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XoXoJoanneGaga

Where was the innovation and creativity in Gaga's performance? Honestly both had their strengths and weaknesses but were very underwhelming. The best living artists to do a Bowie tribute justice would probably have been Brian Eno,  Trent Reznor, Iggy Pop and St. Vincent

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PopBitch

HIs son disagrees.  You are isolating it to just Lorde.  It was a tribute by two dear  friends talking about his legacy and memories, Annie Lennox and Gary Oldman..  Then his touring band on the stage playing an instrumental medley of  iconic songs with tear-inducing wonderful video of Bowie at the same time. Then Lorde walking out singing a full song with his band.  That was the tribute put together for Bowie, and all together it was very moving.


Duncan Jones ‏@ManMadeMoon 45m45 minutes ago
Finally found the links to tonight's Brits. Just... beautiful. Thank you

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And Bowie's Official Facebook page ignored The Grammys tribute, said nothing.  But they have done a beautiful write-up of the Brits' Bowie tribute. 

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STANDING OVATION FOR BRITS BOWIE TRIBUTE

“Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know”

Following moving spoken word tributes from singer Annie Lennox and actor Gary Oldman, Lorde joined David Bowie’s touring band for a beautiful and heartfelt rendition of Life On Mars?, at the Brit Awards ceremony in the London O2 Arena tonight (Wednesday).

After Annie’s touching eulogy, Gary Oldman accepted the Brits Icon Award on behalf of David Bowie and gave an equally moving speech before introducing Lorde singing with the last Bowie touring band.

The band, consisting of (in alphabetical order): Sterling Campbell (drums), Gail Ann Dorsey (bass), Mike Garson (piano), Gerry Leonard (guitar), Catherine Russell (keyboards and guitar) and Earl Slick (guitar), ran through a medley of Space Oddity, Rebel Rebel, Let’s Dance, Ashes To Ashes, Ziggy Stardust, Fame, Under Pressure and "Heroes".

Lorde entered the stage as the medley segued into a piano led, full band rendition of Life On Mars?. The 19-year-old singer delivered a stylish and beautifully fragile but assured performance, prompting a standing ovation from the capacity crowd and gathered celebrities.

During rehearsals earlier in the day Lorde posed with the band for pictures and expressed her gratitude for being given the honour of performing with them in David’s honour.

Following the sad announcement of David’s passing in January, she posted this tribute to him on her FB page:Lorde - When a hero dies, everyone wants a quote. I woke... | Facebook »

Meanwhile, you can watch both Annie Lennox and Gary Oldman’s contributions on the official Brit Awards 2016 YouTube channel:http://smarturl.it/AnnieGaryTributesYT

And if it’s still there when you look, Slate have hosted a video of the Band’s full performance: Watch Lorde’s Beautiful Tribute to David Bowie at the BRIT Awards »

 

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Alien Tulip

I didn't watch Lorde's tribute performance but Gaga's performance felt more like a parody than a tribute. 

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IamChromatica

People think gaga made the bowie tribute all about herself, and they thought it was cringy, too showy, copying bowie, etc... :ohno: 

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StarstruckIllusion

everyone is shading Gaga now wow. almost glad he's dead. these stans can suffer their loss on a corner while my gen continues to forget who he is. 

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KyliesChild
7 minutes ago, ROARyals said:

everyone is shading Gaga now wow. almost glad he's dead. these stans can suffer their loss on a corner while my gen continues to forget who he is. 

This is so wrong in so many levels.

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GagaXCupcakke

The difference is that Lorde could never pull off Gagas performance and Gaga would of slayed Lorde's performance. 

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nativenewyorker
21 minutes ago, ROARyals said:

everyone is shading Gaga now wow. almost glad he's dead. these stans can suffer their loss on a corner while my gen continues to forget who he is. 

Have several seats. This is crossing the line. Disrespectful in so many ways.

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Runway
27 minutes ago, ROARyals said:

everyone is shading Gaga now wow. almost glad he's dead. these stans can suffer their loss on a corner while my gen continues to forget who he is. 

I knew of him because of gaga ngl. 

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34 minutes ago, ROARyals said:

everyone is shading Gaga now wow. almost glad he's dead. these stans can suffer their loss on a corner while my gen continues to forget who he is. 

ew

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50 minutes ago, PopBitch said:

HIs son disagrees.  You are isolating it to just Lorde.  It was a tribute by two dear  friends talking about his legacy and memories, Annie Lennox and Gary Oldman..  Then his touring band on the stage playing an instrumental medley of  iconic songs with tear-inducing wonderful video of Bowie at the same time. Then Lorde walking out singing a full song with his band.  That was the tribute put together for Bowie, and all together it was very moving.


Duncan Jones ‏@ManMadeMoon 45m45 minutes ago
Finally found the links to tonight's Brits. Just... beautiful. Thank you

Edit.

And Bowie's Official Facebook page ignored The Grammys tribute, said nothing.  But they have done a beautiful write-up of the Brits' Bowie tribute. 

"

STANDING OVATION FOR BRITS BOWIE TRIBUTE

“Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know”

Following moving spoken word tributes from singer Annie Lennox and actor Gary Oldman, Lorde joined David Bowie’s touring band for a beautiful and heartfelt rendition of Life On Mars?, at the Brit Awards ceremony in the London O2 Arena tonight (Wednesday).

After Annie’s touching eulogy, Gary Oldman accepted the Brits Icon Award on behalf of David Bowie and gave an equally moving speech before introducing Lorde singing with the last Bowie touring band.

The band, consisting of (in alphabetical order): Sterling Campbell (drums), Gail Ann Dorsey (bass), Mike Garson (piano), Gerry Leonard (guitar), Catherine Russell (keyboards and guitar) and Earl Slick (guitar), ran through a medley of Space Oddity, Rebel Rebel, Let’s Dance, Ashes To Ashes, Ziggy Stardust, Fame, Under Pressure and "Heroes".

Lorde entered the stage as the medley segued into a piano led, full band rendition of Life On Mars?. The 19-year-old singer delivered a stylish and beautifully fragile but assured performance, prompting a standing ovation from the capacity crowd and gathered celebrities.

During rehearsals earlier in the day Lorde posed with the band for pictures and expressed her gratitude for being given the honour of performing with them in David’s honour.

Following the sad announcement of David’s passing in January, she posted this tribute to him on her FB page:Lorde - When a hero dies, everyone wants a quote. I woke... | Facebook »

Meanwhile, you can watch both Annie Lennox and Gary Oldman’s contributions on the official Brit Awards 2016 YouTube channel:http://smarturl.it/AnnieGaryTributesYT

And if it’s still there when you look, Slate have hosted a video of the Band’s full performance: Watch Lorde’s Beautiful Tribute to David Bowie at the BRIT Awards »

 

It doesn't matter what other people say (including Bowie's team). In my opinion Gaga was way better.

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Alien Tulip
37 minutes ago, ROARyals said:

everyone is shading Gaga now wow. almost glad he's dead. these stans can suffer their loss on a corner while my gen continues to forget who he is. 

She has a tattoo of the aladdin sane album cover on her I doubt she's going to magically forget about him.

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PopBitch
11 minutes ago, Enigma said:

It doesn't matter what other people say (including Bowie's team). In my opinion Gaga was way better.

I think the casual fan or just general public probably loved Gaga's more also, as it was entertaining.  Bowie's longtime fans, probably the majority enjoyed this Brits one more, not isolating it to Lorde's performance, but the whole packaged tribute with the moving tributes by his friends about his musical legacy and the video tribute of Bowie to his music by Bowie's last touring band and some of which are longtime musicians he worked with and fans are attached to and a full song done simply. Longtime Bowie fans are in heavy mourning, and that type of tribute probably is what they needed to process the grief.

But I've seen some say no one is going to touch the greatness of Bowie, so they just accept them both as just fine, not great by either girl, but have no problem with Gaga's performance or Lorde's.

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Gianni Versace
4 hours ago, Evan Peters said:

think there's only one annoying person who thinks lorde's was better and they felt the need to make a thread that linked to their equally annoying posts about lorde doing the tribute like 4 times in a row 

eww lmao you're so pressed and misinformed i pity you... Damn.

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Pacify Him

Getting tired of others pitting other female artists with each other. I really wanna like Lorde and this is getting so tiring :saladga:

But anyway, her tribute to him is pretty tame and somewhat more respectable and soulful than Gaga's. Though, in all in terms of performance, I generally like Gaga's better.

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