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This is in a way of sort of prelude to this new singer that I've been reading about on my flist.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
liz_marcs brought her up first. Then I saw the entertainer perform on Gossip Girl and she blew me away - particularly the song - "Bad Romance". To be honest, I thought it was another Madonna or Christine Aguilerra or Amy Winehouse trend. Then I saw her again tonight on anne1962's lj - via youtube videos. This is a performer that is rather brave, I think. Not brave like Madonna or not in the same way as Madonna, but brave in a different way. She has something to say. And I'm wondering if the people who are hearing the song...are hearing the metaphors, I'm guessing they are, and I'm guessing it's commentary on our pop culture...may well be part of the appeal.
Looked up the lyrics...and they are rather interesting. A deft commentary on dark desire.
And they stretch the envelope a bit further...than I think Madonna did. People say Madonna paved the way, but I remember David Bowie, and the glam rockers, such as Queen. Madonna may have been the first female rocker to go there...with "Like A Virgin", before Lady Gaga was born.
Gaga has a better voice than Madonna - it's deeper and richer, and can go high and really low.
Almost as low as a man's and in that regard is reminiscent of Amy Winehouse, without the drama.
I've seen three performances of "Bad Romance" now - the first on Gossip Girl - which to be honest is rivaling Buffy for best alternative pop soundtrack. The one on Gossip Girl had Gaga in a huge red dress, a Marlyn Monroesque hair style, and falling off a large white pianon. It was part performance art and part song.
Here's what wiki says about her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga
Apparently she's been around since the age of 19, and her first album was produced in 2008.
And won several Grammys.
Here's the video: Note in the video - she's been kidnapped and sold to the Russian Mafia by a bunch of supermodels. She's forced to bath, dressed, and forced to drink vodka, then sing and dance for them as they bid on her. The video ends with her toasting the highest bidder/winner in their bed, with a combustable bra, she's lying beside his burnt skeleton singing. It's a powerful rallying cry. And takes Madonna's power vids one step further.
The lyrics are stating - I know I am caught in a bad romance. I want your love and your revenge. I want the disease. I want the ugly. I know you are a criminal, but you are mine.
And no, I don't want to be friends. You and me could write a bad romance.
The appeal of dark desire. Flirting with it. But making fun of it. Showing the pain of it.
It's hard to explain. It can't really be put into clear-cut words. It can only be sung and performed - metaphorically.
It reminds me of something that Virgina Woolf wrote a century before about Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights ( cut for length )
This is in a way of sort of prelude to this new singer that I've been reading about on my flist.
liz_marcs brought her up first. Then I saw the entertainer perform on Gossip Girl and she blew me away - particularly the song - "Bad Romance". To be honest, I thought it was another Madonna or Christine Aguilerra or Amy Winehouse trend. Then I saw her again tonight on anne1962's lj - via youtube videos. This is a performer that is rather brave, I think. Not brave like Madonna or not in the same way as Madonna, but brave in a different way. She has something to say. And I'm wondering if the people who are hearing the song...are hearing the metaphors, I'm guessing they are, and I'm guessing it's commentary on our pop culture...may well be part of the appeal.Looked up the lyrics...and they are rather interesting. A deft commentary on dark desire.
And they stretch the envelope a bit further...than I think Madonna did. People say Madonna paved the way, but I remember David Bowie, and the glam rockers, such as Queen. Madonna may have been the first female rocker to go there...with "Like A Virgin", before Lady Gaga was born.
Gaga has a better voice than Madonna - it's deeper and richer, and can go high and really low.
Almost as low as a man's and in that regard is reminiscent of Amy Winehouse, without the drama.
I've seen three performances of "Bad Romance" now - the first on Gossip Girl - which to be honest is rivaling Buffy for best alternative pop soundtrack. The one on Gossip Girl had Gaga in a huge red dress, a Marlyn Monroesque hair style, and falling off a large white pianon. It was part performance art and part song.
Here's what wiki says about her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga
Apparently she's been around since the age of 19, and her first album was produced in 2008.
And won several Grammys.
Here's the video: Note in the video - she's been kidnapped and sold to the Russian Mafia by a bunch of supermodels. She's forced to bath, dressed, and forced to drink vodka, then sing and dance for them as they bid on her. The video ends with her toasting the highest bidder/winner in their bed, with a combustable bra, she's lying beside his burnt skeleton singing. It's a powerful rallying cry. And takes Madonna's power vids one step further.
The lyrics are stating - I know I am caught in a bad romance. I want your love and your revenge. I want the disease. I want the ugly. I know you are a criminal, but you are mine.
And no, I don't want to be friends. You and me could write a bad romance.
The appeal of dark desire. Flirting with it. But making fun of it. Showing the pain of it.
It's hard to explain. It can't really be put into clear-cut words. It can only be sung and performed - metaphorically.
It reminds me of something that Virgina Woolf wrote a century before about Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights ( cut for length )