Lady Gaga: because naming yourself after a Queen song makes your music sound better.
Though I know SeaWolf didn't mean it that way, people have actually made that argument to me before. The combination of that and "She's a Juilliard trained musician, so she's automatically good" piss me off. Neither of those things are reflected in the music she has released to the public, so it's irrelevant.
If someone simply enjoys her music, then whatever. It's when people make her out to be more than just another pop star that I get annoyed.
While I was being sarcastic towards SeaWolf, you're actually spot on, and I was kind of referring to this.
Lady Gaga seems to be a pop artist of that uber-popular, uber-undressing-herself kind that a lot of people who wouldn't normally listen to that kind of pop artist have found themselves liking, and her name, her music education, and her having written her songs are the three things they most often seem to use to try to justify the anomaly. All of which, however, seem to have made no difference on her music, which is just run-of-the-mill pop.
I mean, think of that video that people were throwing around a while back with her doing two songs on solo piano. A lot of people used it as further "see? She IS a real artist" evidence, which I thought was ironic, cos stripped down so much, it was even more obvious her songwriting was average as hell. Had that video been played to most people before she was a thing, they'd probably have just said, "well, she'll probably never go big, but good for her".
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