Lady Gaga Is Better Than The Pussycat Dolls
Herald Sun music guru Cameron Adams today published a review of the Lady Gaga/Pussycat Dolls show at Rod Laver Arena which informs us that Ms Gaga is much better live than the “herpes in a halter neck” gang. I think this is like saying it’s better to eat a bowl of vomit soup rather than a shit-filled sandwich, but I am very stupid and probably need to reassess my dislike of Lady Gaga’s shtick.
Still, here’s what Cameron had to say.
Gaga is edgy, arty, exciting and creative. Unlike most female pop acts, she’s actually a musician who doesn’t rely on stylists or songwriters for her ideas. With Just Dance, Paparazzi and Poker Face Gaga’s written some of the most interesting and instant pop tunes in years – she’s like the love child of Madonna and Andy Warhol.
In case anyone was unsure of her musical credentials, Gaga deconstructs Poker Face as a sultry piano ballad – playing whilst wearing a flesh coloured body stocking covered in plastic bubbles. Indeed Gaga’s piano was the only live instrument on stage for the entire night. As a young support act Gaga can be excused for singing live over backing tapes – it’s clear bigger things are ahead for her and she squeezed enough ideas for a whole show in 30 minutes.
For the Dolls to charge their (mainly young) fans up to $140 to watch them sing their hits karaoke style without a live band is jaw-dropping. And all their strip-club outfits and dance moves – complete with poles – couldn’t disguise the cheap and nasty production values.
Anyone who paid $140 to go and see this show should’ve spent their money on Pink tickets instead.
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I also went and couldn’t agree with this assessment more. Lady GaGa is a real show-(wo)man and Pussycat Dolls are nothing but fluff. GaGa will be someone we talk about in 20 years, the Dolls will not. Most importantly, at $140 (thank god for review passes), I was expecting some better choreography and maybe a live band to distract me from the woeful mediocrity of the performance. ‘Don’t Cha’ ain’t that exciting when it’s a Beyonce wannabe, four deadshits and a backing track.
If society is talking in glowing terms about Lady Gaga in 5 years, let alone your lofty 20, I will eat my laptop. The lyrics sound like they were written by a chimp with Tourette’s, and masks her putridness by trying to be sexy. Unfortunately she looks like someone set fire to her face and put it out with a chain.
If there are music gods they will file her next to Snow and Joel Turner & the Modern Day Poets, in the ‘never to be spoken of audibly again.’
The Pussycat Dolls – what happens when you give lapdancers a PS2 ‘SongStar’ for Xmas. Whichever promoter convinced people that paying $140 to witness the car crash that this concert would have been deserves to win ‘Salesperson of the Year.’
YAY! Lady Gaga is like soooo like totally talented, she like writes her own songs (WOW!) She is so arty and edgy; she is different but like Koool different. She can play like totally an instrument? What a musical genius!!
Fuck all of you Gaga haters. The videos are her concepts, the costumes are her creations which she hand-draws and makes with her Haus of Gaga team. Just because she isn’t behind the camera screaming “action”, doesnt mean she isn’t in there doing her OWN stuff.
Thats even worse, she can’t go blaming someone else for the peurile dross that she has served up thus far. ‘Haus of Gaga’ – thank you for the best chortle I have had in ages.