I have absolutely no understanding why there's so much animosity directed towards the girl. People seem to consider her the face of pop music, and thus all that must be destroyed to save the world. =P
To be entirely fair, and unbiased, and just plain friendly about it, her music's pretty decent, other than pretty annoying product placement, she's done no real crime in her video's. She even managed to make them interesting enough to get over a billion views on youtube and other sites altogether.
That said she's what someone with an older vocabulary than mine would call "kooky", and that seems to sum her up. I doubt she's Lady Gaga at home, on her own, she has a public face, and a private face, and for that she earns my respect. Better than being the next Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan.
This said, i'm a pretty hardcore fan of indie rock, or so i've been told, i'm a rock guy basically.