sonick | 03-16-2010 02:57 PM | Quote:
Originally Posted by Dentz
(Post 6862682)
Whether she's "amazing" is subject to personal opinion, sure she's talented, but she's also creating music for the masses - aka. over-produced, mind-numbing garbage, with huge over-indulgent shows; none of it has any real substance. Take a look at the lyrics for any of her songs that get radio play - they're less then impressive.
All personal opinion, of course. | Why do you think she does all that crazy shit? She's completely aware of her place in disposable pop music, and is milking it for it's worth... It's a whole meta-inside-joke for her, she is mocking herself and pop music in general. Not like 90% of "indie" bands out there with a falsely inflated sense of self worth from their music's perceived artistic merit.
She KNOWS her music is stupid; in interviews she often has a backhanded-mocking attitude to her fans and interviewers, as if they were so stupid to eat this shit up. As Jay-Z says: "I dumb down for my audience and double my profits."
Also, taken from another forum: Quote:
[Bad Romance] apparently is a video devoted to AIDS awareness:
Bathhouse Scene
'I want your disease'
Made to look like T-cells that go from white to red
Man gets "burned" (burned is common slang in NY, to be given a disease sexually)
Bad Romance
| Just because it's mass-consumed, mainstream pop music doesn't make it any less good. Look at Michael Jackson. |