Paper: Lady Gaga Is Making Jazz Cool Again

[Lord Temptation 11,209]

2009: Gaga makes dance music AND pop music cool again 

2017: Gaga reverses the tide of country singers going all pop (see Miley and Taylor) and makes country cool again (don’t @ me, I know Joanne is pop but it has countryish-folk-heartland-Americana sounds and themes throughout) 

2019: Gaga makes jazz AND Vegas cool again 

Honestly, she is a one woman industry powerhouse 

She keeps changing the game 

Her fans are a legion 

We are in total awe of her might and wonder and fully submit, trembling  

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2 hours ago, Kimmo said:

She doesn’t have to team up with black musicians!

She could if she wanted too. I personally think it would be awesome to have her bring guests on stage and possibly indulge herself more into the genre. Possibly even making an experimental project someday.

[Kimmo 81,106]

2 minutes ago, ZacharyMark said:

She could if she wanted too. I personally think it would be awesome to have her bring guests on stage and possibly indulge herself more into the genre. Possibly even making an experimental project someday.

Yeah you didn’t get the point 

[Ziggy 12,011]

7 hours ago, Kimmo said:

No!

She doesn’t have to team up with current musicians!

She doesn’t have to team up with black musicians!

let it go! The fact that you want her to be current or pitiful in a way that she has to work with certain race just to look more accessible is ridiculous, she does what she wants, Gaga has always been very opened about working with EVERYONE she just chooses to do it differently, have you looked at the members of the orchestra? The band? The musicians? No you didn’t  

Lol it’s not to be more accessible, it’s to expand her artistry into places she would probably enjoy but as is does not know very much about.

 

and I only mention the race thing since she herself mentions it, although somewhat clumsily, in the interlude and in that red carpet interview. And also because with jazz, race is a vital component of the genre as it was formed in opposition not establishment.

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7 hours ago, Saint Jude said:

obviously, but i think the article is about how it was big when frank sinatra did it and it is great that someone as big as Gaga is doing it again.

 

 

in my humble, ignorant opinion, i think the next step would be for her to do a jazz record. i'm not necessarily talking about lg6 but creating her own jazz songs could be a great step for her if she feels comfortable enough to do it.

I’d love for her to do that. It’s evident she has an ear for composition and she does bring an interesting theatrical flair to the genre. I’d love for her to bring her experimental aesthetic to jazz; it’s the genre that requires it most and she’s made very clear that she understands that and the genre pretty well. Her albums always have an interesting way about them from a genre standpoint so I’d love that as well.

[mattbri 1,382]

she made jazz cool since C2C... 

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7 hours ago, Ziggy said:

Ok but this really irritates me because this is such a superficial understanding of jazz. Gaga does *very* by the numbers renditions. She’s great, but it’s her vocal power and ability that sets them as great. Her arrangements from C2C even to here are very straightforward.

I love her on jazz, but what I’d like is for people actually aware of the current jazz scene to give her legitimate, constructive critique on how she could be more interesting. Some of the more experimental jazz out right now would suit her so well if she just took the time to tap into the scene a bit. It’s anything but dead.

I think it’s equally possible to both praise what she’s done thus far but hope for and ask for more as we know she’s capable of it. If she’s loves jazz so much and it’s lineage, why is she not teaming up with some of the current musicians keeping it alive, especially the black musicians (as she mentions them by name during one of the show’s interludes). London, NYC, Chicago all have really interesting and unique jazz scenes right now that she could so easily immerse herself into.

Love jazzga, but the genre is more than Frank Sinatra lol it didn’t die 60 years ago and then she came and resurrected it 

THANK YOU!!! Jazz has always been “back”  but she has just done it on a more mainstream level. There are so many famous jazz musicians touring the world and selling out every show and there always have been. The scene has always been alive and well. 

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hence why we need DWUW (with my Jazzy Hands) Feat. T.Bennet  

[Miel 15,009]

She was on fire that night.

3 hours ago, Ziggy said:

I’d love for her to do that. It’s evident she has an ear for composition and she does bring an interesting theatrical flair to the genre. I’d love for her to bring her experimental aesthetic to jazz; it’s the genre that requires it most and she’s made very clear that she understands that and the genre pretty well. Her albums always have an interesting way about them from a genre standpoint so I’d love that as well.

I agree. Granted, I think she's more or less playing tribute to (essentially) standards (hence the fixation on the "Great American Songbook), since that was formative to her early musicianship.

Though I'd be very interested in her doing much more experimental, forward, and (hot topic!) politically inclined jazz music. I'm glad she acknowledged the birth of jazz in the Black community, and I'd love to see her thrive her activism more on that front.

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True.

[Kimmo 81,106]

5 hours ago, mattbri said:

she made jazz cool since C2C... 

And she’ll continue with LG6