Tony Bennett Expects Lady Gaga to Be 'As Big as Elvis'

[Teo]

People here can be so naive, Lady Gaga has been nominated for Album of the Year 3 YEARS IN A ROW at the Grammys, in other words 100% of all her work has been recognized by the academy. No other artist has ever achieved this. The Beatles are the only ones to have ever been nominated 3 years in a row.

"She wears crazy shit, she wont last" - tell that to David Bowie, Cher, Madonna, and Grace Jones. She is not wearing homemade garage crap either, she wears high fashion. Its hypocritical to respect a designer's fashion to wear collection and then diss their high fashion collection because an average person wouldn't wear it to go anywhere.

The RIAA (riaa.com database) has her at almost 30million sales in the U.S alone. MTV said the number is 60+ million WW sometime ago http://newsroom.mtv.com/2010/08/12/lady-gaga-los-angeles/ , and that is with 2 and half albums only.

To put things in prospective, Christina Aguilera started her career in the late 90s and has multiple albums stands at 50million WW - www.dailytelegraph.com.au/still-a-fighting-spirit/story-fn6bm8z4-1225973152129

and the top selling female is Madonna with 80+ million in the U.S (riaa.com) who has been at it since the early 80s. That means Lady Gaga has already sold almost 30%ish of that in the U.S (30/80+ million)

Of course, there is one advantage and disadvantage to take note when comparing these two different generations. In the digital era, singles are what people buy instead of albums, and they are much cheaper, and of course the problem of piracy, which has caused the music industry sales to go down overall.

You can hate her all you want, or hate what she wears, or hate to be part of a branded fanbase "Monsters," she is here to stay. Not only has she shown time and time again how respectful she is and to every artist while a lot of people out there talk shit about her, she never addresses these things. It was a different scene when I grew up in the 90s. Madonna talking shit about Whiteny Huston talking shit about Mariah Carey and it went back and forth.

....and on a last note, there is nothing more narrow minded then having a distinct taste in music, which a lot of people seem to seek nowadays. They try to find some music niche and cling to it and call everything mainstream and popular "shit" because they think they are better and have better taste (grunge society anyone?). The irony of it all is this is exactly how Lady Gaga became famous, through a niche of electrodance lovers and her last album alienated them by going all 80s pop rock and country rock.