emby

in pop music the image always sells first. It's not like most popstars have deep songs most of it's just to dance to to, and have fun. So really all Lady Gaga is doing is taking advantage of that aspect in pop music.

bannister

I really wish she would go away. I'm tired of listening to people herald her as some sort of creative genius.

Her image was carefully crafted in a boardroom full of rich white men looking to make a profit. And guess what? It worked.

I think I would've liked her a lot more if she stuck to the normal-girl-playing-piano bit.

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Goblin Tears

I really doubt that's what happened. Is this some kind of anti white patriarch vendetta, or a genuine observation?

What exactly is normal-girl-playing piano? Tori Amos?

Consolator

It's funny you say that. Lady Gaga had been doing performance art pieces in NY Clubs and bars for years before she got a label to sign her. Back then, she believed it to be very important to mix avant-garde fashion with pop music, and she wanted to make people uncomfortable with her shock pop art. That hasn't really changed. Granted, she's doing it in a much larger scale than she used to.

I don't really think she's a creative genius. A lot of her fashion can be traced back to previous designers and models. "Teeth" blows me away every time I hear it. It has the elements of gospel music in it, and the jazz sound in her singing. I wish she would branch out and do more songs of that nature. I love it.

IamTimmeh

I really liked her early performances when it was only her and a piano a lot. She tried at first to make it like that, because she started out wanting to be a lounge singer (which explains songs like Speechless and Brown Eyes), but it didn't work out. So she tried the club scene, and she's made two CD's as such.

bannister

Ha. No.
A while ago, someone showed me an (obviously old) video of her, looking quite normal, playing the piano. I found it far less annoying than anything else she's done.

Oh, and tbh I really don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of Lady Gaga, so I really can't say if her whole persona came into being because of a bunch of record execs or not, but I wouldn't be too suprised at all if that had to do with it. At the very least, I think the fact that she had a gimmick helped her get signed.


Okay, this explains it. (:

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baxter

not a huge fan of her to be honest

HangHerUp

She has talent, you've got to admit it. Of course it annoys me that it's more of the "looks over music" which concludes to the scene of nearly naked women o___O but I guess if it sells then what the hell (though I personally wouldn't do that xD). I actually prefer the songs like Paparazzi, Poker Face and Just Dance to the really new stuff like Bad Romance But that's my opinion

Goblin Tears

This proves you didn't really now what you were talking about in your earlier post, or else you were just looking for a reaction from GaGa's fantics.

What's the gimmick?

People here are making the ridiculous assumption that ''normal piano playing'' lounge music is more 'authentic' or whatever than club/pop music. Aside from the fact that it's difficult to make pop produced music without a studio (as was the case with GaGa pre-fame), I'm sure it's a direction she wanted to go in, given her tastes and inspirations, which are quite varied. So I wouldn't say she sold out, she was just handed a lot of musical resources and made maximum use of them, and even still, she practices her old style in several songs like Brown Eyes etc.

Dirty

I'm guessing the gimmick he/she is referring to is the over-the-top persona. The ridiculous outfits and hair, etc