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[b]Slightly Mad Bohemian Girl wrote: [/b]
I already knew that. Lady Ga Ga sucks. She doesn't even deserve to be
used in the same sentence as. Freddie Mercury (noticed I didn't have
them in the same sentence). Freddie Mercury was the best singer/songwriter/musician ever!!!!!
[b]Lady Ga Ga claims she sings better than him[/b] but she doesn't come anywhere close to having as good a talent as he did. Freddie Mercury has more talent in one of his fingernails than she could ever dream of having in her whole entire lifetime. Enough said. [/QUOTE]
WAIT!!! She really said that!? Link please!
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[b]ThomasQuinn wrote: [/b]
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[b]GratefulFan wrote: [/b]
I did know that, and I'd add that I think she's one of the most gifted, substantial, self aware and ambitious women to have come out of the pop scene in ages.
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Please tell me this is a joke. Gifted? Substantial?!! I'll grant you that she beats The Backstreet Boys and the likes, but that's about it.
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No joke. If you accept pop as a legitimate form of musical expression - and I do, without owning more than one or two CDs of that genre out of hundreds in my library - then she is both gifted and substantial. She writes and she plays and above all is a performance artist out there hacking brush and blazing paths. Not everything she does works; sometimes it's assuredly a swing and a miss, and I don't so much like her and her work as I utterly respect and believe it. She, like Freddie Mercury and others, has that smell of the sweat of authenticity when someone knows with every fibre of their being what they are meant to do and are driven to success with equal parts hunger and inevitability. She'll never write Bohemian Rhapsody - that's not what she does - but I expect a long and influential career nonetheless.
I caught this quick Barbara Walters interview after the fact, and others that appreciate GaGa's work and haven't seen the interview may enjoy it:
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heA_doHOIFQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heA_doHOIFQ[/url]
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[b]TheRobin wrote: [/b]
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[b]Slightly Mad Bohemian Girl wrote: [/b]
I already knew that. Lady Ga Ga sucks. She doesn't even deserve to be
used in the same sentence as. Freddie Mercury (noticed I didn't have
them in the same sentence). Freddie Mercury was the best singer/songwriter/musician ever!!!!!
[b]Lady Ga Ga claims she sings better than him[/b] but she doesn't come anywhere close to having as good a talent as he did. Freddie Mercury has more talent in one of his fingernails than she could ever dream of having in her whole entire lifetime. Enough said.
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WAIT!!! She really said that!? Link please!
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I doubt that she would have said that. I mean, how dumb would that be? No, I would imagine that she knows her place in the scheme of things. She probably knows that she's no Freddie, but then why would she want to be? Unlike him, she doesn't claim any higher artistic aspirations (she's never going to produce a Bo Rhap or any other great Freddie song), she's about having fun and entertainment. She simply is what she is, and while I don't love her, I do think that she does her thing quite well.
