The age of Gaga is upon us and though I can't stand her thinly-veiled fame-whore antics I realize that many are drooling over this shit dropping like it's going to be the next Thriller.
After waiting an uncharacteristically long two years to drop a sophomore album, "Born This Way" hits next year and will no doubt sell gazillions of copies in it's first hours...this is the type of album slobbering beasts sleep outside stores for because they want to be the hipster idiot to say they bought it first.
I wouldn't mind her as much if it weren't for the fact that I feel she insults the intelligence of music fans, real music fans, which are typically not pop music fans as it were. Sure, I can get down to a good pop song with the best of them and even like Paparazzi quite a bit, but the show of it all, the imagery she's created in the vain of being different, is annoying the crap out of me.
RedOne, a good friend of hers and her producer, said in an interview:
"To be honest with you, I think that this album that she's making is too precious to talk about. When it comes out you'll hear and you'll make your choice. I think you're gonna love it. But I think it's too precious for me to talk about it. It's crazy."
Too precious? What the eff does that mean? Does she sing about little kittens playing with string or what?
Busy touring the world playing hits from her one album, we'll see if she can keep up the show. I have yet to be convinced she's not just another generic pop star - dressed up in "shocking" outfits, trying to prove something that she doesn't really need to prove.
She always makes me think of that line in Empire Records that a young Renee Zellweger spews sarcastically at Robin Tunney, "Well, Sinead O'Rebellion...Shock me, shock me, shock me with that deviant behavior!"
I think it will sell like gangbusters and then she'll pull the same remix ripoff scheme she did with her first album but in the world of pop I really am inclined to associate just three words with 2011...IT'S BRITNEY BITCH!
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