blaydcor said:
Leo-J. I'm not here to talk about Lady Gaga. Whatever. But this whole paragraph you just typed? I have never heard somebody sound so confident of their knowledge of music while actually being so massively ignorant. I'm not trying to bash you, but you literally have no idea what you're talking about. I'm an English/Music major. I've taken tons of music history, theory, etc classes. I read several music magaxines a month. Go to pitchfork and a few other websites every day. Listen to music reaching back decades and decades. And I still don't think I know that much compared to some people. I try to be humble and admit that there are people who know far, far more than me, simply because they've been around longer and seen more. This is why people get annoyed with your gushing love for Gaga. Your proclaim her to be all the things that she really isn't, and it's mainly because you're viewing her through the extremely limited scope of a teenaged boy. Grow up, gain some perspective, learn more music history, then we'll see how innovative and groundbreaking you think Lady Gaga is. She's a lot of things. A lot of good things. But innovative and groundbreaking are certainly not among them. Nor did she bring dance/"techno" mainstream (not techno by the way, but whatever). I mean, hell. Kanye had 808 and Heartbreaks, a pure-electro album, out before Gaga. And that's just one of tons of examples. She's a pop star. Pop stars are by definition cyclical: there's nothing about her that hasn't been done before, and better. She's a regurgitated amalgam of other genres and past trends. |
Hurrah for you. You win one internets, sir.
Pop princesses, no matter how goofy, are a dime a dozen. Pop music is exactly that - popular. It does not mean that its indicative of quality at all. It more has to do with hype, marketing, and marketability of a person as opposed to any modicum of talent. Don't get me wrong - GaGa has more talen than a lot of females have had in the past 10 years of pop music. But to compare her with the greats of the industry, merely based on album sales (or YouTube hits) is beyond absurd.
The fact is that GaGa will not have a prolonged impact on the music industry. 30 years from now, she will be known more for her whorish and strange dress than her music ability. That is the kind of scope you have to have when it comes to the popularity and ability of a person, because albums can be very tempremental things. Heck, Fame Monster is already in the shadows of the first album when it comes to sales.
Having said that, there are a few men and women that can transcend the popular music genre into something else. The last person that really did that, I believe, just died last year. His name was Michael Jackson. He had the combined talents of every popular music artist of this entire decade combined. GaGa can play the keyboards and sing okay. Jackson composed almost every instrument on Thriller, and in the case of Beat It, played the drums.
I wonder if Leo-J has ever listened to Dream Theater.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.