1:36PM Jess McGuire | If you watched Rove on Sunday night – AND WHY WOULDN’T YOU, THE BOY NEXT DOOR HAS WON THE HEART OF THE NATION, GOOD ENOUGH FOR KEVIN RUDD, ETC! – you would have seen both unfunny comedian Dane Cook (seriously, nothing he said,
nothing, made me even smile. And I wasn’t planning on being a hater! Also, there’s this which kinda cements him as a fool in my mind)
and new pop sensation Lady GaGa.
Now, I love pop. So does Bastow. If you haven’t picked up on that during your time on Defamer Australia, then let me hammer it home. Me and Pop used to fool around as kids. There was a brief period in high school where I didn’t want to be seen anywhere near Pop, and then once I stopped caring about what other people thought of me, I realised that what me and Pop had was something special, you know? And sometimes we see other people, and sometimes I look at some of the folks associated with Pop and think “What are you doing?! They don’t deserve to be linked to you! They’re bringing you down, ruining your rep!” but Pop has a mind of its own and I have to respect that. Nay, I have to
love that. And I do.
So I wanted to LOVE Lady GaGa’s appearance on Rove. I do like ‘Just Dance’ as a song, truly (although I prefer the sheer awesomeness and enthusiasm of Ladyhawke, or the shameless feel good hook-heavy Danish stylings of Alphabeat) but I was completely underwhelmed by her performance on Sunday night. Her pretentiousness during the interview before hitting the stage was
almost adorable, but not quite. And then there was the performance itself…
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