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Professor Snuggles:
--- Quote from: De_El on 16 Nov 2010, 18:27 ---Oh, what, really? Nicki Minaj is the most interesting thing to happen to American pop music in years. Also: her videos are ridic.
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Dude I mean, really? She's just Lil Kim: The Return. Like her verse on Monster is sicc but "most interesting thing to happen in American Pop Music in Years?" Like, dude, Gaga. Kanye. Even Katy fuccin Perry is doing more interesting stuff than Minaj.
That said the album is like, aight on first listen.
TheFuriousWombat:
--- Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 24 Nov 2010, 07:26 ---but "most interesting thing to happen in American Pop Music in Years?" Like, dude, Gaga....
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lol
Professor Snuggles:
I mean you can hate on her music if you want, although you're foolish for doing so, but can you deny she is interesting? The spectacle she has created as a persona, the absurdity of her costumes/videos/concerts, what's more exciting than that in music?
valley_parade:
Really good melodic punk.
TheFuriousWombat:
--- Quote from: Professor Snuggles on 24 Nov 2010, 08:09 ---I mean you can hate on her music if you want, although you're foolish for doing so, but can you deny she is interesting? The spectacle she has created as a persona, the absurdity of her costumes/videos/concerts, what's more exciting than that in music?
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The idea that Lady Gaga "is one of the most exciting things to happen to pop music in years" is absolutely absurd. She's all gimmick, a clever hack whose managed to convince millions that crazy hats and lots of eye shadow are somehow the same thing as musical ability or talent in general. She's interesting only insofar as she's a great case study in the power of marketing and the willingness of the American public to rush to worship at whatever kitschy, overrated altar of hype is currently being called The Next Big Thing regardless of any actual merit. Her music is tired, derivative. It pushes no boundaries despite the bewildering arguments to the contrary. Even her outfits, while certainly weird, are often little more than garish Halloween costumes, rife for parody and fully deserving of it. She deserves credit only for her obvious business acumen: she knows how to manipulate the masses and self market to an amazing degree. In short she's a shill, a sham, and a charlatan, an edifice and monument to crass, surface level aesthetics with absolutely nothing beneath the vapid, uninspiring veneer.
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