Gaga could be as successful as Adele

[Bradley 59,023]

Judging based on her selection of producers for LG5, LG5 will not be an album full of ballads, which is a good thing. She's primarily a dance pop artist and she has old hits to perform. I don't see how she's able to perform Bad Romance, Poker Face and her entire career's hits if she were to produce a tour primarily focusing on ballads.

Also Adele is kind of the exception, there are a lot of artists out there who make ballad albums and didn't achieve her numbers. I'd say Gaga can make any kind of music she likes, the key to success is promotion. Of course don't give us a sh1tty album but that's not what Gaga is good at. I have much confidence in the quality of her music.

[Bad Bromance 5,809]

Gaga will never be as successful as she was during the 2009-2011 years but that's okay because as fans, we've already seen her achieve an unprecedented level of success.  I think Gaga will be moderately successful a la P!nk.  I could be wrong, though.  She may surprise all of us and come back stronger than she was in 2009-2011!  Bring out the popcorn because only time will tell.

[Dark Anatomy 2,284]

No. 

Adele is one of those acts that come around once in a generation. An instant legend, if you will. Gaga is continuing to build her brand and status to the point of BECOMING a legend (More than likely when she's gone). Right now she's just an icon.

The reason why Gaga isn't at this point in her career (in my opinion) is really because she let the costumes and the pop overshadow her as an artist. Hopefully with LG5 and future works she'll demand the fashion and the music by still being true to her talents. Gaga can be pop and quirky but have an absolutely stunning catalog of talent and music. 

Cause let's be honest, as it stands Gaga's discography is already starting to sound dated (despite having some great work) and a lot of it sounds all over the place. Her voice is either auto-tuned or manipulated on a lot of tracks and the production doesn't give her much room to play with her vocals. Again, I love her discography, but there's a reason she peaked during "The Fame Monster" era. That album/EP was the closet thing we have to that perfect blend of vocal, lyric, and production. 

Just my opinion though. I'm sure an ARTPOP bottom will have my head for this.  

[Alfonso 1,547]

I might agree with u, still, I do think she could have another peak era like her best one, not identical but still, she could reach that without releasing an Adele 

[giskardsb 12,565]

11 hours ago, djBuffoon said:

Honestly, I think Born This Way alone is more impressive than anything Adele has done, musically and artistically. Gaga has many different colors to her voice (ranging from pop to R&B to rock to musical theatre, etc) and the range she has shown throughout her discography isn't so impressive unless you try to imagine any of her contemporaries doing it too. Adele has that one emotive, open-throated sound that she does does so well. Gaga can do that, and much more.

Born this Way is also her most "surreal" album in terms of lyrics, and I mean that in terms of some of the actual characteristics of surrealism as an art movement. BTW and ARTPOP both have this character although BTW more so.   When people complain about non -relatability this is part of the reason why.  These albums are quintessentially Gaga, for better or worse.  But that is what makes them artistic statements rather than product. 

[djBuffoon 12,115]

3 minutes ago, giskardsb said:

Born this Way is also her most "surreal" album in terms of lyrics, and I mean that in terms of some of the actual characteristics of surrealism as an art movement. BTW and ARTPOP both have this character although BTW more so.   When people complain about non -relatability this is part of the reason why.  These albums are quintessentially Gaga, for better or worse.  But that is what makes them artistic statements rather than product. 

Precisely. Gaga's albums are singular. No one else could have possibly crafted them, and her sensibilities are etched into every fine detail.

[giskardsb 12,565]

1 minute ago, djBuffoon said:

Precisely. Gaga's albums are singular. No one else could have possibly crafted them, and her sensibilities are etched into every fine detail.

As much as I would love a straightforward vocal and piano based album from Gaga, I prefer that she be the eccentric who tries and sometimes fails at mashing things up and thinking outside the box.  Pop culture needs that way more than another Dr Luke or Max Martin created product. 

[AlexanderLevi2 5,849]

Honestly, I feel that in twenty years, Adele will be forgotten and Gaga will be remembered. Although Adele is super talented, she has nothing super special about her. Her voice is great, music is okay, and videos are nothing iconic. However, most of Gaga's music videos are iconic and if you showed a random screenshot from all of them, you could discern the songs. With Adele's, most of her imagery is the exact same. Adele is successful but not much of an icon, she pushes no boundaries in an extreme or minimal way.

 

I'm not hating on Adele, I like her a lot. Just my thoughts of how they will be remembered.

[AlexanderLevi2 5,849]

Honestly, I feel that in twenty years, Adele will be forgotten and Gaga will be remembered. Although Adele is super talented, she has nothing super special about her. Her voice is great, music is okay, and videos are nothing iconic. However, most of Gaga's music videos are iconic and if you showed a random screenshot from all of them, you could discern the songs. With Adele's, most of her imagery is the exact same. Adele is successful but not much of an icon, she pushes no boundaries in an extreme or minimal way.

 

I'm not hating on Adele, I like her a lot. Just my thoughts of how they will be remembered.

[Felicia 124]

Anybody could be as successful as anybody else. It's just a matter of being in the right place at the right time.

No sense in overthinking it and turning blue adding meaningless keystrokes to a thread of this nature.

Anything's possible.

[LeoFameMonster 1,592]

Gaga can be more successful than Adele, simply because I think Gaga has a longer Career ahead of her.

I think it is possible for her to break adeles records but in a long time from now and it's highly unlikely anyone will be albe to break that record, even adele.

 

 

[Guest]

I think Gaga should focus more on having a comeback on the same level as Justin Bieber, all of his singles have done amazing, the album went #1 & Gold, he's doing a massive tour, every award show & his career was in a similar place as Gaga's during ARTPOP, of course Lady Gaga is 10,000,000,000,000 times better so she could even surpass what he has now, Adele is too different for Gaga to try to emulate that specific success & I never want her to sell out

[chiuga 1,970]

13 hours ago, djBuffoon said:

Gaga is already paving her own legacy, though. I'm appreciative that she makes no discernible effort to be relatable. Instead, she is more focused on speaking from a very specific perspective. Many of Adele's songs, though of usually excellent quality, could have been written by anyone. When you hear a Gaga song, you know exactly who wrote it.

can't agree with you more. Gaga's songs don't sound like any other current artists (you can definitely hear influence from previous decades and other genres but you will never say her songs sound like Taylor or I don't know Rihanna) - it's because she wrote them whereas Adele's songs (Send my love sound like a Taylor song, i can also hear Ryan Tedder in Remedy). It makes me question how much contribution Adele gives to the songwriting process... (i am sure she wrote the lyrics though).

 

Gaga's brand is being unique but a lot of her fans keep wanting her to follow some trends to achieve success. However, she's managed to continue to prove them wrong (e.g. Oscars)

[Quark 7,098]

16 hours ago, Strigoi said:

No. 

Adele is one of those acts that come around once in a generation. An instant legend, if you will. Gaga is continuing to build her brand and status to the point of BECOMING a legend (More than likely when she's gone). Right now she's just an icon.

The reason why Gaga isn't at this point in her career (in my opinion) is really because she let the costumes and the pop overshadow her as an artist. Hopefully with LG5 and future works she'll demand the fashion and the music by still being true to her talents. Gaga can be pop and quirky but have an absolutely stunning catalog of talent and music. 

Cause let's be honest, as it stands Gaga's discography is already starting to sound dated (despite having some great work) and a lot of it sounds all over the place. Her voice is either auto-tuned or manipulated on a lot of tracks and the production doesn't give her much room to play with her vocals. Again, I love her discography, but there's a reason she peaked during "The Fame Monster" era. That album/EP was the closet thing we have to that perfect blend of vocal, lyric, and production. 

Just my opinion though. I'm sure an ARTPOP bottom will have my head for this.  

There is no such thing as an instant legend.

[Dark Anatomy 2,284]

8 minutes ago, Enigma said:

There is no such thing as an instant legend.

Says you, but it's not a fact. Whitney, Mariah, and  Celine became legendary upon their mainstream debuts and continued that legacy. Adele, like them, immediately blew up from the get go and continues to make break the boundaries of what it means to be a legend and a star. I'm going to be gracious here and state that the above is MY OPINION. Will you do the same next time you reply?