Lady Gaga is one of the best piano players ever?

It's what I heard...   So I go to youtube and listen to

Edited by progbaby - February 29 2012 at 13:50

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Perhaps Morbid Curiosity?

I'll have to watch that when I get home. Can't watch YT at work.

Anyway, the 'pop world' is only partly about the music. It's more to do with all the peripheral guff that goes with it; the look, the celeb lifestyle etc etc, and these are things that lovers of prog rock appear to have little interest in. The masses however love it, and someone like Lady Ga Ga is the perfect music industry character.

Her image changes all the time. This keeps people interested in her; dying to see her new outfit. The amount of focus on the image, takes the spot light off how meaningless her music is. I've heard worse, but what she does is in no way ground breaking, or memorable, even in the most insipid pop terms.

It doesn't really matter how good a musician she is if she chooses to make pap and fluff for mass consumption. Artists who combine genuine musical ability with a talent for writing accessable, but thoughtful music, are few and far between in the mainstream.

In my very humble opinion.

jammun wrote: I'm still trying to figure out what failing brain cell in my head made me even look at this.

This.

Oh and everybody knows that Billy Joel is the greatest piano player ever. Or maybe Nicky Hopkins who played with Steve Miller Band, Stones, Pretty Things and everybody else for that matter. No such thing as the greatest.

Lady Gugu? My appreciation of her increased mildly after seeing and hearing her duetting with Tony Bennett. I love that guy.

Using Emerson as the highest standard for quality piano playing seems very ridiculous to me too. Playing fast =/= playing superbly.

And yes the Gaga lady is talented. Probably not a new Horowitz on the piano but quite good at writing pop songs.

Lady Gaga one of the best piano players ever? If Hiromi Uehara is one of her alters I'd give her a chance...

I don't really have anything against Lady Gaga, but I think it's nuts how so many people heap extra praise on her just because she's an actual musician who can play an instrument.  Like that deserves a medal or something.

I was going to troll this thread, but I had a change of heart.

Stefani Germanotta (aka Lady Gaga), is actually a pretty good pianist, in the Alica Keys type of way. She can play RnB, pop, etc. I don't fancy her music or anything, but she ain't bad. She's no virtuoso, and I can't imagine she practices enough where she could handle ELP or Wakeman stuff, but she's not bad.

One of the best piano players ever? Now, c'mon. She's an entertainer. If she was better, she'd be behind the piano more often than 1-2 songs a night and not dancing around like a fool. "Ima...... DANCIN' FOOL"

HolyMoly wrote: I don't really have anything against Lady Gaga, but I think it's nuts how so many people heap extra praise on her just because she's an actual musician who can play an instrument.  Like that deserves a medal or something.

So she shouldn't get extra praise than a pop musician who doesn't play an instrument because she can do something extra? Seems to make perfect sense to me.