i don’t spend too much time thinking about lady gaga. i didn’t really like her concert or her latest album. i loved her telephone music video though, i thought that was rad.
i thought this open letter was interesting. I don’t agree with every point but there were a couple of valid call outs. http://www.thevine.com.au/blog/alyxgorman/an-open-letter-to-lady-gaga20110620.aspx
“And then, between that Fashion Darling, Armadillo-stomping apex and the release of ‘Born This Way’, something happened. I’m not sure if it’s that you managed to dupe us all from the start, or maybe that you were just so tired from touring you lacked the energy to write something good. Maybe, (as has been so regularly predicted) you, the embodiment of pop, ate yourself.
Anyway, whatever it was, you released ‘Born This Way’, and it sucked. Well, it didn’t suck because ‘Express Yourself’ was a pretty catchy song, but taxing the biggest pop-star of all time wholesale then acting unrepentant certainly did.
What was worse than your lack of musical originality though, was the frock you dressed it up in. By positioning yourself as a champion of the underdog, of all the poor bullied gay kids in middle American high schools, of the weirdos and misfits, you stationed yourself above rebuke. To critique me, you implied, is to critique little monsters everywhere. But what are you offering these kids you now claim to sing for - kids who more than anything need to be taught the /importance of original thought/? Re-packaged, over produced pap, that’s what. You’re feeding them cardboard coated in glitter and telling them they’re eating cake.”
