yea the idea of gaga outclassing beyonce is retarded
― big (surm), Monday, 15 March 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I always thought she was crazy and a decent singer, and I really liked "Let's Dance" when it first came out except for the dumb-as-balls bridge; she lost me with "Poker Face" but got me back with "Lovegame". I think it's only recently that she's been able to get away with being totally as weird as she wants to be, starting with how fascinated everyone was with the "Paparazzi" video and her thinking "oh good, this WON'T hurt my sales if I just act really weird and arty, I can finally do a video in lace panties with tape on my nipples".
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Monday, 15 March 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
But if we're going on the music, she definitely hasn't released anything as strange sounding or, well, awesome, as Single Ladies, Hard or Break the Ice.
the only thing i agree with her is that Break the Ice can kick any song's ass.
The whole thing about gaga is that her composition treads the line between weird and incredibly poppy more than most. and it's odd that you like her interviews, plax, which are sadly full of shit - i don't think anyone here is "accepting her rhetoric" as much as groaning to admit that she's got a fuckload of talent.
― big (surm), Monday, 15 March 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
*agree with here
I still think it's weird that people hate "Telephone" so much, tbh.
― we call him black Nev coz he's black & his names Neville (HI DERE), Monday, 15 March 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
the song? is fucking way more awesome than single ladies or hard, and one of my favorite songs of the year, definitely.
― big (surm), Monday, 15 March 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
she can't dance, she can't act and she has those cold dead eyes but she has written some great songs (although, i don't think this is one of them). the thing that really irritates me about her is her complete lack of style, only a kind of desperation to have an effect and she's do anything to have some kind of impact. this is her at her most desperate - smoking cigarette shades? it doesn't even make any sense.
― jed_, Monday, March 15, 2010 2:26 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
i actually disagree with this whole post. i think she dances well enough for her videos, i think her cold, dead style of acting is appropriate for the music and her style, which i think she has a lot of, however stupid it may seem at times.
― big (surm), Monday, 15 March 2010 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
the song? is fucking way more awesome than single ladies
ok now that's nonsense
― Astronaut Mike Dexter (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 15 March 2010 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
"hard" isn't in nearly the same league as "single ladies" or "bad romance" or those other songs you mentioned. otherwise dope post plax
― k3vin k., Monday, 15 March 2010 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i think i pretty much agree 100% with your take on her surm, but I saw a clip of her on Jonathan Ross, and she was talking abt how her shows are really extravagant, but that at the end of it she really just wanted the spectacle to be a catalyst for coming to the show and meeting other ppl, that she was kindof initiating a scene more than being the focal point for one. I mean you can say its horseshit, but its a nice idea nonetheless, and it kinda resonates with the amt of gay teens i saw that dressed up as her for halloween last year. I mean her message is a positive one, just not a partic radical one.
― plax (ico), Monday, 15 March 2010 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
xxp yea let's dance to single ladies with a bunch of women on the dance floor and get our hands up in the air ONE MORE TIME shall we
― big (surm), Monday, 15 March 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i understand the validity of some of her ideas, plax, definitely - but i think stating tjat you value her self-fulfilling, after-school-special ideas on pop art above the songs she's penned is more wrong than anything else.
― big (surm), Monday, 15 March 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
haha i def see ur point, and yeah I wouldn't have any interest in what she says at all if i didn't think that she's released some great songs, also I know ur a bigger fan than I am so
― plax (ico), Monday, 15 March 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
she can't act
The stilted line deliveries in the Telephone vid are intentional, I would think.
― Cunga, Monday, 15 March 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
they are
well, plax, i think the main difference between u and me is that i do actually think most of the songs on "fame monster" approach the next-level brilliance of Break The Ice.
― big (surm), Monday, 15 March 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
*approach being the key word
― big (surm), Monday, 15 March 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that is probably a big difference between our take then!
― plax (ico), Monday, 15 March 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
"Break The Ice" is kind of boring, though.
― smoking cigarette shades? it doesn't even make any sense. (HI DERE), Monday, 15 March 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
says the man who likes LoveGame
― big (surm), Monday, 15 March 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
guys, be truthful: how genuinely 'weird' or 'arty' is the music of lady gaga
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Monday, 15 March 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
louis
― k3vin k., Monday, 15 March 2010 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
No one said her music was weird or arty; keep up
― smoking cigarette shades? it doesn't even make any sense. (HI DERE), Monday, 15 March 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
guys, be truthful: how genuinely 'weird' or 'arty' is the music of lady gaga the cardiacs
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 15 March 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
those kinda politics dont wash here
― plax (ico), Monday, 15 March 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
try reading the actual thread and responding to what people are saying as opposed to skimming for buzzwords that you can use as a basis for a devastating logistical takedown
― smoking cigarette shades? it doesn't even make any sense. (HI DERE), Monday, 15 March 2010 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry, "beatdown"
― smoking cigarette shades? it doesn't even make any sense. (HI DERE), Monday, 15 March 2010 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
well, yes. i'm not saying her acting is bad because her delivery is stilted. stilted line delivery and complete lack of emotion can constitute good acting (someone like candy darling being a good example of that) but even on those terms i find it unsuccesful.
― jed_, Monday, 15 March 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i am not trying to take her down, but to me she seems like a popstar who makes normal pop and does weird things, whereas lines like
The whole thing about gaga is that her composition treads the line between weird and incredibly poppy more than most.
seem to give undue credit to her musical range
but yeah, proceed, it's not my place to call you guys. lette the mynne talke of gagge
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Monday, 15 March 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
LJ
stop callingstop callingI don't wanna talk anymore
― smoking cigarette shades? it doesn't even make any sense. (HI DERE), Monday, 15 March 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
lj that sentence you quoted doesn't call the music "weird" per se, it's saying it's on the line b/w weird/arty and poppy. which i'd agree with
― k3vin k., Monday, 15 March 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm, maybe I will have to let lady gaga into my life
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Monday, 15 March 2010 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno, i wonder how helpful the word "weird" really is this discussion
― plax (ico), Monday, 15 March 2010 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
plax (ico) is so OTM in that earlier post.
not at all really - the clothes and spectacle just cover up very standard electro-pop, which appeals straight to the Midwest. Hipster Runoff said it best:
"Feel overwhelmed by GaGa mania. I think she really appeals 2 middle america, though. Like she represents something ‘zany’ and ‘glamorous’ that helps ppl disconnect from their real lives’, and gives them an absurd image to lose themselves in."
― nevermind312, Monday, 15 March 2010 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
+1
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 15 March 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
so, just added to the list of songs i didn't realize were so good: so happy i could die
― big (surm), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
like, really
― big (surm), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
also HER VOICE does not get enough mention, tho people recognize that it's the real deal
― big (surm), Monday, 15 March 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2010/03/15/part-of-the-weekend-never-dies-rendezvous
There's a bunch of assholes dressed in shit costumes inspired by Lady Gaga. I hope this ends soon.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 15 March 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
what exactly makes them assholes?
― iatee, Monday, 15 March 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
being dressed like Lady Gaga, apparently
― smoking cigarette shades? it doesn't even make any sense. (HI DERE), Monday, 15 March 2010 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I hope this ends soon.
it's not even a thing unless you're looking for it.
― jed_, Monday, 15 March 2010 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Aw I hope innocent drag acts don't start getting accused of being Gaga rips.
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Monday, 15 March 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
for me, the key thing about lady's songs are the way her voice is positioned in the mix -- it's at once huge and small. edited like a club voice, but with the chops of something bigger. fills the track resonantly but keeps up with the beat.
― big (surm), Monday, 15 March 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah kinda O_o abt ppl thinking gaga shows beyonce up as being safe
― plax (ico), Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:17 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
I guess I should clarify here - as someone who doesn't keep my finger on the pulse of pop, for all of Beyonce's idiosyncrasies, she still comes off in my mind as pretty safe i.e. it's pretty easy to separate Beyonce the person from Beyonce the persona.
It just seems plain wrong to accept her own rhetoric the way I kinda feel like is happening a little on this thread now.
― plax (ico), Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:39 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
I think this is OTM in so far as that Gaga's success is predicated upon people buying into her rhetoric, and maybe part of the reason why I have a much harder time humanizing her than with Beyonce.
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
just got done talking to some students about telephone, lady gaga and beyonce - they seemed to agree that while beyonce can be weird (or whatever descriptor you want to use), beyonce is pretty clear that that weirdness is just one side of her - whereas lady gaga only presents that side of herself, and thus that is the only image we know her by. you could say that beyonce is polychromatic whereas lady gaga is decidedly monochromatic - you can't imagine gaga doing an 'irreplaceable' type vid or song, for example.
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 03:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i see what you're saying, but following your logic, you would conclude that being polychromatic is to be more safe than being monochromatic, which seems odd.
― big (surm), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 03:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't see the contradiction there - if you know that the weirdness/offbeat/whatevs is just a mask that the performer puts on, it's easier to rationalize as just being 'part of the performance'
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 03:54 (fourteen years ago) link
yea but you're also saying that lady gaga is more limited than beyonce in the scope of her performance. you can't imagine her doing certain things, but you can imagine beyonce doing pretty much anything, even if it isn't as committed
― big (surm), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 03:57 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmm.... lady gaga
― :3 (cankles), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 03:58 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ otm
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 04:01 (fourteen years ago) link