Timmy84 said:

I was listening to it last night and thinking the same thang

johnart said:

And I do have to say that, as much as I love India.Arie, some of her stuff does come off as pretentious as fuck

Alej said:

It's "little things" like that will annoy a bitch.

Is it because singin about fish shaped like trumpets and crystals is only by pious or christian definition better music than singing about being fucked up or fuckin around?
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Alej said:

It does seem pretentious. There comes a thin line as it's often said.

BlaqueKnight said:

TRICK QUESTION: What is LoveGames about?!?

Lady GaGa is busy out there making great pop music. There's nothing wrong with great pop music in my eyes. I listen to GaGa much more than I do India. I don't look down on GaGa's output simply because she is "capable of more" (whatever that means, it's certainly something different to everyone). Her artistry has already shown significant progression from The Fame to The Fame Monster, and I'm very interested to see what she'll do next.
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VoicesCarry said:

I still think LoveGames is Gaga's best title ever (so far).

Now if she could just leave The Baphomet-inspired gimmicks at home.....




I'm sorry, but THIS is very difficult for me to just "get over it" when there is too many people that do NOT understand why this was a bad idea.

TonyVanDam said:

I'm not religious whatsoever so really don't give a shit

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...yContinued

Donny Osmond is upset about Lady Gaga video
Singer says he’s against censorship, but wouldn’t want his child to watch it

Access Hollywood
updated 3:09 p.m. PT, Thurs., March. 25, 2010
LAS VEGAS - Donny Osmond isn’t happy with Lady Gaga’s new “Telephone” video, which features Beyonce.

The racy video — the full length of which features Gaga in a womens’ prison and sees the pop star kissing another female inmate, writhing about in a prison yard, dancing in a bikini and a bit of semi-nudity (her bum) — has angered the most recent “Dancing with the Stars” champ.

“I’m all for freedom of speech and against any form of censorship, but all I know is that I’m a parent and I’m upset about this,” Osmond said on Wednesday during his “Donny Osmond Show” on radio.
The video also includes Beyonce, who duets with Gaga on the song, but Beyonce is not featured in the same kind of scenes as the boundary-pushing Gaga. Osmond didn’t, however, make a distinction between the two women’s scenes in the video.

“I wouldn’t want my child to watch this video. Would you? What do you think? Should these two extremely gifted female role models for millions of young girls, maybe, have given a little more thought to the effect it might have on their core audience?” Osmond asked his audience.

Osmond, known for his strong religious convictions, and for being a squeaky clean pop star during his own younger days, said he thinks the music industry should take a look at their “marketing policies.”

“Unlike 20 years ago, in today’s modern, viral world in which content becomes instantaneously available irrespective of age, I wonder whether the music industry might need to rethink its marketing policies with regard to making an explicit music video containing profanity, sexual exploitation, nudity, and graphic violence available to anyone with Internet access,” said the singer, who currently is starring in Las Vegas alongside his sister Marie

(more fodder for continued post on the gaga subject matter)

VoicesCarry said:

But OMG, are we really gonna concern ourselves with someone's fashion resembling or even being inspired by mythological creatures? It's just a ridiculous hat, there isn't a virgin impaled on one of the horns or anything.

Yeah Gaga makes me laugh. It's not meant to be taken literally.

Timmy84 said:

Well, she does need the crazy hats to hide the number of the beast on her scalp.

johnart said:

VoicesCarry said:

Dance Music is your religious.

lafleurdove said:

BTW, is this the same Donny Osmond who (along with Marie) once invited Britney on their short-lived talk show?!? Where was Donny's outrage when THIS video was controversial back in 1999?:

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta - aka Lady Gaga - as she was in her schooldays.

plastic surgery?

http://www.annoticoreport...elina.html

THE ANNOTICO REPORT

A Commentary on current news of interest to those of Italian ancestry, that appear in U.S., Italian, and International publications


Monday, November 23, 2009
Lady Gaga, aka Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta


Why hadn't someone told me earlier that Lady Gaga is Italian American. While VERY Edgy, and Flashy, she showed her talent in song writing, performing, and fashion at a very early age, and then later developed an interest in Philosophy and Civil Rights. Her admission of BiSexuality has made her even more controversial.

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta an American recording artist.better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, was born March 28, 1986, in Yonkers, New York, the eldest child of Italian American parents Joseph and Cynthia Germanotta, at age 11 she was set to join Juilliard School in Manhattan, but instead attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private Roman Catholic school.Playing piano by ear from the age of 4, she went on to write her first piano ballad at 13 and began performing at open mike nights by age 14. At age 17, she gained early admission to the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. There, she studied music and improved her songwriting skills by composing essays and analytical papers focusing on topics such as art, religion and socio-political order. She later withdrew from the school to focus on her musical career.is
After being signed to and quickly dropped from Def Jam Records at age 19, she moved out of her parent's house to start performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side. During this time, she was also working at Interscope Records as a songwriter for several established acts, including Akon, who, after hearing Gaga sing, convinced Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine to sign her to a performer deal. Around the same time she started taking drugs, and performing at burlesque shows: Gaga says her father "just didn't understand" at that he could not look at her for several months.
Music Producer Rob Fusari compared her style to Freddie Mercury,and nicknamed her Gaga, after the Queen song Radio Ga Ga, which she then adopted as her stage name.
She relocated to Los Angeles, and her debut album The Fame, was released in August 2008 a critical and commercial success. In addition to receiving generally positive reviews, it has gone to number one in four countries, also topping the Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart in the United States. The album's first two singles, "Just Dance" and "Poker Face", have become international number-one hits, and the former was nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 51st Grammy Awards. In 2009, after having opened for New Kids on the Block and the Pussycat Dolls, Gaga embarked on her first headlining tour, The Fame Ball Tour.

Gaga is inspired by glam rockers such as David Bowie and Queen, as well as pop singers such as Madonna, Gwen Stefani, and Michael Jackson. She is also inspired by fashion, Andy Warhol and Grace Jones which she has said is an essential component to her songwriting and performances. To date she has sold over 20 million digital singles and more than four million albums worldwide.

Gaga appeared semi-nude, wearing only plastic bubbles, on the cover of the annual 'Hot 100' issue of Rolling Stone in May 2009.In the issue she discussed that while she was making her beginnings in the New York club scene, Gaga was romantically involved with a heavy metal drummer. Gaga described their relationship and break-up, saying of it, "I was his Sandy, and he was my Danny [of Grease], and I just broke." He later became an inspiration behind some of the songs on her debut album The Fame. Gaga also stated that she is bisexual and is inspired by beautiful women, stating I'm a free sexual woman and I like what I like. I don't want people I'm saying it because I'm trying to be edgy or underground."

Gaga was nominated for a total of nine awards at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards including Video of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Female Video and Best Pop Video for "Poker Face" and Best Direction, Best Editing, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction for "Paparazzi" Gaga managed to win the award for "Best New Artist" while her single "Paparazzi" won two awards for "Best Art Direction" and "Best Special Effects." In October, Gaga received Billboard magazine's Rising Star of 2009 award.[Later she appeared on Saturday Night Live in a comic skit with Madonna and performing a part of her upcoming single "Bad Romance", from her forthcoming album titled The Fame Monster . Gaga attended the Human Rights Campaign's "National Dinner" on October 10th, 2009, before marching in the National Equality March in Washington, D.C. Musical style and influences.

okay i know this is a lot to digest, however if i'm going to really critic someone it's good to know all the (hopefully true) facts.

lafleurdove said:

TonyVanDam said:

Donny's a hypocrite. Anyway fuck him lol

who the fuck is she anyways with her boring ass? i admit i'm not as crazy about this vid as others though

Love those hips!

lafleurdove said:

Most of us knew all the clues, hints & symbolism about Gaga's bisexuality already.

Honey Bun = Beyonce's booty

Just saying.

johnart said:

ota

And I also don't understand all the judgment on this site, I mean it is a PRINCE site and I just loooove people who go ahead and make themselves feel better by claiming she's not a true musician and such.

I'm so over people.

Alej said:

Oh please, don't even bring Prince into this discussion. Do you want people to start convulsing and shit?

Timmy84 said:

Donny's "outrage" was growing in his pants.

lafleurdove said:

I don't get what your random posts (digs) have to do with this discussions?

In any case, in all honesty, maybe my eyes are just getting old, but she doesn't really look all that terribly different to me. For the exception of maybe a bit of a nose job, I don't see much that might not change (if you can even call it that) with a bit of age, change in weight or hair and makeup trickery.

And so the fuck what if she had surgery? I wouldn't give a shit if she had her nose turned upside down and had her butthole put in the middle of her forhead. What does surgery have to do with anything? She's certainly not advocating natural beauty, like India. If India had surgery I might bit a bit skeptical on her lyrics, but not Gaga.
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johnart said:

I'll stop, then.

johnart said:

you said it ...

India needs to write some good songs and stop watching GaGa videos....

johnart said:

Donny's "outrage" was doing THIS comeback hit:



Now don't get it twisted. I like this song. But THIS^ video has an Osmond using a Dante's Inferno-inspired backdrop. I wonder if the Mormon Church ever gave Donny an earful about it.

Donnie should be more worried about his sister's recent tragedy