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Pryderi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 09:14 PM
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Is Lady Gaga a Madonna/Cher /Annie Lennox derivative?
I think so
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 09:21 PM
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1. Grace Jones thinks she's a Grace Jones clone. nt
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Pryderi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 09:24 PM
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2. What does Nico and Andy Warhol think?
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blue_onyx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 09:44 PM
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3. Lady Gaga is great but...
I think it's a little early for the Madonna comparisons.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 11:44 AM
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31. I agree - the names mentioned by the OP have been around for DECADES
and personally I think Lady GaGa's 2nd album was just a collection of stuff that didn't make the first album but wanted to get something out there right away to keep the gravy train rolling.

I'm not saying she doesn't have talented. I'd just like to see what she's doing 10 years from now. If she is still musically productive as she is today then perhaps I'll compare her to Madonna.
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blue_onyx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 02:09 PM
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38. You're right
I think the second CD is mostly left over songs. In fact, "Telephone" is a song Gaga gave to Britney Spears but Britney ended up not using it on her "Circus" CD. "Bad Romance" is probably Lady Gaga's best song. "Telephone" and "Alejandro" are good. The rest of the CD, however, isn't very good.
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 10:01 PM
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4. Klaus Nomi has no opinion
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 10:11 PM
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5. As long as we all understand that she's successful & therefor needs to be torn down, it's okay
Cher's a fun entertainer, but not a composer. But yes, she'll probably end up in the Madonna/Annie Lennox category. Her music is danceable, her lyrics are thoughtfully ironic, and her self-marketing is brilliant. I'm not sure why that makes people want to throw a lot of harsh criticism her way. She certainly uses her celebrity to promote humanistic values and her music makes people happy.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 10:17 PM
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8. I hate her because she never returns my calls
Nor does she follow through with the exchange of photos that I came up with, all on my own initiative, I hasten to add.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 10:23 PM
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14. Sounds like a bad romance
You should poke her face.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 10:27 PM
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15. I don't want to be accused of playing love games.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 12:47 PM
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36. Can't get her on the telephone?
May you should give back her sunglasses made of cigarettes. :evilgrin:
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 10:12 PM
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6. Who all of course are pure originals themselves. nt
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 10:16 PM
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7. She kind of has a Dale Bozzio thing going on, too.
Prove me wrong. I dare you.
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 10:19 PM
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9. I saw Missing Persons at Magic Mountain, for free, when I was 13.
Edited on Tue May-25-10 10:32 PM by mix
fyi
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 10:21 PM
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11. Missing Persons videos were as close to porn as 80s tv got in my house.
At least until we got cable.
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 10:27 PM
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16. i feel ya
all that hair tits plastic voice
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 10:28 PM
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17. And then I'd switch on the radio and hear Berlin's "Sex./I'm A..."
Now that was a full afternoon.
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 10:31 PM
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19. I had a thing for Belinda Carlisle too. nt

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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 11:13 PM
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21. She was hot in that "Head Over Heels" video
Though I also thought that the drummer was pretty cute.
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mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 11:21 PM
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23. dude
she was like hot everywhere
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 12:25 PM
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32. Might want to rethink those memories
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 05:10 PM
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39. Well, in her defense, I don't look quite like I did when I was 12, so it's all good
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 12:49 PM
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37. Those are just words, and what are words for? nt
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 10:21 PM
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10. sounds to me like bowie and abba had a kid...
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 10:21 PM
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12. If that's true, then she's missing a great opportunity to call herself Bowabba.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 10:59 PM
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20. Bowabba Gaga
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 11:14 PM
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22. Nice post, Bib Fortuna
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 01:03 PM
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41. You win a free internet!
:spray:
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 06:50 PM
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43. And here I thought I was being too geeky for the room.
Silly me! :rofl:
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 10:22 PM
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13. And we all know they invented music and image.
:shrug:
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 10:28 PM
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18. I'm listening to Sodom....I really don't know the answer to this.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 12:36 PM
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34. Godflesh, here.
:headbang:
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 11:31 PM
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24. No, she's this generation's Minnie Pearl.
And God bless her for it.

Sexy!
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-25-10 11:35 PM
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25. Hah-DEEEEE!
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 03:21 AM
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26. Gene $immons thinks she's trying to be the "new KISS"
No, seriously.....

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=497709>1=28102
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 04:28 AM
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27. There is nothing new under the sun
I read that in some book before I tore out its pages to use for rolling papers.
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SwampG8r Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 09:31 AM
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28. i always saw her as
a jane jetson for us all
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GumboYaYa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 11:10 AM
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29. They are all just trying to be Edna St. Vincent Millay, and

Madonna is the only one actually close.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 11:37 AM
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30. Honestly, when Lady Gaga puts SEVERAL successful albums out then I'll let you know
Until then it seems she has one really good album and that's about it.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 12:34 PM
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33. Lady Gaga is PG-13 Radio Disney.
The critical acclaim she's getting is unbelieveable and undeserved.

And she couldn't hold Annie Lennox's microphone.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 12:45 PM
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35. To some degree.
Every artist, writer, performer etc. is influenced by what came before. Still, I think the Gaga is far better today than Madonna was in the mid '80s.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 09:07 PM
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40. More Like David Bowie.
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 01:04 PM
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42. Bowie seems to be the best comparison
Maybe Freddy Mercury, too.

Someone who has some very real talent, but whose theatrics sometimes obscure it.
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hippywife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-27-10 07:13 PM
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44. She's horseshit.
And so are the others mentioned, except for Annie Lennox.
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