LADY GAGA. you hate, you love, or both.

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Still..., how she looks is definitely a plus!

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Not a huge fan. I love her insanely weird and wacky outfits though. I also watched part of her Monster Ball tour concert in Madison Square Garden (on TV) which was awesome. I loved the part where they brought out the giant glowing fish monster (associating with the whole 'monster' thing)

It bothers me that the media seem to treat her style and music as being completely original and cutting edge. ESPECIALLY her music.

I'm indifferent to her, otherwise. She's okay, never great, never awful. She can sing on her own, which is more than most electro-pop stars can say for themselves.

I like her cause she has talent and is quite original, plus she doesn't give a damn what people want her to be.

I think she's an extremely talented singer and piano player. Her voice actually sounds better live, unlike some other singers, like Taylor Swift who sounds like a dying cat! However, most of the outfits she wears turn me off a lot, they're too sexual or provocative. That being said, she is who she is and doesn't give a damn about how people view her and she's to be admired for that.

I think she's an extremely talented singer and piano player. Her voice actually sounds better live, unlike some other singers, like Taylor Swift who sounds like a dying cat! However, most of the outfits she wears turn me off a lot, they're too sexual or provocative. That being said, she is who she is and doesn't give a damn about how people view her and she's to be admired for that.

Eh, I think she's attractive but I wouldn't say I'm attracted to her physically. So, to me, her appearance really isn't a plus. It just is.

You're entitled to your opinion. My wife thinks she's a hottie.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

She is a scheming money maker. Nothing she does is original. She is the Barney the dinosaur of music.

If you like her, YOU"VE BECOME AN NT ! !! !

Interesting performer.
Overly gimmicky, but not opposed to her music.

She was at least as charismatic as her fellow guest star Justin Timberlake on that one Saturday Night Live doing comedy.

She is sexy in a quirky odd way that fascinates me.

I like her early pre-blonde, pre -overdone costume era pictures in which she looks a little like the young early sixties Cher- tanned and dark haired.

Her songs are good tools of my trade as a dance party DJ, but I Have come to kinda like her music as music as well as likeing it as a commodity. Maybe its only relatively speaking that her music sounds good compared to other current pop. Compared to Rappers repeating "Shxt, Fxk, Nxggr" over a drum beat, or hearing mopeing White guys trying to duplicate Eddie Vedder sounding suicidal, or having your ear stabbed as if by an icepick by the voice of Chad Kroeger. Compared to all of that Lady Gaga sound pretty good.

Im open to anyone who entitles their song "born this way".

I didnt know until reading this thread that it was written for gay youth- I took it as being for anyone born different.

Like, for example, an aspie. So for me its still an aspie anthem.
Its a free country. You take your inspiration whereever you can find it even if it isnt meant for you.

In the Seventies, the team of McFadden and Whitehead had a disco hit with "Aint No Stoppin Us Now" with lyrics obviously aimed at fellow African Americans that "we're on the move.. were getting our act together..were polishing up our act".

In the Eighties Dianna Ross had a dance hit with "Im Coming Out"- (later sampled famously by the rapper Notorious BIG in his nineties hit 'Mo Money Mo Problems")ostensibly about a Debutante having a coming out party- but it was written in such a way that "coming out" could be taken to mean a gay person "coming out" of the closet. So it was really a salute to gay liberation.

But either song can be inspiring to anyone regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation. And theyre both slammin dance trax- like "Born this Way."

So.. I dont dislike her. She helps me in my job..and maybe (for better or worse) I may actually be falling under her spell.

I'm a fan. Her last album is amazing.

*blows raspberry*

All right, I seem to have become an NT.

Honestly I don't think she cares about money in itself. I think that since she was little she knew she was going to be really really famous because she saw no reason why she SHOULDN'T be. So she cares about fame but because it is power and power is not given, it is seized.

I think I've written several other theses on here about Lady Gaga so I'll just leave it at that.

I'm a fan, my wife is not...

I think the videos for Poker Face and Bad Romance have a pretty unique style and those songs are catchy. I'm going to vote for both "love" and "hate", though, as most of the other songs that I have heard I don't particularly like (although I haven't heard a lot of other ones).

I saw a different article a few months back claiming that the Gaga work is actually a work of the "illuminati" (actually, looking it up, it was by the same guys who wrote your article). They were claiming that all of the occult symbolism that pops here and there in the videos is meant to instill a level of comfort in the populace for the oncoming spiritual revolution that the nefarious secret group was apparently plotting (in another note, I don't get why people keep equating the illuminati with devil worship and mind control; historically speaking, they should be friendly rather than dangerous to the public in general). While it is interesting to review some of the videos for the symbolism that they remark upon, I think what we see is more the work of a writing committee that wanted to be controversial and make lots of cash. (However, it was interesting to see the recurrence of the eye symbol, particularly in Poker Face.)

Here's the article I read: link

Musically I think she's very talented. Her shock tactics and image can be entertaining as well.

I don't like her preaching about gay rights though. She's a girl who has never been in a lesbian relationship. "I want your ugly, I want your disease, I want your everything, As long as it's free" Seems more like somebody wrote a song mocking the spread of STDs and casual sex in the gay community more than it sounds like it's something positive. She comes off more like a character created by a bigoted straight guy to market music towards a gay demographic. Honestly, the whole idea that a naked girl in a meat dress who's never even been in a long term same sex relationship can somehow become the most popular gay rights activist is disturbing to me. The leaders for the LGBT lifestyle should be productive families, Jane Lynch comes to mind. Lady Gaga is just the personification of every negative stereotype that leads to people discrediting gay rights, not something positive at all..

I thought she was bisexual.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer