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Did anyone see Gaga's interview thing on 60 minutes and actually buy what she was selling? She has some catchy tunes, but I am afraid that she is a complete fraud exploiting the strange ways people get famous these days.
 
honz said:
Did anyone see Gaga's interview thing on 60 minutes and actually buy what she was selling? She has some catchy tunes, but I am afraid that she is a complete fraud exploiting the strange ways people get famous these days.
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A fraud how? Musically? She writes her own songs and is a classically-trained pianist with a fantastic voice... Culturally? Lady Gaga is a character, a performance-art piece, a complete fake. But I'm not sure how it's fraudulent when she openly tells us that it is so. It's a kind of commentary on fame, and it's utterly brilliant.
 
Stickler said:
A fraud how? Musically? She writes her own songs and is a classically-trained pianist with a fantastic voice... Culturally? Lady Gaga is a character, a performance-art piece, a complete fake. But I'm not sure how it's fraudulent when she openly tells us that it is so. It's a kind of commentary on fame, and it's utterly brilliant.
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I totally agree with you, IMHO I think Lady Gaga is the Nelson Mandela of pop music. Only real difference is (other than the black thing) Mandela doesn't deserve to spend 27 years in a South African prison.
 
Yes, she writes her own songs, but she is still paying a producer a bunch of money to make her songs sound the way they do. And she said, "This is who I am. None of this is fake" or something like that on the 60 minutes interview. You just said otherwise.
 
Well obviously it's an act. But I have a feeling it's all part of a longer plan, an Andy Kaufman-esque ruse, a piece of living commentary on the state of celebrity and the music industry. After all, this was her before...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_hHc7TZjyY
 
Even if it is, most people will miss the point just like with Joaquin Phoenix's mockumentary.
 
honz said:
Even if it is, most people will miss the point just like with Joaquin Phoenix's mockumentary.
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Under the template laid out by Kaufman, most people missing the point is what makes the whole thing awesome.

Yet I should also point out that, though much of her eccentricity is an act, at the core of this performance art piece there is something very sincere -- this message she carries of personal empowerment -- which seems to have sprung up from her relationship with the gay community, and which probably wasn't imagined when she was, you know, a 19 year-old scene kid studying the biographies of her favorite singers and plotting this out on notebook paper at home.

And honz, while she does say, "this is me," in that 60 Minutes article, she also calls herself a master of fame and says that her life is a performance art piece. She'll say it straight up, and people still won't hear it. That's part of what makes her so interesting.
 
Exactly. And really, if she can inspire people to be who they are, then who cares if the music isn't all that great?

There's too much music out there that seems to be focused on telling you how to look, how to act, what to wear. Most pop music these days is soaked in materialism.
 
Wow, just wow. LA on the map again...

**** Kanye when this kind of stuff is out there...

Dudes are trending right now...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIOtLeJNrRU
 
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