Why does Lady Gaga get a free pass from hipsters?

Tim F you always manage to make songs I hate sound so appealing. :P

Ha, I think "Bad Romance" is one of those songs that would for most people teeter on the edge between liking and hating, and then once it falls on either side you either really like it or really hate it.

i'd be hard pressed to think of a current female artist who sounded *less* like kate bush than gaga

but they both crimp their hair!

Her music videos look like something that should be on a giant billboard screen in Back to the Future II.

http://raraahahahromaromamagagaoohlala.com/

lol

(RAH)² (AH)³ + [ROMA (1+MA)] + (GA)² + (OOH) (LA)²

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O34BLIDgXDI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGH5ygIKyT0&feature=related

this gaga/herc&love affair rmx is kinda boring :-/

Why does Taylor Swift get a free pass from ILX?

Why do people not understand what "free pass" means?

Don't play innocent. ILX is basically the Neville Chamberlain of Taylor Swift evaluation.

Wouldn't free pass imply universal approval and not constant debate and controversy over people liking her?

Why does Taylor Swift get a free pass from ILX?

lulz

I guess popists are scared of Lady Gaga because

1. She isn't R&B or hip-hop
2. She appeals to the same kinds of audiences that have made R&B/hip-hop very huge the past 10 years.

Why does Taylor Swift get a free pass from ILX?

New ILM board description?

2. She appeals to the same kinds of audiences that have made R&B/hip-hop very huge the past 10 years.

would you say that she has a "hood pass"?

I guess popists are scared of Lady Gaga because

most popists are generally pro her (and R&B), what are you talking about?

she has a hood pass AND a hongro pass

lol history mayne

also if it makes anyone feel better i think taylor swift is pretty shitty

he1go pass REVOKED

how will she go on??? ;_;

there's a perfectly good lady gaga thread at

Lady Gaga needs her own thread

ppl could bump that one with gaga news since it doesn't have a stupid Q in the title

people pick the worst possible threads to bump here all the time (for instance, "Haiti: WTF?" became the post-earthquake thread and "If you hate J.D. Salinger sooooooo much" the official RIP thread), at least with this one it's funny to keep reviving it.

"Haiti: WTF?" became the post-earthquake thread

WOW.

yeah...i kind of stared at it on the New Answers page for the longest time with my jaw hanging open

how is this a bad thread to bump????

are you an alien?

yes

why does lady gaga get a free pass from martians?

it's a dumb thing to bump because there was a thread with actual discussion in it that people use all the time and wasn't started by a sockpuppet

this one has a better title tho

It's gonna be weird looking back at stuff in decades to come and seeing people riled up about hipster this and hipster that. It's like people complaining about beatniks, or Dean Martin going on about the Rolling Stones.

lady gaga doesnt work with with my personal brand

whose sockpuppet was makeitpop?

She's very Kafkaesque

... meaning she looks like a giant beetle?

Why did Baby Gaga get a free Pabst from hipsters?

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/Linkman81/PabstBlueRibbon.png

why do white people hate lady gaga?

http://thequietus.com/articles/03783-why-lady-gaga-beats-lou-reed-david-bowie-and-iggy-pop-in-a-chicken-minute

We’re slap-bang in the middle of a pop era which is seeing singers knowingly redefining themselves and creating personas. Every single one of them is aping GaGa’s moves. Beyonce wanted a piece of the GaGa action and Rihanna went from being the archetypal ghetto hustler to someone between the two.

yessir

gaga is awesome

I dunno about Rihanna -- her image kinda is what it is since before Gaga hit, and the changes she have made seem far more tied to the Chris Brown thing than any attempt to respond to passing trends

sry yeah that was a sarcastic yessir

look at that writer! look at them! everyone quick look at them! be outraged! QUICK PLEASE LOOK AT THEM!

haha -- well Beyonce I would actually agree with, she wasn't doing anything remotely like the "Videophone" vid before Gaga, but Rihanna's new videos are totally of a piece with "Disturbia," "Shut Up And Drive," various award show performances, etc.

so glad lady gaga invented being weird and arty--really hope this catches on!

nina who? klaus what?

it seems like the quietes runs a lot of terrible articles not about indie music

http://ichlugebullets.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/mof-gimmers-white-man-be-listening-to-lady-gaga-like-this-black-man-be-listening-to-lady-gaga-like-this/