Viewers, Mp3s and Cookies is having a tough time deciphering what to do with this GaGa woman. We just can't seem to decide how we feel about her. When she first entered our consciousness last year, things were off to a fairly good start. There was a decent amount of "underground buzz" about her (about as underground as someone produced by Akon's team can get), and "Just Dance" ended up on our top 25 songs of 2008 before it even hit big in the mainstream music world.
But then she did get big, and every gay this side of Judy Garland Land proclaimed she was "my biotch!!!!!", and then we heard more songs off her album. And the overall reaction has been..."meh"...
"Just Dance" is as silly and fun as it gets, but frankly we just weren't very impressed with much else. Though "Poker Face" has tickled a few brainwaves here and there, it's still not anything to write home about.
The problem we think is that her image and her music portray two different things. At first, we thought there was something very hip about her. She dresses as if she works with stylists that were beamed down from Neptune, she's gone on all this blabber about the New York club scene and being all into the electro "stuff" that's banging about these days. But then when we actually heard her music, it sounded like any other generic electronic-R&B crap out there. Particularly because she's worked extensively with RedOne, who has produced a number of "hits" for Akon.
Akon, in case you need reminding, is a sworn enemy of Mp3s and Cookies and the first time we discovered that he had a co-writing credit on "Just Dance" we were seriously inches away from completely denouncing GaGa altogether and throwing her into our Beyonce-Aguilera-Nickleback bin.
We'll let you know how our feelings go as time progresses, but just bear in mind that we are not necessarily jumping on the GaGa bandwagon with feather boas flying.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment