o wow let me punch my eye sockets out now
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Monday, 24 May 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
don't like Glee, surm?
― ksh, Monday, 24 May 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i would rather eat mud than watch a cornball tongue-in-cheek-yet-genuine take on the spirit and cultural legacy of lady gaga as put together by GLEE!
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Monday, 24 May 2010 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
:D
i hate glee so much more than i ever hated lady gaga
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
the WORD glee is offensive to me on a phonetic level.
I sang in a glee club in college
it was nothing like the tv show, and yet, EXACTLY like the tv show
only with more booze
― Marni and Louboutin: coming to Tuesdays this fall on FOX (HI DERE), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
and tail amirite?
― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i was in glee club in elementary school and show choir in highschool. it fucking ruled.
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I had a girlfriend entirely independent of being in the glee club and half of the other guys were more interested in making out with each other than with anyone outside the group. Several guys managed to be effective man-whores with revolving groupies (hetero- and homo-), though.
― Marni and Louboutin: coming to Tuesdays this fall on FOX (HI DERE), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Clearly the show should have been based on these experiences.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 May 2010 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
nothing quite like going to the choir offices to drink and surprising a fellow gleek going down on a dining hall staffer in a back corner
― Marni and Louboutin: coming to Tuesdays this fall on FOX (HI DERE), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
"You're not the usual hash-slinger."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 May 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I could write a series on that group but it would likely generate lawsuits
― Marni and Louboutin: coming to Tuesdays this fall on FOX (HI DERE), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Change all the names to those of your enemies. Wait that won't help...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 May 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
'summerboy' is a nice little tune. kind of reminds me of tragic kingdom era no doubt!
― Face Book (dyao), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Another parody from Westboro Baptist Meg Phelps:
hxxp://meganphelpsroper.tumblr.com/post/653165655/ever-burn-wbc-parody-of-lady-gagas
― Otherwise you're kinda being comp-lit in his racism. (kkvgz), Thursday, 3 June 2010 11:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Alejandro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niqrrmev4mA
― the subject of many men’s thoughts (daavid), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmm idk i probably won't ever watch it again tbh :\
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
oh god, my worst nightmare of getting sexually assaulted by a gaggle of moe howards
― i don't always play indie, but when i do, i prefer xx (m bison), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
my initial response was too think it was too madonna
than I DID watch it again and I had a realisation, that the whole video is about how she can't have sex with gay men even though she really wants to, and then she compares that to men in the military and to the catholic church and the whole thing is one long impossible love letter and now I kind of love it
― Popper, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Great read. Also if your video is about the tragic closeness-to/distance-from an adoring queer audience, Madonna allusions are really perfectly sensible.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
This video is the best thing GaGa has done so far, and the greatest tribute to Madonna ever. I'm kind of a little in awe right now... GaGa really is incredible!!
― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 10 June 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, no kidding!
― plax (ico), Thursday, 10 June 2010 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, don't see Beyonce making a cameo in this. Gaga ftw!
― Armand Van Helden Vocal Remix (Spinspin Sugah), Thursday, 10 June 2010 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
She looks so great with short hair like that.
― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Thursday, 10 June 2010 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
This is probably my favorite video she's done yet.
― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Thursday, 10 June 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i couldn't finish it. i guess the video's good, if a little monotone. i like some of her dancing - girl can work her bod. and i guess, yeah, she looks good dressed up as madonna.
but this song ... it still really doesn't do it for me. the lyrics are inane, and who the fuck is roberto? and it's just plodding. as tired an observation as it may be, ace of base did it better.
― glowy and highlighted and blushy and bronzy (surm), Friday, 11 June 2010 00:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I dunno, i generally like my music videos to comliment or enhance the accompanying song. There's a fairly jarring juxtaposition here between the oh-so-edgy visuals and the fairly inconsequential music. At least her last video was fun.
― Number None, Friday, 11 June 2010 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
And why the hell did it have to be 8 minutes? Really wears the song into the ground.
― Number None, Friday, 11 June 2010 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
It's really disappointing to me to see Gaga fans unenthused about this song because it's the first thing she's done that I've immediately liked, and it kinda completely changed my opinion about her.
― The Reverend, Friday, 11 June 2010 02:56 (fourteen years ago) link
i know, that's the thing! i've heard that from at least 3 ppl
― glowy and highlighted and blushy and bronzy (surm), Friday, 11 June 2010 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I still haven't watched the video because I have no sound on my computer tho
― The Reverend, Friday, 11 June 2010 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Which is getting mighty old
I still maintain that "So Happy I Could Die" should have been the next single.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 11 June 2010 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i would've died
― glowy and highlighted and blushy and bronzy (surm), Friday, 11 June 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
that song has a vision.
― glowy and highlighted and blushy and bronzy (surm), Friday, 11 June 2010 03:43 (fourteen years ago) link
if i ever heard it at a club i think i would lose my shit, like literally crack up into a million pieces
― glowy and highlighted and blushy and bronzy (surm), Friday, 11 June 2010 03:45 (fourteen years ago) link
― The Reverend, Thursday, June 10, 2010 10:56 PM (Yesterday)
wait i thought everyone loved it! except surm apparently?
― fman29.5 (k3vin k.), Friday, 11 June 2010 04:01 (fourteen years ago) link
nah i am def not the only one dude
― glowy and highlighted and blushy and bronzy (surm), Friday, 11 June 2010 04:03 (fourteen years ago) link
There were some rather tepid rxions from apparent fans on the singles jukebox, too.
― The Reverend, Friday, 11 June 2010 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it's pretty good but I would rate paparazzi over it
― ⚖ on my truck (dyao), Friday, 11 June 2010 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe, but I haven't heard "Paparazzi" since I've heard "Alejandro"
― The Reverend, Friday, 11 June 2010 04:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean just in terms of gaga songs with soft & lingering choruses...though now I have a lot of love for 'so happy that I could die' thanks to surm & elvis's repping upthread
― ⚖ on my truck (dyao), Friday, 11 June 2010 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
i like "alejandro" now - it wasn't the video that made me come round on it so much as its single-ness, how much it makes sense as a standalone thing without the need to compare it to its context on the album, where i think "dance in the dark" and "monster" are way way superior and should've been the singles really (or "teeth" if she was actually really daring). think this leaves "so happy i could die" as the only fame monster track i still dislike, i'm fairly sure that won't last.
how great are the drum fills in "dance in the dark" though? i actually really love the lyrical perspective too - dancing as escapism from emotional abuse, but it feels less like a solution than dancing blindly towards the precipice, "dancing in the dark" as metaphor for staying in the dangerous relationship in the first place. fucking wish there wasn't a princess diana reference in it though, makes me wince every time - HATE the gays who think of her as an icon. not cool to idolise anyone in the royal family. plus i hate girls who try too hard to be a fag hag, and that's what that line is.
the bridge to "monster" is so amazing - "he ate my heart and then he ate my braaaain"
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 11 June 2010 08:50 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^^^^
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 11 June 2010 12:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Best song on the album.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, 11 June 2010 12:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i love this, i think its a really good example of her like actually transcending the influence (ie ace of base here) instead of just blindly copping moves
― plax (ico), Friday, 11 June 2010 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Monster is 1 of my favorite songs of the decade, easy. i don't mind the Di reference. i do love Princess Diana for a variety of reasons, none of them having to do with her prevalence as a gay icon.
― glowy and highlighted and blushy and bronzy (surm), Friday, 11 June 2010 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
(i actually didn't even realize she was a gay icon ...)
― glowy and highlighted and blushy and bronzy (surm), Friday, 11 June 2010 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link