Gaga will not get away with being something she is not

[androiduser 7,438]

This isn't a negative thread, it's my opinion as a Gaga fan and a 40 year old music fan who's been around since the 80's.

She can't get away with rock because she's not a rock artist. Period. PI is a basic pop song disguised in a rock t-shirt. No amount of boots, shrill vocals, microphone waving can hide it. The audience can sense fakery from a mile away. The fact that she grew up with rock music and likes rock classics does not make her a rock performer.

Gaga was successful with the Jazz era and the looks because that's a natural part of her, and it was real actual jazz / traditional pop, and the people immediately recognized it as a part of her.

Rant over.

 

[Tanner 810]

My reaction to every thread like this in the last 36 hours:

[Chic 20,830]

I'm in the hospital right now. Third degree burns cover my body, my skin is melted off and my bone protrudes from the waxy mix of my organs and flesh.

If only your boiling hot tea had not flooded my household.

[SpookyKid 15,151]

sorry, couldn't read your rant, boping to PI

[Gardevoir 9,812]

No one, including Gaga is saying that PI is a rock. It's pop song with maybe rockish influence. 

[androiduser 7,438]

1 minute ago, Emigrante said:

No one, including Gaga is saying that PI is a rock. It's pop song with maybe rockish influence. 

even the single cover is so try-hard punk/rock, more rock than actual rock covers... fakery all around

[Supersonic 49,376]

 

[HEARTHUNTER 7,611]

Yeah, alright. I guess you haven't seen the Pre-The Fame era videos in which she was playing and singing rock music with her band didn't you?

Gaga has always been a rockstar disguised as a popstar, and it's contradictory to even call her music pop music because it has always been weird, outlandish and innovative : going against the currents, except for ARTPOP which was deliberately EDM infused Pop music but it's not Gaga. Gaga has never been a true pop star to begin with.

[SpookyKid 15,151]

just going to leave this here... 

[ryhanna 3,507]

But it's not a rock song. And Gaga's not pretending to be a rock artist. It's straight up pop with rock influences. 

Just because you're not digging it doesn't make it inauthentic. 

[BlondeQueenOfGGD 25,454]

As a music fan since 1764 I can say she IS a rock artist

[REALITY 75,622]

I mean, couldn't you say the same thing about Taylor Swift? She was a huge country star, but now she's one of the biggest pop stars, ever. Gaga makes great pop music, there's no denying that, but this isn't any sort of "fakery". 

There's a difference between being good at something and genuinely likely and enjoying something. I'm not saying that she doesn't enjoy or like pop music. She definitely does, but it's quite evident that rock is her preferred genre. That's what she grew up on, that's what she knows, that's what she likes. 

Pop music just so happened to be where she got her fame and her fortune. I mean, she said herself, she wanted to act, but music came first.

She's a rock star, always has been a rock star, and will continue to be a rock star

EDIT - And has some people have mentioned, this isn't a purely rock song. I consider it to be a pop rock song. It's not purely rock, nor is it purely rock. It resides in the middle.

[Lord Temptation 11,209]

Why are you so offended that it is a woman who is bringing rock back from the grave? Why don't you get mad about all the "men" who make crappy fake rock music? Gaga's got a bigger d*ck than all of ya'll phoney rock wannabes. You're all talk.

[Supersonic 49,376]

LIterally nobody but Little Monsters that have no idea how any music genre besides Bubblegum Pop sounds like thinks that this is a Rock song.

[SpookyKid 15,151]

Just now, Lord Temptation said:

Why are you so offended that it is a woman who is bringing rock back from the grave? Why don't you get mad about all the "men" who make crappy fake rock music? Gaga's got a bigger d*ck than all of ya'll phoney rock wannabes. You're all talk.