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Lady Gaga, what's your take?
I have no time...it's irrelevant....
What do you mean?
Well, it's just attention seeking nonsense.
You don't think she's making a statement?
.......About what??
Dude, the whole video is going to be me laughing if you keep answering like that! OK so, let's
rewind: Lady Gaga right? Icon, advocate for LGBT rights, meat dress wearer!
With the meat dress, do you think she was making a statement with the meat dress?
It wasn't a statement, it was just a meat dress! What will make me stand out from everybody
else? (Wear meat) Wear meat...
I was listening to an interview with someone...this journalist said that she'd interviewed Lady
Gaga; it was a very relaxed interview and she kept breaking into song. She said that
she's got a wonderful singing voice, and she said to her "That's not what you sound like
on the record." and she said "No, no, no its auto-tuned on the record." and she said "Why
do you auto-tune it?" and she said "That's what people are used to hearing, and that's
what sells.". So she has got a bit of a brain on her; but...I've just got no time for all
this dressing up lark (all the antics?).
She's almost famous for being famous.....
She's more famous for her antics than her music; if her music is selling, guaranteed
that's not what's going to be talked about-it'll be what she's just worn, or what she's just
said! It's engineered lunacy. Don't get me wrong, the meat dress was original, but its
still lunacy; it doesn't mean anything.
All the costumes she comes out with, she's planned that. You don't just break out into
a costume just like that; it takes time to get her into these costumes, out of these
costumes. There's nothing spontaneous about this at all, and people don't seem to realize
that, they just think "She's so off the wall, she's so weird!" she's not weird!
I saw this interview years ago; she'd not long come out and she was wearing some NONSENSE
on her face! This interviewer asked her if she ever lounged around in her PJ's, and do
the sort of things that normal people do? She said something like "Oh, no I don't do
that." and I thought "Yes, you do! Shut the f*ck up, do me a favor! Of course you do that,
everyone does that. So you go to sleep in those costumes do you? You went to sleep in
the meat dress that night did you?"
The image, is just that, its an image! The image is not the reality, and when you have
people who seem to buy into it, you just think "Really? You can't see through the fact that
this woman is obviously selling something to you? This image she's selling cannot possibly
be genuine...Really?"
Iconic...yes, but I wouldn't necessarily say that's a good thing...
Was it you that told me that she was naked at one of her concerts or something?
Oh, she did some gay club thing...
Why was she naked?
I don't know! I just thought "Oh great, wonderful. Oh, look! Another celebrity, you're no good
at what you do, so you need to take your clothes off.".
Madonna's done that! That's terrible too!
No-one wants to see that, you just think "Cover it up, please don't bear yourself.".
I do like some of her music though, like Poker Face, I like all that.
I've heard that track...I heard somebody do a track once; it turned out it was a Lady
Gaga song, and then I listened to it and I thought it was crap. But the cover that someone
did was really nice; it was a completely different arrangement...but then I heard the original
and I thought it was awful.
I don't think she can sing that well if I'm dead honest. I think that she can perform
and she can catch your attention and she can do weird, crazy things but... doesn't the
whole draw to her teeter on that and not so much her singing? And this is the thing, some
of her singing is actually pretty good when she's really in the zone...
When she first came out, it seemed to be sort of about music. Now, it's more...let's be
as outrageous as possible and lets do as much as possible to get people looking at me.
And still a bit of singing as well...
That's what I find difficult.
We have the male version of her in Kanye West, we have the older version of her in Madonna.
When you hear people singing her praises, what do they usually comment on? Do they usually
comment on her singing? I've never once heard anyone say "I love Lady Gaga, her new album
is dope." or "Her new album is so lovely/great, it's soulful.", you don't hear that! It's
what she's done, it's the new music video maybe; it's not her music necessarily.
That's what someone like Adele will always have over people like Gaga....Adele sings..
What talent?
She invests time in her music, in her craft. You can respect her for that, but Gaga seems
to be a gimmick! It's more gimmicky than talent, it's more gimmicky than music.
Either let's get our kit off or let's see how much clothes/outrageous stuff we can put
on before we actually start singing. What's the point?
Team Adele.
Team Adele. Well......no, no, no. There must be another singer that we can root behind
if we're going to root behind anyone who's really decent...
We'll end up talking about people who don't sing well, like Jessie J. Don't get me started
on her.
I'm not a big fan, I don't see what the draw is, but I never saw what the draw was with
the dead woman; Amy Winehouse.
Amy Winehouse could sing!
But I never saw the appeal...she did that one song....
What Rehab?
Was it? I don't know...
Well she's had many songs. Back to Black, Rehab and Valerie!
Oh, that was it, Valerie. That was the only song that...
I would rather get behind Amy Winehouse, dead as she is then Gaga! I'd settle with Amy Winehouse;
fantastic singer.
But she's dead...
A live singer.....Well look! We'll be here all night if we think of a live singer! We
can still try, but if we don't find another one in the next sixty seconds then I think
we should give up the game.
I don't want to name people like Beyonce...
No, no, Beyonce is boring...
Alicia Keys isn't too bad.....no thanks. Who's an indisputable singer?
Well this shows the state of the music industry doesn't it?
Only by our standards, or maybe we're out of touch...
We have quite broad standards as well.
I think so...But would you say our taste is mainstream?
No, but its broad isn't it?
But it's not mainstream, broad as it is, if it's not mainstream it's niche. Broad across
the niches as it might be...I like Amy Winehouse...I came to like her more after she died than
when she was alive; I just didn't see the appeal when she was alive-she was always getting
into drugs...
Well that's it, it's that boring routine of (celebrity going off the rails) yeah exactly...
Well I reckon we should put that to bed, we haven't found anyone else; I'm sure there's
loads but I just can't think of one...
Oh well, so yeah, Gaga, no, no!
That's cool actually, I like that.