Why does Lady Gaga get a free pass from hipsters?

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

If you're over 17 and care about "street cred" -- especially to the point of using it as criteria for whether or not you'll allow to like certain things -- that is just sad.

Particularly if that "thing" is a person, i agree. This girl is 25 & has a child, btw. Her #1 reason for liking the guy is that he likes Ghostland Observatory.

It is really messed up that she would like this band if she is a mother of a child. They look like total chesters.

Perhaps because of her cock?:

http://bossip.com/139759/chicks-with-dcks-is-lady-gaga-packing/

Welcome to last year, son.

so you sucked her dick first, big deal

y'know i always thought she looked like hedwig

so you sucked her dick first, big deal

just because i'm more trendy than you, hipster

Is this well known? I think she's even hotter now.

how do you 'allegedly' say like seven complete sentences

http://thestylepenguin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Lady-GaGa-Kermit-the-Frog.jpg

tbh she gets a free pass for that outfit

Remember when hipsters read Nietzsche and went on road trips?

no i am 22

allow me to explain, basically nietzsche was the pop singer with a stealth dong of the 1800s

On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense was THE summer jam of 1872, y'all

tell me more

newspapers the world over ran a scandalous woodcut of his crotch when he was caught going commando while getting out of a carriage outside the Bonn Opera House

i have heard of him, he was really a chick iirc and the woodcut showed his vag

Haha. Nietzche's "Will to Power" album was totally pop.

Tracklisting revealed on Pitchfork, May 1872:

1. Beyond Good and Evil
2. Ubermensch (Ft. Akon)
3. The Gay Science
4. Human, All Too Human (Ft. Trent Reznor)
5. The Principal of Eternal Return
6. God Is Dead
7. Ecce Homo (Bitte Orca)
8. Twilight of the Idols
9. Daybreak (Ft. Michel Foucault)
10. Untimely Meditations
11. Thus Spoke Zarathustra (w/ Deodato)

lady gaga gets a free pass from hipsters and britney spears doesn't because "poker face" and "just dance" are much much better songs (and better suited for the dancefloor, which is key) than fucking "hit me baby one more time" which is music for ten-year-olds.

plus, lady gaga sings about fucking all the time!! (even if she's really really ugly in real life)

^^ Just Ban.

No, I like the cut of Mr. Snrub's jib,.

She's awesome. She's a perpendicular force to most musicians, where the music is the art and the personal appearance is inconsequential. With her, the music is just a footnote on her interviews, her outfits, everything else. I'd never go to see her perform but I'd buy an US Magazine if they were interviewing her.

I think she's a horizontal force.

her?-pen-dick-ular force

jesus dude

she does have a wang tho yeah

She's just grabbing the Bowie Androgynous pop star template and taking it to its logical extreme.

He must be mad jealous.

From now on I'm removing passes from any pop sensation that isn't born with both male & female genital organs.

Pop Music is the third sex.