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Originally posted by Retro
I think the other poster's point was not that Gaga's ballads are the best or unique, but rather that they are different from what the general public typically thinks of as balladry - that being a sow song like, to use today's examples, "Someone Like You" or "Stay". You don't need to be so condescending ("What do you know?") all the time, you know - we get it, your fave heavily influenced ours and ours is not the first to do a glam rock track by any means. What the other person said was barely even objectionable, though, and certainly wasn't something that wouldbe incorrect seeing as the general public doesn't typically think of David Bowie when they think of ballads. Actually, I'm confused as to what your point even was.
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No darling. The poster said:
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Gaga's 'ballads' have always been more interesting. Very much in line with her glam-rock branding, even her softest moments have a lot more kick than most of the weepy maudlin piano songs we've come to associate with pop balladry.
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What is incorrect in posters comment is the assumption that Gaga is not making piano ballads because she is associating herself with glam rock.
I was just saying that slow, melancholic piano ballads are pretty common among glam rock artists (Bowie, Bolan, especially Elton John in his glam rock era and others pulled them off very well). So the reason why Gaga is not making them has nothing to do with her self "glam rock branding" or whatever. That was my point, hun.
I dont think that Bowie heavily influenced Gaga when it comes to music/sound at all and this is another example why. I dont know what you mean by
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we get it, your fave heavily influenced ours and ours is not the first to do a glam rock track by any means.
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when no Gaga track I have heard can be described as glam rock track, so