Lady GaGa Says She's All Women! Question Is... Who Cares? - Page 2
GaGa is going the ol' shock diva route because she basically needs those costumes and stage performances to hide her lack of talent. Her audience needs a lot of distractions. And now that she has a following, he crappy songs wont' matter as much.
Her voice and song style comes pretty close to Madonnas, although Madonna's songs were better written. Now I am not a fan of Madonna's either, but nobody can deny that when Madonna blew up big in the 80's that she was at least original and her songs were much better than GaGa's.
I have to say, that some of GaGa's outfits are very cool, I will at least give her that. I love the way she sometimes meshes a vintage look with wackiness and forms some pretty outrageous get-ups. BUT...is that it? Yes, that's it.
Let's not forget this has been done a hundred times over in the music biz, and way before she strapped on that bubble suit for the cover of Rolling Stone.
Performers have been making names for themselves via shock for years. Way back when, Liberace was one of the first shockers and was the king of outlandish outfits. He was one of the first pioneers of "putting on the dog".
Although Liberace's voice was far from good, he did play a mean piano. And look at Elton John, who started out as sort of a meek country bumpkin and ended up going all Liberace on everyone, once fame came knocking on his door.
Elton was not only an elaborate dresser, but he had quite the collection of outrageous glasses, which became a signature for him. So was Elton copying Liberace? It really didn't matter, because he can sing and play piano to boot.
There was David Bowie who dressed up as Zigggy Stardust, and Cyndi Lauper who started an entire fashion craze with her gobs of costume jewelry, and her poofy crinoline slips.
But again like Elton, this girl can sing.
Take the band Kiss for instance, who was popular in the 1970's. They rose up in the ranks due to their alter ego wild costumes, pyrotechnics on stage and Gene Simmons spewing blood and wiggling that long snake of a tongue. It was freaky to see a band dressed like that with full face paint back in the 1970's, and it was very innovative. (I was never a Kiss fan though, I think their movie ruined it for me *snicker*) But they did have some talent to back up their look.
Alice Copper, another unusual performer, used to hang himself on stage complete with an entire gallows set up on stage. He also would whip bloody plastic baby dolls on stage during his Dead Babies song... but again...Cooper had the talent to rock the house.
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