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Originally posted by P!nkInside
-Don't say she brought back dance-pop since Dance-pop was never gone. Madonna, Brintey, Robyn etc have been doing it throughout their careers. Even Rihanna did it before her.
-Don't say Gaga is responsible for Kesha and Nicki. Since Nicki became famous being a rapper and Kesha is a TOTALLY different artist.
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will say that because, at least in the US for sure, dance-pop was not being played much at all. You had the occasional dance-pop album like
Blackout or
Loose or Rihanna's second & third albums that scored a few dance hits, but it was nowhere near what it is like now - post-Gaga, the mainstream became almost entirely dance and is still very heavily dance oriented, much moreso than any other genre. She & the Black Eyed Peas share responsibility for that, and it's really undeniable that the success of songs like "Just Dance" and "Poker Face" (along with the Peas' two big hits) had an immense influence on what the radio would play more. Instead of Mariah slaughtering the airwaves with her godly audience numbers, you had a large amount of huge dance hits with 150m+ audience peaks. If it weren't for a female artist having 4 weeks at #1 between her two debut singles, and 9 weeks at #2 for the second of those, you might not have Teenage Dream or Loud having 3-to-6 number one hits
all with dance influences. And yes, other hits like "Hot 'n' Cold" and "Disturbia" had a role to play, but not as big role as Gaga's initial songs.
-Just because one initially became famous for something else and the other is seemingly diverging from the standard dance-pop path does not mean Gaga hasn't
influenced them, which I think it's safe to say she has, or at least she's influenced their work if not the artist directly.