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Originally posted by Arith
The lyrics to this song are terrible. I feel like a 6th grader wrote them. I feel like this whole 'era' is just a bid to be 'revolutionary' and 'different' when in fact...this material has been done before, and it was probably less contrived. But yet again, because it's GaGa we're all supposed to bow and throw around words like 'slay' and 'epic' and call it a day.
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Bla bla bla, people love using the "it's already been done" card against Gaga.
Truth is, people are STILL uncomfortable with a song having LESBIAN GAY TRANSGENDER BISEXUAL in its lyrics. We're talking about 20 years after Madonna's career peak. It NEEDS to be done. It NEEDS to be sung in pop music. It is still a LOOOOONG way for equal rights. Especially when you see even gay people being uncomfortable with the lyrics. I mean wtf?!
The hypocrisy is quite disturbing around these parts. Lovegame and Alejandro are infinitely "gayer" than the lyrics for Born This Way, but since she never uses the word GAY in those songs, people love jamming to them and have no problem whatsoever doing so. As long as it's a frigging taboo and it's hidden under the covers of some catchy lyrics, people will eat it up.
But as soon as a more serious, direct and in your face apporach is taken, people crawl back into their holes of narrow mindedness.
I use thank god loosely as I'm agnostic, but THANK GOD Gaga is doing this. And people still say you can't stir controversy in the 21st century... This is the proof. The song and video are well locked in Gaga's vault waiting to blow up, yet the world is ALREADY embracing or ripping the song apart.
THIS is what pop music is supposed to do. And Gaga is the only one brave enough to do it.
at all these poor pressed souls believing their opinions are more justifiable than those of MTV, Elton John, etc 
