Lady Ga Ga and bass thing

[nofi]

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=637119

[sniper]

someone onstage is in danger with all those points and it looks like she is working on a "camel toe" pretty seriously.

[TBird1958]

FWIW I'd work her Cameltoe 

[chromium]

p-pa-pah-poker-face p-pah-poker-face

(bass solo)

[n!k]

The marketing behind this woman is nothing short of staggering. I wonder if there's a single original thought in her plastic surgery molded head.

[Dave W]

The marketing behind this woman is nothing short of staggering. I wonder if there's a single original thought in her plastic surgery molded head.

Nope. She's marketed for people who don't really like music, but want to say they do.

[Aussie Mark]

FWIW I'd work her Cameltoe 

Always in character, hey Mark.

NB. You HAVE heard what that camel is allegedly packing, haven't you?

[Freuds_Cat]

Mmmm Big Hair! 

[nofi]

she has the best of both worlds as i understand it.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

You guys talk like a bunch of drummers! Her infamous "bulge" was a tampon string. If that's your definition of male genitalia, you're playing the wrong instrument! 

[hieronymous]

I didn't like the Ga Ga at first, but my wife did and I was gradually won over. I like the different ways she uses her voice - it can be really powerful or cute or weird, within the span of a song. I get the impression too that she is totally involved in every aspect, from the music to the fashion to the videos. And she doesn't strike me as the every-day common notion of beautiful - she has a big nose (to me, and that's not necessarily a bad thing), and a lot of the time her look is downright disturbing, plus to me she looks totally different in different costumes/videos, like it's a different person. There's usually something in her songs that I think is ridiculous but I like them anyway!

The weirdest thing to me is that she got her name because she loves Queen and so her friend named her after "Radio Gaga"... 

[Freuds_Cat]

I didn't like the Ga Ga at first, but my wife did and I was gradually won over. I like the different ways she uses her voice - it can be really powerful or cute or weird, within the span of a song. I get the impression too that she is totally involved in every aspect, from the music to the fashion to the videos. And she doesn't strike me as the every-day common notion of beautiful - she has a big nose (to me, and that's not necessarily a bad thing), and a lot of the time her look is downright disturbing, plus to me she looks totally different in different costumes/videos, like it's a different person. There's usually something in her songs that I think is ridiculous but I like them anyway!

The weirdest thing to me is that she got her name because she loves Queen and so her friend named her after "Radio Gaga"... 

All fair comments but I struggle to get past the packaged, promoted product thing which seems more obvious than any real content to me.

[uwe]

I can't see no bass pic here or at Talk Bass. 

[Freuds_Cat]

http://www.zulanews.com/images/temp/[zula.co.il]_605256_63767_original_2010225_854507539_jpg.jpg

Uwe, can you see this?

[uwe]

Oh, now I do, thanks. Well - just like her - it doesn't fail to make an impression, does it!

I don't have issues with her. Is she a product? Yes, but largely of her own making and indivdual style. She's not Britney Spears. I know little of her music, what I've heard is edgier than most of what her competiton does though it is not my style at all. Her appearances in public are carefully crafted for maximum effect, but as someone who once regarded Alice Cooper as the epitome of rock, I can hardly criticize her for that. She seems to have more brains and self-discipline than Amy Winehouse though less of a voice. And doesn't dumb her music down as much as Madonna sometimes lamentably does. In the end, her performance package has more to do with Andy Warhol than it does with Janis Joplin. I find it hard to be negative about her and if I got a ticket to one of her shows for free, I'd go just out of curiosity and probably be splendidly entertained.

Uwe