatantly commercial as LG but with deeper references. It would be cool to see those codes cross over into the mainstream.

but is so much more interesting and well executed.

it does figure she has a burlesque past, everyone knows burlesque is where fat ugly girls pretend they are sexy.

damn homie

'You Belong' video is dope and still lovin that track

i still think the person in that photo is Rhys Ifans

'You Belong' video is dope and still lovin that track

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otm

btw i think Gaga might as well work with Ed Banger doods. peace.

I can't stand her but the complaints about the sexism/homophobia on this thread are otm

grow the fuck up guys

i haven't gone back and checked, but i feel like here was some love for lg on the rolling pop thread. why is barely anyone sticking up for her here?

well I was the main GaGa defender/lover in that thread and I don't feel like getting into this argument now

and Hercules and Love Affair's music has like no pop appeal like at all, I don't even get why you'd bring them up in here?

they do full actual songs you can dance to and have a strong image. that qualifies as pop to me.

i mean they're obv intentionally straddling that middle ground between pop/charts and club credibility, of which there's been a great lineage imo (not so much in the US).

Hercules? Really?

not making it pop

the complaints about the sexism/homophobia on this thread are otm

almost everyone whose talked about teh homos on this thread (along with a good number of ILM's most vocal Gaga-haters) are gay

god hates fags

peace

I read the whole thread and I'm pretty sure that that's the only homophobic thing on it btw

lol thirdalternative

i am not reading this thread, ever, but my roommate receives rolling stone (and reads ayn rand and is a PUA) and that cover made me throw up a little bit

Cobrasnake crowd

lol

I just checked out the video for You Belong by Hercules and Love Affair and it is a shame that they did not have the kind of commercial success that Lady Gaga is having. Obviously they are being marketed differently and are aiming at different audiences but Hercules embodies much of the same content as is just some much more interesting and well executed.

I'd like to see something as blatantly commercial as LG but with deeper references. It would be cool to see those codes cross over into the mainstream.

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dont see how these artists are similar at all

& im not really a h&la stan or anything either ... shes a lot closer to ed banger MAYBE bcuz of the kinda trash aesthetic going on, but H&LA are trying so much harder to be tasteful ...

She's closer to (current) Kylie Minogue than either I think. I could totally imagine GaGa coming out with "Speakerphone" or "Red Blooded Woman".

Kylie's visual aesthetic is very similar actually, minus the elaborate artworld justifications.

im just glad there's a makeitpop in this world to take the pressure off posters like me...Godspeed brother

Kylie's visual aesthetic is very similar actually, minus the elaborate artworld justifications.

there's one glaring difference...

btw i'm totally fine with gaga working the jolie-laide thing - it's been a long time since anyone has in the pop sphere

she has street cred to put it one way, as opposed to brit or xtina

o rly?

great posts there

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i don't even know what to make of this thread. but i'll offer up this:

i work with a hipster girl. she's like a cartoon character of what you'd think a hipster would be like & today she was talking about a guy she's into when she uttered the following sentence, "He doesn't listen to radio stuff like Britney & Lady Gaga, so that's a plus."

excellent fieldwork there!

i think to prove or disprove this thread's premise we need to find out how A-Trak felt when he found out Kanye is going to tour with LG