Lady Gaga, Pussycat Dolls and a Taxonomy of Vacuous Pop

"revulsion"

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it revulsions people

lazy sry

funny kinda

i gotta say, her performance on idol tonight was kinda awesome

http://t.love.com/200255707

dunno why "poker face" has to have that awful "puh-puh-puh-puh-puh-puh poker face" part in it but oh well

btw i never thought i would like someone if they became MORE like nellie mckay but whaddya know

dunno why "poker face" has to have that awful "puh-puh-puh-puh-puh-puh poker face" part in it but oh well

lol that is the best part

judging various parts of "Poker Face" seems like a fools game to me considering they all suck

"Poker Face" has pretty much the same problem as the Veronicas' "Untouched" -- big awkward gulf between the melodic chorus and the inane talky verses with cheesy vocal filters. "Untouched" kind of survives that problem because the hook is great, "Poker Face" not so much.

"Untouched" also survives because of the frantic energy in the inane talky verses.

She's got the #1 single again.

well what can you en expect in a world that embraces Flo Rida

I'll take no-personality-ass Flo Rida over smug, hatable Lady Gaga any day of the week, thank you.

Reverend hitting it hard time and time again on this thread. Good sir you are a service to us all.

He is, and these other remarks -

especially considering her vague aspirations to some kind of performance art (which she talks up incessantly, but which I have yet to see manifest itself in the recorded output)

reminds me of someone else...FISCHERSPOONER

- really, really OTM. It made my eyeballs bleed a bit.

ooh Poker face is no.1?!! see, i'm not THAT late on this one

judging various parts of "Poker Face" seems like a fools game to me considering they all suck

― prins tuomas (The Reverend), Thursday, April 2, 2009 3:07 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

LOL

waht

http://i44.tinypic.com/2z4fx9s.jpg

(after you get over the pantyhose shock: I hope those guys are dancing)

jesus christ

no words

her existence is a joke, right?

then the joke is on me

we're all soaking in the joke

ewww

There's some flesh-colored panties on under there right?

But re: Poker face, the melodic chorus really is so much better than the rap-lite verses and especially the pu-pu-pokerface breakdown which is just awful. Same deal, to a lesser extent with Just Dance, the verses are actually cool but her "hip hypnotic gin-n-tonic chronic" bridge thing kinda derails the song, and the version with Kardinal Offishull or whatever retarded way he spells his name is even worse. How did this schmuck become the go-to Canadian dancehall guest MC for pop songs? That Dangerous song was banging but would have been so much better with a better rapper on it.

"i'm bluffin' with my muffin" ?!?!?!?

Fuck you, Kardinal Offishal is great. He's just a bit past his prime.

Actually, the problem with him currently is more that he's stuck making all these bad pop moves than that he's lost anything, but seriously, he's behind a lot of banging shit.

his verse on the "just dance" remix is pretty cool imo

the single he had w/ clipse was great also, "dangerous" is bullshit tho

I knew someone would come back at me with a well-thought out defense of Offishal. Mind you that I know nothing of his illustrious past in the Canadian dancehall scene and am basing my dislike of him purely on the recent radio songs he has pissed all over.

And you gotta admit that spelling is pretty stupid.

his verse on the reggae remix of "grindin" is also a classic

Verse 3: Kardinal Offishall
Kardi, yo, yo, they just keep holdin me, won't let go, provokin me
Niggas tryin to stop my doe
Well if it isn't, Mr. Canadian (BO!!!!) Mr. Canuck
T Dot niggas (Pharrell: Grindin!) we don't give a (BO!!!!)
Mr. Kardinal steal dem fronts out of your mouth
Flip it for a pound of herb and sell it in front of your house
Badbwoy big talk put this somethin pon cock
Whine out yuh dutty claat down south to up north
Weh di man dem a seh? Five plus two yo we flip that a (Ten)
Mek di english pound di paste up plus di (Yen)
Still fire pon a fassy and grind di gal dem (How yuh mean?)
Seen, come again, we mek di green yuh know,
Swell it to di seem yuh know
Chronic supersonic tonic juggle it to a fiend yuh know
Mr. Kardinal deal with the mic rockin V.A. to the dot
Stop whinin when we (Pharell: Grinding!)

He's more of a rap artist w/ strong dancehall influences than a dancehall artist.

These are both circa-01/02

and "rappers be spellin shit wrong" is one the most zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........zzz....

I don't know how anyone gets off on criticizing Kardinal when Lady Gaga exists.

i dont know that i would pass off "the spelling 'offishall' is dumb" as "rappers be spelling shit wrong"

Word roxy. I like plenty of misspelled rap names. It's just this particular one that strikes me as really dumb. I like how I turned this into a Kardinal Offishall thread though.

"Bakardi" is ridiculous too.

The spelling I mean.

I'm listening to "Poker Face" for the first time and it's kind of insulting how many elements they recycle from "Just Dance"; the whole thing strikes me as completely unremarkable. Can someone please point out specifics of why this song is special or enjoyable? On a side note, the "pop music will never be low brow" thing was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, right?

i find Poker Face far more enjoyable than Just Dance because the melody pulls me in much more. I also love all the loopy editing on the vocals and the crunchy synths.

i hear how it's very similar to Just Dance but this isn't something i hear initially, only when it has been pointed out.

Really?? It was the very first thing I heard, especially in the intros. It's like they were locked in a room and had to create every song with exactly the same instruments/effects/etc.

yeah their first few seconds are almost indistinguishable

i guess it just didn't seem that odd to me for 2 songs off the same album to use the same synth sounds

these 2 songs relate to one another in a way that reminds me of how the songs on Confessions on a Dance Floor do.

Also, I know it's extremely silly to attempt to critique lyrical content of modern pop music, but does anyone else find "Just Dance" particularly distasteful? "Go out and get grossly drunk and it's OK if you get raped or something because you can JUST DANCE YOUR CARES AWAY"

not really, that's a pretty common theme

Someone needs to photoshop Andrei Arshavin into that show photo that was linked above.