My sociology professor mentioned some artists today, I think he shaded Bey but didn't mention her by name. He said:
"With some R&B artists you see in the credits like 10 writers but the lyrics are simple, and you wonder how"
He mentioned Gaga too as an example of a commercial artist successful recently and Björk as example of indie artist with lots of fans. And he showed us a video of Klaus Nomi,apparently Gaga cites him as influence:
