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Lady GaGa - The Fame

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NYC's Lady GaGa is courting fame on both sides of the Atlantic, and probably the ocean in between. The lead single from The Fame, 'Just Dance', is currently sitting at No.1 in the US and UK charts. And why? Well, that's the puzzling bit.

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'Just Dance' recalls Timbaland's 'The Way I Are'. It's robotic, but rather than Timbaland, it features Akon - he of the chipmunked voice. It's cold and soulless, anonymous and futile. The rest of the up-tempo material on The Fame begins to take a familiar template: a stark electro opening leading into a saccharine-coated Neptunes-esque "club tune". This is never more noticeable than on 'LoveGame'... oh, and 'I Like It Rough', 'Starstruck' and 'Money Honey'.

Stefani Joanne Germanotta (she wasn't born Lady GaGa, you know) is unashamedly - hell, even with attempted gusto - going for some kerrazy hybrid of pop, glam rock, Ashlee Simpson, electro, disco, Gwen Stefani, gouda, Uffie, bump'n'grind and Hilary Duff. Ambitious? Well, actually it's not - it's an incoherent, unintentional parody of the worst bits of everything it's trying to imitate.

'Paparazzi' is so well-trodden it's got us with pegs over our noses; and when those candy-pop harmonies combine with contrived synth flinches, we're questioning humanity. Elsewhere, 'Boys Boys Boys' sounds like a Pussycat Dolls filler song: "I like you a lot lot/Think you're really hot hot."

'Eh, Eh' recalls Ace Of Base. Opening like Uffie and closing like Will.I.Am producing 'Believe'-era Cher, The Fame will be a vision of a dream to some, but unfortunately not to us. A guilty pleasure moniker is derisive at best, but it's with this epithet that Lady GaGa is set to take over 2009.

Natalie Shaw

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Added on: July 15 2009 13:59

Jonny Kay

Shes horrific. Every track is so layered with electro bullsh*t that no melody or harmony has survived. She can sing a bit but shed rather be known for being an icon (for icon read 'Moron who sacrifices any notion of intelligance for column inches'). Hopefully death will come before her second album.

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Added on: July 2 2009 19:34

oliverrrr from sheffield

i think she's actually quite good. yeah she's a bit quirky and seems a little off in interviews but her music is catchy and a lot of people like her. can't complain really, everyone has different taste and tbh thers not been anyone in quite a while to mirror her style.

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Added on: June 26 2009 09:22

liv morgan from Tranent
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i believe she is a man! i think her songs are okay, but its the fact shes so unbelievably annoying that puts me off the whole idea of her. she thinks shes unique but she forgets people had her style long before she was about. but she probably remembers that, because i heard she was about, 40 years old or something. haha!

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Added on: June 22 2009 14:10

shes.electric from Belfast

your right she is fake.. she doesnt make sense. shes tryin to be an icon like madonna by having the shock factor but its got boring already. Liked her first song lets dance.. everything else is just like yeah ok. get over it.

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Added on: April 5 2009 11:46

music fan from caerphilly

i love music and this is not normally my kind of music but Lady Gaga makes me want to dance. previously to this i bought Elbow and Fall Out Boy and the like. reminds me of a good Kylie album of about 8 years ago. i'd say 8 out of 10!

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Added on: January 14 2009 23:14

Hannah Blyde from Grays, Essex

I think Lady GaGa is amazing! I love all her songs, especially Paparazzi and Eh Eh! She deserves to be no. 1 on both sides of the Atlantic. Her music is catchy, has a good beat and for those of us that like pop, she rocks!!

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