Lady Gaga

Henry Plainview wrote:   RoyFairbank wrote: Completely disagree (100%) but only know 1% of her material. Her persona, pretentious costumes and lip-syncing escapades with gay dancers is disgusting and unartistical and utterly commercial. You're complaining about pretentious costumes....on a prog forum? If you hear something behind you I think it is PETER GABRIEL WITH A KNIFE LOOK OUT!

I think Gaga is fantastic.  She epitomizes pop counter-culture: she's her own stylist, and her costumage is designed by some of the most talented luminaries currently working in fashion.  The costumes are, indeed, ridiculous, but that's entirely their point.  The woman is a walking deconstruction machine, wholly post-modern. 

I really don't perceive pop to be a lesser form of music.  I've had plenty of people denigrate my personal preferences; as such, I go out of my way to assume the best of other people's tastes.  Where Gaga is concerned, this isn't really difficult: there is a genius to refined pop, a genius wholly unaffected by the number of people involved in the production of a song.  Honestly, I reject the template of the singer-songwriter.  Somewhere along the way we decided that if someone doesn't write every note of their own music, they are somehow sub-artistic.  Prior to The Beatles, the vast majority of music recorded by popular artists were not necessarily their own compositions.  Judy Garland was not a songwriter, but she is remembered as one of the most influential singers of all time.  If Gaga is not writing her own music, that does not detract from the quality of said music. 

As for other poptarts...I'm somewhat shocked to see Madonna being labeled as throwaway music.  A great deal of what fantastic pop music is doing is addressing and deconstructing normative sexuality, something that Madonna pioneered.  Bringing feminine sexuality to the fore, in a powerful and declarative manner, is a very legitimate means of social commentary/artistic expression.  Madge was (and remains) a genius.

i haaaaaaaaaaaattttttttteeeeeeeeeee her as much as every other crappy music artist rock and metal and blues and jazz rules

Slartibartfast wrote: I've got 45 years on me and pop has long ago faded from my radar screen.  I won't trash people who are though, I just have better things to do with my time.

Agree. I don't listen to much radio anymore. When I do it is usually news talk,NPR or locally owned not for profit radio station.

I thought we all agreed on the forum not to talk of her anymore? Did I miss a meeting?

I know I am trolling.......but Lady Goo-goo Gaga, Pink, Stefani owe homage to Madonna

Madonna is still the best, but Lady Ga Ga is Goo Goo Good!

I think she is very clever. She has the "now" pop generation eating out of her hands. She is the new Madonna. For the record, I like her for her achievement as a fashion icon and yes - her music is catchy and a perfect antidote to long sessions of progressive rock heaviness. Gaga rules!

Slartibartfast wrote: sydbarrett2010 wrote: i haaaaaaaaaaaattttttttteeeeeeeeeee her as much as every other crappy music artist rock and metal and blues and jazz rules I have a hard time hating stuff I don't listen to.  Move along, nothing to see here.  Well her main thing is being a spectacle.  Reminds me of the hair who lost his testicles.

You should release a daily calendar with quotes like that, Brian.

Haha. Iconography FTW.