[RobynYoBank]

Loud felt like a complete non-event to me because Gaga's presence was so huge back then.

All I did was anticipate Born This Way ever day.

[Starstruck.]

[Shaliydah88]

Originally posted by RobynYoBank

Loud felt like a complete non-event to me because Gaga's presence was so huge back then.

All I did was anticipate Born This Way ever day.

Do you regret that now?

[RobynYoBank]

Originally posted by Shaliydah88

Do you regret that now?

Of course not, Born This Way is masterpiece.

[2AM]

Originally posted by Starstruck.

The 1-2 punch with WMN and OG

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It was massive. She was all over the radio during that era across so many formats. Really her global peak imo.
Probably the third best after Adele's 1-2-3 punch and Katy's like 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 punch. :

[Nicole]

Expensively dressed and aggressively hetero men tote around dolled-up dates; grandparents abound; the woman in front of me at the bar asks for ice in her white wine.

So, again, not exactly her crowd — which means, of course, that it’s hers to win over.

And she does, with ease. I hear it murmured a row back after “Bang Bang,” and I will hear this particular sentiment at least a dozen times tonight, and I have heard it said incessantly over the past few months: “Wow, I had no idea that Lady Gaga can really sing.”

This phrase seemed to be on everybody’s lips in February when, with 36 million people watching, the artist formerly known as Stefani Germanotta belted out a stunning, triumphant, and technically impressive Academy Award telecast tribute to The Sound of Music. As a beaming Julie Andrews hugged her in appreciation after she’d finished singing, you knew you’d just witnessed one of those universally respected, generation-uniting musical moments that we so rarely get in this era of Twitter-sniping — for one peaceful evening, everybody seemed to be bowing down to Gaga.

http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/lady-...es-normal.html

[Nicole]

Fun fact: Beyonce will be the singer with the most Grammys and most VMAs when the decade is over.

[aayAlex]

Fun Fact: Beast will never top the Billboard Hot 100 again

[GreasyBruce]

Originally posted by RobynYoBank

Of course not, Born This Way is masterpiece.

A masterpiece in unlistenable kitchen sink production and a how-to-destroy-your-sense-of-mystique-and-coolness manual for pop stars the world over. Yes.

[GreasyBruce]

I love the fact that my favourite album of 2014 won one of the only four Grammys that matter

[Thor]

Originally posted by aayAlex

Fun Fact: Beast will never top the Billboard Hot 100

She already has though?

[GreasyBruce]

Originally posted by Thor

She already has though?

I think that was Bruce shade. Only one post back and already so much pent up anger by multiple members being released. Whew!

[Nicole]

But must she give up those attention-grabbing spectacles once and for all in order for us to take her seriously as a “real” artist? Perhaps a little selfishly, I’m worried about what might happen if Gaga goes fully normal. After all, we’re talking about the woman who, bless her heart, rescued us all from normal in the first place.

Given the staggering progress we’ve made lately with gay rights and the attention paid to transgender issues, it is perhaps inconvenient for us as a culture to remember how many people, less than a decade ago, truly believed that Lady Gaga had a dick.

When it came to female pop stars, we were still reeling from the Britney-Christina-Jessica era, during which the only acceptable kind of femininity that presented itself was au naturel — eternally sun-kissed and low-cut-jean ready and never having anything too weird or opinionated to say. In this world, Gaga’s take on femininity — all boxy silhouettes, cyborgian dance moves, and grand, Warholian pronouncements — was, to many, utterly illegible.

Gaga was something different and less explicitly “hot” than the female pop stars who had come before her. So naturally the internet responded by creating an elaborate conspiracy theory about her genitals. A video purporting to show something unidentifiable in her leotard went viral; for the better part of two years, websites like Gawker made a sport of enlarging concert photographs of her crotch. (A sample entry from the site’s extensive “lady gaga penis”–search archive: “Lady Gaga’s Vagina Almost Fooled Us Into Forgetting About Her Penis.”)

In hindsight, this might end up looking like pop culture’s last major moment of gay-and-trans panic. The early and mid-aughts, remember, were a woefully conservative time in pop music when it came to sexual identity and gender presentation. Lance Bass couldn’t come out for fear of alienating his fan base; any speculation that Britney “wasn’t a real woman” would have called her greatest value, her male-gaze-approved hotness, into question. So what was exhilaratingly radical about Gaga at the time was that this kind of speculation didn’t ruffle her — she seemed to actively court confusion about her gender, sexuality, and even species, as though any kind of inscrutability only made her more powerful and alluring. (She joked about her “dick” in 2010, in the now-classic “Telephone” video; she wore a strap-on on the cover of Q.) Seeing all this happening during the era of “no homo” felt revolutionary.

@RYB, don't throw away that 2009 Rolling Stone issue yet. It looks like it may end up being worth a lot of $$$ after all.

http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/lady-...es-normal.html

[Ecstasy]

Hey Greasy

[2AM]

Originally posted by Shaliydah88

The Loud era was so fun to watch from afar. All the singles slayed.

Do you place it on the better part of her discography or the weaker section?


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Honestly Loud felt bigger than Born This Way in the grand scheme of things.
I mean yeah BTW's debut was unmatched but after that the hype and coverage of the era died so quickly along with the geepee's interest. Rihanna kept the massive hits pumping out left and right for a good minute. It was more memorable in terms of people remembering songs too, from what I see.
I mean they sold basically the same but that album ascended her to a different league in Europe commercially. She went from star to superstar.

[MrPeanut]

Originally posted by Nicole

http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/lady-...es-normal.html

This is great and actually thoughtful.

[Thor]

Originally posted by GreasyBruce

I think that was Bruce shade. !

Ohhh, nevermind.

[Ecstasy]

She is so evil. She is smiling in here but I just know she is thinking of eating babies, kicking puppies and sending pictures of her certification plaques to LaTavia Luckett

[Thor]

she wore a strap-on on the cover of Q.) Seeing all this happening during the era of “no homo” felt revolutionary.

****ing revolutionary ICON.

Seriously, when will your FAVE?

[Nicole]

A Beyoncé-Inspired Building Will Soon Be A Real Thing In Australia



Not buildings being erected in her name/honor. A modern-day Helen of Troy.