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Originally posted by Haus_of_Nicole
It's not just about the music being overbearing, it's also about the image being hard to swallow.
TEOG is a much easier listen to than Judas, so it's doing better, but music aside, it's still difficult to just casually listen to a Gaga song and sing along/relate to it b/c her gimmicks have overshadowed her music.
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I agree.
It's almost astonishing too, to be honest. She has had massive success with her music, critically and commercially. Just Dance and Poker Face and Bad Romance, etc. were just absolutely massive, but her image has dwarfed everything she's done in music.
In fact, the idea of Lady Gaga almost dwarfs the entire music industry. As a tech person, I see her
all the time in tech news headlines because she does a lot in the industry. I see her all over the fashion headlines. When it comes down to it, it doesn't matter whether she's making music, fighting for people's rights, wearing high fashion or trying to make inroads with some new technology, the comments on every article and in every conversation are
always the same at this point: people either love Lady Gaga or they hate her. Lady Gaga is almost too big for her own good at the moment, and I do think we might see that hurt her album sales, at least for a good while.
People love Adele because she's new to most people. People don't know who she is, and they want someone new. Gaga already benefited from this in the days of The Fame, but those days are long gone. There isn't a soul alive who hasn't heard her name and who doesn't know what she represents. She and we are just going to have to deal with the consequences of that level of fame and that polarizing of an image. It's not a bad thing, but it is a thing. I do think Madonna suffered similarly throughout her career. Hell, you can even see that people like Michael Jackson suffered from it. No one gave a **** about his music in his last years of activity; everyone acted like he was some crazy old pedophile, not the music legend that the world sees him as today.
At any rate, I don't think it will harm her in the long-run, but it's going to be difficult to reach those radio heights that we want her too, especially when a lot of the music challenges listeners to open their mind a bit.
