Why does Lady Gaga get a free pass from hipsters?

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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.

surely it was

3. The Gay Science (No Homo)

pitchfork's interest in him comes across as so tokenistic tho

The Manchester Guardian's Alexander Pettingrew-Dickson called him "the legit sound of urban Prussia in 1872".

lol yes david bowie must be extremely jealous

The European canon is here.

what a disappointing "penis" that was

^^^ Yeah I'm really not at all convinced by that penis tbh.

Good thing she's got a vagina as well so

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=8278249&page=1

Lady Gaga's all woman.

That's what her manager's asserting after an up-skirt photo of the pop star sparked rumors that she's a hermaphrodite. The photo, taken from video shot at England's Glastonbury festival, reveals a bulge between Gaga's legs -- a bulge that could have been caused by undergarments, a bad angle, or, as some blogs would have you believe, a penis.

Bossip.com alleged that Gaga said this when asked about the subject:

"It's not something that I'm ashamed of, just isn't something that I go around telling everyone. Yes. I have both male and female genitalia, but I consider myself a female. It's just a little bit of a penis and really doesn't interfere much with my life. The reason I haven't talked about it is that it's not a big deal to me. Like come on. It's not like we all go around talking about our v***. I think this is a great opportunity to make other multiple gendered people feel more comfortable with their bodies. I'm sexy, I'm hot. I have both a **** and a p*****. Big f******g deal."

ABCNews.com asked Gaga's manager if the "Poker Face" singer is a hermaphrodite and if she said the above quote. His reply:

"This is completely ridiculous."

Gaga's sexuality has been the subject of intense speculation ever since she told Rolling Stone magazine that she considers herself bisexual, though her attraction to women is purely physical.

"I think I'm changing what people think is sexy," she told the magazine in May.

In June, she elaborated on the issue to USA Today, saying, "I don't think being gay or being bisexual or being sexually free is anything that should be hidden. Everybody has a right to their secrecy, of course, but I don't feel particularly shy about it. It is who I am. I sing very openly about it in my music, so I suppose I could say that I choose not to hide it in interviews because I don't care to hide it and, two, because it is very obvious in my music that I like women."

But apparently, that doesn't mean she's toting a disco stick of her own. Consider the Glastonbury festival photo a wardrobe malfunction, not a coming out.

disco stick!

what's she getting a free pass to?

bus travel

is it good for an entire month or just one ride?

i didn't issue it

what we need is a bona fide hipster to answer this question.

You need to get a unicorn, first.

Coz, like, the only way to find a true hipster is to take a unicorn into Shoreditch, and the first person the unicorn lays its head in their lap - that's a true hipster.

is that the same as taking a white wolf to Williamsburg?

By that logic, all hipsters are virgins.

Guys, this is who can provide a definitive answer

gageir hongraga

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max)

Please never do this again, max.

"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.

This is also true... adding "Paparazzi," "Bad Romance," "Alejandro" into the fold as well, all are great.

Does this mean that GaGa has finally received her long-desired hipster pass? Does it come with a gift bag or other free swag? Inquiring minds want to know.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13823-the-fame-monster/

Whatever it means, I like Scott's take on the album.

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It's because she's from outer space

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

nicki minaj

Does this mean that GaGa has finally received her long-desired hipster pass? Does it come with a gift bag or other free swag? Inquiring minds want to know.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13823-the-fame-monster/

I like Scott's review, a few minor quibbles aside (for example, the Krusty good/evil switch at the start is rather far fetched, but will resonate with Pfork readership who are used to seeing Gaga as a disposable, "evil" pop star and are now faced with seeing "Bad Romance" and "Paparazzi" in Pfork's Top Tracks of 2009, then a 7.8 rating for her newest EP).

What I found most immediately telling, though, was the blurb on the main Pfork page, which more or less validates Geir Hongro's view that OMG you guys, she is not just a pop star, she is a SONGWRITER, goddamnit!

Lady Gaga's second record, containing "Bad Romance" and "Speechless", finds her coming into her own as both a songwriter and a pop star.

Makes me wonder if the blurb wasn't written by Scott, given that he doesn't mention a damn thing about songwriting in his actual review...

Anyway... The Fame Monster's good listening all around, so I'm glad that Scott may convert a few unfortunate Memory Tapes fans with his review.

but ... she is a songwriter. lol @ 'unfortunate memory tapes fans'

Debussy's Children's Corner was written for a three year old's entertainment fwiw

total masterpiece