Friday, February 11th 2011
News: Lady Gaga
Madonna Returns With ‘Born This Way’
This morning I was presented with the best surprise possible for a gay man; Madonna had released a new version of Express Yourself, an empowerment anthem if there ever was one. But upon closer inspection, it became clear that this wasn’t a Madonna song at all, no… Lady Gaga had attacked all of human intelligence with a ripoff of the infinitely better Express Yourself called Born This Way.
Set in the same key, with some portions note-for-note from Express Yourself, Born This Way is Gaga’s attempt at making a new gay anthem. Also, note for note, everytime she starts a new line of lyrics it steals the melody of TLC’s Waterfalls. Gaga has been hyping up the song (and forthcoming album) for the last 6 months, claiming that the entire project was revolutionary, something that would change pop music and American culture.
The song is so revolutionary that it tore open the time/space continuum, allowing Gaga to somehow steal the mastertrack recordings to Express Yourself and layer heaps of gay-loving lyrics and oddly racist one-offs (chola/orient alongside black/white?) on the song that originally held strong feministic tones and ideas. Express Yourself was already gay enough when it was still filled with feminism (it’s Madonna, after all.)
Gaga claims that she leaped out of the womb a stupid-hat & meat-dress wearing freak, but in truth Stefani Germanotta wasn’t born that way at all. She is a sensationalist icon, crafted for shock value. She was born capable of writing pop gold, however, and while that’s certainly not for everyone, to call this track revolutionary is a disservice to fans of pop music everywhere as well as her own talent.
Oh look, the Born This Way video has already surfaced:
God, if you read these comments, please please let this fucktard die of a drug overdose this year.
Amen.
Is there a button I can press to send all our nukes to who ever told Lady Gaga that her music is revolutionary!
‘Born this way’ refers to her self-proclaimed unattractive looks, not her pop persona – hence the makeup that accents these features instead of distracting from them. Though you may not like Lady Gaga, the least you can properly interpret her work.
I like music that at least steals from good stuff and doesn’t make me want to shove kittens in my ears.
That was a waste of time…not the article…the music.
I agree with Marianne; at least Gaga steals from the best. She probably learned the trick from Madonna in the first place. God knows I read enough articles about Madonna ripping off Marilyn Monroe in the 1980s!