and this is not her church.

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I want your love, and all your lovers' recommendations

Only gods are worshipped unconditionally. People have to earn their love.

And Lady Gaga is only human - without question both deservedly famous and polarising, talented and fallible.

She attracts more fawning fanboyism than any artist with only two albums deserves, and just as much uninformed criticism from those who underestimate her.

So welcome to the middle - where we want the best from her... but good or bad, we'll take everything for what it is.


I'm 20, straight and Australian; part-time metalhead/pop fan, full-time music obsessive. I'm writing about every Madonna single here: The comparisons aren't entirely valid, but no one is more important than Madonna in understanding what Lady Gaga could be.

You can also find me on Facebook, Twitter, my personal Tumblr and Last.fm, or harass me via email at richaod AT gmail DOT com.


“beautiful photo taken of me the moment I found out i won my grammys. All the hundreds of songs I wrote, the thousands of shows, the fans, all the blood and tears flashing instantly. photo by haus member the famous “Dada” Williams”

“Real” and “fake” are concepts often irrelevant to Gaga’s aesthetic - but here, the inner Stefani Germanotta emerges for perhaps the first time since 2006 - a lifetime in a struggling artist’s years. I think we’ll get to know her a lot better in time…

“beautiful photo taken of me the moment I found out i won my grammys. All the hundreds of songs I wrote, the thousands of shows, the fans, all the blood and tears flashing instantly. photo by haus member the famous “Dada” Williams”

“Real” and “fake” are concepts often irrelevant to Gaga’s aesthetic - but here, the inner Stefani Germanotta emerges for perhaps the first time since 2006 - a lifetime in a struggling artist’s years. I think we’ll get to know her a lot better in time…



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