No I didn't expect Beethoven's 5th, but reading this comment
prior to watching the video, I did expect to hear something of a higher caliber than a elementary school piano recital (this gross exaggeration is in response to your Beethoven comment).
Was that directed at me?
Fair enough, I can see where someone may have been lead to believe there was something more than what there was.
...and the other thing wasn't directed at you. Just the bit about Beethoven's 5th was for you.
I love listening to people complain about the music of this day and age, and pretend that it wasn't marketed the same way in the old days. It's like they just watched "Josie and the Pu$$ycats" and are just coming to the realization that the music industry is corrupt.
For as long as I've been following music, and far before that, marketing is what sold music. Not talent. Fact is, the majority of people wouldn't know talent if it smacked them in the face. A nice hook, some excellent marketing and you've got a star. Seriously, there's no incredible talent present in the music of the Beatles. But they could market like no other.
To say Lady Gaga sucks is just wrong, just like it's wrong to say that Nickleback sucks. They are very good at what they do. Even if the music is devoid of any reasonable measure of talent, they have enough of the right stuff to be marketed so that your average listener will keep spinning those records.
To be honest, I hadn't heard of Lady Gaga before this thread. I actually thought this had something to do with that kids' show on Treehouse. Yo Gabba Gabba, I think it is. But then, I'm not a big fan of the radio.
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I have often wondered if her theatrics were just a way to make sure she didn't blend into the background of female pop singers. Now I wonder if it was just some social experiment we are all a part of to see how we react to initial vanilla pop songs with flashy costumes, then re act to a skilled vocalist in the same costume.
I was confused through the whole thing, and it looked like she was very smug in showing off. Good video.
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Because you usually also have to be incredibly good looking. There's not too many ugly pop stars.
If Beyonce weighed 300 pounds, or Lady Gaga had a unibrow and a normal girl body they wouldn't get a sniff
heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two
Lying awake intent at tuning in on you.
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through.
Oh-a oh
They took the credit for your second symphony.
Rewritten by machine and new technology,
and now I understand the problems you can see.
Oh-a oh
I met your children
Oh-a oh
What did you tell them?
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
Pictures came and broke your heart.
Oh-a-a-a oh
And now we meet in an abandoned studio.
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago.
And you remember the jingles used to go.
Oh-a oh
You were the first one.
Oh-a oh
You were the last one.
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far
Oh-a-aho oh,
Oh-a-aho oh
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far.
Pictures came and broke your heart, put the blame on VTR.
You are a radio star.
You are a radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star. (You are a radio star.)
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