LadyCaligula 0 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 I dont think users complained that she isnt pop enough. But I found really hard to see something complete and astonishing about this performance. For the start, especially if she really wants to turn her back to pop music, she should start to sing the ****ing choruses. Haha. true da. Shes not turning her back on pop in any case...she was playing to the crowd...and trying to fit in at SXSW Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahkeenasitka 1,995 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 But she gave us one of the best performances of her career and many users here will back me up. The Gaga you've described above was very theatrical. This performance was very rock of Gaga. That's how rock stars perform. Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat. It's like you said above...People that were a fan of her from the beginning liked her bravery and uniqueness from other pop stars and that's exactly why I adored this performance. She's breaking the rules and i love it. She's earned the title Creative Rebellion. yup. she's a punk rock pop star. a pop star revolutionary.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deacon 5 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 The "if you're not with us, you're against us" mentality. It's funny how there are so many Gaga fans who pride themselves on thinking outside the box, and then turn out to be just as sheepish as they claim everyone else to be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikko 2 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 I fell in love with the artsy/hitchcock referencing popstar, not this Marina Abramovic mess. +1 I don't want pop. I want soberness. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyMoonShine 0 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 I dont think users complained that she isnt pop enough. But I found really hard to see something complete and astonishing about this performance. For the start, especially if she really wants to turn her back to pop music, she should start to sing the ****ing choruses. I thought it was a bit dull tbh but I dunno why everyone is complaining about it. Oh and no ofc she is still very pop but I am just a little tired of people's expectations. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahkeenasitka 1,995 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 The really important piece of the puzzle that people are forgetting is that when she took the stage at the 2009 VMA's, NOBODY was expecting what they got. There were a lot of people who loved her singles from The Fame, but thought her performance was totally weird and creepy (I mean she bled all over herself and then hanged herself onstage). That performance broke the rules... but by doing so, she created a new status quo that every single pop star followed her to. What's considered normal now - the weird outfits, the wigs, the gigantic performances with sets and props and all the theatricality - exists because of Gaga breaking the rules of pop music. What Katy Perry did onstage at the Grammy's this year never would have happened if Gaga didn't move pop culture to the extent that Perry felt comfortable burning herself at the stake onstage. It just wouldn't have happened. That's the difference between the leader and the follower. Lady Gaga broke the rules again tonight. If you didn't like it, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it, but it's hypocritical to say you fell in love with her because she was different, and now you're falling out of love with her because she's different yup Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCaligula 0 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 +1 I don't want pop. I want soberness. How do you know she wasn't sober...shes a performer...she was just acting like a badass... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefani 25 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 I had big expectations, too. And they were met. I loved the performance. exactly Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bt1 5,213 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 I thought it was a bit dull tbh but I dunno why everyone is complaining about it. Oh and no ofc she is still very pop but I am just a little tired of people's expectations. At the same that, a lot of people maybe had enough seeing her talk and do nothing and find excuses everytime when the expectations that mostly she builds are not meet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyMoonShine 0 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Well excuse me for not liking everything she does under the name of "reinvention." I like that she's constantly changing but sometimes I just don't like some changes. What's wrong with that? I loved how she changed during the BTW era. She was a whole different person than FameGa, for example. But I just didn't enjoy last night's performance because I thought she could've done it better. She already has and I'm sure she can do it again and that doesn't mean she has to re-do past performances. Nothing, I explained to you why you get a certain reaction when you say certain things. I thought the performance was a little dull but I dunno why we need to make this big thing about it and have half the users whining about how they want the old gaga back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truth 90 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 I feel like she even doesn't know who she wants to be. One day she says she is a princess, goddess and **** like than, the next day she pretends to be a rockstar... It's okay, bu there is too much talking and no action... if she wants to make some harder stuff, then I think she should concentrate on it and really do something more than just a statement or whatever. However, I'm sure that after a few days she will change her mind and say that "she is the pop music herself". Pretty sad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCaligula 0 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 At the same that, a lot of people maybe had enough seeing her talk and do nothing and find excuses everytime when the expectations that mostly she builds are not meet. TBH she shouldnt be wasting time at SXSW she should be editing a ****ing video or doing something we care about maybe or what her label cares about instead of pissing them off more Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmenTheNight 1,080 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 The problem with the ARTPOP era is that we all expected the come back of Candy Warhol, the blonde bangs, and revolutionary POP songs, so original that we could have called them "Art pop songs". In the end, ARTPOP is more about ART than POP (which is 100% fine). The ART side is on point. The problem is that she's having a hard time to make ART "belong together" with POP. This Swine performance is 100% Art, 0% Pop. And this performance summarises pretty well the era : it's almost impossible for her to find the right point to get at the same time an artistic performance, a pop show, a pop song, and a polarizing event to make things come together in harmony. In that sense, the iconic Paparazzi performance had it all : The song (Paparazzi, pop gem), the performance art (bleeding, committing suicide), the pop show (dance, piano, vocals, props), the polarizing event (a pop star creates a bloody scene at a major music event). Most of us fell in love with this Gaga. She didn't meet the pop expectations with ARTPOP, and many of us do not like her art so much this era. Personnally, I preferred BTW's artistic propositions, but that's only my taste. For those who can't cope at all with the "art" side and lost the "pop" side of Gaga, well ... Indeed, Katy and Britney are 100% pop, go ahead. I'd rather see disappointing and polarizing artistic performances by Gaga than a whole concert based gimmicks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyMoonShine 0 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 At the same that, a lot of people maybe had enough seeing her talk and do nothing and find excuses everytime when the expectations that mostly she builds are not meet. I don't know where these expectations are coming from though. Everyone expects her to do things that will get herself back in the charts and the news in a positive way and maybe she will do that but I don't think we should expect her to. She has said many times that she doesn't care about that. So expect nothing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziva 193 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 This is exactly how I feel about it too! :Shrug: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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