There were two blondes who were prevalent in pop culture in 2009. One wears prom dresses and sparkly guitars around her tiny frame while the other prefers to let her fantastic pale bottom hang out of latex leotards and yields a glow in the dark “disco stick”. One sings of unrequited love and growing pains, the other of a sick obsession with fame, fortune and fashion. Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga share few things in common, their rise to fame in the past year is one of those things. It’s easy to see why Lady Gaga blew up; she’s loud, she’s flashy and she has pop anthems with hooks Beyonce would kill for. Taylor Swift is a more pleasant surprise; her voice is not incredible but what she sings about is.
Having said that, Lady Gaga’s latest release The Fame Monster is a monster. The charm of her first album The Fame has been swallowed by the monster and all that is left is synthetic white noise. It serves its purpose as a solidly produced pop album, but it disappoints on being truly great because it has no sense of humor which all great pop music should have. The Fame Monster’s lyrics just don’t resonate the way The Fame’s tale of a struggling Lower East Side Pop artist did. Fantasizing about fame and touting about it are two different things and an America in recession can tell the difference.
After all Lady Gaga is actually a brunette, Taylor Swift is a natural blonde.
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I like the last line. But I have a feeling that it would sound better in the first paragraph because the last line of the second paragraph really stands on its own. Crafty introduction and analysis of both artists though!
ReplyDeleteI like the comparison between Gaga and Swift. It was a good way to introduce the album. I like the descriptions you gave to compare both of them with. I think it would be good to add a little more about why the album wasnt so good-Explain how it differed from the previous albums.
ReplyDeleteI think your content is good but the overall comparison is a little bit confusing to follow.
ReplyDeleteI very much enjoy the cleverness of the final sentence, although I did find it interesting to compare Lady Gaga to Taylor Swift in an album review which focuses solely on Lady Gaga's "The Fame Monster." This being said, the comparison to Swift does serve to effectively characterize Gaga and her demeanor. And yeah... I like Lady Gaga too.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure about the ongoing parallel between Swift and Gaga, makes one wonder where the focus really is
ReplyDeletemonsters are good for childern stories and blond girls are always more succesful mix for good rock band.
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