Bjork Designer's Thoughts On Working With Gaga

[bloody g 31,746]

like we care

[Addison Rae 17,182]

of course. so many people think that just because they listen to someone a bit unorthodox they have the right to be pretentious trash. like girl calm down lmao

[Miracle 14,068]

Their work is really good but it's stupid to say that when 

 

a) They worked with Gaga? I haven't seen any collaboration between them, and unless it was an early thing I highly doubt it because they've been talking **** about Gaga since last year

b) A great part of their early looks were carbon copies of McQueen's work with Gaga and Born This Way's royal phase aesthetic. Talk about artistic integrity when it's clear Gaga is one of your top 10 inspirations

 

By the way, they are Björk's stylist (and just for Utopia), not Björk's designer

[MaryJaneHolland 77,348]

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[Miracle 14,068]

3 minutes ago, BLACKOUTbritney said:

A make up artist can now be the judge of artistic integrity?  

They are a performer and full round artist. And make up also requires a certain level of talent and artistry, let's not.

 

(like someone commented above, I think they're just mad Gaga released Joanne, that's it)

[elijahfan 26,686]

4 minutes ago, Miracle said:

By the way, they are Björk's stylist (and just for Utopia), not Björk's designer

Not stylist, makeup artist

[Chinosky 1,984]

Makeup artist for Utopia era*

I've always known about Hungry's bitterness with Gagz and I'm like whatever. I am so sure it's because Joanne "happened". Thanks, MUA. BBye. 

[Silvestro Devacelli 1,846]

I wonder what björk thinks of gagz

[Ziggy 12,315]

Eh, sounds pressed about Joanne and Gaga doing lots of different things. She spent a long time doing one thing, why can't she pivot and do something else? People poo poo on commercialism way too often. She's spent how much of the press junket for ASIB and 5F2 talking about mental illness and trying to raise awareness? She's speaking directly about it. She didn't even do that during BTW (she more talked *around* the topic). Who else is doing that rn, honestly?

 

Idk, to me this person just sounds like they don't like her current aesthetic and are equating it with some sort of dismissal of the queer and club communities. She did all of that for how many years? 8? From 19 until she was about 27/28? That's a long time to stick to one aesthetic if you have a lot you love and are interested in.

[joanoflark 3,824]

6 minutes ago, Silvestro Devacelli said:

I wonder what björk thinks of gagz

she said back in like 2011 or something like that that she really likes the stuff she wears, but the music is not something she would listen to, meaning it's not her preferable style of music, which is an opinion I respect. 

[Gaga Lazuli 8,658]

What i got from what i read is that she thinks Gaga doesnt represent the LGBT community like she used to because she is not that Avant-garde popstar anymore. 

[joanoflark 3,824]

14 minutes ago, Silvestro Devacelli said:

I wonder what björk thinks of gagz

Here is an excerpt of the interview where she talked about Gaga. 

Drowned in Sound: As she said earlier, the songs are the core for her. I wonder whether she sees a triumph of style over content in the contemporary pop charts. Is Björk interested in or by Lady Gaga?

Bjork: “I definitely like some of the outfits she’s worn. I definitely admire her for her courage – it was getting really boring! It was like everybody was just really conservative, and nobody was taking any risks. I love theatrical stuff. I think all of us have a theatrical side and a not-so-theatrical side. The music? It’s not my thing. I mean, I don’t judge it. One thing good about music is that you can have all sorts of music. You can have… easy-listening new age music…which actually is even bigger than Gaga! Classical music. You can have billions…”

Drowned in Sound: There’s room for everything.

Bjork: There is room for everything. Something that is quite common though, and I’ve noticed it even though things have changed a lot, is that there always seems to be room for a lot of male singers, and they don’t get asked to duel. You have Jay-Z and Kanye West being best mates. There’s always room for many male characters.”

Drowned in Sound: Whereas women tend to be pitted against one another?

“Yeah, still it’s like ‘Christina vs. Britney’. Why? I don’t want to be put in a position where I have to attack her. I thought it was really weird and unfair when M.I.A. and Joanna Newsom were asked about Gaga and then because they didn’t like her music, it was immediately big news online and they had to shoot each other down. It’s like the three new, most happening female pop girls, the same kind of age, and they had to shoot each other down! Guys are never asked to do that. It’s just ‘the more, the merrier’, you know?”

[Twitter 14]

Wait whet?

[freebit 6,240]

I feel like people are so simple and surface level.  If she's not out wearing avant garde fashion and waving a the gay flag at every appearance, ~she's turned her back on the LGBT!~  

Anyway, this is just a makeup artist and I don't get why anyone truly cares, or why it's news?

20 minutes ago, fayecuntaway said:

Drowned in Sound: Whereas women tend to be pitted against one another?

“Yeah, still it’s like ‘Christina vs. Britney’. Why? I don’t want to be put in a position where I have to attack her. I thought it was really weird and unfair when M.I.A. and Joanna Newsom were asked about Gaga and then because they didn’t like her music, it was immediately big news online and they had to shoot each other down. It’s like the three new, most happening female pop girls, the same kind of age, and they had to shoot each other down! Guys are never asked to do that. It’s just ‘the more, the merrier’, you know?”

I feel like Bjork didn't actually read those interviews of what those artists said. They could have been diplomatic, but they weren't. There's a line between critiquing other industry peers work and unnecessarily dragging them. I mean, critics in the media and your average person on the internet will do a fine job with th latter (and did so with Joanne Newsome herself with many of her releases). It's a culture that doesn't take female artists seriously in general, and if you're going to offer a critique (which is fine, and Bjork handled it perfectly with being honest about not being into Gaga's work), you have to be more careful to not actually feed into the cliche narrative of women vs. women, "catty" feuds etc.

[jujubaruda 1,292]

Salvia is better.  I hope Gaga works with Salvia one day. Or Fecal Matter.