Lady Gaga
US Top 10 Albums 11-30-13
Well, I called Gaga as being better than Katy and it looks like I called it right, meanwhile why can’t Katy find a follow up to “Roar?
Winner And Loser Week of 11-11-13: Howard Stern And Yellow Dogs Former Bassist
When Stern joined the judges at “America’s Got Talent”, regained his audience and became a mainstream TV star as well. Now he has a mass audience here and with his Lady Gaga interview last Monday got everybody else at the same time.
UK Top 10 Albums 11-23-13
Celine Dion: she might well be a working class phenom but she still is the most overblown singer on the planet; I can’t take her. She can’t express an emotion without drawing you a diagram
Iman and Hel Do SNL: Lady Gaga- The End?
Lady Gaga is given the task of hostess AND musical act. Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry and Justin Timberlake have been given the same honor. Miley and Justin owned it.. Katy not so much but we did get alot of boob jokes
Lady Gaga Sales Down by a whopping 75%
ARTPOP is a very good album, it will eventually go platinum and it will perform its primary responsibility: it will maintain her career. But the days of Lady Gaga as the Queen of pop are now over.
rock nyc's Top 10 Songs Week Of 11-11-13
Lady Gaga’s week, the new album is very very good, her best since The Fame Monster, even if I got “Dope” wrong in my review! We will see how the charts work themselves out but whether it is a smash or just a hit, it does not herald the end to anything.
Lady Gaga "Eating Art"
This isn’t about her music but rather her eccentricity. All drama queens require fresh drama so here is your current serving. Lady Gaga was addicted to pot. An addict so bad that it required a cold turkey intervention from none other that Maria Abromovic
Be Here Now: New Album Releases Snapshot Review 11-12-13
How obsessed you are going to be over this second volume of live recordings by the Beatles for the BBC will depend how you feel about the concept of John Lennon playing a chugging guitar riff for two and a half minutes on “Lucille
Hear Ye On Spotify: what rock nyc is listening to 11-12-13
Her best song in years and the jewel in the ARTPOP crown, and the penultimate number on the album , just before “Applause” and ending the album on the highest of highs, this is a pop ballad of both beauty and seriousness. Major stuff for Gaga fans – A
Sneak Peak: New Album Releases Week Of November 11th, 2013
Obviously Gaga is the biggie but since I’ve already reviewed it, I’m gonna namecheck Welsh Singer Cate Le Bon, whose Cyrk was excellent and blew me away at Mercury Lounge last year
Lady Gaga Quit Marijuana Thanks To The Marina Abramovic's Method
‘I cold-turkeyed. For weeks and weeks, I didn’t smoke at all. And now I smoke a little bit at night, just, you know, for fun – but not to cope. That’s the difference. Marina was the only person who could get me to do that, and it was not intended to be rehab.’
US Top 10 Singles 11-16-13
I know I’ve been writing “Applause” is good not great, but it is great compared to the rest of this crap and it is great in context, closing down ARTPOP
Hear Ye On Spotify: what rock nyc is listening to 11-7-13
Glad Tidings Take 9 – Van Morrison – Now available on Spotify, this version, a slower, sweeter, more powerful than the version on Moondance, is, alone, worth the time it took to piss off Van and archive the studio sessions – A+
Lady Gaga's "ARTPOP" Reviewed
ARTPOP sounds like Lady Gaga’s version of Madonna’s Music, a breather and a makeover, but with everything just a little better. Already significantly superior to Born This Way, it may well end up being a Thanksgiving Turkey before Thanksgiving is here and I am not sure why musically.
US top 10 Singles 11-9-13
The same three top three songs for 7 weeks and counting and the rest of the songs have been most bubbling around for a month or so.
Even This Close-Up Of Her Behind Can't Save Lady Gaga's New Song, 'Do What U Want’
Gaga’s voice, doing its best Christina Aguilera impression, and Kelly’s autotuned moaning and crooning vocals will probably please the fans, and I am sure that the tune is going to be fine (even big) in dance clubs all over the planet, but the song is totally unoriginal like the supposedly sexy lyrics ‘Do what you want with my body’?
Are You Ready For Thanksgiving And A Lady Gaga's Special With The Muppets?
This woman is really trying too much, she is trying to be this all-time light-jazz-easy-listening singer and this edgy provocative-dresser-pseudo-artsy-fame-monster, she wants to be everything so that, at the end, we don’t know who or even what she is anymore. Too much is too much,
Lady Gaga's New Song 'Aura' For Robert Rodriguez's 'Machete Kills'
I would not care at all if it were not for these shouting bras,… move over Katy Perry! But what’s the hell Charlie Sheen and Mel Gibson are doing there? I see it’s supposed to be edgy, super violent, with sexy women and controversial actors trying to scream louder than Gaga, good luck with that!
US Top 10 Singles 10-05-13
This week, the album charts are a disgrace BUT that could change overseven days, meanwhile the singles chart are a lively mess of pop and dance vying for your attention in a fight to the death.