After watching Lady GA GA sing live on The Jonathon Ross programme I was less than impressed, the first song wasnt bad, but lots of flat noted in her upper range. The second song was a kind of VOGUE rip off, but full marks to her for not miming but she really isnt a dancer and was constantly out of time and out of breath. It just seems the norm now to accept out of tune or badly mimed performances, whereas in the sixties / seventies she would have been booed off the stage. Read later that tickets to her next shows have doubled in price! Is it any wonder that theres an increasing number of youngsters not only into retro stuff but are also seen in increasing numbers watching the old bands eg: saw the Zombies in Bristol, a third of the audience were teenagers. These are the lucky ones, but I'm afraid many are still getting sucked into this over arty mindset where the dancing, lightshow and teeshirt are deemed as important as the performance. In addition to these depressing stats, I've just read that JORDAN "the movie" is due out later this year. Of course people will go see it, they will be told to!!!
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To be honest, looking for musical quality by watching Lady Gaga on Jonathan Ross is never going to end well. By all means be scathing of Lady Gaga (I am!) but don't use her to package up all modern yoof and all modern music into a brainless light show.
There's been tons of shite pop in the last few decades, but they get forgotten because they were shite, and only the cream get remembered. Lady Gaga will be forgotten in 20 years, and future middle-aged me will moan how the noughties saw the likes of The Strokes, Arcade Fire and Radiohead and how everything in 2025 is so awful in comparison.
I saw Gaga on Jonathan Ross & wasn't hugely impressed by the performance. On the flip side of that - I saw her at the o2 last Friday & it was a fantastic show. I don't think I've ever been to a "pop" concert before, but she definitely put on a great show & the production costs must've been pretty high.
Re. the tickets for the new shows being twice the price - this is reportedly down to it being a different promoter and trying to claw back some of the cash that was thrown away when she chucked-out the set from the US concerts and built a whole new one for the European leg at about 2 weeks notice...
My choice come on Wednesday with the Stereophonics
Hope I die before I get old
Not my cup of tea, but at least Ms Gaga is a creative artist who does it for herself, so fair play to her. Mind you, all the hype surrounding what is really a modestly talented artist is getting slightly annoying now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laIr_d0hFB8&feature=related
Lady Gagas more about image and the perfomance than the music and thats always been the main ingredient of pop
What I noticed was they mostly looked 'dressed up'.
In my day, (yup old fart), we knew that we were going to be diving around and getting covered in beer so wore old jeans and what are now known as band t shirts.
No girl would have worn heels, she would have broken her ankle.
Music today is more about the package and the posing I feel.
At least she sang live!..... 'Style' over content eh!.....
Too old to be commentating on 'pop stars' nowadays as I have a closed mind on these things. There was a lot of crap music in the 50/60/70s as well I know I had to listen to most of it!.
Come to think of it had a closed mind in the 70s.........
I imagine you were going to a punk/rock concert rather than a silly pop band?
Go to watch any band even slightly heavy and there'll be ripped-jeans wearing teenagers throwing beer around. Moshing is alive and well my friend. Just not to 'Poker Face' by Lady Gaga.
ex. Stiff Little Fingers on Friday night had a few young uns diving around.
We all have our age and a time when we feel comfortable going out.
Once we realise that it's not our playground anymore it's human nature to try to pretend we had it better all those years ago.
There's some fantastic music around now but the difference is, I don't tend to see much of it anymore.
I tend to see bands who are hardly in their first flush of youth, (like me)!
Personally, I couldn't give a toss. The less kids there are at real band shows and at Lady Dogshit instead the better.
....arm currently outstretched in the air !
Not to be the touchy teen jumping to the defence of my generation at every opportunity, but seriously, not liking metal must equal loving Talent show pop?
Metal isn't the embodiment of all good music, and its decline in popularity isn't because no one listens to good music anymore.
Personally I think metal is shite (all opinions innit), but it's not because I've been listening to Alexandra Burke instead.
ps I too thought this was going to be a thread about the lack of entertainment on Saturday.