Lady Gaga's meat suit.

[chaplin]

I read in an article recently that said, despite what millions of teenage girls say, Lady Gaga is not original. That she is exactly 50% Madonna and 50% Marilyn Manson. I never really paid much attention to her, but this really does make me agree with this estimate.

I think I've read that article... was it a Dan O Brien article on cracked.com?

 

[AgentNein]

Genuinely love Lay Gaga, all the time. I think it's a good sign for the music industry that someone can be this fucking over the top again. It's not even my kind of music normally, I just dig what she does.

With that said, I never took her as the serious statement type. It doesn't necessarily help that she approached it from her usual bombastic direction. So I'm not sure how I feel about this one. Meat suit, while interesting, and definitely Gaga, may take away from any intended sincerity from what she's trying to communicate.

She is not over the top. She's not even close to the top. The Plasmatics were over the top. GWAR is over the top. Butthole Surfers were (are?) over the top. GG Allin was so horrible he ran the complete topness circuit at least three times.

Lady Gaga just dresses like a twit.

Hope you're not comparing anyone unfavorably to GG Allin. Talk about twits with no business being near a stage.

Allin was terrible in a good deal of the ways human beings can be terrible, but he was a hell of a lot more daring than Lady Gaga.

Daring how? The guy had literally nothing going for him, and thus nothing to lose. So he was a controversial and as stupid as he could possibly be in the punk scene? Big risk. Stupid punk kids eat that shit up (probably literally at an Allin show). He might've been relevant if he did that crazy shit twenty or thirty years before he did.

I don't see this thing as a pissing contest anyway. Yes, Gaga is over the top for a pop star in the contemporary mainstream music world today. Don't have to be a gross scumfuck addict to be over the top.

 

[Dr. Whiggs]

He would have been locked up if he had worked twenty of thirty years earlier, rendering him even less relevant. Don't get so mad about your poor taste in pop music.

 

[AgentNein]

He would have been locked up if he had worked twenty of thirty years earlier, rendering him even less relevant. Don't get so mad about your poor taste in pop music.

Not getting mad, friend. Just trying to school you kids on the fact that bringing up Allin as a favorable comparison to something else makes you lose all musical credibility.

 

[martin's a madman]

If she puts meat on her buns, is she a hamburger?

 

[ShoopDaToaster]

Attention-Whore.
Really,I mean its for a good cause but WHY A FUCKING MEAT SUIT?
Why not something simple,like gray ribbons for crack awareness.

 

[Dr. Whiggs]

I was only comparing their shock value, not their musical ability, but at least Allin didn't have to reinvent himself from some pseudo-Norah Jones act into Madonna v2. Either way it's deciding between an icepick or a railroad spike: neither feels good in your ear.

 

[Shapsters]

Attention-Whore.
Really,I mean its for a good cause but WHY A FUCKING MEAT SUIT?
Why not something simple,like gray ribbons for crack awareness.

If she wore a ribbon would there be a thread about that right now?

No. She wore a meat suit to bring awareness for whatever and she got people talking about it. Successful Gaga is successful

 

[Something Amyss]

Autotune is a fairly commonly used tool with recording, if she just wanted to sound 'good' and not obviously autotuned that's more than possible. "Hard autotune" (or "robot voice") as it's known is a stylistic choice. One I don't really like myself mind you, but it's not really used to cover up bad singing.

By the by that's more for Bak than you Zachary, it sounds like you already know whatsup.

I'm not a fan of pitch correction, myself. I get its uses, but it sort of feels like cheating to me. I've heard Lady Gaga's pre-current career, and she's got talent. I'm not a fan of her as an attention whore OR a lounge singer, but she's got pipes.

But yeah, anyway, using autotune for the robotic voice doesn't even necessarily make you sound good. Example: Ke$ha. She still sounds out of tune a lot of the time, and probably would have been a good candidate for pitch correction in the more traditional sense.

 

[Something Amyss]

Attention-Whore.
Really,I mean its for a good cause but WHY A FUCKING MEAT SUIT?
Why not something simple,like gray ribbons for crack awareness.

If she wore a ribbon would there be a thread about that right now?

No. She wore a meat suit to bring awareness for whatever and she got people talking about it. Successful Gaga is successful

The "awareness" is for Lady Gaga. A subject that is already over-discussed. I mean, I admit, it got me curious, since it's supposed to be about gay awareness and I don't see the connection. But in the end, Gaga is weird for the sake of being weird so people will notice her. And we did. Successful Gaga is still successful.

 

[kenjamen]

What a no talent twat...or dude. Whatever it is.

 

[lizards]

wouldnt that stink?

and leave ruin any chairs with fabric on them....

 

[Chairman Meow]

There just seems something very wrong about wearing animal flesh. Eating it is fine but wearing it? Even fur under certain circumstances is ok in my books and at least that keeps the wearer warm and protected.
But slabs of meat? It does nothing but make her look like a ridiculous, attention seeking, idiot trying to stay in the media's eye.
Seriously, I can't see how anyone admires this kind of person...

 

[Sacman]

She said it represented the way homosexuals are treated in the US army.

everyone knows Lady Gaga has been talking out of her ass since she started making music to sound deep and philosophical but shes just a pretentious bad musician...
*rage over*

 

[Miumaru]

Well, atleast she is not a vegan then.

 

[Shapsters]

Attention-Whore.
Really,I mean its for a good cause but WHY A FUCKING MEAT SUIT?
Why not something simple,like gray ribbons for crack awareness.

If she wore a ribbon would there be a thread about that right now?

No. She wore a meat suit to bring awareness for whatever and she got people talking about it. Successful Gaga is successful

The "awareness" is for Lady Gaga. A subject that is already over-discussed. I mean, I admit, it got me curious, since it's supposed to be about gay awareness and I don't see the connection. But in the end, Gaga is weird for the sake of being weird so people will notice her. And we did. Successful Gaga is still successful.

So what? Why not be weird to be weird but raise awareness at the same time? Whether you think she did it for her own sake or for what she said it was for either way you thought about gays in the military thus became 'aware' of the issue.

Also how do you know why Gaga is weird? Have you met her or seen into her mind somehow? The fact that people are so confident about that fact she is nothing more than an attention whore kind of confuses me because how could you truly know?

 

[rekabdarb]

to quote something that i don't remember anymore

Her attire used to be cute and *maybe* smart but ever since her old fashion designer [insert some guy' name here] HUNG HIMSELF in feburary, her outfits have been sad.


I ono, but i'd like to believe that he hung himself for a reason.

 

[Wintermoot]

what a waste of meat!

 

[UbarElite]

Homosexuals being unable to join and serve in the military without hiding and repressing part of their identity...wearing meat...

Yup, deep stuff there, can't believe people question this .

 

[no oneder]

So she's an animal rights activist and wears meat?

Error. Error. Does not compute.

My head a-splode

Yadda yadda video:

Yadda Gaga yadda

Well, playing the piano definitely counts as talent, as is killing the music.