Gaga's new single "Love Game"
If you are a regular on the Just Add Water Modern Music Blog, then you will certainly know that I have had mostly enourmous praise for her. In the review of her album “The Fame”, I pointed out that the songs “Again Again” and “Brown Eyes” were like commercial breaks, where she’s certainly lost the plot and blindly sung her way into a tangent of irrelavence.
There have been a few occasions where Lady Gaga has misunderstood the whole idea of being a
mystical” and “multidimensional” artist, she has deviated in her performances especially this one, which was preceded by an equally awkward interview on Friday Night Live with Jonothan Ross (A popular “Late” show in Britain)
Her performance was ridiculous and went from being sort of innovative too unbelieveably scary, and not in a theatrical way. She performed “Poker Face”, or should I say “Slaughtered” it, she sounded out of breath and like an overexcited nasal Japanese Businessman who had drunk way too much rice wine.
There was a distinct lack of actual singing in the performance, it was mostly talking, and by no means am I commenting on her ability to sing, which she definetly has. She tried to make it some kind of Metal interpretation of Poker Face, there was no rhythm to the performance, she seriously butchered it, it was like she was having some kind of epileptic fit. Nobody wants to see this, and what Lady Gaga might not understand is, this is a huge mistake, she always appears borderline wasted, especially the way she does her eye makeup, which would be ok if her eyes didn’t appear to be rolling into the back of her head while she screeches (yes… screeches) whilst innocently misplacing the lyrics as if they were an annoying child in a supermarket that you had almost given up on.
Gwen Stefani Sweet Escape Anybody?
This performance was uncomforting for a fan to watch, as well as for regular viewers, only the most diehard fan could come up with some excuse for this seemingly drug induced trip she did on stage, like “It’s her way of expressing…. (insert lame reason here).
She has definetly tipped over the limit of being able to justify her prententious nature, especially when claiming she gets her inspiration from nobody? Who can seriously say that, how egotistical, I’m sure any person with any idea of any facet of pop culture in the last 40 years would be able to conjure up some undeniable similarities in her look and sound, on of the biggest would be Gwen Stefani.
Lady Gaga is a spectacular performer, and she needs to understand that she is no longer in a dingey nightclub in New York, the majority of her audience has shifted from people either inebriated, on drugs (or a combination of the two) to a diverse range of age groups from 8 onwards.
What she needs to accept is that she can no longer put on a drag show when she feels like it, she needs to step up her game and express herself without becoming deluded as to the reaction from the general public.
Perhaps she has just become engulfed by a whirlwind fame (and who could blame her!) but either way she has talent, and she should stop trying to be the “Lady” (no pun intended) who always tries to give a surprise to her audience, because more often than not they turn out to be unpleasant ones. She should instead grasp the oppourtunity which the stage and the microphone offer her to not treat the audience like they don’t exist, but to give a coherent performance. She is at the crossroads in her blossoming career where she can either take the route of a talented and succesful artist, or to simply fall into the abyss of self-obsession.
Checkout the video here, judge for yourself and leave a comment!
Performance Review – Natalie Bassingthwaighte Live and Intimate
January 23, 2009 — justaddwater09Natalie Bassingthwaighte @ The Toff In Town
After seeing Natalie Bassingthwaighte preview some new tracks from the upcoming album 1000 Stars, I could only stand in awe at the quality of her vocals and the overwhelming consistency of hits that seem to be coming from her new album. At the beggining of the performance, she described her hesitation at wanting to record her solo album, but this all changed at one of her final Rogue Trader’s concert’s where the energy inspired her to travel down the road and pursue her dreams of solo stardom, at the beginning of 2008 Natalie began to record the album 1000 Stars.
She played 9 new songs from her upcoming album, but did not perform any of the more dance orientated music, which was played before and after her performance, and let me tell you, it sounded great, and it looks like this album has alot of potential singles in it.
Overall the standout track was the inspirational “1000 Stars” the title track, which will inevitably be the most succesful song from her album, unless the dance tracks are incredible (which is likely). Here is a fairly low quality snippet from Natalie Performing 1000 Stars, for a higher quality version navigate to youtube and it will have the option underneath the video.
From the sound of it, Natalie Bassingthwaighte is going to be the next Kylie Minogue, just with more singing talent, and that should be exciting to see her get the worldwide success she deserves.