# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/41 "2010-03-19T10:09:09Z")
She can’t be god. God has a peener. ---
**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, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/42 "2010-03-19T10:36:04Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > She’s a musician to music, as Ronald McDonald is to food. She’s a clown. Well, then, send in the clowns. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/43 "2010-03-19T10:36:51Z")
New York Gay/Art/Fashion Scene, what did I ever do to you? Is it that I only got into the VU after they were gone? Honestly, I couldn’t help it (not being born yet). So Why must you torment me so? Because everything you’ve ever done since then has been shit. It was shit when it was Madonna, it is shit now that it’s Gaga. And I say this as someone who like the crazy and the dramatic in their artists, but really! I don’t disagree she’s a talented singer/performer, but her taste? It’s shit. Taste in clothes, taste in beats, taste in lyrics, taste in video directors. All shit. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/44 "2010-03-19T10:55:05Z")
> [@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) After looking at that picture, all I can say with any certainty is … you shall be eaten last! 😃 CMC fnord! ---
**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, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/45 "2010-03-19T10:56:26Z")
The first time I saw David Bowie, I thought “what a queer - this guy won’t last a minute”. ---
**Author:** ![Rrose\_Selavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/46 "2010-03-19T12:53:05Z")
\*\*Lady Gaga sued by songwriter \*\* > [@](#): > > A songwriter and music producer who claims he helped launch Lady Gaga’s career, co-writing hits and securing a record deal, is suing the US pop star. > > Rob Fusari, who is credited on Gaga’s album The Fame, alleges the singer denied him his share of song royalties and merchandising revenue. > > On Thursday, he launched a $30.5m legal action (£20m) against the Grammy Award-winning performer in New York. > > Fusari claims former girlfriend Gaga dropped him as her career took off. > [@](#): > > In legal documents, Fusari - whose previous credits include Destiny’s Child’s Bootylicious - states he first came across Lady Gaga when she was performing under her real name, Stefani Germanotta, in March 2006. > > Though he initially dismissed her, he realised her star potential after hearing her play the piano in his studio in Parsippany, New Jersey. > > Fusari claims he spent several months “radically reshaping her approach” and transforming her into Lady Gaga - the stage name she adopted at his suggestion, he alleges. More here: > **[BBC News - Lady Gaga sued by songwriter](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8575909.stm)** > > A songwriter who claims he helped launch Lady Gaga's career, is suing the US pop star for $30.5m (£20m) . ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/47 "2010-03-19T16:12:58Z")
> [@troub](#): > > But I would _not_ be surprised if she is still around in 10 years. Maybe she’ll go from mindless pop to rock, like a more talented (IMO) reverse-Gwen Stefani maneuver. I so, so hope so. I don’t mind the clothes. It’s actually kinda cool that she’s not always trying to be sexy. I just HATE the music style. I started watching that telephone clip, and I was mesmerized until the stupid music started. I had to shut the thing off. And, yes, I’ve seen the clips where she really sings. And she definitely can. She was singing some pretty basic crap, and I could actually feel it. None of this stuff that I could make on my computer with my tone-deaf 15-year-old cousin. Once you’ve seen how easy it is to sound like that, you fail to be impressed. ---
**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, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/48 "2010-03-19T16:14:28Z")
Rob Fusari filed a $30.5 million lawsuit in Manhattan against God on Wednesday. He said his protege and former deity ditched him as her career soared. ---
**Author:** ![rivulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rivulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rivulus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/49 "2010-03-19T16:26:48Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > She’s a musician to music, as Ronald McDonald is to food. Yeah, but OMG some days, when I’m in the mood, there’s just nothing like a Big Mac and fries. Yum!!! One could argue that I have pretty sophisticated musical tastes (and a Ph.D. in musicology to back it up). But there’s something about slumming with Gaga… when I’m in the right mood… that really rocks my world. Franchises like McDonalds and Lady Gaga are popular for a reason. I wish I could take that to the bank. > [@halfliquid](#): > > RA RA-AH-AH-AH · ROMA ROMA-MA · GAGA · OH LA-LA As the mother of a toddler, when I try to sing that part in the shower it comes out as MOO BAA LA LA LA. Props to Sandra Boynton. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/50 "2010-03-19T17:18:40Z")
> [@rivulus](#): > > … > One could argue that I have pretty sophisticated musical tastes (and a Ph.D. in musicology to back it up). But there’s something about slumming with Gaga… when I’m in the right mood… that really rocks my world… Her stuff is pretty musically sophisticated, actually. Her impeccable sense of rhythm alone would be enough for her to last for years. “Bad Romance” especially has some impressive melodic work hidden underneath all the thumping and showmanship. Count me as a fan. ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/51 "2010-03-19T18:40:28Z")
> [@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) More Gaga for me then! 🙂 I’m not impressed with what I’ve heard of her songs - though I think there’s something good in there somewhere - but ever since the Kermit outfit I think she’s great. > [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > God has access to the finest clothing designers of all the 40 Billion Worlds and wears a different one each day to create the heavens, the earth, and all the things that crawl upon the ground in that image. God wears _people_?! ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/52 "2010-03-19T19:02:21Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Her stuff is pretty musically sophisticated, actually. Her impeccable sense of rhythm alone would be enough for her to last for years. “Bad Romance” especially has some impressive melodic work hidden underneath all the thumping and showmanship. > > Count me as a fan. Better than the telephone one, as she actually uses her real voice. But I didn’t really hear anything too melodically impressive, though I admit the chorus and Wo-o-o-oh parts that play with the relative major are more interesting than I would expect in this type of music. Still, if I can pick it up on piano in one pass, I don’t really consider it complex. And if she wrote the actual music for the intro, she does show talent. But, then again, her talent isn’t in question. It’s her choice to sing below it. ---
**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, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/53 "2010-03-19T21:29:30Z")
> [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](#): > > God wears _people_?! God does a lot worse than that. Just don’t tell Curtis LeMay. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/54 "2010-03-19T21:38:13Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > God does a lot worse than that. Just don’t tell Curtis LeMay. (Covers ears) _Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!_ ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/55 "2010-03-19T22:19:11Z")
> [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](#): > > God wears _people_?! Sure. You should see the wear he’s put on me. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/56 "2010-03-19T22:26:25Z")
> [@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? I listened quite enthusiastically to the music of Peter Gabriel long before I knew anything about costumes, props or stage shows being associated with his music. I heard that Telephone song once, and that’s ten minutes of my life I want back. Not to mention the brain cells, tainted with the memory of that song, which are now begging for death… > [@](#): > > 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? Kate Bush is a ground-breaking genius. Lady Gaga is not. Your opinion may well differ from mine, and you are fully entitled to it. ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/57 "2010-03-19T23:07:08Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > Surely you jest. Lady Gaga is manufactured terribleness. In fact, I consider the last 10 years with few exceptions to have been the worst decade in the history of rock and roll. Hell, you could make a record. Just use Auto-Tune and you’re all set. Methinks you haven’t heard the good stuff. I think the last decade has been phenomenal, musically. Sure the pop stuff has largly sucked, but when you dig a little some astonishingly creative and amazing music is around. Much better than the 80s. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/58 "2010-03-20T10:04:59Z")
I think Lady Gaga is aiming to become \*the \*pop icon of the 2010’s and she’s definitely laid the groundwork for it: 1. She’s already become quite iconic, people are talking about the Lady Gaga style of wardrobe. 2. She has had a couple of huge hits and everything points to her being able to keep them coming. 3. She appears able to reinvent herself. Either she’ll just keep up the hip, edgy Lady Gaga side she has now or she’ll turn into something different. In ten years from now we might talk about her Rocketman phase, or her gothic phase. I don’t know. She will make sure people talk about her, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/59 "2010-03-20T10:27:24Z")
To me she looks and sounds like a college art project. It’s cute in a kicky kind of way but unless she can sing and write something a little more substantial it will get old before the dust settles. So far she’s Madonna with less vocal talent and more performance art. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896/60 "2010-03-20T15:47:40Z")
You can like her or not, but I simply can’t believe that anyone could actually listen to one of her songs and conclude she has less vocal talent than Madonna. It frankly makes me think that any knowledge you have of her comes from “look what that crazy Gaga’s wearing now” pictures. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lady-gaga-god/532896.md?page=4)