GAGA overrated?

[Dreamer]

I'll admit, I can appreciate a healthy dosage of GAGA from time to time, and I commend her dedication to promoting the gay community in a positive light, but do you think she is overrated?

On a different note, I will also say her songs are way too catchy, even the really annoying ones, e.g. "Judas"





I find myself reciting her lyrics in my head, SUBCONSCIOUSLY out of the blue....

brainwashing GAGA little monster conspiracy experience maybe? :tongue:

[marshlander]

Lady Gaga excels at taking simple ideas and presenting them well. There is nothing startlingly original in her musical compositions, her lyrics or her choreography. Her costume designs build quite logically on so-called confrontational statements of previous generations of artists. Her popularity has afforded her access to resources to explore her commercialised endeavours to good effect. I don't doubt her sincerity in espousing glbt equality. It has probably not harmed her income at this stage of her career.

Maybe in time she will discover something in herself that is truly original and unique, but every artist and performer needs time to flower. The pop music industry chews people up and spits them out when they lose their flavour. I hope Lady Gaga has the strength to survive beyond the next few years and the personal resources to find and develop an original artistic statement in due course.

[fredv3b]

LOL! Damnation by faint praise.

[marshlander]

There's enough hyperbole in popular culture without any contribution from me

[Eromir]

Not over-rated. Over-marketed.

While i don't like her songs very much(sounds to me like German schlager fused with RnB and pop) , i have to admit that she is very good at what she does. I think that she IS original in some ways and does a lot of stuff that sets her apart from the crowd. How tasteful that is, is a question of ones taste. Yes, nothing terribly new, but then new ideas are hardly ever popular.

I also get the impression that she is not a helpless victim of the music industry, but rather a driving force. Cold be completely wrong of course.

[posterpicture]

I don't see why people keep criticize her.
I love Lady Gaga. I say it loud and proud.
I don't care if she is overrated or ordinary or not. I don't adore her as a God. I just love her as an artist.
Her music is entertaining. I love the feeling of dancing to her songs in club. They are catchy.
Her video clip make me smile, make me laugh and make me feel that I am not alone.

I don't know why people can hate her for sticking out for human rights. She spends a portion of her profit from Monster Ball tours to donate for a fund that helps LGBT teenage. How many artists actually do that ?( I now there are some but not many).
Her song also helps many teenage kids believe that it 's ok to be different. You as an adults may not understand that but as teenager (well 19, I am on the edge of my glory), I know for a fact that when I was 15, I would not listen to Mr. President says "it gets better so don't die" before I suicide. But I would listen to a catchy song or a pop video and believe in that.
I don't care if she makes her video controversial for money or fame. I just know they are helping many kids who are struggling with their identities feel better.

About her music itself: her voice actually can handle a very wide range of pop. If you listen to her music before she calls herself Lady gaga like in "red and blue", you can find that she can sing indie, soft pop with a little bit mix of folks in it. Now she can sing a more of a dance pop music. A singer who can sing variety of songs can never be rated as a bad singer.

With all of the reason above Why not love Gaga =D

[RainbowFlwrPowr]

Omg! I love lady gaga!

[marshlander]

I don't see why people keep criticize her.
I love Lady Gaga. I say it loud and proud.
I don't care if she is overrated or ordinary or not. I don't adore her as a God. I just love her as an artist.

That is your prerogative. Music has a power to touch us at a very deep and powerful level. We are very receptive to these experiences at periods in our lives. The music does not have to be good to move us. I hope you are still listening to her when you reach my age as I am to a band whose music I first fell in love with at the age of seventeen. There is no way I could make an argument for their music being completely original or technically perfect. I just liked it. I am, however, pleased to observe that the band to which I refer has never shied away from trying out new directions and that, forty years after they started out, are able to produce what for me have been their most musically interesting recordings.

... I know for a fact that when I was 15, I would not listen to Mr. President says "it gets better so don't die" before I suicide. But I would listen to a catchy song or a pop video and believe in that.

Every generation chooses its heroes. Old people aren't meant to understand them I would be very wary of trusting what a politician said now as I did then, but whereas I may have identified more closely with my musical heroes in my youth I now see more cynically the input of the corporations in positioning their artists. Invariably the accountants have a decisive input.

Several years ago Brian Eno observed that there was very little that was new in popular music composition, but what was new were the tonalities and sound palettes made available through improvements in technology. I think musical history has occasionally thrown up exceptions, but in the main I agree with this.

About her music itself: her voice actually can handle a very wide range of pop. If you listen to her music before she calls herself Lady gaga like in "red and blue", you can find that she can sing indie, soft pop with a little bit mix of folks in it. Now she can sing a more of a dance pop music. A singer who can sing variety of songs can never be rated as a bad singer.

With all of the reason above Why not love Gaga =D

I thought the Lady Gaga industry was being marketed on a broader range of strategies than whether or not she was simply a good voice. That seems to me to be a sound decision in her case. In terms of voice alone there are surely more worthy artists that will never be heard as widely.

[joseph]

im not very interesteed.shes ok.and pretened to be cerebrle polsy girl.

[Wintereis]

I find that when I am in a dance club, I enjoy dancing to her music. When I am actually LISTENING to music, however, I do not chose Lady Gaga. Having said that, I believe everything about Lady Gaga's dress, manor, and image is fake, explicitly designed to sell Cd's. I think it is rather sad that artists have to hide themselves behind such caricatures in order to appeal to a large audience.