SOURCE - Pop Matters
7. Lady Gaga
Born This Way
This turkey opens with “Marry the Night” (in which Gaga calls herself a
“warrior princess” (SIC)*, presumably with a straight face) and only gets more
ridiculous from there. Gaga has little sense of originality and so the
regurgitated dance beats from previous chart hits and words from the
Island of Misfit Lyrics are hardly a surprise, though they certainly are
grating. The Cher retread title song wouldn’t be so offensive if it
were, say, used as background music in a shampoo commercial and not
passed off as real music, the way that you’ll take free samples of
budget pizza at the grocery store but would never actually buy it
yourself. The patchwork lyrics and styles are further examples of an
artist who tries to be all things to everyone, whether on the torpid,
turgid Madonna rip-off “Bloody Mary”, “Highway Unicorn (Road to Love)”,
or the plain stupid “Heavy Metal Lover”. All this would be much easier
to take if she had named herself Lady Dada as the absurdity, the sheer
mindlessness of her music, would be easier to take. Painfully
disposable.
Thanks China for sending this to me.
