TimisaMonster 31,073 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 actually this would be amazing name for an album Yeah! :nooo: Stream my new single, 💜"Heartbeat"💜, on Spotify! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaronyoji 2,054 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 I have to say it, but slapping your name that represents you as a musician/singer/songwriter on a fragrance, and a second fragrance at that, seems to be jumping the shark when beating your drums about her art, not money, is important to her.  She wants to be seen separate from the pop girls of the world and be recognized more for her vision and avant-garde contibtution to pop music, but like we would ever have seen Bowie  or Dylan or Queen slapping their name on something right in the midst of their relevancy and impact on music culture and their heyday.  I hated that she put Gaga on the name of a perfume.  I consider her so talented and hate to see the name "Gaga" being used to sell something other than music.   In all honesty, I didn't like the name Fame used.  Fame is an album and should stand for something in her history as an artist blazing onto the music scene and not piggybacked onto with a fragrance.  I wish she would name her fragrances, if she has to sell them, something other than associated with her music.   Others see it differently.  It's just my opinion and won't change.  I elevate her higher than the average pop girl schilling their perfumes.  The first one I accepted and grew used to the fact that she named it Fame and at least thought she had an amazing campaign.  Another one coming out and then naming it Eau de Gaga just cheapens her message of I'm a serious artist, focused on my music, not money.  Her name stands for something and it shouldn't be slapped onto a perfume. i totally agree. plus her first perfume was under quite different context. it was not only truly innovative for the perfume business, i.e making it a black fluid, but there was a strong art cocnept to the way she promoted it, and the commercial was the first real taste of ARTPOP's message back in 2012. like the dali reference in a perfume commercial for example, that commerical was streamed every hour that night of the 2012 vmas. she turned a non artistic platform like selling a vapid perfume into a work of art, hence ARTPOP. i cant honestly say the same thing about this perfume round 2. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Phire 98 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 I'm glad she's speaking her mind, go Gaga!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus 1,494 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 'Pain of Fame' sounds like a song title inb4 it's the next "Private in Public" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure Adrenaline 1,518 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 inb4 it's the next "Private in Public" or Element of Crime It's much more fun to have hizophrenia... u never get lonely Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
destructivelove 563 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 It's easy for her to say money is not an issue because money has never been an issue in her life. Even if you buy into the narrative that her father didn't talk to her for a while after she started causing a commotion, there was never a threat that she wasn't going to be able to pay the rent. There was never a point where she didn't have a support system and the ability to rely on her family. She was never going to be homeless. The whole thing rings so false because she has never experienced the struggle of not knowing where her next meal was going to come from, let alone whether or not she was going to have a reliable housing situation. It's really quite insulting to her fans than didn't have the privileged uppringing that she experienced. No matter how much she strums that victim guitar, the reality is that she has no idea what its like to have nothing to fall back on. as much as I do agree with you that she has never had to struggle financially...coming from a family myself that is well off, I can honestly say that I truly do not care how much money I make in the long run career wise because I know that money personally does not bring me a ton of happiness.. I think you are confusing her intentions and what she means when she says things like that... i dont think shes ever once said that she wants to struggle, or that she knows what it's like to live homeless or hungry... i do know however that even though someone may come from a family that can hand them a pay check if they ask for it, sometimes we as humans are willing to go hungry and struggle if it means proving to ourselves that we can make it on our own, without our family handing possessions to us.  it may not be the most logical thought process, but at the same time life itself isnt very logical and knowing you built yourself up to your own definition of success and happiness can be worth far more than anything that could ever be handed to you...  also a side note... but as someone who has been battling clinical depression and a chemical imbalance and has worked past addiction over the past few years (which we know Gaga has as well), i can confidently say that fighting suicide and complete self-hate can be just as terrible of a feeling as starving physically or struggling to pay the bills... i say this because living on my own ive experienced all three... im sorry if you have grown up in an environment where money is such a stressful topic, i dont mean to downplay your feelings at all... all im saying is you could have all the money in the world and come to find that you arent any bit happier, and may really start to see that for every physical problem money solves, it brings 5 more emotional/mental/relationship problems.  love trumps all and happiness without money involved is the most important and most hard thing to find in life.  Feeling like a "victim" as you put it is a CLEAR indicator of clinical depression and bi-polar disorder and only further proves that her problems do not stem from money, and would still be there if she grew up in complete poverty, and have no relation to how much money she's had in her life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavyMetalGAGA 65 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 I'm happy she's commented on the Beyonce fiasco. B and Jay are hugely talented and deserve their success, however, I don't really like how Beyonce says she doesn't believe in gender equality in one interview and then months later poses at the VMAs under an illuminated 'Feminist' sign. And her and Jay seem to be milking their marriage lately, and this all started even before the split rumors. I feel like going on the "Mr. and Mrs. Cater Tour" was enough. That is not feminist ideology, Beyonce. That is relying on another man's name for success. Although if she would come out and say something about how they both can do their own thing and succeed in the industry, then that would be more consistent with the feminist image she's pulling lately. That's why I love Gaga, though. It took her some years to understand what that feminist question meant, but she really grew to understand it better. I love when she mentions how the message behind Gypsy is how her and Taylor can both be away and do their own thing and be successful. That is gender equality. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PopBitch 1,218 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 I'm happy she's commented on the Beyonce fiasco. B and Jay are hugely talented and deserve their success, however, I don't really like how Beyonce says she doesn't believe in gender equality in one interview and then months later poses at the VMAs under an illuminated 'Feminist' sign. And her and Jay seem to be milking their marriage lately, and this all started even before the split rumors. I feel like going on the "Mr. and Mrs. Cater Tour" was enough. That is not feminist ideology, Beyonce. That is relying on another man's name for success. Although if she would come out and say something about how they both can do their own thing and succeed in the industry, then that would be more consistent with the feminist image she's pulling lately. That's why I love Gaga, though. It took her some years to understand what that feminist question meant, but she really grew to understand it better. I love when she mentions how the message behind Gypsy is how her and Taylor can both be away and do their own thing and be successful. That is gender equality. Gaga is working with men who are pervs who prey on women and/or underage teenagers s-xually because they have the power and making videos with said men about do what you want with my body.  I don't look to any pop star as consistently being some role model for feminism.  Each has something to offer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gagaloo911 12,959 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Oh look, everyone thinking they get to have an opinion. As if. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Kunst 0 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 I have to say it, but slapping your name that represents you as a musician/singer/songwriter on a fragrance, and a second fragrance at that, seems to be jumping the shark when beating your drums about her art, not money, is important to her. She wants to be seen separate from the pop girls of the world and be recognized more for her vision and avant-garde contibtution to pop music, but like we would ever have seen Bowie or Dylan or Queen slapping their name on something right in the midst of their relevancy and impact on music culture and their heyday. I hated that she put Gaga on the name of a perfume. I consider her so talented and hate to see the name "Gaga" being used to sell something other than music. In all honesty, I didn't like the name Fame used. Fame is an album and should stand for something in her history as an artist blazing onto the music scene and not piggybacked onto with a fragrance. I wish she would name her fragrances, if she has to sell them, something other than associated with her music. Others see it differently. It's just my opinion and won't change. I elevate her higher than the average pop girl schilling their perfumes. The first one I accepted and grew used to the fact that she named it Fame and at least thought she had an amazing campaign. Another one coming out and then naming it Eau de Gaga just cheapens her message of I'm a serious artist, focused on my music, not money. Her name stands for something and it shouldn't be slapped onto a perfume. She wants to be at the intersection of art and pop culture, not just one or the other. I'm not so impressed by the Eau de Gaga campaign so far, but the Fame perfume made perfect sense in that context. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 680 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 She defines "her musical integrity" as she likes. I don't think she needs to be a combo of Pearl Jam and Kate Bush, always fighting the industry or shying away from the limelight, in order to have integrity. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig 680 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 "My integrity as a musician is more important to me than money," she said in an interview to promote a record that has two thousand different editions for the sole purpose of raising the profit margin. Nothing says musical intergirty more then QVC bonus tracks... Â Physical albums are now a niche market, catering partly to people who collect them. Why must she insist on only one version? Â What's wrong with casual fans having a cheaper shorter version to buy? Â Why is selling on QVC any worse than pandering to comercial radio? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kermit the frog 1,921 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 I can't believe some people here still swallow all of her bs Why can't she just be honest? Why can't she just say that she wants money? There's nothing wrong about that and there's nothing wrong about honesty. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slayer 9,227 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 "My integrity as a musician is more important to me than money," she said in an interview to promote a record that has two thousand different editions for the sole purpose of raising the profit margin. Nothing says musical intergirty more then QVC bonus tracks... So I guess she should just give her album away for free then? Because clearly it worked so well for U2.... Christ, I feel like people expect Gaga to literally just work for free whenever she mentions doing it for the music, not the bling. She obviously enjoys the luxuries afforded to her, but her music is what takes precedence over all of that, as she has mentioned many times in the past few weeks. And no, the albums sole purpose is not to "raise the profit margin". Why are you so cynical? Gaga is an artist first and foremost. Of course she wants to make money for future endeavours, but artists do not think like businesspeople. The ones with dollar signs in their eyes are people like Troy Carter and that's precisely why she fired him. Sometimes I wonder if the people on this site are actually just uninformed haters in disguise. I love judas SO MUCH but I canʹt look like a copycat of JLO!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure Adrenaline 1,518 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 I can't believe some people here still swallow all of her bs Why can't she just be honest? Why can't she just say that she wants money? There's nothing wrong about that and there's nothing wrong about honesty. lol it's not like she insisted C2C to have 245124125213214x versions .... it's marketing strategy + she didn't say she doesn't want to makey money she said that making money is not her â„–1 goal It's much more fun to have hizophrenia... u never get lonely Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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