Gaga Acknowledges Taylor Swift's Musical Artistry

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[Skyana Rava 2,687]

I feel a flavor of classic Gaga arguments about copying vs. being inspired by something. Going all the way back to BTW, the "copying Madonna" narrative felt confused. Gaga clearly pays homage to other artists all the time.

I fully believe HBDUWM was Taylor Swift inspired. This isn't a bad thing, and it doesn't mean HBDUWM doesn't also reference other sounds and songs.

I guess the debate around all this feels a a bit misguided to me 

HBDUWM is an undeniably Taylor influenced song as well as a unique and triumphant Gaga classic uniting music forms across multiple decades. Ta da!

[GerMonsterNotta 2,140]

I saw all of this as well, but I wondered is it just because the Taylor Swift hype has been just so ‘everywhere’ for the past few years that our brains now easily connect the two…

On the other hand, In that section of the mayhem promo tour, I also wonder if it’s statement that Gaga sometimes wishes to embody a popstar that ‘the whole public can adore’ - to live for The Fame… she’s asking the public how bad do they want her what can she do to please them and keep the love between celebrity - fans - gp balanced, … which is something which Taylor does capture…. But then she slips back into Mayhem mode, with SOAM and BTW and shallow etc… and then realising she can try to be happy in both mental states … in finding strength in balancing BOTH light/balance/correctness/darling as well as doses of dark/messy/raw/fighter

 

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We all know who the real inspiration is behind HBDYWM....

 

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1 hour ago, RAMROD said:

And Taylor reciprocated by not doing anything during the MAYHEM release week that could take it away from her. Cos we all know she can if she wanted to. 
 

 

Love that she's always a girl's girl ❤️

[Taumaturg0 1,352]

HBDUWM reminds me of Eh Eh and The Cure, it's just synth pop with more naive, less metaphoric, lyricism. 

It just happens that TS had some very heavy synth pop inspired releases, she does have a way of writing lyrics that is more direct, and people have short term memory 

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I mean… I’m surprised I haven’t seen a comment on this but that Tudum show cemetery scene is fully inspirated by the Look what you made me do video 

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5 minutes ago, Citrom said:

I mean… I’m surprised I haven’t seen a comment on this but that Tudum show cemetery scene is fully inspirated by the Look what you made me do video 

As if Gaga wasn’t coming out of coffins in 2011 

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17 minutes ago, Citrom said:

I mean… I’m surprised I haven’t seen a comment on this but that Tudum show cemetery scene is fully inspirated by the Look what you made me do video 

Excuse you

Not during pride month

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i do understand the TS comparisons, but i just think Gaga was thinking of 80s synthpop when she wrote it

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32 minutes ago, Citrom said:

I mean… I’m surprised I haven’t seen a comment on this but that Tudum show cemetery scene is fully inspirated by the Look what you made me do video 

Taylor didn’t invent gothic aesthetics 

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2 hours ago, Skyana Rava said:

I fully believe HBDUWM was Taylor Swift inspired. This isn't a bad thing, and it doesn't mean HBDUWM doesn't also reference other sounds and songs.

This.

 

37 minutes ago, Citrom said:

I mean… I’m surprised I haven’t seen a comment on this but that Tudum show cemetery scene is fully inspirated by the Look what you made me do video 

Lmao! The only time I got reminded of Taylor Swift is with HBDUWM tbh. That's it. 

The dark aesthetics including the cemetery are very BTW/TFM-Ga

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i think it's a satire song, like mayheming with pop fans about how pop music fans  all hyping Taylor as music industry,but she can do it too if she want, i think that's the point, the whole mayhem album is full of reference of current pop music, like the weeknd, Taylor, Miley, so take it easy if she done it now, that's message she want to send for lms

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46 minutes ago, Citrom said:

I mean… I’m surprised I haven’t seen a comment on this but that Tudum show cemetery scene is fully inspirated by the Look what you made me do video 

[Franch Toast 27,737]

It’s not influenced by Taylor. You can see the influence of 80s synth pop, like Yazoo/Yaz’s “Only You” (1982). Taylor also has interpolated 80s synth pop. Taylor did not invent these sounds. 

As for the Tudum aesthetics, they bear more in common with MJ’s “Thriller Video.” 

Signed, someone who was alive during the 1980s and had an older sister very into synth pop who made me many mixtapes and who watched the “Thriller” video when it debuted and was terrified.