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Poll: Has Gaga had an impact in music?
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Yes
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Originally posted by coolcristobal
If this is the case, then NO singers have made any impact on dance music, their producers did!
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Fair enough
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Dance music has existed for a long time. The stylization has not remained consistent. Urban dance music was popular. The Neptunes, Swizz Beats, and Timbaland are just some examples of how the sound used to be. Now we are witnessing electro/Euro dance. Just an evolution.
Gaga hopped onto this evolution. She didn't create it, but contributed. She's not alone. However, you can hear her influence in some places. Evacute the Dance Floor and Pyromania are replicas of Just Dance and Poker Face, for example.
The Gaga Persona seemed to rub off. We had seen theatrics with Janet, Madonna, and Gwen in the 00s...but these women had been around for a bit. Here comes this 20 something year old who puts on a show on and off stage, and you see artists aiming for theatrics.
I don't think Gaga created these, but certainly re-introduced them. There's a reason why only 4 years into her career she's seen more success than people with 9 years. You can't deny her impact. I mean you have Kesha saying 'I love you little Animals' and Nicki running around wearing Gaga's what-if clothes.
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Originally posted by P!nkInside
Simple as that
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So....not even Britney, Rihanna, or even Madonna have made impact on dance music?
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Duh.
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Originally posted by Vertigo Stick
Dance music has existed for a long time. The stylization has not remained consistent. Urban dance music was popular. The Neptunes, Swizz Beats, and Timbaland are just some examples of how the sound used to be. Now we are witnessing electro/Euro dance. Just an evolution.
Gaga hopped onto this evolution. She didn't create it, but contributed. She's not alone. However, you can hear her influence in some places. Evacute the Dance Floor and Pyromania are replicas of Just Dance and Poker Face, for example.
The Gaga Persona seemed to rub off. We had seen theatrics with Janet, Madonna, and Gwen in the 00s...but these women had been around for a bit. Here comes this 20 something year old who puts on a show on and off stage, and you see artists aiming for theatrics.
I don't think Gaga created these, but certainly re-introduced them. There's a reason why only 4 years into her career she's seen more success than people with 9 years. You can't deny her impact. I mean you Kesha saying 'I love you little Animals' and ' Nicki running around wearing Gaga's what-if clothes.
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Exactly. Gaga didn't create anything. She reintroduced it and gave her own little spin on it. Very intelligent argument!
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Yes and it's pretty ignorant to say that she haven't. This thread is pretty imbecile since the girl has been the biggest thing in Pop music since Britney. So don't come with stupid & delusional comments.
And yes, the impact of her music is way bigger than Amy's. Amy at the end was just recognized by her drug addiction and her alcoholic problems unfortunately. I do think that Amy's music (since Back To Black) is the best by a female musician in decades. Quality =/= Impact.
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Originally posted by P!nkInside
You did not get the point.
He/She said IKAG cannot be considered for the revival of dance-pop because people found it's lyrics to be offensive.
When in reality, if one talks of the genre of a song, it's production is taken into consideration and not its lyrics.
Stop twisting what i say
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There's nothing all that dance-electro-pop about IKAG if we're going to talk about production. It's Pop Rock with the majority of the instrumentation being guitar rather than synths.
Timbaland's string of hits are hiphopdance, rather than electro pop and are frequently described as a rip-offs of Pharell's production work.
COADF is more of an update on the sounds of disco; the sample of ABBA's "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" is what made the album's only major hit "Hung Up" catchy & infectious.
Don't Stop The Music and Disturbia aren't revolutionary as they simply continued the long-standing usage of samples in Hip-Pop (Michael Jackson and Eurythmics respectively).
That leaves Gimme More which wasn't exactly a success; Blackout IS considered a gem because of the fact that it was mostly unpopular (no shade - I think it's a great album).
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She's certainly had an impact on performance. Female artists have become more prominent and dominating after her. She kind of liberated women in the industry to breakthrough, even though female artists existed long before her. Perhaps she just emphasised it.
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Now that I think about it, no. Considering the large amounts of hype she used to get, you'd think she made an impact, but I really think she's just another successful Pop star. Other than Natalia Kills, no one is mimicking Gaga in any way. The only impact Gaga had on music is the introduction of RedOne, and I honestly consider him with J.Lo more than Gaga, now.
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Originally posted by Hooligan
Now that I think about it, no. Considering the large amounts of hype she used to get, you'd think she made an impact, but I really think she's just another successful Pop star. Other than Natalia Kills, no one is mimicking Gaga in any way. The only impact Gaga had on music is the introduction of RedOne, and I honestly consider him with J.Lo more than Gaga, now.
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Originally posted by Hooligan
Now that I think about it, no. Considering the large amounts of hype she used to get, you'd think she made an impact, but I really think she's just another successful Pop star. Other than Natalia Kills, no one is mimicking Gaga in any way. The only impact Gaga had on music is the introduction of RedOne, and I honestly consider him with J.Lo more than Gaga, now.
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This entire post
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Originally posted by Hooligan
Now that I think about it, no. Considering the large amounts of hype she used to get, you'd think she made an impact, but I really think she's just another successful Pop star. Other than Natalia Kills, no one is mimicking Gaga in any way. The only impact Gaga had on music is the introduction of RedOne, and I honestly consider him with J.Lo more than Gaga, now.
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Okay.
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Originally posted by Hooligan
Now that I think about it, no. Considering the large amounts of hype she used to get, you'd think she made an impact, but I really think she's just another successful Pop star. Other than Natalia Kills, no one is mimicking Gaga in any way. The only impact Gaga had on music is the introduction of RedOne, and I honestly consider him with J.Lo more than Gaga, now.
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Originally posted by Hooligan
Now that I think about it, no. Considering the large amounts of hype she used to get, you'd think she made an impact, but I really think she's just another successful Pop star. Other than Natalia Kills, no one is mimicking Gaga in any way. The only impact Gaga had on music is the introduction of RedOne, and I honestly consider him with J.Lo more than Gaga, now.
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Pretty much this.
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Originally posted by SOTDH
Pretty much this.
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Someone's sense of awareness is laughable.
My answer to the poll? Yes.
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Originally posted by BoyOnBoy Wonder
There's nothing all that dance-electro-pop about IKAG if we're going to talk about production. It's Pop Rock with the majority of the instrumentation being guitar rather than synths.
Timbaland's string of hits are hiphopdance, rather than electro pop and are frequently described as a rip-offs of Pharell's production work.
COADF is more of an update on the sounds of disco; the sample of ABBA's "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" is what made the album's only major hit "Hung Up" catchy infectious.
Don't Stop The Music and Disturbia aren't revolutionary as they simply continued the long-standing usage of samples in Hip-Pop (Michael Jackson and Eurythmics respectively).
That leaves Gimme More which wasn't exactly a success; Blackout IS considered a gem because of the fact that it was mostly unpopular (no shade - I think it's a great album).
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IKAG is pure electro-pop. HnC is Pop-Rock. IKAG is not.
You have in a way, proved my point, that dance-pop has always been present. Whether it was original or not.
Disturbia and Don't Stop The Music were huge WW. Quality doesn't matter in this case since they smashed. (By the way, you feel Just Dance and Poker Face are revolutionary????)
Gimme More was a moderate success. Anything done by Britney is always mainstream and infront of the world.
Also, Toxic was massive.
So was Hung Up and 4 Minutes.
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Originally posted by coolcristobal
So....not even Britney, Rihanna, or even Madonna have made impact on dance music?
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They're just the faces with music producers behind them. That post you quoted me in was a reply to someone saying that Gaga deserves credit for JD and PF but Katy and Kesha do not deserve any credit for IKAG or Tik Tok, respectively. And i'm sure you know how illogical that is.
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of course not
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