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an artist a menace to society
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Lady Gaga is...

Okay, so two extremes.  Lady Gaga is known for crazy outfits, her music, and her attitude.  What do you think about her?  Is she good or bad for us? :p

an artist

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still kinda hot. So there ya go. Yup. Ya. You know what Im talking about.

Side: still kinda hot

I don't know who lady Gaga is but I'm sure I'd like to gag her ;)

Side: an artist
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You don't know her? But you have daughters! lol. Unless they're like 7 or 8? :)

She's awesome!

Side: an artist
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Lady Gaga is... secretly fugly.

She's an artist of disguise. We all look good with a toned pleather laced ass and big blonde exstensions. Its what us white girls do to distract from our issues.

Side: an artist
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It works. I vote all fugly woman should get a "toned pleather laced ass" (whatever that is) and extensions. It could be like the taliban, but opposite.

Side: an artist

Can I say neither? She's definitely not a menace, and her music is... fun. But I don't know if I'd consider her an artist. Maybe I'm just an art school snob. But she seems far too flashy. /shrug

Side: an artist
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I like her songs. Her songs (some) are great. she Isn't really an artist to me, though.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American recording artist. She began playing in clubs in the New York City area while also working at Interscope Records as a songwriter for several established acts, including Akon. After hearing Gaga sing, he signed her to a joint deal with his own label, Kon Live Distribution. She then started to work on new material for her first studio album.

She began working with a collective called the "Haus of Gaga" in 2008, and released her debut album The Fame. The album peaked in countries such as the United Kingdom and Canada to critical acclaim. To date, the album has spawned the international number one singles "Just Dance" (nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 51st Grammy Awards) and "Poker Face." After opening for New Kids On The Block and the Pussycat Dolls, Gaga headlined her first tour, The Fame Ball.

Gaga has been influenced by fashion and has been appreciated for her provocative sense of style and her influence on other celebrities. Musically, she is inspired by glam rockers such as David Bowie and Queen, as well as pop singers such as Michael Jackson and Madonna.

Biography

1986–2004: Early life and education

Gaga was born in Yonkers, New York, the eldest child to Italian American parents.[1] Her father, Joseph Germanotta, is an internet entrepreneur, and her mother, Cynthia, works as a telecommunications assistant.[1][2][3] By the time she was eleven, Gaga was set to join Juilliard School in Manhattan,[4] but instead attended the private Catholic school Convent of the Sacred Heart.[5] Having learned piano at the age of four, Gaga went on to write her first piano ballad at thirteen and began performing at open mic nights by the age of fourteen.[6] At the age of seventeen, she gained early admission to the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied music.[6] She improved her songwriting skills by composing essays and analytical papers focusing on topics such as art, religion and socio-political order.[7] Gaga later withdrew from the school.[8]

2005–2007: Career beginnings

Gaga first signed with Def Jam Records when she was nineteen years old; it happened after record executive L. A. Reid heard her singing down the hallway from his office. However, she claims Reid never met with her. After three months, she was dropped from the label.[10] She moved out of her parents' house and started performing downtown, in the Lower East Side club scene with bands Mackin Pulsifer and SGBand.[11] Wanting to differentiate herself from the prevalent rock and roll scene, she chose to focus on pop music and started taking drugs and performing at burlesque shows.[12] Gaga said her father could not look at her for several months and "just didn't understand" her drug use and performance in the shows.[5] One day music producer Rob Fusari compared her vocal style to that of Freddie Mercury. He nicknamed her Gaga after the 1984 Queen single "Radio Ga Ga." She started using it as her stage name and was known thereafter as Lady Gaga. It was Fusari who helped her to write some of her earlier songs, including "Disco Heaven," "Dirty Ice Cream," and "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich."[12]

Throughout 2007, Gaga collaborated with the similarly named Lower East Side rock DJ, go-go dancer and performance artist Lady Starlight, who helped Gaga create her onstage fashions.[13] The pair began playing gigs at downtown club venues like Mercury Lounge, The Bitter End, and Rockwood Music Hall,[9] with their live performance art piece known as "Lady Gaga and the Starlight Revue."[14] Billed as "The Ultimate Pop Burlesque Rockshow,"[15] their act was a low-fi tribute to 1970's variety acts.[16] In August 2007, "Lady Gaga and The Starlight Revue" were invited to play at American music festival Lollapalooza, where they awed the crowd with their performance.[17] The show was critically acclaimed and their performance received rave reviews.[6][9] Having initially focused on avant-garde, electronic dance music, Gaga found her musical niche when she began to incorporate pop melodies and the vintage glam rock of David Bowie and Queen into the mix.[18]

During this time, she was noticed by music executive Vincent Herbert and was signed to Interscope in January 2008. She began writing for artists signed to Akon's Konvict label, as well as Fergie, the Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears, and New Kids on the Block after her songwriting abilities left an impression.[5] Around the same time, Akon, hearing her sing a reference vocal for one of his tracks, formed the opinion that she was also a good singer.[19] He ultimately convinced Interscope's chairman Jimmy Iovine to sign her for a joint deal with his own label, Kon Live Distribution,[10] and would later call Gaga his "franchise player."[20] Through her affiliation with Akon, Gaga started to work on her own new material for her debut album with producer RedOne. Already having a solid selection of electro-glam, David Bowie-esque, and Queen-inspired songs, Gaga wanted to mix her retro dance beats with urban melodies, a pop chorus and still retain a rock and roll edge. The first song they produced was a mash-up of Mötley Crüe's single "Girls, Girls, Girls" (1987) and AC/DC's single "T.N.T." (1976)[12]

2008–present: The Fame

By 2008, Gaga had relocated to Los Angeles, working closely with her record label to finalize her debut album The Fame.[12] For the album, Gaga stated she combined a lot of different genres, "from Def Leppard drums and handclaps to metal drums on urban tracks."[10] She started to work with a collective called the "Haus of Gaga," who collaborate with their muse on clothing, stage sets and sounds.[5]

The Fame received mostly positive reviews from critics; according to the music review aggregation of Metacritic, it has received an average score of seventy-one out of hundred.[21] Times Online described the album as "a fantastic mix of Bowie-esque ballads, dramatic, Queen-inspired midtempo numbers and synth-based dance tracks that poke fun at celebrity-chasing rich kids."[5] The album's lead single, "Just Dance," was released on April 8, 2008, and has topped the charts in six countries - Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.[22] It received a Grammy nomination for the Best Dance Recording, but lost to Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger."[23] The second single, "Poker Face", was released on September 29, 2008, and has reached number one in nearly twenty countries, including almost all major music markets in the world. "Poker Face" became Gaga's second consecutive number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 2009.[24] The Fame peaked at number one in Austria, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Ireland, and number four in Australia and the United States.[25][26] Worldwide sales stand at 2.3 million copies.[27]

Afterward, the Haus of Gaga turned its focus further upon the American market with Gaga going on her first ever concert tour with fellow Interscope pop group, the reformed New Kids on the Block. Gaga started her stint with them in Los Angeles on October 8, 2008, and continued through the end of November.[28] She appeared as a guest artist on the song "Big Girl Now" from their new album, The Block.[29] Gaga's first North American tour, The Fame Ball Tour, began on March 12, 2009. It was critically appreciated.[30][31] Gaga's opening for the Pussycat Dolls in Australia in May was well-received, with a reviewer claiming that she upstaged the Dolls with her performance.[32][33] The music video for her third single, "LoveGame," was banned by the Australian channel Network Ten, who refused to play the video reasoning that it contained sexually explicit imagery.[34] Gaga appeared semi-nude (wearing plastic bubbles only) on the cover of the annual 'Hot 100' issue of Rolling Stone in May 2009.[27][35] In June 2009, she revealed plans of touring with Kanye West.[36]

Influences and style

Gaga has been primarily influenced by glam rockers like David Bowie and Queen, singers Michael Jackson and Madonna, artist Andy Warhol, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, fashion icon and entertainer Grace Jones, and fashion as a whole.[34][10][37] She has stated that she is "very into fashion" and that it is "everything" to her.[5][38] She said,

When I'm writing music, I'm thinking about the clothes I want to wear on stage. It's all about everything altogether—performance art, pop performance art, fashion. For me, it's everything coming together and being a real story that will bring back the super-fan. I want to bring that back. I want the imagery to be so strong that fans will want to eat and taste and lick every part of us.[38]

With Times Online, she stated that her love of fashion came from her mother, who was "always very well kept and beautiful."[3] Gaga has also said she channels Versace in everything she does and considers Donatella Versace as her muse in many ways.[5] Melissa Magsaysay of Los Angeles Times commented that Gaga could be Donatella's doppelgänger. "Her aversion to wearing a top and bottom at the same time [...] swigging champagne and being fanned by oily men in Speedos [is] very Donatella-esque."[39] Gaga has her own creative production team called the "Haus of Gaga" which she handles personally. The team creates some of her clothes, stage props, and hairdos.[40]

Towards the end of 2008, comparisons were made between the fashion sense of Gaga and American recording artist Christina Aguilera, noting similarities in their styling, hair, and make-up.[5] Aguilera later claimed she was "completely unaware of [Gaga]" and "didn't know if it [was] a man or a woman."[5] Afterward, Gaga released a statement in which she welcomed the comparisons due to the attention providing useful publicity.[41] Gaga said, "She's such a huge star and if anything I should send her flowers, because a lot of people in America didn't know who I was until that whole thing happened. It really put me on the map in a way."[42][41]

Gaga is a natural brunette, though her hair has not been its natural color since 2008. According to Times Online, her hair is dyed blonde because as a brunette, she kept being mistaken for fellow musician Amy Winehouse.[3]

On the May 2009 issue of Rolling Stone, Gaga stated that she is bisexual and is inspired by beautiful women. According to her, it's an aspect of her sexuality that makes her boyfriends "uncomfortable."[43] A month before, she had told a crowd at one of her concerts that her song "Poker Face" deals with fantasizing about a woman while being in bed with a man.[44]

Discography

Main article: Lady Gaga discography

* 2008: The Fame

Awards and nominations

Year Nominated work Award Result

2009 "Just Dance" (with Colby O'Donis) Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording[23] Nominated

"Poker Face" MTV Australia Award for Best Video[45] Nominated

Herself MTV Australia Award for Breakthrough[45] Nominated

"Poker Face" MuchMusic Video Award for Best International Artist Video[46] Won

MuchMusic Video Award for People's Choice: Favourite International Video[46] Nominated

Lady Gaga Just Dance
Side: Just Dance
shomos5(27) Disputed
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Although Lady Gaga's song may be quite "retarded" at times and as a matter of facts, parodies of her songs are prevalent all over the net but nonetheless, an artist is an artist, no matter how "retarded" or made fun of the artist is.

Side: an artist

Lady Gaga is a refreshing to the music industry. Something different instead of the mundane and monotonous crap that is produced today particularly rap music.

Side: an artist
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Shes unique.

Lady Gaga is different from the clean, goody goody tooshoes(sorry if i spelled that word wrong)artistsShes changing the music world with her fake blond hair , her crazy unbelievable outfits. that you know other artists aren't going to wear.

Side: an artist

Lady Gaga is a great singer, a fashion diva, and in October 2015 will be appearing in AMERICAN HORROR STORY.

Side: an artist
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OK I'm gonna go on this side, even though I don't think she is a "menace" per say.

A few weeks ago she went on this Friday night show (Jonathan Ross) here in the UK. Throughout the whole interview she was hiding behind her (below eye level) fringe, and she was holding a Chinese tea cup that she was sipping from every now and again. Her attitude on that show should be in every dictionary as the perfect definition for "pretentious twat". She went on about her years as a go-go girl and how she "cultivated" her pop art music in New York's underground scene etc etc. And she kept repeating "it's art!". Even when the guy asked her about the tea cup she said "it's art".

WHAT A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS.

So much was the damage she did to her image that she had to appear on a few morning shows the day after, to correct herself and show a better attitude. But whenever somebody interviews her they all say she is a pretentious twat.

I fucking hate people like that. I hate people who think that to be an artist is to be eccentric. And I hate people who take themselves so seriously, especially when their art is limited to repeating the word Pokerface a few hundred times in a 3 minute song.

Peh-lease, lady!

Side: Pretentious twat
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I gave up on pop a decade ago, I just listen to my mp3 and sirius radio (btw, satelite radio really is pretty much the best deal in the world, like 13 bucks, no commercials on the music stations, it's great)

Anyway, I looked her up and, she's not a menace, but certainly not an artist.

No, that's not an opinion

supporting evidence

I had to write a poem in 5th grade, I'm pretty sure it was deeper and more meaningful.

Side: a menace to society
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Menace? Not so much. But not an artist at all either. Mostly I just giggle a little bit when i hear her, because society amuses the hell out of me.

Side: a menace to society
1 point

her mmusic is terrible

she is fucking ugly http://img.listal.com/image/853350/500full.jpg

at her australian tour she asked little kids to flash their penises?

what the fuck kinda artist is that?

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Side: a menace to society

Lady Gaga is...

What kind of question is that? She's a fag.

Side: a menace to society
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Lady Gaga co-writes her own songs, just like most other female artists. One of the only reasons Lady Gaga is popular is because she induces some shock value. When it comes to sexuality in music she is just as bad as Britney Spears.

Side: a menace to society