
Lady Gaga
At a time when mainstream pop was getting dangerously bland, Lady Gaga came charging to the rescue. A New York art diva who knew how to make a spectacle of herself, Gaga stormed the Top 40 with the battle cry “This beat is sick/ I wanna take a ride on a disco stick!” Gaga revels in show-biz excess with enough self-parodying flamboyance to make Kanye West seem like the shy type, while she tours the world in one eye-popping outfit after another. As she explained to Rolling Stone, “I feel freer in underwear, and I fucking hate pants.” Bland she isn’t.
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The Fame
January 01, 2008
star ratingLady Gaga's debut, The Fame, is a daring strut toward that goal – a clash of Eighties pop beats, futuristic synth pulses and meditations on the lust for stardom, constructed with the same cheeky verve as her outfits.
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2009The Fame Monster
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