Am I the only one who doesn't get the Lady Gaga thing?

[xultar]

I don't see her as innovative or a genius.

She is a copy of Grace Jones & Madonna with less something...I don't know what it is but I really just don't buy her crap.

[Writer]

1. ((raises her hand))

You're not alone.

[emilyg]

22. My hand, too.

[Shadow Creature]

43. Non-sense Words

She sings in jabberwocky. Non-sense in other words.

Usually it is attributed to poetry.

Okay, more like jabbewocky+scat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky

[rox63]

2. I'm not particularly impressed with her either

:shrug:

[left coaster]

6. Like all modern over hyped entertainment constructs perhaps?

They sell you the sizzle, not the steak!

[saracat]

24. The difference is she has the steak under the sizzle! LOL!

[left coaster]

3. Funny this..

Earlier today I was telling a couple of friends that I've never even heard a Lady Gaga song, not a one..

I guess I must be living right! :)

[cutlassmama]

20. +1

[DebbieCDC]

4. I don't get it either

[Tansy_Gold]

5. Who?

[saracat]

23. Hey Tansy, Google "Bad Romance" and you might "get " the article

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1625848/20091109/lady_gaga.jhtml

Not saying she is everyone's cup of tea, I don't like everything she does, but I get why she is doing it. but there is more to her than just being a pop singer.

[Tansy_Gold]

29. I have NEVER EVER watched MTV, and I do not intend to start now

If, as someone else on this thread said, there is foo foo to be gotten past, then I'm not bothering. Life is too short to waste it on foo foo.

:hi:


TG

[saracat]

30. I linked to an article not a video. I thought you might read it. Gaga actually sounds like a girl

you would like.Very cerebral and very feminist. The foo foo were the costumes. But then, I am theatre folk so>..I am a bit more tolerant. Gaga is however not a lightweight. I only suggested you google Bad Romance if you wanted to see the video.

[frylock]

7. no..

you're not.

[saracat]

8. I love her. Listen to her "unplugged sometime.Her voice is fabulous.

She is very intelligent and musically well educated.She is a graduate of Julliard. She does a lot of this stuff, I think to grab headlines, and it works. She is actually sort of mousy under all the makeup and hair but she does have a great body and it a decent dancer. I love "Bad Romance" though it took me awhile to get past all the foo foo!

[JuniperLea]

11. I saw her on Oprah...

I never watch Oprah, but was home one Monday and tuned in to see Lady Gaga... the interview was very cool... she's smart, and sensitive, and seemed very genuine. I don't care for her music, but I think she's uber cool.

[saracat]

13. Have you listened to "Bad Romance" ? She is actually a good songwriter and

some of her stuff is meant to be tounge in cheek. I also like "Fever" that she gave to Adam L , and Adam does a bang up job on it.ambert

[JuniperLea]

16. I'm really not into techno... but she does have a really good voice...

http://iLike.com/s/A7C8Y

The end of the video is... well... killer... bwaaahahhhahahaa!


Art is subjective... I always feel that those who dis another's taste don't even begin to understand art, and therefore have no say in the matter.


Edited to say that lyrically, her stuff seems very cerebral... once you get past the techno beat. I know people who love the techno... not my cup o' tea, but I enjoy seeing others enjoy music of all sorts. We are all individuals with individual perspectives... you probably don't like Motorhead, for example, and I love, love, love Motorhead. It doesn't mean that Lady G is better or worse, or that Motorhead are better or worse... it just means you like Gaga and I like Motor. :) I say potato and you say poTAHto... same veggie:)

[saracat]

21. I actually don't like techno that much but I appreciate some of her stuff. You are right about

art and her being cerebral. This article might interest you!

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1625848/20091109/lady_gaga.jhtml

Lady Gaga Says 'Bad Romance' Video Is About 'Tough Female Spirit'
Clip premieres on her site Monday.
By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Sway Calloway



Lady Gaga may already have plenty of celebrity friends these days, but in the Francis Lawrence-directed video for "Bad Romance" (the first video from her forthcoming release, The Fame Monster), there's a devilish group of supermodels who have their eyes on making Gaga their newest bestie.

"I knew ability as a director is so much higher than what I could ," Gaga explained to MTV News last week. "There's this one shot in the video where I get kidnapped by supermodels. I'm washing away my sins and they shove vodka down my throat to drug me up before they sell me off to the Russian mafia."



As if being kidnapped by supermodels before being sold off to the Russian mafia isn't bizarre enough, Gaga also decided to step up her fashion game in the clip and include some razor-blade sunglasses — yep, razor-blade sunglasses.

"I wanted to design a pair for some of the toughest chicks and some of my girlfriends — don't do this at home! — they used to keep razor blades in the side of their mouths," she explained. "That tough female sprit is something that I want to project. It's meant to be, 'This is my shield, this is my weapon, this is my inner sense of fame, this is my monster.' "

[JuniperLea]

26. She's got a mind, no question...

Thanks! I'm happy to see my first impression was right:)

Elvis was told to keep his day job by the first record producer he sang for, and it was a fluke that The Birds recorded that Dylan song that pushed them to the top of the charts... they didn't like Dylan, but their producer invited him to the recording sessions for their first album (they were still The Jet Set) so as a courtesy, they learned his song... Mr. Tambourine Man... made them all famous.

I think people limit themselves. My boyfriend, for example, never liked anything but punk and metal. He's since changed his tune... pardon the pun:) And he realized he was imposing limits on himself... he was too cool to listen to anything else, donchano;) He listens to just about everything I like now... he's become a huge Roxy Music fan... Johnny Cash... all sorts of bluegrass and things he would never be caught dead listening to.

I withdraw any "Gaga is crap" comments I may have made... thank you, saracat, for making me realize I wasn't practicing what I was preaching!!

:hug:

[saracat]

28. Hey Thank you. I am gonna look up some of the bands you mentioned.

I want to expand my horizons. There has been a lot a really interesting stuff lately and I have had to adjust myself from my olf fart attitude about their being nothing good out there. I don't like it all but I decided to make an effort to get to know the new stuff. I still don't like most rapp no matter what but I think that rapp could be on its way out. Too much other stuff is coming in and a lot is retro inspired. Gaga herself is sort of Bowie esque, and a lot of singer songwriter types are coming back.

[JuniperLea]

31. There are a couple of youngsters you should check out!

Jackie Greene! I've seen him twice so far this year. My daughter is absolutely in love with him, so I gave him a listen... he's very, very talented. You can tell he's inspired by Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead, but he's very original and amazingly talented.

http://www.jackiegreene.com/

Not to give you musical whiplash or anything... oh, but I enjoy the whiplash myself:) You need to hear The Woolly Bandits! Here is their latest video, Woman of Mass Destruction. Christa is so freaking hot! Her hubby, Rick, is way cool. They played at my friend's 50th birthday:) They were Sky Saxon's back up band on his very last tour before he died... Christa sang on a Michael Jackson tune too... they are such nice people. They are more garage rock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh4Uwv0gpaw

Try Tiamat! OMG! I love them so... this is a particularly haunting tune...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhO15KRP0ec&feature=related

Then, for final whiplash... Turbonegro!

"From the ashes of this golden age of confusion,
the denim recruits came to be
known as the apocalypse dudes."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRb1OFBpMJQ

[saracat]

32. Thank you! I will check them all out and get back to you!

[JuniperLea]

33. Cool!

I love giving people new music to listen to:)

Once you do, let me know what you do like, or what you think you might like... I have an extensive music collection... I wrote for a fanzine for seven years and I have heard so many different acts it's crazy:)

[JuniperLea]

9. We're getting old...

Every new generation needs their Elvis, Beatles, Devo, Madonna, GaGa to make the old folks say, "HUH?"

I love her fashion sense and creativity in that regard, and she seems very genuine when interviewed. I think her music both sucks and blows, but I'm a devout metal head with bluegrass, classical, and jazz tendencies who still wears jeans and band t-shirts at age 52, so what do I know?

[xultar]

17. I don't think it is age. Though it did cross my mind. I will say

IMHO I think her outfits are juvenile. IT looks like stuff that I designed before I found Chanel in the 5th grade.
i see her outfits as fun but not serious.

When Grace Jones did crazy it was new. Now the copies that Gaga makes look silly to me. But hey, I haven't taken my Cymbalta today. So maybe in a few days I won't be so harsh.

[JuniperLea]

19. I think she sees her outfits as fun, not serious too...

I had my first Chanel suit when I was 14... it was coral with chartreuse lining... and the signature lion's head buttons... it would be considered garish today, and it was shocking to see that color from Chanel back then. I've always loved a good Chanel suit, but lean toward Jones NY, Prada, Cavelli, Armani and Versace these days, but my perfect costume for any day is Levi's and a cotton t-shirt, preferably with a metal band logo on the front.

I think Grace Jones took herself a whole lot more seriously than does Lady Gaga.

Shoot... I don't take anything but allergy pills, and I can wax and wane on the harsh myself:)

[NYC_SKP]

10. A product of hype, IMHO. Pure Media Hype.

I loved Madonna when she started in the 80's and nobody heard of her, hype propelled her beyond where she might have gone, who knows.

Love me some Grace Jones, though, who I think earned her chops, late 70s and early 80s.



:P

[saracat]

14. GaGa is a lot more talented than madonna , IMHO. GagGa can really sing and compose. Madonna was just

a dancer and a true product of media hypw which she was a genius at getting. Gaga is a triple threat.She can dance and sing(tThough I don't like everything she does) and compose, is a Julliard Grad and creates her own "Hype". She is actually quite mocking and there are lots of different levels to her music and her message. The costuming isn't to be taken seriously.She is kind of a hybrid "performance artist"

[Ron Green]

How can Lady Ga-Ga be relevant when Sarah Vaughan once walked the earth?

[dipsydoodle]

41. And Billie before that

Ella too.

[BeatleBoot]

12. If her career were in the 1970's we'd see her singles on the back of Post Alphabet Cereal Boxes

Competing with Bobby Sherman.


:rofl:

[doc03]

15. Honest I don't have a clue who she or he is and don't

give a flying f---.

[rocktivity]

18. Corporate force-fed video-dependent pop tart flavor of the month--no more, no less

filling Britney and Madonna's now-ancient shoes.

Will be joining Amy Winehouse in rehab before you know it.

:boring:
rocktivity

[saracat]

25. Not at all. She is better educated(Julliard). very intelligent

and has a lot of talent as a singer and songwriter which neither Brittney or Madonna do. She is rocking techno pop for exposture and as "performance art". The others take themselves seriously.GaGa isn't bubblegum. If you take it that way, you aren't "getting " it.

[Captain Hilts]

37. I think of her as being a performance artist. A more musical Laurie Anderson. nt

[JuniperLea]

27. Naw... she's Juilliard... and she's far more cerebral than those others...

I predict she will reinvent herself more often than Madonna, but will never be as phony.

[Kerrytravelers]

34. You may not like her music, but she does support wonderful causes and civil rights.

She's a good girl. :hi:

[applegrove]

35. She doesn't have the raw dance talent that madonna has. I don't get lady gaga either.

[Captain Hilts]

36. I understand your view. What's Grace Jones doing these days? nt

[rocktivity]

38. But is she more talented

than a sixth grader?

:headbang:
rocktivity

[Jade Fox]

39. no you are not

anyone who has to dress (if you can call it that) in such an extreme and silly manner is doing something that doesn't interest me.

[Still Blue in PDX]

40. I saw Chris Walken doing a Lady Gaga song on Youtube.

That's been my only exposure to her.

I listen to Air America, books on tape, or CD's Irish drinking songs in my car, as well as the occasional classic, be it symphonic or '70s.

:hippie:

[say_hello]

42. Pass....

:thumbsdown: