I cannot stand Lady Gaga. Yes, I’ve seen the video of her playing at NYU’s talent show (she came in second) and yes, she can actually sing and play the piano rather well, but her music, at least what I hear on the radio, is not very interesting — pop melodies with a little vintage rock throw in. Seriously, I hear it at the gym everyday and it sounds exactly the same as any other cheesy club music that they play at any gym in Brooklyn.
Yet part of the reason she’s become so successful is because people think she is “innovative.” Have we redefined what innovative means or are the media using the word wrong? Her music sounds like rehashed electro-pop and her clothes just look like more expensive versions of what club kids in NYC wore throughout the 80s and early 90s. So then, does innovative mean, rather than something new and forward-thinking, something just recycled, calculated, and marketed to what the public seems to be craving (maybe as a response to the toned down vibe of our recession)?
I don’t know. I’m just not that impressed. All I can really wonder is, who is this girl and who paid for all of those clothes and why? Were they her idea, which I might then give her some credit for, or was it her record label, to cover up the fact that she’s not particularly attractive?
Idea Management