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Originally posted by Sound Check
She's the most relevant pop star since Britney Spears.
GaGa could still end up being this generation's Cyndi Lauper.
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I am the biggest Gaga stan, and honestly, I would be amazingly happy if she was the Cyndi of this generation.
She's So Unusual was the greatest album of its decade in my opinion. Her follow-up album had two perfect songs as well in "Boy Blue" and "Change of Heart"!
The only thing is that I think Gaga's probably going to end up the Madonna of this generation. I'll probably get hate for saying this, but none of the other girls seem to give enough of a ****.
- Katy wants to take a vacation after "Wide Awake" and seemingly has no issue with tacking a random rapper onto singles in an effort to get them to #1 (yes, I know her label is the one behind it in the first place). I will say she does seem the most motivated of the other girls, though.
- Rihanna's "taking a break" from her music to focus on other things and has basically treated this era like ****; she had three consecutive singles with little-to-no promotion, improperly handled releases, and bad videos when there are any, resulting in three consecutive flops. She's finally gotten her act together for WHYB but it's too little too late with her "break" supposedly impending.
- Beyonce had her child recently; just before that she released a great album, but one she likely knew wouldn't get half the commercial support of her previous eras because of its musical style. We do have to see how her next era goes, though.
- Britney just doesn't seem to care much at all anymore, and unfortunately is also taking a break form music of an undisclosed length, though with the X-Factor that could possibly change. But I get the feeling that she doesn't particularly desire to be a pop star anymore - it's just become her job, and I hope she can find joy in it again because I miss that from her.
Now, you're left with Gaga, who's currently traveling on a massive worldwide tour, while still constantly writing and helping to produce new music, and who wants to release an album by year's end. She constantly cited as the hardest-working pop star, and there's a good reason:
she wants it. She wants the fame, she wants the fans, she wants the status. Her album was called
The Fame for a reason. And the whole
Born This Way theme and era has only strengthened her desire for fame: outwardly, she wants to help bullied and outcast youth and the LGBT community in particular; Inwardly, she may want the same things but I suspect there's also a
VERY intelligent woman in there who knew, and still knows, that this message would and will bring her greater fame and recognition than she ever could achieve just singing about fame itself. And I think this greater fame is what she truly wants.