Lady Gaga strikes again

[masque]

gaga will be around for a while.......because in this day and age she has what she needs to be successful;

1) actual musical talent to write and perform songs that stick in your head
2) outrageous over the top actions and appearance
3) she remains a lightning rod for some as many people think she is smoking hot and others claim she is a man
4) all of this adds up to allow her to actually stand out in the crowd which is very difficult these days.

as long as she doenst go completley freaking nuts and dissappear for five years she will be fine.

[Peartree12249]

Whether you want to face it or not, she DOES have musical talent. She's WEIRD, I'll give you that. And goes a bit over the top trying to get attention, like I've said before, like many of the 80's artists. But she DOES have musical talent whether people want to see it or not.

Here is a piano/keyboard version of Paparazzi. I am impressed with her playing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP8SrlbpJ5A

wow.. I really enjoyed that, i did watch her grammy performance, I could not tell she
could sing like that, she def. has talent, very clear strong vocals, and damn she plays
fine piano!

That was surprising - she is really weird, manufactured, and has issues (I think that makes her the rule and not the exception in the entertainment industry ), but at least Lady GaGa has true musical talent. She can actually sing well and has classical piano training. Madonna has an ear for pop hooks, but her vocals are very average and she barely learned to play the guitar only recently. Unfortunately a lot of Gaga's lyrics are just too rude and her videos are messed up, so I have no interest in them.

I'm not surprised that Madonna does not let her own children watch TV with the stuff kids are exposed to, but it's funny since it was music videos and being controversial for the time that launched her! At the beginning of her career, when she rolled around on the stage for some music awards show dressed in a vampy bridal outfit singing 'Like A Virgin', everyone thought she was nuts too.

Gaga is very
talented, her stage presence/shock factor is a bit ...but it draws the attention that, perhaps, she may not
have gotten otherwise ...to launch?!?! Before Madonna, whom I could not stand in the Like a Virgin days, mostly due to
her very average vox and her act was just weird ...we had Cyndi, who could hit it out of the ballpark. She was out there
for the day/time, but so lovable!!

+1 Cyndi Lauper is extremely talented and is one of my favorite female vocalists along with Annie Lennox and kd lang none of whom are exactly mainstream.

[Art Vandelay]

Whether you want to face it or not, she DOES have musical talent. She's WEIRD, I'll give you that. And goes a bit over the top trying to get attention, like I've said before, like many of the 80's artists. But she DOES have musical talent whether people want to see it or not.

Here is a piano/keyboard version of Paparazzi. I am impressed with her playing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP8SrlbpJ5A

wow.. I really enjoyed that, i did watch her grammy performance, I could not tell she
could sing like that, she def. has talent, very clear strong vocals, and damn she plays
fine piano!

That was surprising - she is really weird, manufactured, and has issues (I think that makes her the rule and not the exception in the entertainment industry ), but at least Lady GaGa has true musical talent. She can actually sing well and has classical piano training. Madonna has an ear for pop hooks, but her vocals are very average and she barely learned to play the guitar only recently. Unfortunately a lot of Gaga's lyrics are just too rude and her videos are messed up, so I have no interest in them.

I'm not surprised that Madonna does not let her own children watch TV with the stuff kids are exposed to, but it's funny since it was music videos and being controversial for the time that launched her! At the beginning of her career, when she rolled around on the stage for some music awards show dressed in a vampy bridal outfit singing 'Like A Virgin', everyone thought she was nuts too.

Gaga is very
talented, her stage presence/shock factor is a bit ...but it draws the attention that, perhaps, she may not
have gotten otherwise ...to launch?!?! Before Madonna, whom I could not stand in the Like a Virgin days, mostly due to
her very average vox and her act was just weird ...we had Cyndi, who could hit it out of the ballpark. She was out there
for the day/time, but so lovable!!

Gaga has great stage presence as isn't afraid to go beyond the normal boundaries. As far as her music, her producers are the talented ones. Not fair to compare her to Madonna either...Madonna's studio vocal skills weren't enhanced by a computer program.

[Art Vandelay]

The problem is, this particular release is the day before Journey's and will probably dominate the charts and the media that week. Since the Eclipse album is already in the can, why not release it a week earlier to get a good chance at topping the charts or at least get noticed on Billboard's front page?

A bit like Frontiers getting frozen out of the top spot by Thriller.

Come on, you can't compare Frontiers to the new cd. Frontiers was a follow up to one of their biggest CDs that contained some of their greatest songs (DSB, WCN, OA). The new CD is following up Revelation, which contains DSB, WCN, OA...oh wait....nevermind

[Jana]

Whether you want to face it or not, she DOES have musical talent. She's WEIRD, I'll give you that. And goes a bit over the top trying to get attention, like I've said before, like many of the 80's artists. But she DOES have musical talent whether people want to see it or not.

Here is a piano/keyboard version of Paparazzi. I am impressed with her playing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP8SrlbpJ5A

wow.. I really enjoyed that, i did watch her grammy performance, I could not tell she
could sing like that, she def. has talent, very clear strong vocals, and damn she plays
fine piano!

That was surprising - she is really weird, manufactured, and has issues (I think that makes her the rule and not the exception in the entertainment industry ), but at least Lady GaGa has true musical talent. She can actually sing well and has classical piano training. Madonna has an ear for pop hooks, but her vocals are very average and she barely learned to play the guitar only recently. Unfortunately a lot of Gaga's lyrics are just too rude and her videos are messed up, so I have no interest in them.

I'm not surprised that Madonna does not let her own children watch TV with the stuff kids are exposed to, but it's funny since it was music videos and being controversial for the time that launched her! At the beginning of her career, when she rolled around on the stage for some music awards show dressed in a vampy bridal outfit singing 'Like A Virgin', everyone thought she was nuts too.

Gaga is very
talented, her stage presence/shock factor is a bit ...but it draws the attention that, perhaps, she may not
have gotten otherwise ...to launch?!?! Before Madonna, whom I could not stand in the Like a Virgin days, mostly due to
her very average vox and her act was just weird ...we had Cyndi, who could hit it out of the ballpark. She was out there
for the day/time, but so lovable!!

Gaga has great stage presence as isn't afraid to go beyond the normal boundaries. As far as her music, her producers are the talented ones. Not fair to compare her to Madonna either...Madonna's studio vocal skills weren't enhanced by a computer program.

What Gaga is lacking so far are ballads. Her couple of ballads are cabaret-type piano ballads, a little campy. I would love to see Gaga really write and sing a heartfelt, emotional ballad. I think she would shine on it.

Madonna's compilation album of her 80s and early to mid 90s ballads, Something to Remember, which I just bought recently, is absolutely beautiful. What Madonna lacked in range, she had a lovely tone to her voice as she matured from the very beginning and always had beautiful ballads. What I loved about her albums was she had a mixture of dance/pop/R&B/ballads on her albums.

You'll See - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PijJsCZU-Xg
Take A Bow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=208rVspxK_g

[steveo777]

Whether you want to face it or not, she DOES have musical talent. She's WEIRD, I'll give you that. And goes a bit over the top trying to get attention, like I've said before, like many of the 80's artists. But she DOES have musical talent whether people want to see it or not.

Here is a piano/keyboard version of Paparazzi. I am impressed with her playing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP8SrlbpJ5A

wow.. I really enjoyed that, i did watch her grammy performance, I could not tell she
could sing like that, she def. has talent, very clear strong vocals, and damn she plays
fine piano!

That was surprising - she is really weird, manufactured, and has issues (I think that makes her the rule and not the exception in the entertainment industry ), but at least Lady GaGa has true musical talent. She can actually sing well and has classical piano training. Madonna has an ear for pop hooks, but her vocals are very average and she barely learned to play the guitar only recently. Unfortunately a lot of Gaga's lyrics are just too rude and her videos are messed up, so I have no interest in them.

I'm not surprised that Madonna does not let her own children watch TV with the stuff kids are exposed to, but it's funny since it was music videos and being controversial for the time that launched her! At the beginning of her career, when she rolled around on the stage for some music awards show dressed in a vampy bridal outfit singing 'Like A Virgin', everyone thought she was nuts too.

Gaga is very
talented, her stage presence/shock factor is a bit ...but it draws the attention that, perhaps, she may not
have gotten otherwise ...to launch?!?! Before Madonna, whom I could not stand in the Like a Virgin days, mostly due to
her very average vox and her act was just weird ...we had Cyndi, who could hit it out of the ballpark. She was out there
for the day/time, but so lovable!!

Gaga has great stage presence as isn't afraid to go beyond the normal boundaries. As far as her music, her producers are the talented ones. Not fair to compare her to Madonna either...Madonna's studio vocal skills weren't enhanced by a computer program.

What Gaga is lacking so far are ballads. Her couple of ballads are cabaret-type piano ballads, a little campy. I would love to see Gaga really write and sing a heartfelt, emotional ballad. I think she would shine on it.

Madonna's compilation album of her 80s and early to mid 90s ballads, Something to Remember, which I just bought recently, is absolutely beautiful. What Madonna lacked in range, she had a lovely tone to her voice as she matured from the very beginning and always had beautiful ballads. What I loved about her albums was she had a mixture of dance/pop/R&B/ballads on her albums.

You'll See - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PijJsCZU-Xg
Take A Bow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=208rVspxK_g

Madonna is a great, living legend. Gaga is a fad that will wear off and a trainwreck poised to happen.

[Jana]

Whether you want to face it or not, she DOES have musical talent. She's WEIRD, I'll give you that. And goes a bit over the top trying to get attention, like I've said before, like many of the 80's artists. But she DOES have musical talent whether people want to see it or not.

Here is a piano/keyboard version of Paparazzi. I am impressed with her playing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP8SrlbpJ5A

wow.. I really enjoyed that, i did watch her grammy performance, I could not tell she
could sing like that, she def. has talent, very clear strong vocals, and damn she plays
fine piano!

That was surprising - she is really weird, manufactured, and has issues (I think that makes her the rule and not the exception in the entertainment industry ), but at least Lady GaGa has true musical talent. She can actually sing well and has classical piano training. Madonna has an ear for pop hooks, but her vocals are very average and she barely learned to play the guitar only recently. Unfortunately a lot of Gaga's lyrics are just too rude and her videos are messed up, so I have no interest in them.

I'm not surprised that Madonna does not let her own children watch TV with the stuff kids are exposed to, but it's funny since it was music videos and being controversial for the time that launched her! At the beginning of her career, when she rolled around on the stage for some music awards show dressed in a vampy bridal outfit singing 'Like A Virgin', everyone thought she was nuts too.

Gaga is very
talented, her stage presence/shock factor is a bit ...but it draws the attention that, perhaps, she may not
have gotten otherwise ...to launch?!?! Before Madonna, whom I could not stand in the Like a Virgin days, mostly due to
her very average vox and her act was just weird ...we had Cyndi, who could hit it out of the ballpark. She was out there
for the day/time, but so lovable!!

Gaga has great stage presence as isn't afraid to go beyond the normal boundaries. As far as her music, her producers are the talented ones. Not fair to compare her to Madonna either...Madonna's studio vocal skills weren't enhanced by a computer program.

What Gaga is lacking so far are ballads. Her couple of ballads are cabaret-type piano ballads, a little campy. I would love to see Gaga really write and sing a heartfelt, emotional ballad. I think she would shine on it.

Madonna's compilation album of her 80s and early to mid 90s ballads, Something to Remember, which I just bought recently, is absolutely beautiful. What Madonna lacked in range, she had a lovely tone to her voice as she matured from the very beginning and always had beautiful ballads. What I loved about her albums was she had a mixture of dance/pop/R&B/ballads on her albums.

You'll See - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PijJsCZU-Xg
Take A Bow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=208rVspxK_g

Madonna is a great, living legend. Gaga is a fad that will wear off and a trainwreck poised to happen.

I'm sure people said that about Madonna in the beginning. Madonna had the ability to evolve album to album. She always had a great catalogue of music mixed with great videos and amazing stage presence and a drive like no other. She shocked at a time you still could be shocked. LOL You really can't any more. All of her albums were different, never the same, never stagnating. Many fans consider her Like A Prayer album, late 80s her best. I don't know which is. They're all different. I tend to like her later music.

Erotica, early '90s was a polished, very sophisticated album touching on sexuality, love, cheating, death, longing. and had a great dance song on it Deeper and Deeper, which is much better than pop dance music nowadays as far as depth. People said her career was over, that she went too far with her Sex Book, her MTV banned Justify My Love video, etc, around that time. It looked like it might be. The album didn't do all that well compared to others (but still selling millions) because people thought it was all about sex, when far from it. But survive she did. Her next album Bedtime Stories, I still can't believe it's a Madonna album, very soft, smooth R&B songs. And then to put out such an amazing album like the ambient Ray of Light at the end of her second decade of music was pretty impressive. Most fans call it her most brilliant album, and it seems to be the album even nonfans own of her. I still say off that album are some of the best songs she has ever done in her life. And all her albums after that were totally different from one another. There's a reason she's the highest grossing solo artist (male or female) of all time in a concert, 2005/2006/, 2009, breaking her own record. I think I have watched her 2006 Confessions DVD 15 or more times. It's one of my favorite DVDs of all time, and she did that concert in her third decade in the music business, and that album was amazing (I think it's my favorite of hers) and sold 12 million albums.

Gaga has everybody's attention. I am very interested to see how she evolves album to album or will she start repeating herself. I bought her first two albums in a duo package, and while very catchy, I can't connect to the songs agewise. A little too campy for me. I gave them to my teenage niece. She will be around for quite a while, though.

[steveo777]

Whether you want to face it or not, she DOES have musical talent. She's WEIRD, I'll give you that. And goes a bit over the top trying to get attention, like I've said before, like many of the 80's artists. But she DOES have musical talent whether people want to see it or not.

Here is a piano/keyboard version of Paparazzi. I am impressed with her playing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP8SrlbpJ5A

wow.. I really enjoyed that, i did watch her grammy performance, I could not tell she
could sing like that, she def. has talent, very clear strong vocals, and damn she plays
fine piano!

That was surprising - she is really weird, manufactured, and has issues (I think that makes her the rule and not the exception in the entertainment industry ), but at least Lady GaGa has true musical talent. She can actually sing well and has classical piano training. Madonna has an ear for pop hooks, but her vocals are very average and she barely learned to play the guitar only recently. Unfortunately a lot of Gaga's lyrics are just too rude and her videos are messed up, so I have no interest in them.

I'm not surprised that Madonna does not let her own children watch TV with the stuff kids are exposed to, but it's funny since it was music videos and being controversial for the time that launched her! At the beginning of her career, when she rolled around on the stage for some music awards show dressed in a vampy bridal outfit singing 'Like A Virgin', everyone thought she was nuts too.

Gaga is very
talented, her stage presence/shock factor is a bit ...but it draws the attention that, perhaps, she may not
have gotten otherwise ...to launch?!?! Before Madonna, whom I could not stand in the Like a Virgin days, mostly due to
her very average vox and her act was just weird ...we had Cyndi, who could hit it out of the ballpark. She was out there
for the day/time, but so lovable!!

Gaga has great stage presence as isn't afraid to go beyond the normal boundaries. As far as her music, her producers are the talented ones. Not fair to compare her to Madonna either...Madonna's studio vocal skills weren't enhanced by a computer program.

What Gaga is lacking so far are ballads. Her couple of ballads are cabaret-type piano ballads, a little campy. I would love to see Gaga really write and sing a heartfelt, emotional ballad. I think she would shine on it.

Madonna's compilation album of her 80s and early to mid 90s ballads, Something to Remember, which I just bought recently, is absolutely beautiful. What Madonna lacked in range, she had a lovely tone to her voice as she matured from the very beginning and always had beautiful ballads. What I loved about her albums was she had a mixture of dance/pop/R&B/ballads on her albums.

You'll See - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PijJsCZU-Xg
Take A Bow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=208rVspxK_g

Madonna is a great, living legend. Gaga is a fad that will wear off and a trainwreck poised to happen.

I'm sure people said that about Madonna in the beginning. Madonna had the ability to evolve album to album. She always had a great catalogue of music mixed with great videos and amazing stage presence and a drive like no other. She shocked at a time you still could be shocked. LOL You really can't any more. All of her albums were different, never the same, never stagnating. Many fans consider her Like A Prayer album, late 80s her best. I don't know which is. They're all different. I tend to like her later music.

Erotica, early '90s was a polished, very sophisticated album touching on sexuality, love, cheating, death, longing. and had a great dance song on it Deeper and Deeper, which is much better than pop dance music nowadays as far as depth. People said her career was over, that she went too far with her Sex Book, her MTV banned Justify My Love video, etc, around that time. It looked like it might be. The album didn't do all that well compared to others (but still selling millions) because people thought it was all about sex, when far from it. But survive she did. Her next album Bedtime Stories, I still can't believe it's a Madonna album, very soft, smooth R&B songs. And then to put out such an amazing album like the ambient Ray of Light at the end of her second decade of music was pretty impressive. Most fans call it her most brilliant album, and it seems to be the album even nonfans own of her. I still say off that album are some of the best songs she has ever done in her life. And all her albums after that were totally different from one another. There's a reason she's the highest grossing solo artist (male or female) of all time in a concert, 2005/2006/, 2009, breaking her own record. I think I have watched her 2006 Confessions DVD 15 or more times. It's one of my favorite DVDs of all time, and she did that concert in her third decade in the music business, and that album was amazing (I think it's my favorite of hers) and sold 12 million albums.

Gaga has everybody's attention. I am very interested to see how she evolves album to album or will she start repeating herself. She will be around for quite a while.

Or will she just self destruct? I'm not getting vibes of longevity. Fact is, I just can't stand her, personally. I'm 51 years old, so I'm not going to disclaim that there is possibly a generation gap.

[Jana]

LOL She might be doing a little too much cocaine and having too many yes people around her. After two light fluff dance albums (her debut had half filler, half great songs The Fame Monster was very solid, but only eight songs), she has declared her new album will be the greatest of this decade. LOL She also said in an interview she had one of the greatest voices and is one of the greatest songwriters in the business right now. LOL Uh, we are just beginning this decade, and to make such a statement, when there are brilliant musicians out there still, turned me off to her. I think she was taken aback, when Born This Way was dissed as copying Madonna and as being an average song, with a great message. She really thought she had written a brilliant song. But I will say one thing, this girl can write catchy songs, great hooks, great melodies. She managed to sound completely different than the other poptarts out right now. I do love Dance in the Dark and Alejandro and So Happy I Could Die.