All that furor over another whiny chick who can’t hit the notes? 2) This helps explain the sudden electroclash revival. 1) This is what she sounds like? Failed synth-pop? (The chorus is precisely where it fails, even if you want to grant it the hidden-in-plain-view daddy kink of “Papa Paparazzi.”) Wow.
Michaelangelo Matos: This is literally the first time I’ve heard her, and it’s revelatory for a couple reasons. Not that smart people still blindsided by her backstory will ever notice. But if you want to know how she really feels, get the cameras rolling, just get the action going… Sad, pretty melody ominous thump below no less emotion in the singing than, say, Neil Tennant has usually managed. Shame.Ĭhuck Eddy: Long ago, and oh so far away, she fell in love with you before the second show. Then around 2:30 she stops singing and starts yelling and it all goes to shit again. Keane Tzong: Tinny vocal samples in the chorus and a squelchy, almost-interesting beat provide a nice aura of super-budget glamour- the most successful Lady Gaga’s ever been in evoking any sense of time or place, I’d venture to say. If purposeful, it’s a nice touch, but intent, idiocy and happy accidents are muddled where GaGa is concerned. Instead, a ballad that equates unrequited love with the celebrity-paparazzo relationship, and turns GaGa into a creepy stalker. She’s most palatable when she’s flaunting the total pop kitsch of her first two singles and playing to the cheap seats in gay clubs - there’s plenty more trashy electro on The Fame that she could have released.
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So for once I’m going to ignore every impulse to punish her for contextual pretensions and just give this stupid thing the “7” it deserves.Īlex Ostroff: I’m not even sure how to process GaGa anymore. And to that end, it’s quite good - a resolutely silly early-Madonna melody in the verses and a low-flying liquid chorus. Thing is, this song is not actually about anything particularly interesting. The video’s got it all - pseudo art cinema intro, “edgy” dance routine on crutches, brief shots of anonymous dead supermodels, photo flash jump cuts (is it a camera…OR A GUN?!!!). But I can’t help but respect - and perhaps love - someone who so decisively asserts that we all live in her world.ĭave Moore: The video/music split here exemplifies why Lady Gaga pisses so many people off, I think. Whether that makes her music, in the end, nihilist is something I still haven’t decided. But wait, there’s a third twist! The middle eight completely leaves the story behind it’s set in GaGa’s studio, and ends with “We’re plastic but we still have fun!” What does this have to do with anything? Who knows, but it sure saps the song of anything frightening.
In fact, she doesn’t seem to love him at all. She really doesn’t need him for anything. But wait, there’s a second twist! Here, the groupie tells the rockstar that she can make him famous. But wait, there’s a twist! The ’80s-power-ballad production makes it far sweeter and apparently innocuous, as if the lyric were “Dear Rockstar who doesn’t know my name, please take my breath away.” That’s not extra creepy, because unlike most stalker anthems, the narrator here knows that the rockstar doesn’t love her. This song appears at first glance to be a stalker anthem. Martin Kavka: The more I listen to Lady GaGa, the more I become convinced that she really is as canny and clever as she says she is.
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