Lady Gaga in India: Obnoxious, Hypocritical, and Clueless

Lady Gaga is on a quest to conquer India, but as usual, she's all style and no substance.

Gaga is in India this weekend to perform in the Indian Formula One Grand Prix closing ceremony, though it'd be more accurate to say she's there in an attempt to make as much money as possible off of the world's second largest country.

 Lady Gaga Doesn't Know Her Market

 The celebrity-worshiping Indian media fawned over her at a press conference in Delhi today. She showed up an hour late (the hour spent, no doubt, on arranging the ridiculous "tribute" to the Indian flag in her hair—a tribute which, if it was supposed to even remotely resemble the colors of the Indian flag, failed miserably) and appeared completely indifferent to anything outside her little world of manufactured pop music.

She condescendingly and cheaply attempted to conflate the idea of reincarnation (talking about reincarnation in India? How very Eat, Pray, Love of her) with her album, Born This Way. But Lady Gaga proved to be her typically shallow self when it came to discussing facets of pop culture in India. When asked about Indian (and global) superstar Shahrukh Khan, she had no idea who he was. It was a pathetic level of preparation—even silly Paris Hilton managed to do better cultural research before arriving in India last month.

Lady Gaga wants to become popular in rural India but ignores (or is totally ignorant of) the fact that no one in that demographic can afford her CDs or concerts (and frankly, they probably wouldn't care even if they could). She's attempting to market her provocative and often freakish act to one of the most religiously conservative areas on Earth.

Gaga Will Never be Popular in India

She thinks putting a bit of green and gold in her hair and wearing a dress by an Indian designer is all the effort that's required to win over India. Her management might want to think again. She's a blip on the music radar even in urban India, where radio stations are far more likely to play Chammak Challo than Pokerface. In a nation where film music has 99% of the radio and television market, Lady Gaga is going to need to do a lot more than just show up and prattle on about reincarnation to win fans. She'll have to make a genuine, sincere effort when it comes to India.

And of course as everybody knows all too well, genuine and sincere aren't really part of Gaga's repertoire.

LINK TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE

FYI:  This is just as ignorant as when she went to Japan and did the whole panda tribute; confusing the symbol of China with Japanese culture.  Shallow and ignorant indeed.

Gaga, Grammy's and Adele

The Grammy's are set to air on February 12th, 2012 and the artist's song nominations have been submitted.  Adele's submitted her monster hit Rollin' In The Deep and Someone Like You.  Stefani's submitted her two floptastic songs Flopas Judas and Flop and I You and I.  Some might scratch their heads and wonder why she chose to leave out her unfortunate hit of a song Born This Way and the other sort of hit Edge of Glory. 

The answer is simple.  Stefani is scared shitless of Adele.  The whole planet knows that Adele is going to clean house and Stefani, being the megalomaniac that she is clearly would not be able to handle Adele cutting her to pieces at the Grammy awards.  In order to save face, Stefani submits her two dead on arrival singles knowing that they don't stand a chance even on the best of days against Adele.  That's an easier pill to swallow because the songs stink of crap.  What's even more interesting is instead of believing in herself, just like she preaches to the masses of monsters, and submitting her two hits and taking that chance, she instead puts her head down, tail between her legs and whimpers off like an ego stung child. So much for being brave and fearless.  She's basically saying that even her recent hits aren't that great and I'm inclined to agree. 

Stefani knows that even if she submitted Born This Way and Edge of Glory to go up against Adele, she's gonna lose and lose big.  To have her two hit songs lose to Adele is going to trigger a tsunami of suicidal tendencies.  OK, I'm being sarcastic there but it's not gonna be good for her.  Especially since one of her hits is a clone of Express Yourself, something that will follow her for the rest of her life, and the music world and her peers did not smile fondly upon that.  Except for Elton John but that's probably because Gaga lets him suck her dick.  

Not even her antics and desperate plays at being avant garde are enough to save her this time.  Adele's 21 has already broken Gaga’s digital album sales record for The Fame.  Stefani should just skip the Grammy Awards next year, stay home, crush some Oxycontin, snort it and sleep the loss off.  It will be all better in the morning. 

R.I.P.

LADY GAGA

Gaga Scissorhands

                       

Music I Like

    

      

Meet Kasabian.  If you don't know them, you should.  They hail from the UK.  This song, Vlad the Impaler, is my favourite.  Kasabian has yet to crack the US market, if they will at all since they aren't generic pop crap.    

I'm not sure how they're doing in the Canadian market.  I discovered them while I was living in Europe last year.  The video above is just the song and the video below is the band performing the song live.  They are amazing.  Enjoy. 

                                      

Ah......real music.

Madonna To Perform at the Super Bowl, Beats Gaga

Yup, she beat Gaga.  Stefani was also in the running to perform at the Super Bowl Half Time Show but organizers decided on Madonna, obviously!  Madonna's invited M.I.A. to perform at the show alongside with her as well as Nicki Minaj.  Ugh!  I don't mind some of M.I.A.'s stuff.  I'm not a fan but at least she has substance.  But Nicki Minaj???  She's just has bad and annoying as Stefani.  I find solace knowing that neither Nicki or Stefani will matter in a few years.

I guess the decision between Madonna and Stefani really isn't all that surprising.  If you had to choose between Seafood Linguine and Macaroni and Cheese, and you had good taste, the choice is obvious.  

How's that for irrelevant. 

R.I.P. Lady Gaga

Skip to 2:07.  I guess it's true, Lady Gaga really doesn't care about money.  Thank you Royal Lioness for the link.

Nice try!

Lady Gaga Sings the National Anthem

                       

Lady Who??

Last night at Madonna's London preimere of her film W.E., a fan who got in to see the film allegedly overheard Madge give a verbal eye roll when asked about Lady Gaga.

The fan is quoted as saying:

"Everyone took their seats and with a brief introduction to the stage Madonna made her entrance. Madonna then went on to introduce the movie before taking her seat. My favorite Madonna moment of the night occurred once Madonna was seated when a fan seated behind her shouted out something relating to the Lady Gaga comparison to which Madonna responded “Lady Who?!!!” I thought great response!!!"

Who knows if this really happened or if it did, in what context Madonna meant it.  If it happened, maybe saying "Lady Who?" shows that Madonna is so over Stefani the way so many others are over her.  Stefani's given Madonna the right to make snarky remarks.  Since Bad Romance, there hasn't been anything original about Stefani except for her DNA.  Stefani's fans hate the comparisons because they are true and they can't handle or accept them.  It's like telling someone who's obsessed with their significant other that he or she is cheating on them.  You can't accept it and denial kicks in.  They deny it kicking and screaming.

Gaga is not a free bitch.  She is a copy bitch.

Lady Xerox

Turns out it is true!  Here's the video.  Skip to 5:50 or just before.  Someone yells out "You look gorgeous Madonna" then a few seconds later someone else yells "Who needs Lady Gaga" or something like that.  Then listen very close, you can hear what sounds like "Lady Who?" from Madonna.  She didn't have a mic at that point because she took her seat.