Lady Gaga needs her own thread

i actually find it sort of hilarious that everyone, including myself, has caved now

― lex pretend, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 8:04 AM Bookmark

sorry pop, still screwfacin'

I HAVE NOT CAVED YET.

I said reevaluating. Not converted.

yeah i still consider her a bad artist and a below-average member of the species fwiw

"telephone" is even better than "bad romance" imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCs9rxGZlyQ

but you can't deny the obvious "Gaga Effect" that's taken place in music since her arrival

but you can't deny the obvious "Gaga Effect" that's taken place in music since her arrival

but you can't deny the obvious "Gaga Effect" that's taken place in music since her arrival

http://brasskeys.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/jonestown_06.jpg

classy

jordan's posts itt are hilarious

One good single in five hardly marks her as essential at this point.

i don't just not dislike lady gaga, i full on like her, but i've got a reluctance about it that's probably why you're all so uncomfortable about coming around to it, too. like it's cool, i'll take it, i'm down with it, but aren't we used to something a little bit better?

top 40 music has always been kinda "it's cool, i'll take it, i'm down with it, but aren't we used to something a little bit better?"

"Bad Romance" and "Poker Face" are stored in the Tony Orlando & Dawn zone of my brain (note: the exact percentage of my brain which is the Tony Orlando & Dawn portion has not been experimentally determined yet and may in fact be 100%)

xp what i meant was, but aren't we used to something a little better from mega huge big deal pop stars. my expectations for the rest of the top 40 are low, obviously.

The Fame Monster is actually quite good, maybe? Like...not just serviceable. Perhaps I'm just pleased to hear some variety. Who knows?

Speechless is really clicking with me today. It works that epic piano/guitar ballad angle very very well. It's not the Beatles (although that opening guitar slide is directly copped from Abbey Road) and it's not Elton, but I can't place who she's stealing from here. It's frustrating. Nonetheless, despite the weird GaGa metaphors and lines about "bubble dreams" and "Johnny Walker eyes" she now has a song that lets her really indulge in vocal melodrama, and acquits herself quite well. It's not attention-grabbing in the way that Telephone is or as perfectly 80s as Dancing in the Dark, but it's an unexpectedly welcome turn.

top 40 music has always been kinda "it's cool, i'll take it, i'm down with it, but aren't we used to something a little bit better?"

― broski dawg (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, November 18, 2009 2:26 PM (28 minutes ago)

this is a general-ass statement

That said, the line about "Raise a glass to mend all the broken hearts of all my wrecked-up friends" def. sounds like "rectal" when she slurs it.

i like this song too fwiw. pretty epically constructed track

I just wish I could puzzle of the referent. It's something really obvious. There is SOMEONE who does this kind of piano thing alll the time and it's basically a pro forma version of their steez. This is endlessly annoying, especially since it's normally so OBVIOUS who she's cribbing from. (Not a critique. The musical magpie trait of GaGa is one of her best - see Poker Face's rescue of one glorious melodic line of Aqua's Barbie Girl from an otherwise grating song, Alejandro's Ace of Base-isms, etc.)

Anyone know what I'm talking about viz. Speechless, or am I totally insane.

re: her style in particular -- i really, really liked it at first. it's right up my alley. but i can see it getting old really fast. i mean, if she continues doing the same "crazy, different" thing, it's not going to be exciting anymore. who knows tho, it's early yet.

xp alex, maybe queen? my wife was noting similarities, altho no specific examples come to mind

bad romance is a rly rly great chorus

i cant understand liking her right away ... her presumptuousness was pretty unbearable

man she is severely superfluous on that B track

xp i had reservations but i got over them pretty quickly, altho i think her "weirdness" doesn't show up on record nearly as often or as intensely as i'd like.

there was zero weirdness on tracks like "let's dance"

thats what i mean, she makes pretty standard dance music for all her fashion eccentricities

for pop music, i would think bjork wearing a swan dress to the oscars is weird by most measures, if only because she seemed kind of surprised by ppl thinking it was weird. gaga's steez is a bit of an affectation, but it's at least fun imo.

*for comparison in pop music

I was always surprised that people were so surprised by Bjork wearing a swan dress at the Oscars. Putting her in the worst dressed of all time lists. It's Björk... She never dressed normally, did they expect her to arrive in a Versace satin boob dress?

i've got this mash-up of the choruses and nonsense hooks from "bad romance" and "poker face" that gets in my head on occasion, but i still get bored when i hear either song (seeing is a bit more engaging) and couldn't sing the verses for you.

― da croupier, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 13:00 (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

kinda have a pet theory that this is actually something that's subconsciously appealing in all gaga's stuff, some sort of maddening absent centre that's not just down to the whole distracting extraneous pr whirligig but seems to me to be something intrinsic to everything of hers - putting like and dislike aside for a second i'm always quite interested to sit thru any given gaga song again whenever one comes on, just to fill in the gap, and then lose it again. even her face! - i can never really exactly recall what she looks like. it's proper peculiar.

stranger still is that 'bad romance' is the one i don't having trouble remembering how it goes, despite i suppose it being gaga's most contorted ever on the face of it. not that i can back it up particularly intuitively but intuitively speaking i feel its her most linear song yet.

mum mum mum maaaaww

underrated 'telephone' on autogoon yesterday btw! darkchild + harpsichords = massive cognitive yesss

Evidently, "Bad Romance is STEEPED IN THE IMAGERY OF THE OCCULT!!!

No wonder I like it.

hail satan.

apparently everything by her is.

those Vigilant citizen reads on her are interesting though, I'll admit

darkchild + harpsichords

too early for '99 nostalgia

'dance in the dark' is pretty bangin

super goth dance pop (w/ new order style drum fills) abt surviving w/ emotionally abusive bfs ... a lil heavy handed for some tastes perhaps but imo "a good thing"

we know there's a hercules & love affair remix of "bad romance", yes? lucky i already caved, basically

at least when la roux slags off lady gaga i don't have to feel conflicted about defending her any more

god la roux truly is the worst isn't she

fwiw that h&la remix: http://www.last.fm/music/Lady+GaGa/_/Bad%2BRomance%2B%2528Hercules%2B%2526%2BLove%2BAffair%2BRemix%2529

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9erp09-INvA

pharrell:

"Whenever you start your next album, I would love to give you a mean up-tempo."

"I was probably the last one to get it, but, now that I got it, there's no other artist. It's not whether you have blue eyes or a fat ass or can rhyme--it's about a great performance, it's about a performer willing to be theatrical beyond."

First 50 or so posts on this thread are worse than the gay thread on its worst day.

Oh no!!! RIP!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQELoPvdLeQ

this thread really should just be insane gaga pics and insane symbology theories, anyway

how will this thread survive without the cosign of "eric h."?? might as well just lock it

Guys I bought the expanded edition of The Fame Monster in a moment of weakness and decided I do like her alot, especially the new songs. Love her nod to ABBA's "Fernando" on "Alejandro". The non-singles on The Fame grabbed me a lot more than I expected to.

I really like the stuff she has done so far, although I see some reviewers mention her as a "new Madonna", and I guess that is a bit too early. Also reminding them how Cyndi Lauper was still a much bigger phenomenon than Madonna at the start of both's careers.