Lady Gaga Is Not The Messiah - But that’s the problem, her music is not great. It doesn’t translate. I mean ANYONE can sing Papa Don’t Preach and it’s going to have some meaning and it’s still going to be good because Papa Don’t Preach is a masterpiece, of course nothing will ever top Madonna’s performance of it, but even sung by Kelly Osbourne, the song still stands. Bad Romance has been covered by Courtney Love and most recently that guy from 3rd rock from the sun, and Glee and it was cringeworthy to hear!! I mean it’s a TERRIBLE song. Somehow gaga makes it work, but my point is that her music is not good actually. There is a reason why Britney passed on telephone, it’s lame. I think that people are giving Gaga way too much credit, but I guess that’s the genius of it, just like the conmen tricked the emperor and a whole nation into believing that they could weave invisible clothes, like the story goes. Gaga continues to talk about art, art art art, yet I still don’t see the artist in her. All I see is a woman who obsessively studied Madonna’s career and has reproduced it to a T. She went from her debut album to Blonde Ambition in less than two years, all cramped up, all copied from Madonna, and she benefits from the fact that it’s 2010, Madonna is 50 and nobody cares about her anymore. The people listening to Gaga right now, the ones building her up, began listening to music with Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, Usher, I mean all these people, they are post Britney people, so OF COURSE Gaga is going to be the messiah for them, Madonna simply doesn’t register for them, but I grew up on Madonna, 90’s Madonna and I just can’t take gaga seriously, I just cut right through the bullshit and see this pathetic copycat. She wants to be the sinning catholic italian girl bent on world domination of the XXI century, but honey you ain’t got it. I wish I could say more but everything I feel Camille Paglia already said in a GENIUS ARTICLE, god she nailed, every reason why gaga sucks. I really that she’s not the future of pop music because OMG that would be appalling.

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Thu Oct 14

the-dark-night-of-the-soul asked: But that's the problem, her music is not great. It doesn't translate. I mean ANYONE can sing Papa Don't Preach and it's going to have some meaning and it's still going to be good because Papa Don't Preach is a masterpiece, of course nothing will ever top Madonna's performance of it, but even sung by Kelly Osbourne, the song still stands. Bad Romance has been covered by Courtney Love and most recently that guy from 3rd rock from the sun, and Glee and it was cringeworthy to hear!! I mean it's a TERRIBLE song. Somehow gaga makes it work, but my point is that her music is not good actually. There is a reason why Britney passed on telephone, it's lame. I think that people are giving Gaga way too much credit, but I guess that's the genius of it, just like the conmen tricked the emperor and a whole nation into believing that they could weave invisible clothes, like the story goes. Gaga continues to talk about art, art art art, yet I still don't see the artist in her. All I see is a woman who obsessively studied Madonna's career and has reproduced it to a T. She went from her debut album to Blonde Ambition in less than two years, all cramped up, all copied from Madonna, and she benefits from the fact that it's 2010, Madonna is 50 and nobody cares about her anymore. The people listening to Gaga right now, the ones building her up, began listening to music with Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, Usher, I mean all these people, they are post Britney people, so OF COURSE Gaga is going to be the messiah for them, Madonna simply doesn't register for them, but I grew up on Madonna, 90's Madonna and I just can't take gaga seriously, I just cut right through the bullshit and see this pathetic copycat. She wants to be the sinning catholic italian girl bent on world domination of the XXI century, but honey you ain't got it. I wish I could say more but everything I feel Camille Paglia already said in a GENIUS ARTICLE, god she nailed, every reason why gaga sucks. I really that she's not the future of pop music because OMG that would be appalling.

I’ll try to be brief and end this here, because I don’t want this blog to turn into a message board:

Your expectations are absurdly high. Yes, the hype is generated partly by crazed fans, and partly by her own attempts at mythmaking, but a LOT of people who, quite simply, get it admire her. Expecting Lady Gaga to live up to Madonna’s greatest career achievements TWO YEARS after her debut is beyond unfair. She has a long way to go, but she’s doing great for where she is.
“Her music is not great” - okay, personal opinion is fine… but if there’s such a thing as an objectively great pop album, The Fame Monster comes pretty close. There’s a reason it converted so many initial haters - the sheer, vastly improved quality of her music (which is much harder to pick up on when you only know the singles). Try listening to it and putting EVERYTHING ELSE out of your mind - because I guarantee that if you like pop music, you’d have loved it if the exact same album was put out by some obscure artist you’d never heard of.
okay, I can’t be fucked articulating all the aesthetic/ideological differences between Madonna and Lady Gaga. However: though they are both pop artists, their music is totally different. I manage to like them both for who they are. And yes, this generation needs to know more about Madonna - I think I’m doing my bit to make that happen.
One of Camille Paglia’s main criticisms of Gaga is that she’s unsexy. This is so off the mark it’s unbelievable - was ’70s David Bowie trying to be sexy? Should Gaga be wearing lingerie and making bedroom eyes at a male audience instead?!
Generalising about people being collectively deluded doesn’t really work on her many more articulate fans (including myself, I hope!) - in fact, I’d say we’re the ones who truly know enough about her to make an informed judgement, no? What curtain is there to pull back?