Wow, you really are completely out of touch... yes they do! lol you need to get out more, besides going to the SC
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And back on topic - Lady Gaga seems to be moving in more elevated circles.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...Blackpool.html
HM the Queen no less.....
Phil.
^^ I love that pic!
i loooooove lady gaga, and when all that crap about her being a guy came out i was like "yeah whatever" and my bf has not stopped winding me up sayin she's a man, i dont think he actually belives she is, coz she obviously is not, i just think he likes to wind me up lol.
but anyway, i love her new cd, even better than the first, the one called Teeth is catchy, wierd but catchy,
xx jess xx
^ Understandable.
It really is incredible how threatened men are by her...even though she's not even doing anything that offensive.
Like her song "So Happy I Could Die"--it's about masturbating to thinking about a woman. Yet the chorus of the song makes it sound like a party song--which makes it more palatable for the patriarchy (sorry I had to slide the P word in there).
She's a breath of fresh air for the homophobic music industry. She had to fight tooth and nail just to produce an album cover that isn't all sexed up/completely mainstream. If you can, buy January's Elle-- it has a good article about her in it.
Oh hell yes...
Agreed. At last, a music video with some imagination. What a concept!
Generally speaking I detest music videos, and I do believe they have had a serious detrimental effect on the quality of popular music.
But in this case, instead of the ubiquitous 3-4 rockers or rappers swaggering around showing off how many groupies they have, or pretending to be depressed and angst-ridden (that works really well on the groupies too), or bragging non stop in the case of the typical fucking rapper, we have a woman with some flair and creativity.
Lady Gaga didn't have to sell crack or get shot to prove anything or convince us how 'genuine' her music is supposed to be. Instead she actually has some talent, and appears to be using it in creative yet iconoclastic ways.
Whether she will turn out to be another musical giant on the order of Beethoven isn't really an issue. This is pop music, almost all of it sucks donkey balls. But I play her music gladly, and admire her spirit.
^ MMmmm I love the word iconoclastic.
So ironic that real entertainment is hard to find these days in the music industry. (this is making me sound old)
More Lady Gaga column inches from the UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/c...t-century.html
Phil.
Warning: The writer is not a Lady Gaga fan......
He did at least say her music was "pretty good."
"But it's difficult to pay much attention to it, because you're too transfixed by the fact that she seems to have been dressed by a blacksmith on an acid trip."
That's a good line. But apparently he never saw Kiss, Boy George, Marilyn Manson, or any of the various rappers with pants taken from an alien species, jewel encrusted teeth, and enough weight in gold chains with giant letters of their name to sink the Titanic again.
Also on the same page of Lady Gaga...I fucking love the shoes she is wearing in her new video for Bad Romance. Allf o them, I want them lol. Especially the curvy heeled ones. If her shoes weren't the first tip of her being a stripper then ppl are blind lol.
^ I saw those shoes for the first time, and commented, "Strippers allll over the world are drooling right now."
^I do all the time, everytime I watch that video lol
Check out the Lady Gaga cookies:
http://community.livejournal.com/ohn.../43140129.html
^^^ thats awesome!
Lady Gaga went to the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She is amazingly talented. She wrote songs for tons of pop artists before Akon discovered her. Oh, and ladies, she is a former NYC exotic dancer. Can I get a "What What!!!" Three cheers for strippers!!!
Here is a link to her bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga
I really don't care for Lady Gaga. To me, her videos advocate violence against women. In Papparazzi, she gets thrown off the side of a railing by her lover, whom receives no repercussions, depicts various women post-suicide while singing a love song (men are worth killing yourself over?), and portrays paralyzed people in an almost-mocking sort of way. (There is absolutely NOTHING glamorous about being wheelchair-ridden. Sorry.) In Bad Romance, she is subjected to various masochistic practices....in priceless couture clothing. (Put up with it, girls, because that man treating you like shit is going to buy you a ridiculous-looking $1200 pair of Steve McQueen 12-inch heels!) Sex and violence seem to go hand-in-hand in today's society, and it really needs to stop.
And honestly, she just annoys me too. Dressing that ridiculous and constantly making a spectacle of yourself DOESN'T make you interesting, it just means you have nothing interesting to say.
But, to each their own, people still give me shit for wanting to marry Maynard James Keenan, so whatever.
Everything she does in her videos says something. Read some of her interviews or watch them. They are out there on the net somewhere. She directs all her videos and makes all her own music. She doesn't do the outrageous things ffor fun, she does them for an extremely good reason. Bad Romance has an underlying sense of Human Trafficing, because its a sad thing and it swrong...Bad Romance... o.0. There is reason for these outrageous stunts she does. She is very creative. And She isn't making fun of or mocking anyone that is cripple, that too has a meaning. :)
Long, intense, but cool article about her:
http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2...-fame-monster/
Regarding her violence: I think her violence is interesting, because it's always saying something. I'm not arguing that she's a saint or martyr or anything...but I've never seen her glorify pointless violence against women.
I really think she puts more thought into her stuff than what it looks like on a superficial glance. She's making very intense statements that personally speak to me much more loudly than any artist ever has.