Carl2291 said:
Elvis only ever won 3 Grammy's. The Foo Fighters have more Grammy's than The Beatles. I don't need to say anything else about the Grammy's. She's sold 115 Million records Worldwide over 3 albums and the singles released from said albums. That's huge. The potential is there for her to sell over a Quarter of a Billion records. Beyond that? Who knows how far she can go... Will she have a legacy like Elvis? Michael Jackson? The Beatles? No. Very, very unlikely. For that to happen she will need to repeat the success she's seen for another 4/5 Years then simply die. Something that tells you she's popular is the hate she gets from people like seen in this thread. People love to hate on things that are popular. Seeing that we're on a videogame forum, compare her to the Wii's early Years. It was hated because it was popular and different. When you have a hardcore fanbase, like Gaga does... And your songs reach out to Millions more beyond that fanbase, you will be popular and successful. People hate other people liking something they don't. They hate something being more popular than what they like. To show just how popular Lady Gaga is right now, I'm gonna do something simple. Let's compare Facebook page "likes". With some names brought up in this thread. Janet Jackson - 1 Million I think the only 2 music artists on Facebook that have more likes than her are Eminem and Rihanna, both with 50+ Million. She's huge. People love her. People love her music. Her music sells really well. People hate popularity. |
I think you, and most Lady Gaga fans in this thread, are missing the point and using unreasonable comparisons ...
The latest statistics I saw demonstrated that (something like) 75% of facebook users were under 35, and the most active Facebook users were overwhelmingly under 25. Demonstrating that Lady Gaga is more popular on facebook only demonstrates that she is more popular with this demographic, which realistically isn't surprising to anyone.
I'll put it to you another way, I'm old enough that I have seen this same basic argument about many groups and artists over the past 20 years. And, even though their fans at the peak of their career were certain that these artists were going to become the music legends of the future, the vast majority of these artists and groups disappeared within a couple years of their peak. A large part of the reason for this is the vast majority of what seems ground breaking, fresh and new today will seem like Limp Bizkit does 10 years from now. Realistically, Lady Gaga will have a couple of hit songs that don't seem so dated that will survive, and the rest of her work will easily be forgotten.
