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I haven't been in clubs in ages so when I came upon this vid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M65zI9LH-as) I made a double turn.  Then I googled everything from her and I love what she does!  It's excentric, insolent, slutty... Everything that once made Madonna great.

Is Lady GaGa the true heir of the Queen of Pop?




G.

I rather doubt it.  Flash in the pan.

No

Hell no. :x

Lady Gaga is much better than Madonna.

No.
She's nobody.

I love Lady Gaga, I can only hope she sticks around.  I think each of her singles is better than the last.   Her tour was the one big concert I considered buying tickets for this year, but ultimately it was too expensive.

This MTV live performance of "Paparazzi" is great:

http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/435679/paparazzi-live.jhtml

Someone's got to keep modern dancers working.   :lol:

No.  Not now.  Maybe if she's keeps up her string of successes.  I do know there's some definite love for her in the gay community in my area though.

Don't know who that is

Maybe the new late 90s Madonna.

Quote from: DisturbedPervert on November 07, 2009, 09:20:42 PM
Don't know who that is

Count yourself lucky!
As for that performance at the VMAs, I thought it was cool right up until the flailing dancer getting pushed around in the wheelchair.  WTF was up with that? :yeahright:

Quote from: Grallon on November 07, 2009, 08:40:57 PM
It's excentric, insolent, slutty... Everything that once made Madonna great.

To even think that the 15 minutes of fame for that little no-talent could possibly replace 25 years of Madonna...you, ma'am, are so not a gay person.

Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 07, 2009, 10:25:51 PM

Quote from: Grallon on November 07, 2009, 08:40:57 PM
It's excentric, insolent, slutty... Everything that once made Madonna great.

To even think that the 15 minutes of fame for that little no-talent could possibly replace 25 years of Madonna...you, ma'am, are so not a gay person.

Certainly not in the Martinus/garbon way, where 'gay' means 'adult man who acts like a junior high girl'.  Grallon is their superior in every way.

Nah. No one will remember her in a couple of years. I do like some of her songs though.

Quote from: DisturbedPervert on November 07, 2009, 09:20:42 PM
Don't know who that is

I tried to check her music out, but I turned it off after a couple minutes in disgust.

Too early to say, give her 30 years and we'll see.

That time is over. I doubt any artist will get as big anymore. Since the Beatles and Stones superstardom is on the decline. There's an oversupply and no chance a single artist will reach that level again.

Quote from: Neil on November 07, 2009, 10:53:05 PM
Certainly not in the Martinus/garbon way, where 'gay' means 'adult man who acts like a junior high girl'.  Grallon is their superior in every way.

:lol:

It is good that he gave up preying on children though. :)

Well, she has an indie singing background (she started in the Ny gay scene), she had a very good pop culture start, she seems to be clever and she has a good voice (check one of the videos on youtube of her singing her songs acoustically - it's surprising there is something behind the CGE). However, I'm with Buddha in that it's too early to tell.

She could be the new Madonna, but she also could be yet another flash in the pan. Ask me again in 5 to 10 years.

That being said, I like her music - I just hope that, like Madonna, she is not going to keep to the same style for ever.

Quote from: syk on November 08, 2009, 03:09:06 AM
That time is over. I doubt any artist will get as big anymore. Since the Beatles and Stones superstardom is on the decline. There's an oversupply and no chance a single artist will reach that level again.

It's not just that; the whole nature of the music scene has changed.  A&R used to be able to fuel huge months-long tours on the proceeds of an album release.  Thanks to iTunes and its ilk offering purchases on a song-by-song basis, we're going to see a lot less golds and platinums over time, so recording companies are going to have to scavenge more to find funding for the huge tours and be more likely to do it on a case-by-case basis.

I always thought the tours paid for themselves, isn't that kind of the point?

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 08, 2009, 10:20:26 AM
I always thought the tours paid for themselves, isn't that kind of the point?

Most tours are a money pit.  The bigger the name, the higher the cost for the bulk insurance.  Added to the cost of stage equipment, technicians, additional lighting, sound or effects, outlay for merchandise... rap and R&B in particular have gotten expensive enough to insure to make most tours not worth it.

Then they just won't have tours. /shrug

The point was always about making money, whether it was from gate receipts or increased album sales. Record execs weren't thinking "we sold a million copies, let's spend it on a tour!"

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 08, 2009, 10:44:33 AM
Then they just won't have tours. /shrug

The point was always about making money, whether it was from gate receipts or increased album sales. Record execs weren't thinking "we sold a million copies, let's spend it on a tour!"

No, they were thinking "these people are icons, let's invest in a tour to generate even more interest and keep selling million-copy releases."  And the tours are indeed slowing down.
Repeating, the biggest hurt is actually per-song digital purchases.  Once upon a time, an artist could count on an amazing single to have people buy the album regardless, and now people can just get the song- probably more likely to only get the song if the focus is prominently on a single, in fact.  I haven't seen it happening on too large a scale yet, but eventually, I'm thinking artists are going to go for lower standards and higher consistency to salvage their sales.

Quote from: Martinus on November 08, 2009, 07:20:35 AM
(check one of the videos on youtube of her singing her songs acoustically - it's surprising there is something behind the CGE).

Well she did go to school for music.

I like her newish song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACm9yECwSso

Quote from: The Brain on November 14, 2009, 11:21:05 AM
I like her newish song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACm9yECwSso

Nice vodka product placement.  :D

Also ... "100 quatloos on the Blonde"

Quote from: The Brain on November 14, 2009, 11:21:05 AM
I like her newish song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACm9yECwSso

Too much Left4Dead makes me reach for my shotgun in the beginning.

Also, the fact that my 60 year old father likes Lady Gaga makes me feel old.  :(

I love Lady Gaga.

I brought her up here in languish long before she became famous.

You gay chaps are always ahead of the cultural curve  :huh:

:lmfao:

Quote from: The Brain on November 14, 2009, 11:21:05 AM
I like her newish song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACm9yECwSso (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACm9yECwSso)

She looks fat in that video.