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MugwumpHasNoLiver wrote:Gaga's new album "Born This Way" is now available for pre-order. You can listen to the titular track and first single on the same page.
THE Hal E. Burton 9000 wrote:people like her are the reason why most music today sucks and has sucked for a long, long time, and I am sure most on this forum will agree despite her notoriety and undeserved praise elsewhere
she and her copycats are the entertainment equivalent of waving keys in front of a baby and are about as pleasing to the ears and eyes
if you think she is hot stuff, go check out the Ziggy Stardust era of David Bowie, most anything by Madonna from 1983 to 1990 or much of Cher's catalogue, all the good and bad she's done has already been done and done infinitely better IMO
granted, there has not been someone like her to come along in pop music since Britney Spears and her legion of copycats, but come on now, could the kids today find someone or group more interesting and srsly challenging musically to be adored without the obscene emphasis on the visuals?
the only reasons I might not mind her being around the mainstream conscience if only to see her have some hard demise like Spears had or to stick around for WAY too long like Madonna has to the point of becoming a sad cartoon of a media product
who do you think her primary influences are?Hal wrote:if you think she is hot stuff, go check out the Ziggy Stardust era of David Bowie, most anything by Madonna from 1983 to 1990 or much of Cher's catalogue, all the good and bad she's done has already been done and done infinitely better IMO
nobody listens to srsly challenging music and they never did. Pop music has never been seriously challenging (barring perhaps the swing era, but even then "pop" was just distilled and in many cases diluted from its jazz parents). That's why it's pop music. It's easy for everyone to gobble down without being too threatened.Hal wrote:granted, there has not been someone like her to come along in pop music since Britney Spears and her legion of copycats, but come on now, could the kids today find someone or group more interesting and srsly challenging musically to be adored without the obscene emphasis on the visuals?
I'm of two minds about this; on the one hand, yeah, pop music is designed to be music that's most easily digested by the masses, but because of the inevitable evolution of any massive umbrella genre there is "challenging" pop music in the sense that new artists come along that "challenge" old paradigms and thus present a "challenge" to those who are latched onto them. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I don't find classical music any more "challenging" than pop music, essentially. I guess if I viewed it from a more "musical language" perspective I might, but for me it's mostly about the aesthetics.
Eva 02 wrote:Music used to be about jamming music that you feel in your soul, at least, that's what my life-long infatuation with music has been about. Nothing beats the rush you feel when you, the rest of the band, and the audience are in the zone, NOTHING. There's no soul in new music. You don't see a band like Led Zeppelin anymore, that can achieve unworldly success and still have fun on stage. Its all about money, and the proliferation of success. You can blame that on the grunge scene, though, because it expanded on the 1970's San Francisco phenomenon and London scene in the 60's. But it isn't just Gaga. It's Rhianna, Kei$ha, Katy Perry, all the rest of the trash that re-markets old songs for revenue.
All pop music sucks and Lady Gaga is a robot. First she infects our minds, then she destroys our bodies! She's pushing the music industry into a creative slump the likes of which can't possibly have ever been seen before! Audiences are pacified! Pop music is oversimplified! We're pandered to by our entertainment while we lead our measly little unimportant lives at the whim of abominable social machines! Oh the calamity!Eva 02 wrote:I'm saying that Gaga's music is mostly stolen, and what isn't is arranged by a computer which sole purpose is to create a random series of noises which have been shown in research to be pleasing to the ears. What happened to the artists' brain which synthesized this together, the true embrace of creativity and imagination? What lacks creativity lacks musical value, the indisputable reason why anything that is associated with Gaga is trash.
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