Poll: Lady Gaga

[lapan]

She is okay, but she got terrible taste in clothing.

 

[Cabisco]

I think I can sum up my view as follows:

While the music itself is good, and it's good that she actually comes up with it all herself I find her image, the image she projects herself to be quite annoying. The way she always tries to wear strange clothing, and her videos seem to try to be weird for the sake of weird, I feel she is more about the image around being a pop rock star (Rock is after all more about the image in alot of cases) than the actual music. So I can listen to her music but her videos, her as a image, count me out.

 

[ShaqLevick]

I hate her. I hate her music. The fact that you compared her to Michael Jackson makes me want to curb stomp your face, and I'm not even a big fan of him, although all is songs are pretty good. It might be because I hate 90% of music from this time, (It seems to have started around 2008) because most of it is the same poppy shit. People have become so simple minded that they don't even listen to the lyrics. I took a poll in one of my classes, barely anyone sincerely listens and thinks about the lyrics. That makes me sick, music shouldn't be like this and the fact that it has 'devolved' to this makes me disgusted... Those are my thoughts...

Dude you haven't really been listening then have you. Personally I'd say since 2008 music has never been more exciting as far as variety and sheer volume over time. And if you can't see past a few dance numbers to the positive side of the Lady Gaga show then you have no right to critique at all.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Lady Gaga is swiftly overtaking Twilight as most often used as a basis for a new thread here.

That's gotta say something.

"We hate to love, but love to hate" perhaps? Anymore it seems that people are defining themselves less by shared passions and more by which elements of pop culture they can't stand - hatred is trendy! Plus it shows that you're part of the counterculture, and being counter-cultural is essentially a core part of the Escapist's user culture, heh.

 

[DeadpanLunatic]

I have removed my words from this site.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

We, as a gaming community, have a fair share of people who despise mainstream games with some worrying degree of passion, but mainstream music? That's a whole new level of "haters gonna hate". Considering all the loud-mouthed verbal beating it gets, one could be forgiven for thinking that metal and indie were far more popular around these parts.

I don't really know about Indie, but Metal is quite popular here, so one wouldn't really need forgiveness for assuming such, what with it being true and all.

But then that's the sort of assumption you should probably automatically make even before noticing all the mainstream music bashing, given the primary demographic of the forum (nerds, teenagers, teenagers who are nerds).

 

[Stranger of Sorts]

"We hate to love, but love to hate" perhaps? Anymore it seems that people are defining themselves less by shared passions and more by which elements of pop culture they can't stand - hatred is trendy! Plus it shows that you're part of the counterculture, and being counter-cultural is essentially a core part of the Escapist's user culture, heh.

I always did find this rather perplexing. We, as a gaming community, have a fair share of people who despise mainstream games with some worrying degree of passion, but mainstream music? That's a whole new level of "haters gonna hate". Considering all the loud-mouthed verbal beating it gets, one could be forgiven for thinking that metal and indie were far more popular around these parts (especially considering these have zealots of their own.).

You called?

OT: I may think Lady Gaga's music is bland but this review isn't! It's terrible, sorry. Little effort put into it, not even an attempt at formatting and not even an example in the forum of a youtube video. How about checking out some of the stuff on this site and take some inspiration from them.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

She's entertaining, but with the auto-tuning and the less than original musical style, she's a passing fad.

Yup, just like Soldier boy and the Jonas brothers.

 

[Bureacreative]

she's pretty goddamn awesome

 

[StonkThis]

I hate her. I hate her music. The fact that you compared her to Michael Jackson makes me want to curb stomp your face, and I'm not even a big fan of him, although all is songs are pretty good. It might be because I hate 90% of music from this time, (It seems to have started around 2008) because most of it is the same poppy shit. People have become so simple minded that they don't even listen to the lyrics. I took a poll in one of my classes, barely anyone sincerely listens and thinks about the lyrics. That makes me sick, music shouldn't be like this and the fact that it has 'devolved' to this makes me disgusted... Those are my thoughts...

Dude you haven't really been listening then have you. Personally I'd say since 2008 music has never been more exciting as far as variety and sheer volume over time. And if you can't see past a few dance numbers to the positive side of the Lady Gaga show then you have no right to critique at all.

I've heard Lady Gaga songs. I've listened. I've hated them regardless. I haven't watched the videos. You'd have to force me to do that, so that can't be my bias. And if you think music is better than it used to be, I hate you so much...

 

[John Funk]

I really hope Lady Gaga isn't a fad. She's just fun - I completely agree with JEB in that she's kind of like the new Madonna. And Madonna's still around.

She's a great performer, too. I'm going to a concert in September and it should be fun

 

[Thunderhorse31]

Agreed. Lady Gaga is actually very talented vocally, as seen here, before she was famous:


Personally, I find her music to be very same-y, but I do enjoy songs like "Brown Eyes" and "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)".

I don't know how anyone could watch a video like this and still claim she has no talent. I mean, even if you HATE her current style (which is completely understandable), to say she's a "terrible musician" or can't sing is just ignorant flame-bait.

Anyway, I think she's okay - some of her songs can be pretty damn annoying and she may be painfully overrated, but she can sing.

 

[braincore02]

I find her music annoying but don't mind that she's out there making a spectacle cause I can usually ignore it unless I want to see what wacky shit she's wearing. Then I go "huh that looks dumb" and move on.

 

[Get_A_Grip_]

Considering I'm mainly into the rock/metal genres of music. I, myself find it hard to believe that I do like some of her(?) music. She does have something differnt about her comapred to the other pop "sensations" that have become the centre of the mainstream audiece's attention.
I'm not saying I'm a huge fan or that I'd go to a concert of her's. But she is good in comparison to the other artists in the pop genre.

 

[Jnat]

She SUCKS, SUUUUUUUCKKKKKS!!!

 

[Disaster Button]

Snipples.

I've heard her sing live and acoustically. She certainly doesn't use technology to improve her voice anymore than most other artists do, and that's only usually done to improve recording quality. Her live voice is miles better than her recorded one.

OT: She's pretty good. But I only really like her songs from The Fame Monster. Most of the tracks on The Fame were a bit too materialistic for me to enjoy.

Like most R&B artists in this millennium, she uses music technology to make up for her lack of vocal talent

Citation needed.

Agreed. Lady Gaga is actually very talented vocally, as seen here, before she was famous:


Personally, I find her music to be very same-y, but I do enjoy songs like "Brown Eyes" and "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)".

I saw that on TV Tropes and loved it. I wish she still did performances like that. Watching it and looking at her now, its almost like the girl in that video died and Lady Gaga replaced her, they're just so very different.

 

[ShaqLevick]

I hate her. I hate her music. The fact that you compared her to Michael Jackson makes me want to curb stomp your face, and I'm not even a big fan of him, although all is songs are pretty good. It might be because I hate 90% of music from this time, (It seems to have started around 2008) because most of it is the same poppy shit. People have become so simple minded that they don't even listen to the lyrics. I took a poll in one of my classes, barely anyone sincerely listens and thinks about the lyrics. That makes me sick, music shouldn't be like this and the fact that it has 'devolved' to this makes me disgusted... Those are my thoughts...

Dude you haven't really been listening then have you. Personally I'd say since 2008 music has never been more exciting as far as variety and sheer volume over time. And if you can't see past a few dance numbers to the positive side of the Lady Gaga show then you have no right to critique at all.

I've heard Lady Gaga songs. I've listened. I've hated them regardless. I haven't watched the videos. You'd have to force me to do that, so that can't be my bias. And if you think music is better than it used to be, I hate you so much...

Come on, of what could you possibly be considering the golden age of music. The 70's or hell even the 90's all very memorable but my options were so limited to the corporate structure of things. Or compared to this very day where a new artist is just a click away, from every corner of the globe in any language spoken... I refuse to believe the best has come and gone especially when hundreds of albums are released every month. Then again some people are just set in their ways, and of course I couldn't hold that against anyone. Be faithful that retro in one form or another is always in fashion, and one day my friend your time will come.

 

[Why do I care]

Oh god please someone purge her from the world!

 

[Why do I care]

SHE HAS BEEN BURNED INTO MY HEAD! Try listening to her for HOURS and not saying anything because you don't want to hurt your friend's feelings.