If anyone has left their mark in Hollywood it is most defiantly Lady Gaga. From her eccentric outfits to her sexual music she seems to be all anyone talks about. If you search her you get all kinds of rumors from ‘Lady Gaga is a hermaphrodite’ to ‘Lady Gaga lip-sync's’. Everything has been said and people keep talking. She seems to always be a trending topic on Twitter and on every gossip blog.
She's different and not afraid of what people think and people love to pick apart people that are different so she is never left alone. Her singles always go to the top of every list and her music plays on everything from TV shows to movies to the car sitting next to you at the gas station.
Lady Gaga will not be soon forgotten because she's so hard to forget.
On March 17, 2009 my friend Brittany and I arrived at the Wonder Ballroom in Portland, Oregon nine hours early to wait in line for The Fame Ball tour. The headliner was, of course, the glamorous, Lady Gaga. Her debut album was released eight months before the concert and she was already the new hot thing in pop music. However, Brittany and I were not there for Lady Gaga. In fact, I had only heard two songs from her album and could care less about the always half-naked pop star. We came for Cinema Bizarre. A band filled with beautiful German boys and music that no new artist can top.
After we finally got into the crowded room we made our way to the very front of the crowd so we could touch the stage. We listened to the opening acts, almost peed our pants when our Germans, Cinema Bizarre, performed their five songs and then debated leaving before Lady Gaga came out but we decided we paid for the tickets so we might as well stay for the entire concert. As the stage was being set up for Gaga we started to get bored. It was taking way too long, but then finally, after minutes of waiting for the show, it began. It started with a short film that was confusing and a little weird and then the giant white sheet covering the stage fell and behind it was Lady Gaga. The show was full of weird clothing, hot shoes, eccentric dance moves, and more than a little groping. It was intense and strange, my mouth was open the whole time because everything that happened shocked me. I leaned over to Brittany while Gaga was giving a creepy little speech, “Is this making you feel like we joined a cult?” I asked. Everything was completely insane but that’s how Gaga wanted it. She wanted us uncomfortable and embarrassed, because after that night we couldn’t stop talking about the show. I told everyone about it because it was so weird. I went out and bought her album because I was so interested in her. I became a huge fan, all because her concert made me uncomfortable.
The concert was most defiantly one of a kind and I would most defiantly go again.
On August 19, 2008 a unique musician exploded onto the music scene when she released her debut album The Fame. Almost a year later on November 18, 2009 Lady Gaga released her second studio album containing eight new songs as a follow up to The Fame,she called it The Fame Monster. The eight songs were initially intended to be part of a re-released version of The Fame but Gaga announce that the songs were going to be a new album, not a re-release, because the songs represents a separate musical body of work and it did not need the songs of The Fame to support it. Another reason she gave was because she thought it would be too expensive for her fans to re-buy ‘The Fame’ for an additional eight songs.
The first album The Fame was made so anyone could feel like a famous celebrity. It showed the good side of fame but The Fame Monster dealt with the darker side, the bad side of fame, that Gaga experienced after her first album made her a superstar. She used monster as a metaphor for the less glittering side of fame.
The first song is also the first single, the title is Bad Romance. After the release of this song it quickly became a hit, like every other Lady Gaga single. The other songs are all very similar and pop-y, after I purchased this album I was a little disappointed in what I heard. I only really liked two songs. The other songs were just okay and I felt a little disappointed because the first album, The Fame, was so wonderful and the follow up was just okay. The songs aren’t profound and they don’t always seem to make since but they’re catchy and interesting and that’s how pop songs go.
Overall, The Fame Monster is defiantly not the most original or the best album made but it defiantly has character and is filled with everything that makes a pop song great.
