Why is it so in vogue to despise Lady Gaga, I don’t understand it! OK, she’s as madder than Mad Jack McMad, the winner of this year’s Madman competition, but so what? Since when have most pop stars in the limelight not been so? OK, perhaps she pushes it a little bit, but she’s only like a female version of Elton John in terms of her style (and look where that got him!).
The biggest crime as far as Gaga is concerned is that she wastes all her talent writing and performing relatively mundane music, or has done the last year or so anyway. She’s got an incredible voice, it may not be to everyone’s taste, but trust me there aren’t many that can sing like her, just for some reason half the time she also chooses to sound bad/half cut/wasted as if to prove a point, but when she wants to pull it out the bag (Radio 1 live lounge for instance) she can sound incredible.
A Marketing exercise? Probably, but then on the flipside she writes all her own material, and performs it all herself, not just stands there with a microphone and sings when told to. And since when has the pop music industry been a successful ground for the shrinking violet? Gaga probably couldn’t care if you love her, or hate her, at the end of the day she’s controversial and that’s what causes success in Pop Music. Now if she’d just stop writing crap music aimed at teenage girls again, and write something a bit more edgy, then maybe she will end up as the Madonna for this generation… Perhaps!
