You know what it takes to become a big star these days?
Mindless lyrics with a catchy refrain, and a thumping bass will get you your first hit.
The freakier the costumes the more notice you get. The less there is of these costumes the more you get remembered. And if you take your music videos to the very edge it won't exactly hurt your career.
Now do more of these mindless songs with skimpier costumes and freakier music videos every time, and you got yourself some staying power. You are now a star. Congratulations.
But the thing is it kind of takes someone with some talent for at least business that bothers to put some money and time into your career..
But what happens when you yourself have talent for business, and have been in the industry for years, and therefore know what work?
And then have musical talent to boot?
Then this happens:
Pokerface:
Unplugged: (needs some skipping. starts at about 3:30)
Just Dance
Unplugged:
Paparazzi:
Unplugged:
And then, just becuase she is a good performer
Love Game live at Much Music Awards 2009
The lady can sing, and she can play, perform, arrange and write her own music.
When she figured that she had enough fame, really god music started to happen. I'll admit that she still takes too much of her clothes of, but at this point it's just that we are used to seeing her undressed.
Alejandro:
So, sheep. We just proved our own tendecies to get fooled by barely dressed women spewing gibberish. But in fact, if you listen more closely, the lyrics say more than they let on.
Just Dance:
"Wish I could shut my playboy mouth, oh oh oh-oh
How'd I turn my shirt inside out? Inside outright
Control your poison babe, roses have thorns the say
And we're all getting hosed tonight, oh oh oh-oh"
I am not doing Pokeface, becuase absolutely all of the song has a wicked double meaning, and you can read into it whatever you like. So just go read and/or listen to the lyrics.
Paparazzi:
"I'm you biggest fan, I'll follow you until you love me"
That one shouldn't even need a quote, it jumping right at you and biting your nose clean off!
I am not doing Love Game either. It's just fan hoarding. Both Pokerface and Lovegame came fairly early, and both the songs and the videos stank of sexual innuendo and were (as I see it) mostly designed to drag us in and catch us in her net of trickery.
Who still talkes about Love Game? We talk about Pokerface becuase it ws her big breakthrough. It simply came first. (Actually Just Dance did, but it apparently wasn't suggestive enough, seeing as she amped up everything after that.)
The point of it all is that she tricked us. She let us believe that she was some stupid, autotuned-to-death, constructed pop princess. She had us all fooled. And we all fell for it.
I, personally, don't think she is half bad. I have had some mixed feelings about her music in the past, but I like her more and more as I realize the beauty of it all.
She hooked in an enitre world, almost an entire generation, with a devious lie.
We are a social experiment. And we proved her right.
She isn't the mindless one. We are.
Thank you world. And a good night to you all.
2 comments:
I totally agree! I've been thinking exactly this for a while and you put it down perfectly.
Lady GaGa knows exactly what she's doing. And I admire her for that.
Yay ^^
I remember, when Just Dance came out I found it really catchy but expected it to be a common pop-song, so I kept it a bit of a secret how catchy I found it. :P Then Pokerface came out and I was hooked on that too, was almost embarrased about it until I started searching for her on youtube and found those acoustic versions you posted here, realized she was more than just the regular pop-stars and have quite liked her ever since. ^^;
P.S; I think I read somewhere that she has mentioned that her next album is already finished, and that the next will be containing more political and angry lyrics. :P I'm actually curious hehe.
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