# Lady Gaga = God **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896 "2010-03-18T15:53:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/21 "2010-03-18T21:51:31Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Gwar had a heyday? Sure – they were _huge_ for a couple of minutes when they got a spot on _Beavis & Butthead_. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/22 "2010-03-18T22:04:25Z")
She’s not my cup of tea, but she does seem to have the talent necessary to reinvent and stay fresh. I could see here having a similar career to Madonna. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/23 "2010-03-18T22:06:42Z")
Barf. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/24 "2010-03-18T23:00:13Z")
> [@Purd\_Werfect](#): > > I could see here having a similar career to Madonna. That’s exactly the comparison I’ve been making. Bright girl who knows how to make a commercial spectacle of herself. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/25 "2010-03-19T00:53:51Z")
I am mystified by the current music scene. Everything is unfamiliar and frightening. ---
**Author:** ![TurboNuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@TurboNuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TurboNuke)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/26 "2010-03-19T01:12:05Z")
Y’all are a bunch of old fogeys. I am too. I’m 42. But… There’s nothing wrong with the rock scene. There’s been good rock since the early 90’s. Lady Gaga is pop not rock. And I’m pretty sure Lady Gaga=Madonna. Madonna was a pop singer who got a lot of recognition from dressing sexy and singing about sex. How is this any different from Lady Gaga? If Gaga has the talent(and she might) to put out another decent album out she’s pretty close to Madonna. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/27 "2010-03-19T01:21:28Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > …In fact, I consider the last 10 years with few exceptions to have been the worst decade in the history of rock and roll. … I guess we should all get off your lawn, too. 😃 _What a drag it is getting old_ ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/28 "2010-03-19T01:26:40Z")
Every pop singer dresses sexy and sings about sex though. ---
**Author:** ![halfliquid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e57/32.png) [@halfliquid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/halfliquid)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/29 "2010-03-19T02:21:59Z")
God’s been talking to me. She told me that she wants the diseased, the ugly, the dramatic(ooh, that’s me), and the psychotic(me, again). But most of all, Lady Gaga wants your Love, Love, Love. RA RA-AH-AH-AH · ROMA ROMA-MA · GAGA · OH LA-LA ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/30 "2010-03-19T02:28:57Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Where were you guys when Peter Gabriel and Bootsy Collins and Prince and KISS and Adam Ant and David Bowie and Hammer and Gwar and all the other guys dressing up in costumes and weird clothing were in their heyday? Or is it just, as usual, that when a female does it, she’s a no-talent slut, and when a guy does it, he’s a groundbreaking genius? [GENIUSES](http://songbookofkartika.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/color_me_badd.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/31 "2010-03-19T03:01:13Z")
> [@TurboNuke](#): > > \Madonna was a pop singer who got a lot of recognition from dressing sexy and singing about sex. How is this any different from Lady Gaga?\ [This](http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/100301/lady-gaga_220.jpg) is not sexy. In fact, I’ll fly in the face of current political correctness and call it retarded with a capital R. (Also, never have I seen visible boobs and been more turned off) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/32 "2010-03-19T03:07:13Z")
> [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](#): > > [This](http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/100301/lady-gaga_220.jpg) is not sexy. In fact, I’ll fly in the face of current political correctness and call it retarded with a capital R. (Also, never have I seen visible boobs and been more turned off) It’s not sexy, but it got her pictured every place that pictures get pictured. I’d call that a big win. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/33 "2010-03-19T03:13:05Z")
> [@TurboNuke](#): > > Madonna was a pop singer who got a lot of recognition from dressing sexy and singing about sex. How is this any different from Lady Gaga? If Gaga has the talent(and she might) to put out another decent album out she’s pretty close to Madonna. Yup. I have seen little of this Gaga person but from what I have seen she’s just someone who has noticed that there is a hole in the market for a shameless selfpublicist of a certain style left vacant by Madonna and she is filling it. Good on her, we all have to do something for a living I guess, but from my point of view it’s one big yawn. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/34 "2010-03-19T05:29:04Z")
I’m finally convinced that she’ll most likely last. She has all the right demographics; gay people, fashion-lovers, pop music lovers. She’ll be the next Madonna. I know Madonna is worshipped enough that that sounds like a huge deal, but whoopty shit IMO. I cannot stand Madonna. I actually think Lady Gaga has more talent and thus won’t be quite as big for quite as long. I’d trade either one of them for a glass of cool water on a warm day, though. > [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Gwar had a heyday? It was some time between raping the dinosaurs into extinction and creating humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/35 "2010-03-19T07:18:26Z")
Gaga spelled backwards is “a gag”. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/36 "2010-03-19T07:49:54Z")
> [@Purd\_Werfect](#): > > She’s not my cup of tea, but she does seem to have the talent necessary to reinvent and stay fresh. I could see here having a similar career to Madonna. I’m completely convinced she’s the real deal and only on the cusp of exploring her talent potential. I can’t remember anyone storming the pop scene with their first two albums like this since Kanye. Comparisons to Madonna are apt, although I think Gaga has more raw talent than Madge. I’d be very surprised if Gaga ends up a short-lived fad. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/37 "2010-03-19T08:11:00Z")
I think GaGa is the milli vanilli front for some talented Producers and Directors and Artists, and Musicians, and the media resources of a big label. Just another average talent puffery and glitz job of media… not music… MEDIA… backed by Wizards behind platinum screens. Oh, she might have some good ideas… but 70% of what you see and hear is corporate… she’s a corporate zombie. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/38 "2010-03-19T09:10:47Z")
If you want some good corporate MUSIC, some real music… well, American Idol finally got it right. Finally a soulful woman of real blues talent and genuine feeling without the prepackaged Idol generic is a contender. I present [Crystal Bowersox](http://www.americanidol.com/contestants/season_9/crystal_bowersox/) Homegirl’s gonna win… ---
**Author:** ![nachtmusick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@nachtmusick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nachtmusick)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/39 "2010-03-19T09:36:39Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > If you want some good corporate MUSIC, some real music… well, American Idol finally got it right. Finally a soulful woman of real blues talent and genuine feeling without the prepackaged Idol generic is a contender. I present [Crystal Bowersox](http://www.americanidol.com/contestants/season_9/crystal_bowersox/) > > Homegirl’s gonna win… Really? You write off Gaga as corporate puffery, and then try to pimp some American Idol Contestant as the Real Deal? There are performers, there are musicians, and there are artists. I can’t say I am a big fan of the dance/glam genre that Gaga likes, but I know when I hear irresistable songs. Gaga is a musician and an artist who has dominated the last year of pop music. She wrote it all herself. She is not a very good performer, but if you like talent, you might be inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/40 "2010-03-19T09:43:51Z")
> [@nachtmusick](#): > > Really? > > You write off Gaga as corporate puffery, and then try to pimp some American Idol Contestant as the Real Deal? > > There are performers, there are musicians, and there are artists. I can’t say I am a big fan of the dance/glam genre that Gaga likes, but I know when I hear irresistable songs. Gaga is a musician and an artist who has dominated the last year of pop music. She wrote it all herself. > > She is not a very good performer, but if you like talent, you might be inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt. She’s a musician to music, as Ronald McDonald is to food. She’s a clown. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896.md?page=3)