When you fashion your image around being a gay-loving, God-fearing, "free bitch," is a song like "Born This Way" really out of the ordinary?
Until now everyone was criticizing her for preaching gay rights while singing about just dancing and telephones and not having the balls to put it in her music.
I don't think she could have put it in her music more bluntly.
And it's out of the ordinary because every major pop star has a major gay fanbase, but no major pop star has ever done it.
I just don't think it's that controversial. People who hate gays don't listen to Lady GaGa anyway. People who don't care still didn't care when they heard those lyrics.
That's a huge generalization. Specifically, Westboro Baptist would beg to differ. They parody her songs, which shows that they do in fact listen to Lady Gaga
When you fashion your image around being a gay-loving, God-fearing, "free bitch," is a song like "Born This Way" really out of the ordinary?
I mean, seriously, is it a risk at all if the song immediately topped 20+ global iTunes charts and broke radio records? How can you guys say that with a straight face? (No pun intended.) It's pure brand-building.
Actually you don't know that for a fact. She could have written it before Firework for all you know. She just never premiered part of the song until the Awards show, which still proves my point she did it before the suicides
Until now everyone was criticizing her for preaching gay rights while singing about just dancing and telephones and not having the balls to put it in her music.
I don't think she could have put it in her music more bluntly.
And it's out of the ordinary because every major pop star has a major gay fanbase, but no major pop star has ever done it.
*It attempts to. Not a fact. It DOESN'T appeal to me. And I can name a list of certain groups she missed out.
You can name all the groups you want, the point was that she is saying no matter the circumstance, you are born this way. So therefore, it hits every group
Until now everyone was criticizing her for preaching gay rights while singing about just dancing and telephones and not having the balls to put it in her music.
I don't think she could have put it in her music more bluntly.
And it's out of the ordinary because every major pop star has a major gay fanbase, but no major pop star has ever done it.
They were? I thought people were criticizing her for pandering to the gays too specifically. Which "Born This Way" only fuels.
Perhaps many haven't literally said "gay/lesbian/transgender" in their songs, but there have been many obvious gay songs. "Vogue" is just one. Here are a couple from Janet:
Quote:
He was on the airplane,
Sittin' next to this guy,
Said he wasn't too shy,
And he seemed real nice,
Until he found out he was gay.
That's so not mellow.
A Rod Stewart cover with unchanged lyrics.
Quote:
Kick off your shoes, and sit right down,
Loosen up the back of your pretty French gown...
Tonight's the night,
It's gonna be alright,
'Cause I love ya girl,
Ain't nobody gonna
Stop us now.
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That's a huge generalization. Specifically, Westboro Baptist would beg to differ. They parody her songs, which shows that they do in fact listen to Lady Gaga
That's a huge generalization. Specifically, Westboro Baptist would beg to differ. They parody her songs, which shows that they do in fact listen to Lady Gaga
They both should've released ballads. THAT would've been a risk.
This is my point too, I would love to see which of them would succeed with a ballad at the same amount of hype. Because Britney has hype, her first week is always huge.
This is my point too, I would love to see which of them would succeed with a ballad at the same amount of hype. Because Britney has hype, her first week is always huge.
I actually would not know if Gaga would succeed with a ballad. She would obviously still reach number 1 on iTunes, but I wouldn't be so sure it would do the same as BTW or some other uptempo/midtempo song
I know it bothers you because you prefer Britney (and Ke$ha, but let's be honest, she's nowhere near Britney or LG's level) but Lady GaGa has the world's attention. You better believe that those who hate gays are listening to her. They may not buy her music or go to her shows, but they listen.
This is my point too, I would love to see which of them would succeed with a ballad at the same amount of hype. Because Britney has hype, her first week is always huge.
It would depend on who has the better ballad.
I hear Edge of Glory is a great, huge ballad though.
I actually would not know if Gaga would succeed with a ballad. She would obviously still reach number 1 on iTunes, but I wouldn't be so sure it would do the same as BTW or some other uptempo/midtempo song
If "Speechless" is any indication, no one wants a GaGa ballad.
This is my point too, I would love to see which of them would succeed with a ballad at the same amount of hype. Because Britney has hype, her first week is always huge.
Ballads would be risky given the current music market, but not risky all situational factors aside (like mentioning a denigrated group of society specifically and saying that God made them that way)
