No other act is doing what she's doing

I agree with you you here Matt. I do think some of her music (well, the singles at least, I HAVE tried to listen to the rest of the album and was just too embarassed to sit through most of it tbh) is really good pop. But I think she's trying way to hard to make herself into some kind of icon when she's barely been around a year and the quality of the music doesn't really back up this ambition. The majority of the singles do but... y'know

I think she takes herself way to seriously. Oh yes of course there's a deeper meaning to "out in the club and I'm sipping that bub and you're not gonna reach my telephone". No. It's a song about someone trying to call you and you don't want to talk to them and you're out clubbing.

I wish she'd just be a pop star (because that's what she is) and not try to be "art". I preferred it when she wasn't trying to "say something" with her videos and it was just, just dance. She annoyed me less then.

Well people might not agree with me here, but I think her sound is similar to a lot of pop artists out there. Off the top of my head Beyoncé, Britney, Rihanna, Kesha (that tik tok song sounds a bit too much like Just Dance to me), Katy Perry, Cheryl Cole, Girls Aloud(?), The Saturdays, Shakira, La Roux... I dunno it all sort of sounds similar to me. Maybe not to others, especially people who are into that whole genre, it might be an unfair comparison for me to draw but there it is.

Also, I think her "style" of music is kind of inconsistent. If you listen to the album it kind of sounds like she's attempting to try her hand at different sounds to see what works. The singles are probably the ones that do.

Oh, and on another point it would be a bit unfair to criticise Lady Gaga for sounding like Kesha when Tik Tok was released a year after Let's Dance

The Hidden Meaning of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone”
Mar 14th, 2010 | By Vigilant | Category: Vigilant Reports

Lady Gaga’s 9-minute video featuring Beyoncé is steeped in weirdness and shock value. Behind the strange aesthetic, however, lies a deeper meaning, another level of interpretation. The video refers to mind control and, more specifically, Monarch Programming, a covert technique profusely used in the entertainment industry. We’ll look at the occult meaning of the video “Telephone”.

Just when I thought I’d written everything I had to write about Lady Gaga, Telephone comes out. An inevitable deluge of e-mails instantly followed, demanding an article about it. So I watched the video and, gosh darnit, the people who wrote those e-mails were right. There are, yet again, a whole bunch of Illuminati/mind control symbols in Lady Gaga’s latest video. I can’t say I was surprised, however, knowing that Jonas Akerlund co-wrote and directed the video. In the article Lady Gaga, the Illuminati puppet (which I suggest you read before this one), I dissected the Akerlund-directed video Paparazzi and its references to mind-control programming. Telephone acts as a sequel to Paparazzi, where Gaga still plays the role of a mind-controlled drone who kills people. This concept is never openly discussed by the artists when they are asked to explain their videos because it is not meant to be understood for the masses. The hidden meaning of the video actually depicts the elite’s contempt for the general population, hence the scene of ritual murder of average Americans in a diner by mind-controlled slaves. Don’t know what the hell I’m talking about? Keep reading.

Well, actually she does write her own music. I don't see how that would change it's credibility or whatever it is you're trying to say about it but she does http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fame_% ... ck_listing

I think I'm going to stop going on and on in this thread now. Not trying to be disrespectful to other people's tastes or even to Gaga, just saying I don't really get it.
Michel Gondry's comment pretty much sums up how I feel http://community.livejournal.com/ohnoth ... 09991.html