Was Gaga's Bowie Tribute Messy or Bad?

[bloody g 31,731]

it's very good although you can tell it's a bit last minute

[TheSlash 14,539]

I think if she used less songs, it would've been amazing, but this way it was scratching the surface but not entirely succeeding  .

[Economy 44,059]

2 hours ago, MaryJaneHolland said:

I liked bits of it, like the face projections. But, the whole Intel thing was so hyped and we got.. a moving keyboard

Yeah the hype I think is part of what ruined it. I set the bar so high with expectations with all the commercials they were doing that I was left disapointed

 

Looking back without the hype it wasn't that bad tho

 

But the medley stuffed too many songs in my opinion that's maybe the only thing.

[Ronk 14,091]

No.   Imo, the idea that it was messy was spread by haters.  The hype was messy, not the performance.

[Juanjo 1,246]

It had great potential, but when you rush sh*t, you get what we got.
 

 

Still innovative, and she served vocals and talent, as she always does. What had even more potential, and would have been spectacular, as it was actually planned and rehearsed longer, was the original concept. But what’s done is done. Thank you, next. 

[Joshie S 5,507]

In my opinion it perfectly tributes Bowie.

He was always a forward thinker and using different performance art in his shows, and I think tributing him while using Intel technology that was debuted was exactly the sort of thing Bowie would do.

Part of the recording/backdrop actually malfunctioned during the performance, so I think we missed out on some of the extra things the show had to offer.

With Gaga being a huge Bowie fan, I think she just wanted to honour him the best she could and with as many songs as she could to make the performance as joy and energy filled as she could, because that's how Bowie lived his life.

Some said there was no emotion from Gaga? I- ...that's so silly, her emotion is literally pouring through the camera.

It's a great performance and very touching.

As others say though... if only we could have witnessed what the was originally planning.....

[Twitter 14]

Mediocre is a better word. I think her emotions got in the way of her vocals and performing. Also the Intel wasn’t needed for this. 

[Katsuki Bakugo 9,788]

The only thing messy was Bowie’s son being rude about Gaga afterwards.

[PartySick 135,027]

I wish we could have seen the planned performance with Intel but I like the Bowie tribute too

It's actually why I started to listen to some of his music

[PunkTheFunk 121,549]

Gaga gave an excellent performance as usual, but for a tribute for someone who just died it did feel a bit cheesy and over the top at times. I can understand why some of his fans felt the way they did about it.

[Mr S 7,641]

If you ignore the hype component, then it's a great medley. She was on top of her game. The vocals, the performing, the stage presence, the musicianship were all top notch. There are only a few artists capable of doing something like this.

My only issue is the crammed too many songs in there and I didn't like her look. She didn't need to dress like a drag queen version of Bowie.

She got a well deserved standing ovation at the end.

[Mariano 958]

5 hours ago, Thomas P said:

Imo it doesn’t hold a candle to Lorde’s tribute at the Brits, but it certainly wasn’t bad. She sounded AMAZING, and the look was a serve. The Intel stuff was the only meh part.

I understand that this was mainly due to the fact that the original LG5 rollout was supposed to start at the Grammys, and the Bowie tribute was super last minute, but I think that Gaga made the performance a little too much about her if that makes sense. 

Lorde's tribute? Where?

 

Lorde did a performance/cover. 

What Gaga did was an actual tribute, she learned choreo etc. 

 

This is a tribute:

Lorde's cover was cute tho

[Cookie Tookie 10,546]

This was f**king amazing 

[Ziggy 10,382]

I just wish it wasn’t a medley and that she’d done a one song cover (not Heroes) of a lesser known but great Bowie song. Hell, even some of Black Star like Dollar Days which I think would have been a very classy and tasteful and somber.

 

I don’t think it was bad, just okay. Medleys are not easy anyway and Bowie has such a diverse catalog making it even harder.

[Floppy 7,951]

I don't know anything about Bowie or his music or how he performed so it was fine to me lol.