pogoism

To quote my friend, “where the hell did this chick come from?”. And, to be honest, I have no idea.

I had heard bits about her, though never bothered to look up any of her stuff. Then, I saw an ad on Facebook for her, and I was bored… so I YouTubed her. I first found the video for the track “Just Dance” with it’s infectious baseline and catchy “oh oh oh oh”‘s. Then I found “Beautiful, Dirty, Rich”, and I was hooked.

Over the last few months, since the release of “Just Dance” in the US, she’s gained quite a cult following – particularly with the gays. This record combines futuristic electronica with catching drumbeats and captivating lyrics that’ll leave you humming tracks for days.

On the surface, her album “The Fame” seems like another dull club-anthem filled record, but it’s so much more than that. Unlike Britney Spears and others, she can actually write music (she wrote the entire album), and from what I’ve seen on YouTube, she can sing live too. She’ll no doubt get comparisons to Gwen Stefani, but Lady GaGa’s offering is much more developed than Stefani’s solo attempts.

The album is ladened with innuendo, with the most obvious one in “LoveGame” – “Lets have some fun / This beat is sick / I wanna take a ride / On your disco stick”. However, this doesn’t mean this is a tacky album – quite the opposite. She takes the usual lyrics about money, boys, celebrity and body image, and makes them into what is a very original album.

If you haven’t already, Lady GaGa is worth checking out.

After the jump, the video for “Just Dance” and a live version of “Beautiful, Dirty, Rich”