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RE: I agree with you on the "meat" woman....

Posted by RGA on January 8, 2019 at 18:29:52:
I am not sure that is true - it may be the opposite these days as she has left a lot of that pop fair behind. She has a growing new and different sort of audience. Just seeing a lot of commentary lately like "I always hated Lady Gaga and now I am a fan" or "She should have started out like This (meaning the way she is now) versus the ridiculous way she started out."

Of course the ugly truth in music business is that talent doesn't always win - you can have talent and toil away in a bar for 35 years. I mean Eva Cassidy was superb when she was alive and no one ever heard of her. She dies and gets a little airplay in London and she became a pretty massive star in death.

I kind of defend Lady Gaga because her voice is a major cut above most of the entire rest of the pop singing world and she has ventured and succeeded with jazz and contemporary and even has a little support with the metal heads. Doing an album with Metallica apparently.

The point being though - to become known in the sea of utter crap - you sort of have to do something different. She could toil away in a bar for 25 years and not make it it she can put on some ridiculous dresses and make-up and become the female version of Elton John!

I mean Would Elton have made it without the crazy outfits, hats and eyeglasses? Maybe maybe not.

And now that she is the biggest star on the planet - those crazy outfits are "largely" long gone and she is no longer singing typical pop/dance music. In other words - now she is commanding audiences that go to hear her SING - versus going to concerts to see the shtick.

Unlike most other pop singers - she can get an an audience where she can simply play piano and sing. Alla a Sarah McLachlan where it's not all spectacle and pyrotechnics. Of course Gaga will do that stuff for the base audience too.

She seems to be able to pull off a wide variety of music styles from hard core metal to cheese-ball pop, to rock to jazz. She can look elegant or space alien crazy - I think she is a hoot. You know FUN.

I think she has enough voice to last and is still young and improving. I don't think a Madonna or Rihanna etc can do this for example.