Lady Fucking Gaga

• 10 May 2010 at 14:12
• Music, cinema, TV, books...

Lady Gaga sings SHIT. During my trip in Latin America, I've heard her everywhere! I have been waiting for the moment when I could spit all the bad things I wanted to say about her on my blog. She's always using these stupid melodies that it is impossible to get off your head.

CAN'T READ MY CAN'T READ MY CAN'T READ MY NO YOU CAN'T READ MY POKER FACE!

However...

I saw a video of her at french music show Taratata...

WOW! First of all, I was very impressed by one thing: SHE CAN PLAY! After the load of crap successful singers we've got in our generation, that is impressive! So, she writes, composes and sings. Shit, yes, but still, respect!

Also, flashing her knickers to the public while getting them to sing, that's performance. Britney Spears would never have done that! She would have landed on stage, danced her crap choregraphy and then left without even saying anything to the audience. There, Gaga surprised us!

Likewise, when you look back at the past decade, everything was so... sophisticate, like, sanitized. All MTV videos looked alike, everyone dressed the same, nothing came out of the ordinary. Lady Gaga has a very different style, not music-wise but aesthetic-wise. She's completely into the praise of money and beauty, like everybody else, but she's also into the burlesque, and that's a real breath of fresh air, you nearly feel like in the 80ies, Rita Mitsouko revival. She dresses like a crazy woman and she doesn't hesitate, in her videos, in dancing a choregraphy in a fast food where she cooks poisoned sandwiches and kills all the customers. I am nevertheless gutted that Björk (I was a real fan) was mocked at by the entire world for her excentric wardrobe whereas Lady Gaga is praised for it, anyway... She also trying to shock as much as possible, like when she's kissing that butch girl in her latest video, Telephone.

As my twinsister said, "she's not like Katie Perry who sings I Kissed A Girl but you see nothing!".

Something I like about her is that she's committed. As a bisexual, she took part of the protests in the USA against Prop 8, raised money for Haïti and awareness for HIV.

At her age and such a lightning success (Time named her the most influential person on the planet!), she may weary very quickly, like a financial bubble. But hey, thinking about it, another one had a lightning success at a young age while singing shit, and was not promised to a great fate: I have the feeling that this is indeed the new Madonna.

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