The music scene moves fast these days, and Lady Gaga who was "cutting edge"(at least to people with not much musical knowledge and a general lack of exposure to anything besides the last half-decade's mainstream pop) a few years ago is already starting to become irrelevant.
Why? The style that she "pioneered" i.e., mindless electronica with pop sensibilities overlaid with party-minded lyrics is already being widely aped--she's becoming the norm, not the avant garde, of the pop scene. Kesha, who's basically Lady Gaga 2.0 designed with the mainstream market more specifically targeted than ever, is just as popular as Gaga ever was, or is at least approaching it.
The biggest thing keeping her relevant is her complete devotion to endlessly remaking herself--always a new dress, new look, new ridiculous outfit, new outrageous video. The problem is that in this modern day of youtube celebrities and label-crafted stars, people have a shorter attention span for this sort of thing. Pretty soon it will just be same old, same old: she's expected to be constantly reinventing herself, incessantly remolding her image.
How can you reinvent your image and make it new when your image is remaking yourself and making it new? Get what I'm saying? There's nowhere left to go on the outrageous-scale, and people are rapidly getting desensitized to level she's at now.
Perhaps most significantly, record labels are increasingly being threatened with collapse--Thom Yorke, famed frontman of Radiohead, recently predicted that it's a matter of months, not years, before they fold. With "indie" talents increasingly finding exposure to the mainstream, there's a trickle-quickly-becoming-a-flood of new talent primed to catch the public's eye.
She's a one-trick pony, and that one trick is being improved upon and stolen from her by newer, up-and-coming artists. You can't make a name for a sophomore album by coming up out of nowhere and making a big splash--you have to maintain that popularity by doing something better, something more.
Other artists have already done that for Gaga. They've taken her formula and made it their own. She's going to be destroyed by the novelty-minded music scene that she's helped create.
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