Over the past six months Lady Gaga has become more synonymous with the preposterous than pop. Our eyes were ready to roll when she premiered her 'The Edge of Glory' video last night, but what do you know? Not only do we love it, but it has shocked us more than any meat dress, penis shoes or biblical blahblah ever could.We're shocked at the normality of the whole affair.
Instead of any cosmic birthing nonsense ('Born The Way') or religious rave-a-thons ('Judas') the idea behind 'The Edge of Glory' is simple: 'Lady sings song, does a dance, the end'.
It won't be a video that people discuss or feel strongly enough to post on their friend's Facebook walls with the usual flourish of OMGs and LOLs, but it is a video which finally lets the music take centre stage and highlights Gaga as the clever, talented and wonderful popstar we know she can often be. We much prefer her when she leaves the campaigning, the politics and the want to change the world at home and just makes brilliant pop music. Here is her 'The Edge of Glory' video.
Our greatest wish for a future Lady Gaga video is to see her 'hanging' with her friends (hired models). This would shock the world more than anything else she is currently feverishly planning inside her curious little mind.
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Yes, for once, I agree with you.
ReplyDeleteJust when it looked like the wheels were falling off the Gaga vehicle in terms of her appeal to the public at large (as opposed to the Little Monsters who hang off her every sneeze) she has pulled it back.
The genius of Gaga is that she has cracked the usually po-faced shell of society at large. Where she needs to be careful is that her inroads into making diversty more acceptable don't tip the scales too far too soon.
Everyone who was sick of her "God put me on the earth to be a politician/humanist who happens to makes records" can breathe a sigh of relief at the lack of preaching here.
The subtlety hidden within this is that it finally proves she's the artist 'in control' that her fans have been proclaiming her as for so long. This boring video is everything it should, and needed to, be.
Ironically, it will probably be her 'Little Monsters' who miss the point and decry this as rubbish and boring.