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The only pop music I've ever really liked....

Yes and No.

I like her music, some of it anyway, in terms of blowing away the existing celebrity culture and replacing it with her own her achievements have been remarkable.

Jay wrote:

eleven bravo wrote:

she is catchy and she is a talented entertainer but i dont like her music

this pretty much. some of it's fun to drunkenly dance to though.

everyone likes michael jackson

who

She and her music will be remembered long after dubstep is mercifully dead and buried.

dubsteppers and hiphappers

Bad romance is a great song and anyone who says otherwise is a flaming faggot

Dilbert_X wrote:

She and her music will be remembered long after dubstep is mercifully dead and buried.

the thing is, dilbert... the top charting billboard acts rarely ever remain in the musical history books. when we think of the 1970's, for example, we think of led zep and all those affiliated rock bands, that barely ever charted. when we think of the 20th century and its most influential/oft-quoted bands, we have bands like the beatles, who have been statistically outsold on every single by ke$ha (a depressing fact, but an incontrovertibly true one nonetheless). every era seems to be remembered in music history (i.e. cultural discourse) more for its exceptions and its new mutations/evolutions, rather than for whatever the mass-culture industry is peddling. 90's? i'd talk about nirvana before i'd talk about east-17. the most namedropped acts are never the ones that sold the most. people can rarely remember what sold the most, in fact... because by its very design its meant to be disposed of, recycled, refreshed, bought into again. the mainstream music industry in its own very capitalist logic operates on the ideology of fashion, that most transient of forces... constantly in flux.

so whilst you say that dubstep is a fad (and by all accounts the popular form of american dubstep today is just that... a fad), i think you'll find that when people discuss important musical progressions and evolutions, they'll still mention dubstep. it has permeated every single genre (including the mainstream ones-- think of britney spears's latest stuff, or the most recent american hip-hop beats) and has actually quite profoundly influenced the music we hear today on the radio, in the club, and on our ipods. this is an undeniable shift in style across all genres in both the underground and mainstream circles.

i think it is also telling that the mainstream pop/hipster publications are already championing lana del ray or w/e her name is as the successor to gaga, after a not-so-hot last album (that album art was just so passé, apparently). you're equating gaga with michael jackson when really, she isn't. the spice girls created more of a global buzz than gaga, and who the fuck still talks about them? girl power? ok. just hyperbolic crap to sell records.

Eagle wrote:

Bad romance is a great song and anyone who says otherwise is a flaming faggot

Uzique wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

She and her music will be remembered long after dubstep is mercifully dead and buried.

the thing is, dilbert... the top charting billboard acts rarely ever remain in the musical history books. when we think of the 1970's, for example, we think of led zep and all those affiliated rock bands, that barely ever charted. when we think of the 20th century and its most influential/oft-quoted bands, we have bands like the beatles, who have been statistically outsold on every single by ke$ha (a depressing fact, but an incontrovertibly true one nonetheless). every era seems to be remembered in music history (i.e. cultural discourse) more for its exceptions and its new mutations/evolutions, rather than for whatever the mass-culture industry is peddling. 90's? i'd talk about nirvana before i'd talk about east-17. the most namedropped acts are never the ones that sold the most. people can rarely remember what sold the most, in fact... because by its very design its meant to be disposed of, recycled, refreshed, bought into again. the mainstream music industry in its own very capitalist logic operates on the ideology of fashion, that most transient of forces... constantly in flux.

so whilst you say that dubstep is a fad (and by all accounts the popular form of american dubstep today is just that... a fad), i think you'll find that when people discuss important musical progressions and evolutions, they'll still mention dubstep. it has permeated every single genre (including the mainstream ones-- think of britney spears's latest stuff, or the most recent american hip-hop beats) and has actually quite profoundly influenced the music we hear today on the radio, in the club, and on our ipods. this is an undeniable shift in style across all genres in both the underground and mainstream circles.

i think it is also telling that the mainstream pop/hipster publications are already championing lana del ray or w/e her name is as the successor to gaga, after a not-so-hot last album (that album art was just so passé, apparently). you're equating gaga with michael jackson when really, she isn't. the spice girls created more of a global buzz than gaga, and who the fuck still talks about them? girl power? ok. just hyperbolic crap to sell records.

Dubstep is highly derivative of electronic music from decades before, few people know of Tangerine Dream or many of the others today, next to no-one will be able to name a dubstep artist 10 years from now, not that many could today.
I'm pretty sure people will know who Lady Gaga was.