Lady Gaga hits back after 'Born This Way' is dubbed the 'most pretentious album ever'
Singer takes to Twitter after NME's recent blog post
The singer took to Twitter to vent her anger after she read our recent blog post - titled The 10 Most Pretentious Albums Ever
Gaga wrote:
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Oh the irony of winning "Most Pretentious Album Ever" from none other than NME. *eyeroll* I might laugh forever + then return to narcissism.
The singer's 2011 album was among a host of LPs criticised for being pretentious including Metallica and Lou Reed's recent collaboration 'Lulu', The Smashing Pumpkins' 'Machina/The Machines Of God' and Mansun's 'Six'.
Gaga recently revealed that she overcame bulimia to save her singing voice. "I used to throw up all the time in high school, so I'm not that confident," she said.
"And maybe it's easier for me to talk about it now because I don't do it anymore. I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
"I used to come home and say, 'Dad, why do you always give us this food? I need to be thin. 'And he'd say, 'Eat your spaghetti.'"
The Top 10 on our list was as follows:
1. Lady Gaga – 'Born This Way'
2. Terence Trent D'Arby – 'Neither Fish Nor Flesh'
3. Lou Reed and Metallica – 'Lulu'
4. Lou Reed – 'Metal Machine Music'
5. The Passengers – 'Original Soundtracks (Volume 1)'
6. Mansun – 'Six'
7. KISS - 'Music From 'The Elder''
8. Transvision Vamp – 'Little Magnets Versus The Bubble Of Babble'
9. The Smashing Pumpkins – 'Machina / The Machines Of God'
10. Pete Townshend - 'Psychoderelict'
And what does that have to do with her album or the previous blog? Pretty low
For a while Gaga was the most exciting pop star on the planet. Then on ‘Born This Way’ she seemed to believe in her own hype, convinced that she had a message to share. Cue an album of unwieldy ‘anthems’ that couldn’t mask the fact the fun had left the building.
Most Pretentious Moment: The German sung ‘ScheiBe’. Did electroclash die for this?
NME better enjoy their 15 minutes of fame + then return to irrelevance.
LOL NME has been around 60 years and is one of the most famous music publication in the world. They have outlasted every music star and will certainly outlast Gaga.
@ the award
