If she ever releases a Cd that's PURE her, all songs written and produced by her, unplugged, without any of the beeps and boops, then I will give her another chance and see what she has to offer, but at this moment I place her right next to the Pussycat Dolls and Pink. She's just there...
Has Morrissey done any of this? Far as I can tell the man only ever played piano on one song in almost thirty years. What a phoney. All quiff, no substance. Hmmmm.
I think the most exciting thing about Lady Gaga is that with the influences she's discussed, and that voice, and her understanding of the pop mentality, is that in three or four albums time she's going to have an AMAZING album. Her songs now are above average, once she's established and totally confident who knows what'll happen? I think the growth just between 'The Fame' and 'The Fame Monster' is quite clear.
Let's not forget both Madonna and Bowie had a few fairly average albums before their generally accepted breakthrough albums. Even The Smiths fans had to wait a while before 'The Queen Is Dead'.
All the following performances are acoustic, the last one is pre-Gaga when she was just a piano and voice girl (there's an EP out there somewhere too, it's hardly spectacular, but she's obviously better at being Lady Gaga than Sandi Thom).
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