M.I.A said Gaga was a mimic, she's not progressive and her 'journey wasn't that difficult: to go from the f---ing Upper East Side to a f---ing performing arts school and onto a stage at the museum of f---ing wherever? That journey's about four miles.'
"Lady Gaga - people say we're similar," the star told NME, as reported by New York Magazine, "that we both mix all these things in the pot and spit them out differently, but she spits it out exactly the same! None of her music's reflective of how weird she wants to be or thinks she is. She models herself on Grace Jones and Madonna, but the music sounds like 20-year-old Ibiza music, you know. She's not progressive, but she's a good mimic. She sounds more like me than I (expletive) do! That's a talent and she's got a great team behind her, but she's the industry last's stab at making itself important - saying, 'You need our money behind you, the endorsements, the stadiums.' Respect to her, she's keeping a hundred thousand people in work, but my belief is: Do It Yourself."
I think this deserves a thread of its own Someone make this a thread please.
Okay. Maybe we made a shitstorm out of nothing but she should be careful cause we read too much into stuff (and not just HER stuff). Time to focus on the red carpet
How can anyone say that WFL is better than Gaga's work ... it can't even be compared to her good music videos.
Bad Girls , even though the execution and choice and representation of Arabs in it (not the act but the looks and shooting in in Morocco instead of Saudi Arabia or Dubai) are a mess is way better than WFL.
Also, Rihanna doesn't deserve to be the first woman to get 2 VOTY's nor does Katy , at least not for those MV's.
ladygaga: @KieranMonster totally NOT shade. I just think its a great video. Not a shot at other nominees, you know I'm not like that.
I knew it wasn't shade. Gaga can't have an opinion without everyone interpreting it as shade? Haven't we learned by now that this bitch will not shade anyone for the death of her? If she wanted to throw shade at ANYONE she would have thrown shade at MIA for dragging her. But shes not about shade. Shes about the true tea