Recently, Lady Gaga sat down with Yahoo for an interview, and if you can stomach a nauseating amount of ass-kissing, here it is.
The part I was interested in the most was when she slammed other pop stars (but of course was too cowardly to name them) for not writing their own music, saying:
“If you’re not gonna write your own music, you better be able to blow. Because if you can’t blow, there’s no reason to do the job. But then you think about artists that can’t really sing, that have songs written for them, and it’s like, well why are they artists? Why are companies paying money to promote them? Because they’re beautiful and look good on camera and are kinda-sorta singing along? It’s like karaoke for pretty girls. When you’re a singer-songwriter it doesn’t really matter if you’re beautiful. What matters is that you create a relationship with your fans, and they care what you have to say.”Now who exactly do you think she is talking about here?
Most pop stars out there actually do have a hand in writing their own songs (or at least have songwriting credits), despite the fact that Gaga apparently doesn't think so. Even the ones that are topping/have topped the charts have songwriting credits to their name, including: Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Madonna, Lana Del Rey, Kesha, Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, Gwen Stefani, Cher, Cyndi Lauper, Pink, Selena Gomez, Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears... and so on.
If you actually look, it's quite rare to find a pop star with no songwriting credits to their name. So who in the industry is Gaga trying to shame, and for what purpose?
Is she jealous of the 'pretty girls' that she seems to think don't have to work hard, like she does? Is she insecure about the fact that maybe she doesn't do as much as she says she does?
Well, have you ever heard the expression "the guilty dog barks the loudest"?
Back in 2010, Gaga said, "I write all my own music. Every single lyric, melody and note was created by me."
She's still basically saying the same thing now - except now she's estimating she creates "90 per cent" of her songs instead of the full 100, which is interesting because if you take a look at the songwriting credits on her last solo album, you'll see a different story altogether:
"Applause" had eight writers. "Jewels n' Drugs" had seven. "Venus" had six, and included sampling.
And let's not forget the fact that the music in "Donatella", "Mary Jane Holland", and "Aura" already existed long before Gaga came along and (presumably) bought the tracks.
Does that sound like someone that writes 90% of their own material to you?
This attitude that Gaga's got - that she's better than her peers, more talented, and somehow more deserving of fame and fortune than they are - has got to stop, especially when we can all clearly see that she's exactly the same as the rest of them.
And how incredibly judgemental was this line...
"But then you think about artists that can’t really sing, that have songs written for them, and it’s like, well why are they artists?"Really? Wow.
Who the hell is Lady Gaga to determine who has the right to be an artist? Who is she to determine who has talent and who doesn't? Who is she to insinuate that other people don't deserve the things they get? Who is she to say how hard someone works or doesn't work?
Clearly she's thinking of specific people when she makes comments like these, and I'd love to know who and why.
But hey, remember this tweet?
I guess it's only bullying if it's happening to her, right?
Lady Hypocrite strikes again.
