I love Lady Gaga. Contrary to most products called artists out there Gaga really has talant. Her shows and costumes are all top notch. Can’t wait to go to her concert soon again.
Regards Jenn
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evil smiley said on June 3, 2010 @ 8:45 am

I’m definitely not a fan. Over the summer was a really busy stressful time at work and for me the memories are marked with Lady Gaga. First Poker Face and then Bad Romance later in the season. We had the radio on and it was on 4 or 5 times a day (if not more).
Now that I don’t hear her songs all the time I can deal with them but I don’t really like her outlandish style. To me, she kind of looks like a transvestite when she is all made up.

Kalliste said on June 3, 2010 @ 9:18 am

Thanks for your comment, Drea! I’m glad you like the layout; I was definitely going for something simpler and cleaner.

I’m not a huge fan of Lady Gaga nor did I ever hate her. But I actually think the hype is getting a bit much now. I first heard her song Poker Face in 2009. Hellyeah, talk about fail. I had not heard her name at all before that. I’ll admit her tunes are catchy but I’ve never been really into mainstream at all, and after some time I didn’t like her catchy tunes sticking in my head.

But our music tastes do change; in fact I was an avid fan of rap music with excessive swearing and now I absolutely detest that stuff. O_O

Georgina said on June 3, 2010 @ 2:16 pm

I don’t listen to her constantly or anything of the like, but she’s become an artist I’ll go to if I want a certain feel, so it’s one of those things where I still kind of detest most of her fans and her styling, but I think her music has its moments. And don’t worry, I was late to the Gaga train too. :|

Drea said on June 3, 2010 @ 9:49 pm

Yeah, I’ve had the radio kill songs for me a few times too, especially when I was working or in school– it’s kind of sad how many bands I hated when I was younger because of their fans, or the fact that the radio played out their songs.

I’m not saying she’s worth going after if you have a strong aversion, but it took me a while to recognise her talent– not liking her is fine by me too, my boyfriend hates her and I’m fine with that, because I’m still not a rabid fangirl, I just enjoy some of her songs.

Drea said on June 3, 2010 @ 9:50 pm

Thanks for your comment– she does have talent, but sometimes talent isn’t everything– I think her shows and costumes are what keep people talking and that’s the reason she’s so big.

Drea said on June 3, 2010 @ 9:51 pm

I am personally uninterested in Lady Gaga and I do not find her to be a musical “artist” by any means. She is simply a performer and an entertainer in the most traditional of senses. The whole fascination with her is rather hilarious and paradoxical considering people want to call her a “revolutionary” of some sort, when she is no where near the definition of what a “revolutionary” in any field – music or otherwise – would be.

It’s one thing to enjoy her music for what it is: well produced, repetitive, catchy, American pop music. To say the music she makes and her image itself are revolutionary, new, exciting, etc is too much. America is so far behind the times in terms of musical trends and exploration that everything Lady Gaga is currently praised for now was done years and years and years ago by other artists around the world. Americans do not pay much attention to musicians from other countries like other regions of the world may do. We may give detail to British artists, sure, but it is still too close of a “cousin”, if you will, to our own musical genres and tastes. In the end, we – in the USA – still only adore musicians who are by and large “Western” in the most obvious of ways. Since the USA and “Western” artists lead the way and set the treads for the most part around the world, it is only logical and expected that any “Western” artists who stray but a little are thus considered revolutionary to the field. Pretty silly.

But yeah. I’ve heard her songs on the radio while out with friends and what not and it really baffles me how her style and image – both visual and musical – has gotten so much attention. She is a repetition of every musical “revolutionary”, and thus is not a revolutionary at all because it’s been done before time and time again.

SO YEAH. IDK. JUST MY OPINION~

Haley said on June 4, 2010 @ 12:36 am

Yeah, her fans are what get to me sometimes, at least when they’re trying to convince me how utterly awesome her fashion is, or how she’s some kind of revolutionary like you said. I enjoy her music for what it is, catchy, dancey tunes. I’m not trying to say she’s going anywhere new that people haven’t been before, but her fashion is a way for her to garner attention, which is still better than going on drug binges.

I absolutely get what you’re saying, however, in the fact that some people go a little overboard with what they say about her. :x

Drea said on June 4, 2010 @ 2:00 pm