Lady Gaga? Insanity is the New Cure

So I am a music snob. I loved Supergrass the first time I heard them. I have always loved Prince. Nada Surf were personal friends and favorites before they were famous.Obvious I love Madonna, Micheal Jackson, but have always loved old skool hip hop too.

Growing up my parents made us listen to Lionel Ritchie, Peobo Bryson, and Teddy Pendergrass. Meanwhile we would be sneaking Mikey D, Magnificent 7, and Two Sisters.Then my mother moved me to a suberb where kids ran around in Versace, Gucci, and Guess to middle school.

So here were my brothers and I living in this place with out ghetto clothes and our city beats and kangols.We learned to listen to some of the ocean pop that the kids got into, even learned about the Cure and Depeche Mode, I even started following and still love and got to meet and become friends with one of the members of Fugazi.

So needless to say now a days I am rarely impressed by the cookie cutter musicians that seem to pop up all over the place now a days.Having family in the music business I am constantly getting reccomendations of new artists to listen to and am constanty dissapointed.

However, I have to say recently I was sat down by a few of my artist friends of mine from NYC. They made me listen to Lady GaGa.I was transfixed by the pagentry and the fact that she struck me as a young but more talented and eager Madonna.

I went home and watched more videos and even looked at some of her older videos before she got signed. I found myself watching her dance and dissecting her lyrics and her costuming and finding it refreshing and wasn't surprised that she has caught on with so many demographics.

Capturing the hip hop vibe and the fashion vibe, adding the fashion vibe and the elements of theatrics and dance she has showmanship that is not seen in people as young these days without an army of stylists and crew. With real instruments added with synthetics, hand claps and muscular vocals intertwined with girlish dirty whispery statements like "I want to take a ride on your disco stick" and sick harmonies making one want to hop out of the seat and start clapping. It is difficult to listen to Lady Gaga and not be inspired and want to shake it.

I for one will be buying her cd's and looking for more of her music to drop in the future to see what future pagentry she can come up with. We will see if, as I believe is the case, she has the chops to keep reinventing herself and growing with her audience.