Music Banter - View Single Post - Lady Gaga

djchameleon · 02-28-2014, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Lobster159

What does ARTPOP even mean!?

I like this definition I have come across in the past.

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Artpop is pop music whose main aspiration isn’t commercial success but that, ideally, attains that goal anyway.
Talking Heads’ frontman David Byrne was once asked whether he makes art or product. I feel I’m successful, he replied, “when people forget the distinction between the two.”
Unfortunately, a yawning gap lies between that concept, which former rock critic/current sociomusicologist Simon Frith has called “an art-music niche,” and Gaga’s distinctly less utopian notion:
“Some of us are ‘artists’ in this group called ‘celebrity’,” Gaga tweeted, “and what we create doesn’t live on unless there’s an audience to remember it. So I may need your attention at first, so I can sing you my song. But it’s the ‘Applause’ after that lets me know if I’ve entertained you.”
Hell, as she repeatedly notifies us on a recent single, she lives for the applause-plause. Does that really sound like someone with a Byrne-like attachment to the first half of her album’s portmanteau?