Exactly. Sometimes you just want a little sugar for the ears. My only problem with Gaga, as I said upthread, is that it’s really dated derivative pop music she’s making. I wish she’d break a little more ground. But her music is fun, it’s catchy, got a good beat. What’s not to like? Who cares if it’s shallow?
I forgot to mention Prince in my earlier list. Thanks!
And I like shallow music as much as the next person, but the lyrics in her songs–I’m embarrassed to sing them in my own apartment.
If the song Speechless is anything related to a father/daughter relationship…I don’t even know what to think about that one.
Are you kidding me now? Her father needed heart surgery and said he’d lived a long life, so he wasn’t going to do it. Her response was the song, where she says- in certainly almost a childish sort of way- if he doesn’t get the surgery, she’ll never sing again. Obviously, since dad has worked with her his whole life to help her get where she is now, this threat is what ended up convincing him into getting the life saving surgery.
The lyrics (part of them, at least):
Pretty clear, right? Daddy said he wouldn’t get surgery. He gave up on living.
Daddy needs surgery. Daughter will be so heart broken if he doesn’t that she wont be able to ever even speak again.
Daddy is killing himself through his lifestyle.
Pretty straight forward- she’s threatening her dad into getting the surgery.
DiosaBellissima, did you enjoy the movie Nowhere?
Never heard of it, but looking at IMDB, it came out when I was 11. Makes sense 11 year old me didn’t see what they describe as “90210 on acid”.
I think this says more about your literary abilities than Gaga’s lyric writing. Do you also think Robert Frost’s “The Road Less Taken” is about walking around in a forest?
It’s not? :eek:
Not knowing the intimate details of her life or her motivations for writing these songs, I’m left to interpret them with what I’ve got.
Maybe she should have included this info with her liner in the CD. The only reference to her father is, “Thank you to my dad, for always protecting me from monsters.”
And there’s a nifty insert with her striking a pose similar to Madonna’s True Blue. Cute headphones.
Most musicians don’t explain the metaphors they use in their songs ever. If I remember correctly, there are several Beatles songs whose meaning is oft disputed, mostly because the band members refuse to specify the actual topic.
I mean, you don’t honestly believe she’s thanking her dad for protecting her from the Swamp Thing, right? You realize “monster” is a rhetorical device she uses repeatedly throughout her music.
Don’t you mean The Road Not Taken, dumbass?
Whatever. I really hate that one Beatles song about that man made of eggs and his bff, the walrus. I mean, seriously? What the hell is that about? We don’t need stupid kiddie song lyrics in our pop music.
Personal insults aren’t allowed in Cafe Society, halfliquid. Please don’t do this again.
Sorry, I didn’t have an alcoholic father who needed heart surgery, so of course I wouldn’t interpret this song this way. And, this information would probably be news to the majority of people who have actually followed her.
You don’t have to know the specifics, though, to realize it’s a meaningful song about someone she loves harming themselves in some way.
Certainly, knowing the situation in which it was written makes it more touching, but that’s the case with most songs.
I don’t tend to engage in debate about the lyrics in pop songs because that is 100%, completely beside the point of pop music. Pop music is meant to be listened to and enjoyed, often danced to. It is not intended to be dissected like some idiotic red wheelbarrow.
Okay, that linked interview finally loaded and I can watch it - hoo boy. “In other news, overwrought Moral Majority member doesn’t approve of Lady Gaga’s video!” Sandy Rios apparently thinks lesbians are disgusting, and watching music videos and art will turn you into a pedophilic rapist. Nice discussion, too; we have the interviewer who is on the same side as the interviewee (under a very thin guise of being neutral and playing devil’s advocate). Rios - American kids have been raped of their innocence (with the implication that videos by people like Lady Gaga are responsible for it). Bleah.
Pop music will never be low brow.
That’s a video of Gaga performing Just Dance. Watch the first 20 seconds to see my point.
I think that is Gaga’s artistic mission. She isn’t out to create high brow music, she’s out to shatter the distinction between high and low brow art. She’s trying to make pop music that sounds like pop music, but doesn’t fit neatly into either the high or low brow categories.
Is your point that her music is indeed low brow? Otherwise I don’t get it. There is absolutely nothing high brow about that, not even remotely.
I get that this girl is doing something a little more special than Mandy Moore or Jessica Simpson, but some of you guys are going overboard on her. The best she can hope for (and I think she has a good chance of acheiving it) is to carry Madonna’s torch. She’s not the anachronistic love-child of Jorge Luis Borges and Beethoven, come to open our eyes and save us all from meaningless, recycled culture, and her farts do not cure cancer.
Yes they do.