Are You One of Lady Gaga's Little Monsters?

[judd]

I'm just asking since this is a monster forum and all.  Personally I prefer Kylie.

[Toy Ranch]

Not a fan, but I think the sci-fi wardrobe and monster themes in some of her videos and stuff is pretty cool.  She's out there making monster fans, and as a monster fan, I have to give her credit for that.

[hammerfan]

Nope, I hate her insipid pop music. right along with Brittney, and madonna

[Opera Ghost]

Not a fan, but I think the sci-fi wardrobe and monster themes in some of her videos and stuff is pretty cool.  She's out there making monster fans, and as a monster fan, I have to give her credit for that.

What songs have Monster themes? I'd be curious to see

[raycastile]

Yes, I am totally one of her little monsters.

She is a major fan of monsters, horror, science fiction.  She especially loves German silent horror and 50s sci-fi.  You can see these visual influences in her wardrobe, videos and photo shoots.  For instance, the wig on her "Fame Monster" album cover is inspired by the Golem.  She peppers her lyrics with references to monsters, vampires, werewolves and the macabre. 

Her lyrics do not include specific movie references to the extent you find in Rob Zombie songs, but she has referenced Hitchcock and Kubrick.  In "Bad Romance," she sings, "I want your Psycho, your Vertigo schtick, want you in my Rear Window, baby it's sick." (These are official lyrics from the album notes. You will find inaccurate lyrics on some websites.)

Her videos for "Paparazzi," "Bad Romance," "Telephone," and "Alejandro" are steeped in horror and science fiction imagery and scenarios.  They are very dark and macabre.  Lots of visual movie references.

In interviews, she talks a lot about what monsters mean to her, her pop culture influences, what she draws from different periods in art and cinema.

She thinks of herself as a "monster," saying she grew up as an outcast, being made fun of, never having friends until she was older.  So she identifies with monsters.  Her clawed hand gesture is the "monster sign."  It's like Lugosi's tarantula fingers, frozen in one position.  She'll make that hand sign on stage and her fans make it back at her.

Her concert tour is called the Monster Ball.  I saw it when it came through St. Louis this summer.  Her stage show is like Rocky Horror meets Alice Cooper meets Resident Evil meets MJ's Thriller.  Very theatrical.  Lots of blood, zombies, post-apocalyptic sets, combined with Ziggy Stardust glitter and glam.  At one point, a huge 20-foot tall Lovecraftian tentacled monster comes out on stage and battles Lady Gaga, who defends herself with a glowing sceptre.  If I remember correctly, the monster eats her.  At another point, zombies pin her down and eat her, George Romero-style.

Throughout the stadium concession areas, her "helpers" were running around dressed in vampire outfits, with black capes and white faces.

She's worked with Marilyn Manson, and apparently is doing something with KISS.  She's totally into the goth/horror/monster scene all the way.

[Opera Ghost]

Thanks Ray!

[Wicked Lester]

Her intentions are cool. Her music ranges from annoying commercial pop to  . Tho I admit I have not spent hours checking out her Youtube videos.

[Toy Ranch]

[Gillman-Fan]

I respect and applaud her creative energies . . . even though I am not her targeted demographic.

[BlackLagoon]

Not my thing by a long shot, but all the best to anyone whose creating.

Personally, I liked Elton John in the 70's the 1st time.

[Gillman-Fan]

She pisses a lot of people off . . . which usually means there's something interesting going on.

[Drew Bludd]

Nope, I hate her insipid pop music. right along with Brittney, and madonna

I hear this sometimes and I totally disagree.

I don't know how she got lumped into this bunch with some people.

The girl writes her own songs and plays piano. She's not much of a dancer and, though I find her beautiful, spends most of her time making herself look, well,.... ugly. Hiding her face with some sort of mask or covering it with bizarre make-up and face-paint.

The songs, while I'm by no means a pop or lyrics person (I'm a Danzig guy), are strangely disturbing.

She's constantly smearing herself with blood for some reason....

That combined with the fact that she never gets in trouble with the law or drugs, never gets caught flashing her crotch or being a mess, doesn't party with Paris Hilton and Linday Lohan, and refuses to sleep around for fear of it screwing up her career like other pop singers makes her A-ok in my book.

[Paul L]

She's also a QUEEN fan, her name inspired by their Radio Ga Ga hit. That's cool in my book.

As a youth counselor, I suffer through nauseous top 40 music every day, & she's actually better than most.

[Toy Ranch]

I don't think of her as Brittney Spears, but I absolutely think of her in the same terms as Madonna.  She's a pop singer, better than some, not as good as others.  She sells herself and her music and has made herself a star because she does that very well.  She also correctly saw that serious stars who end up as tabloid fodder are no longer taken seriously, ala Amy Winehouse.  There was a time when musicians tried to do shocking things to draw attention to themselves, and certainly she does that enough, but when the shocking things aren't planned, but accidental (in reality or in appearance), you get lumped in with no-talent "celebrities" like Paris Hilton.  Brittney Spears is no longer considered musically relevant.  Lindsay Lohan, who was once thought by many to be a very good actress on her way to a possibly great career, is mostly viewed as a train wreck.  Honestly, her music does nothing for me at all, but like Madonna in that regard, I grew to admire the way she handled her career and remained on top for a long time.  Lady Gaga seems to have those same qualities, and I'm becoming more interested in her for that.  Her music...  nails on a chalkboard to me.

[judd]

How do you annoy Lady Gaga?
Poke her face.