Well, the Brits got something right. Their tribute to Bowie was powerful and affecting, showing up Lady Gaga’s Grammy award extravaganza for the superficial, soulless travesty it was.
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Lady Gaga at the Grammys last week went so over the top, her ridiculous mash-up of 10 hits turned into a Bowie cabaret medley that was really all about Gaga, putting the focus on costume changes and digital computer effects sponsored by Intel.
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Both Lady Gaga and Lorde represented interesting choices to pay tribute as artists working in some part of the wide field Bowie made his own. Gaga harks back to the androgyny and sci-fi outlandishness of his glam years, yet is somehow too strenuously pop and eagerly careerist to really represent Bowie’s outsider strangeness.
She is a fascinating pop star but sometimes she just seems to try too hard. Lorde was chosen because Oldman told her Bowie was a big fan and called her “the future of music”. It was easy on this evidence to understand why.
This article is so focused on ripping Gaga apart it barely even mentions Lorde's performance
Lorde did great, but to me David Bowie is a lot like Micheal Jackson in the sense that he isn't just a musician, he is an artist. His fashion, dance moves, style, outlandish looks all made what David Bowie is and I feel as though Gaga did a way better job expressing that side of David
Both artists did a great job, I don't see why we have to compare the two when they are completely different
Like I was saying the whole time, Gaga's tribute was just a sad parody by what looked like a clown. Not even trying to be shady here. There's no denying she looked like a clown. Her vocals were terrible on each and every song apart from Rebel Rebel and the entire tribute was focused on her and Intel. Just a shameful excuse to promote herself and attach herself to yet another legend.
Guess it wasn't just Bowie's son. At least he was able to get a soulful and beautiful tribute for his father in the end.