Lady Gaga needs her own thread

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.

Love love love love "Speechless".

I feel like Lady Gaga is the least we should expect from pop stars now: Memorable visuals and decent hooks. I find the whole thing grating when people act like she's some kind of innovative paragon.

Innovative paragons haven't become huge international pop stars for at least 25 years.

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

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

― will.i.ban (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:28 PM (6 days ago)

I'm only sorry I didn't see this in time to give him the 51st SB.

jordan was very testy with this thread from the beginning so I'm not sure why he was defending it from you so vociferously.

Lady Gaga is an affront to Gucci Mane-loving gays everywhere, perhaps?

lol @ both of you guys being so butthurt at someone you won't have to hear from for the next 4 days

4 WEEKS, i mean

xp judging by your 'efforts' on this thread the two of you are infinitely more worthy of sanction than jordan's ever been; any moderator with the slightest regard for what ilx should be about ought to recognise that rather than feebly bleating on about merely being a conduit for the idiot whims of the masses and their precious hurt feelings.

lol stfu all of you

i mean do we really need to do this in another fucking thread?

ooh can we talk about the state of rap here instead?

roffle @ electrocution youtube btw

lol @ both of you guys being so butthurt at someone you won't have to hear from for the next 4 days

― it's a crazy college where you come from (some dude)

why would i be offended by jordan? like i said, he was "defending" this thread while Eric H was the one who was savaging it ever so mercilessly. idk why everyone's trying to bring the dram here, someone bump a political thread or something.

re-lolled @ j0rdan itt

*doesn't analyze*

― see-those-tit-ies (J0rdan S.), Thursday, November 12, 2009 7:27 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

at least 2 other people i know have confirmed that the "oooh-ooh" chorus in Bad Romance sounds annoyingly like it's from something else.

i don't know that this is what i was thinking of, but Jimmy Soul's "if you want to be happy for the rest of your life" uses the same note progression.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NF5XU-k2Vk

It reminds me of something I would hear Ronnie Spector do on a Ronettes track...I should listen to Back to Mono and see if something stands out.

"The Fame Monster" is really strong nonetheless. I see some reviewers claiming that, even though the album is good, none of the tracks are as good as "Poker Face" and "Just Dance", but personally I see "Bad Romance" and "Telephone" as the best she's ever done so far.

No, I agree with "some reviewers", except Poker Face is terrible. But Fame Monster > The Fame. That's for sure. I'm kind of hoping Lady Gaga moves a bit away from the overproduced electropop sound.