We've already given you 10 reasons to love Lady GaGa. You know her songs, you know about her tea cup, you know that she's pretty damn cool. (Or you hate her because she never wears pants and you feel/know her music is overrated.)
It's kind-of a love or hate relationship with GaGa. In fact I was go so far to say that Lady Gaga and Marmite are pretty close in their love-to-hate ratios amongst the people.
However, there is no denying her talent, and the quality of GaGa's voice. Girlfriend can sing, and she wants you all to know that when you see her live, it's l-i-v-e, no Britney or Ashlee Simpson style lip-syncing here, folks.
"I would never even think about it (lip syncing). The whole point to me
is, if you’re gonna be number one, you better really be fucking number
one. If you’re gonna be on top, you better be able to do all those
things, because it’s a real privilege to be able to make music
everyday, and I get away with a lot…
"Andy Warhol says art is what you
can get away with, and I get away with a lot with my music and my
clothes, and I work really hard so I could truly be a real artist for
all my fans. That’s really fucked up when you lip-sync.”
Word to that.
Our standards that we've set for our "pop artists" really has dropped. We all accept that Britney lip-syncs her songs because, well, she doesn't have the strongest voice in the world but we love to see her dance her ass off.
We accept that most singers can't sing live, but sound great on their album. It's gotten to the point where I don't even like watching live performances from pop artists on award and chat shows because most of the time they suck.
They suck so bad that after their performance I'm left in a pile of my own sweat making excuses for them, "Um, maybe they're nervous! Maybe they lost their voice because of acid reflux disease! Maybe...um..."
Maybe they just suck and Auto-Tune is their best friend.
So, hats off to you, GaGa.
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