ThomasQuinn wrote:
GratefulFan wrote:
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.
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.
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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heA_doHOIFQ
