Not talking about prog at all
My point is that complaining of what pop music is - it is so because the casual listener of music only wants shallow, catchy <3minute songs. It doesn't matter if you try to get them to listen to prog or metal or jazz or dubstep, they won't be interested, just as casual watchers don't really care about dvd vs. bluray.
Lady Gaga however, is at the forefront of pop music at the moment, writing the bestp pop music out today, and she's the one writing it, not some faceless writer behind yet another hot looking woman. Trying looking up some of her acoustic performances - she can play. She's got a great stand on civil issues, and goes completely against the fashion and beauty slavery of women today.
If that's not enough for you, well then I don't know what is.
I understand what you are saying and that's fine but i would argue that the writing her own songs things is way over blown. Red one is responsible for her sound and probably writes most of the stuff. She probably writes the lyrics.
Nadir Khayat, known by the stage name RedOne, was born in Tétouan, Morocco[1] and is a 2 time Grammy Award-winning and 4 time Grammy Nominee Swedish producer/songwriter.[2][3] He has been described as the key to Lady Gaga's musical sound.[4] In 2010, RedOne established his own record label named 2101 Records as a joint venture with Universal International Music, an administrative unit of Universal Music Group. Each artist signed to the 2101/Universal venture will be released via a record label within Universal Music Group. Mohombi was the first artist to be signed to the label.[5]
In 2010, RedOne received 4 Grammy nominations at the 52nd Grammy Awards including Album of the Year as a producer for Lady Gaga's The Fame, Record of the Year and Best Dance Recording as producer, and Song of the Year as a songwriter for Gaga's hit single "Poker Face", later resulting in the win for Best Dance Recording.[2] In 2011, RedOne was nominated for a Grammy Award for Producer of the Year (non-classical). He was also nominated for Album of the Year, a second time in a row, for his contributions to Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster as a producer.