The TFM era was much more serious, especially with "Alejandro".
No, no, and no. There was tons of fun in The Fame Monster, specifically with Bad Romance and even more with Telephone. Alejandro was extremely serious, but everything before that was not. At least she had fun in interviews, regardless of how philosophical and interpretive she was being with the music. She doesn't even laugh at herself in interviews anymore.
I'm bored of her lately, tbh. She has some ****** people around her, she isn't doing anything interesting live, and the videos have been solid to ****** this era.
Paparazzi is full of enjoyable absurdity. You could tell Gaga was trying to be fun and absurd with that video. Born This Way and Judas were full of non-enjoyable absurdity. It doesn't seem like Gaga was trying to be fun or absurd with those videos as a whole. There are fun moments but it doesn't seem like she aimed for those videos to be fun at all.
Haha, well I guess that would depend on what you find enjoyable. The lipstick gun scene in Judas made me laugh harder than anything in Paparazzi.
We are talking about her work, what she gives to the public, her songs, image and performances, not a ****ing random video where she's dancing or interviews, we're talking about the theme this era, not if she is depressed or not
That is true. But she is focusing on her songs that have a message that outshines the fun. And quite honestly, even Hair doesn't have that same fun element. I think its the production of her music that is taking the fun away. I'm not saying make the generic bubble gum pop. But her music production still gives a serious element to the album. Also her video production plays a role. Like if she made a video for Hair and it has the scenery of Only Girl video then that would bring a fun element back.
It's not that hard to be self-aware / aware of about what pop music fans want.
They want things to be fun and colorful. Simple. Once in a while you can get away with something dark if it's brilliant (BR video), but that's an exception.
Well maybe now that shes satisfied the needs of pop music fans she's more concerned with other things?
Gaga’s performance of her mega-hit “Born This Way” was awesome, and she clearly knew it, breaking out into spontaneous smiles while singing. Then at the end of the performance she snapped back into character with a stone-cold stare.
I actually agree with this. Sometimes it just seems off. But she's always been like this. It's quite interesting, because Beyoncé always seem to snap out of it immediately, whereas with Gaga I can't even remember one time she's smiled into a camera after a performance. I don't see it as a problem though.
I see MTV is only here for the useless disposable pop stars they continue to suck off. It's not our fault that they're so used to mediocrity. Excuse Gaga for being pop star who is actually a REAL artist and is actually serious, caring and passionate about their work that they create and the things that they do. MTV sis, why you can't take?