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Originally posted by Instinct
I feel like when Gaga started out she appealed to the masses more but since Born This Way has boxed herself into a niche market. Not that this is a bad thing. I still know of straight guys who will bop to her earlier stuff.
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That's probably true, but it wasn't necessarily one song. "Born This Way" isn't an explicitly gay song (all types of demographics are mentioned in the lyrics, and it was particularly popular with straight women) and you have to remember that in that era she just got weirder... and weirder... and weirder.
People aren't really thinking about whether or not songs make them seem gay unless it's something like "Same Love."
But what I'm trying to get at is because Gaga is a current, recent star who gets regular airplay on the radio, she's not quite as niche as Britney, who has been fading out of the mainstream for awhile and is starting to settle in comfortably with her core group of gays. She may get there. She probably will. But she's not there yet.