Guest Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 Found an old article from 2008 They called her a band, Lady "GaGa" https://www.google.com.ph/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2008/nov/10/new-band-lady-gaga Hometown: New York.  The lineup: Stefani Germanotta (vocals, words/music, synths).  The background: Is Katy Perry not enough for you? Do you wake up in the middle of the night, screaming for more potty-mouthed teen-pop ultra-vixens who allude, in their shiny songs, to all manner of depraved activities and illicit pleasures? You do? Then you'll be gagging for Lady Gaga, a self-styled "retrosexual" – what, she ****s people from the past? – who took her stage name from Queen's Radio Gaga, idolises Freddie Mercury and David Bowie, and announces on her MySpace that she's into "drag queen divas and hot groupie chicks" while singing on one of her saucier numbers about "taking a ride" on some fella's "disco stick".  Basically, she's the cyber-tastic, leather'n'electro spawn of Xtina when she's not being a latterday torch chanteuse and Britney circa her last album of robo-R&B. The Italian-American girl describes herself as "an exhibitionist singer-songwriter" and she's doing a grand job of having her cake and eating it. On her debut album The Fame she sings cutting – well, not that cutting – critiques of celebrity culture on titles such as Beautiful Dirty Rich and Paparazzi, even though she attended the same private school in Manhattan as Paris and Nicky Hilton, became, at age 17, one of only 20 kids in the world to get early admission to New York's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, and had the opportunity to write songs for other acts, including the Pussycat Dolls, before she turned 20. All very impressive, as are her current Top 5 singles-chart placing in the States and 4.5m hits on her MySpace. We also like the way, after college, she graduated to the Lower East Side club scene, where she immersed herself in the seedy underworld and emerged as a sort of futuristic burlesque singer with a dash of electroclash.  Equal parts pop cutie, Studio 54 debauchee and art-trash performance artiste, all disco balls, hot pants, sequins and stilettos, she sings lyrics that flaunt her new-found status while simultaneously mocking the wealthy and famous. "I'm not loose, I like to party/Let's get lost in your Ferrari," go the lyrics to Boys Boys Boys, a deliberate inversion of Mötley Crüe's Girls, Girls, Girls. Oh, and we're not too averse to her coming onstage as she does in a bikini top to the orchestral sounds of A Clockwork Orange as she ignites cans of hairspray.  So she's no pretty vacant pop princess and has pulled off that difficult trick of being at the centre of a world she's making money out of mocking. How very post-modern. Warhol would have loved her, and we love that aspect of Germanotta aka GaGa. Turn down the sound on her videos, hang her image on a gallery wall, and we're in love. She looks fabulous, dahlink. But her music sounds to these highly attuned ears like offcuts from Britney's Blackout, only less pristinely powerful and mightily machine-driven. The bassy synths aren't quite thick enough, the beats insufficiently annihilating, the melodies a bit predictable, but when she comes on TV we'll be all eyes.  The buzz: "Comparisons to Scissor Sisters and Princess Superstar are inevitable, but GaGa's got a shrewder pop ear."  The truth: Meet Mad Maxine.  Most likely to: Be described as a "droog disco diva".  Least likely to: Stomp a tramp to death in a back alley.  What to buy: Debut single Just Dance is released digitally on December 29, with debut album The Fame to follow on January 26 2009.  File next to: Little Boots, Robyn, Gwen Stefani, Xtina.  Links: www.myspace.com/ladygaga  Tomorrow's new band: Alela. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werk 13,165 Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 35 minutes ago, Kosh Tuansi said: Debut single Just Dance is released digitally on December 29, with debut album The Fame to follow on January 26 2009 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AIex 3,102 Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 9 minutes ago, Werk said: Poker Face & TFM [almost] cancelled Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausofbrice 2,867 Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 49 minutes ago, Kosh Tuansi said: Least likely to: Stomp a tramp to death in a back alley.  ??? xoxo, brice ♡ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miel 15,009 Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 That was... a fair review, LMAO. 3 points in and ready for more Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AIex 3,102 Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 26 minutes ago, Werk said: waiT, I just realized Just Dance came out 7 months before this article  a mess Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrer Zorola 3,966 Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 56 minutes ago, AIex said: waiT, I just realized Just Dance came out 7 months before this article  a mess Then why did they say she had already 5 hits? LIFE IS GOOD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AIex 3,102 Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 1 minute ago, Ferrer Zorola said: Then why did they say she had already 5 hits? She had two hits before this article and yet it said Just Dance wasnt even released yet despite earlier the article saying it was a top 5 hit whoever wrote this needs fired, it mentions nearly every song on the album with a description and then claims that the album wasnt released yet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
and i oop 1,360 Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 There's so much wrong with this article. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heygirl 842 Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 i hate this sm. an awful mess, i cant be kind guys Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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