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I'm GAGA LOVER
She’s awesome and has a powerfull performance
Gaga has been influenced by glam rock artists such as David Bowie and Queen,[59] as well as pop music artists such asMadonna, Britney Spears and Michael Jackson.[60][16][61] The Queen song “Radio Ga Ga” inspired her stage name, “Lady Gaga”.[62][12] She commented: “I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called ‘Radio Gaga’. That’s why I love the name […] Freddie was unique – one of the biggest personalities in the whole of pop music.”[61] Madonna told Rolling Stone that she sees “[her]self in Lady Gaga.”[63] In response to the comparisons between herself and Madonna, Gaga stated: “I don’t want to sound presumptuous, but I’ve made it my goal to revolutionise pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago.”[61] Actress and singer Grace Jones was also cited as an inspiration.[64] She has also been likened to Blondie singer Debbie Harry.[65][66]
Gaga’s vocals have drawn frequent comparison to those of Madonna and Gwen Stefani, while the structure of her music is said to echo classic 1980s pop and 1990s Europop.[67] While reviewing her debut album The Fame, The Sunday Times asserted “in combining music, fashion, art and technology, Lady GaGa evokes Madonna, Gwen Stefani circa ‘Hollaback Girl’,Kylie Minogue 2001 or Grace Jones right now.”[68] Similarly, The Boston Globe critic Sarah Rodman commented that she draws “obvious inspirations from Madonna to Gwen Stefani… in [her] girlish but sturdy pipes and bubbly beats.”[69] Though her lyrics are said to lack intellectual stimulation, “[she] does manage to get you moving and grooving at an almost effortless pace.”[70] Music critic Simon Reynolds wrote that “Everything about Gaga came from electroclash, except the music, which wasn’t particularly 1980s, just ruthlessly catchy noughtiespop glazed with Auto-Tune and undergirded with R&B-ish beats.[71]
Gaga has stated that she is very much influenced by fashion and that it is everything to her.[6][15] She considers Donatella Versace her muse.[6] Gaga has her own creative production team called the Haus of Gaga, which she handles personally. The team creates many of her clothes, stage props, and hairdos.[72] Her love of fashion came from her mother, who she stated was “always very well kept and beautiful.”[3] She said that: “When I’m writing music, I’m thinking about the clothes I want to wear on stage. It’s all about everything altogether—performance art, pop performance art, fashion. For me, it’s everything coming together and being a real story that will bring back the super-fan. I want to bring that back. I want the imagery to be so strong that fans will want to eat and taste and lick every part of us.”[15] The Global Language Monitor named ‘Lady Gaga’ as the Top Fashion Buzzword with her trademark ‘no pants’ coming in at No. 3.[73] Entertainment Weekly put her outfits on its end of the decade “best-of” list, saying, “Whether it’s a dress made of Muppets or strategically placed bubbles, Gaga’s outré ensembles brought performance art into the mainstream.”[74]
Critical reception of Gaga’s music, fashion sense and persona are mixed. Her status as a role model, trailblazer and fashion icon is by turns affirmed and denied.[75][76][77][78] Gaga’s albums have received mostly positive reviews,[33] with critics pointing out her unique place in pop music, the need for new movements in popular culture, the attention Gaga brings to important social issues, similar artists and the inherently subjective nature of her art.[79][80][81] Her role as a self-esteem booster for her fans is also lauded, as is her role in breathing life into the fashion industry.[82] Her performances are deemed as highly entertaining and innovative, with the blood-spurting performance of “Paparazzi” at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards listed as an eye-popping performance by MTV.[83] She continued such blood soaked performance at The Monster Ball Tour, where she wore a revealing leather corset and proceeded to be attacked by a man dressed in black who gnawed on her throat, causing blood to spurt down her chest and into her cleavage. She then lay dying in a pool of blood. However, during the shows at Manchester, the performance faced opposition from family groups and fans, in the light of a mass homicide event, after a local taxi driver slaughtered 12 people.[84] ”It was extremely tasteless to see her pretend to be attacked in such a gory way. What happened in Bradford is very fresh in people’s minds and given all the violence which happened inCumbria just hours earlier, it was insensitive,” said Lynn Costello of the organisation Mothers Against Violence.[85] Gaga’s treatment of her fans as “Little Monsters” has inspired criticism, due to the highly commercial nature of her music and image.[76] To some, this dichotomy contravenes the concept of outsider culture. Writing for The Guardian, Kitty Empire stated that the dichotomy allegedly “allows the viewer to have a ‘transgressive’ experience without being required to think.”
At (her performance’s) core, though, is the idea that Gaga is at one with the freaks and outcasts. The Monster Ball is where we can all be free. This is arrant nonsense, as the scads of people buying Gaga’s cunningly commercial music are not limited to the niche worlds of drag queens and hip nightcreatures from which she draws her inspiration. But Gaga seems sincere.[86]
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