Lady Gaga right now stands for everything wrong in the music industry.
There’s so much wrong here that I’m having a hard time deciding where to start. I think I’ll go with what got her famous and what most people see about her first, her “fashion” obsession and image.
Most female pop stars seem to go for the hawt style when it comes to their image, it requires very little thought and with a little air brushing almost anyone can pull it off, in fact this is much more important to most of them than their actual music. Gaga however eligibly likes fashion, so uses that for her image, although it’s more of a safe bet that this is just a clever marketing technique to set her apart from the crowd, after all, there aren’t many other artists that go out of their way to make themselves look the absolute twat. This is obviously just an attention seeking device, which sums her up in her entirety.
Next let’s go with her lyrical themes. You just need to look at a couple of her hits to get the general idea of where her career will explore. Ranging from boys, to sex, to dancing and to boys, it’s obvious we have a clever cookie on our hands here, nothing is out of bounds, especially if it’s been done a millions times before and interests 14 year old girls. Take her debut single Just Dance, a song about getting so high that you just want to dance, or one of her biggest, Poker Face about not giving away that she likes a boy by keeping a straight face. Although wearing her outfits her face probably wasn’t visible anyway. There’s some real deep and meaninglessful shit right here. You can actually guess the hooks from the song titles.
Gaga also practices equally artistic paintings
Despite these lyrics being unimaginative, childish and poorly written she went out of her way and actually got sued for claiming she wrote them and not properly crediting or paying their true authors.
The problem that should be most important (although thanks to auto tune technology, isn’t) is the face she can’t sing and doesn’t have a great voice when she tries. This actually seems to be somewhat of a fad. Before we were getting stars with average singing ability at the top of the charts, now anyone can be the main voice in the number 1, so much so that auto tune is rapidly becoming the sound of today’s radio. As if people are actually trying to be bad singers, it’s mind boggling. Gaga has been known to blame illness and tiredness for the odd bad performance that gets noticed and said she has never and never would lip sync, although that’s one crime i would forgive thank her for.
Then there’s her ego, which is in a league of it’s own (seriously, towering over douche bags like Jared Leto and Miley Cyrus), even nick naming her fans and giving her album a name like The Fame Monster, as if she’s totally aware of exactly what she’s doing and advertising it, but her fans are blissfully unaware and don’t care.
The worst thing about this all? I can actually see why people like this collection of abominations. It’s catchy, “accessible”, rammed down your throats at an alarming rate, cool to like, just like every other fad. People don’t look for music in their music any more.
