Gaga for Gaga

I have to say I am a little embarrassed to report that after meeting Lady Gaga in an airport that I have been a little start struck. I’ve never been one to seek out stars in public and ask for their autographs or approach them, but when I saw her at the airport it was just so easy to ask her for a picture. She actually impressed me with how nice and approachable she was and that got me to thinking…
I had only heard of her because there was some celebrity gossip going around that she and Christina Aguilera had a battle about one of them copying the other’s style and I thought it was so silly because I was thinking “who cares?”. Then of course the first time I looked at the radio display to see who was playing this awesome song on the radio I recognized her name because of this spat with Christina! I’ve been loving her two songs that play on the radio, but normally don’t have much respect for musicians who make music like hers that aren’t really musicians, they are a puppet whose only real talent is the way they shake it in their patent boy shorts. It was fun to meet her and makes for a good story, but after I got home that night I started looking her up online to see what type of “artist” she claimed to be. I came away very impressed with how hard she has worked for what she has. She not only writes all her own music lyrics and melodies, she often plays all her synth music herself. She didn’t win some reality t.v. show, or have an older sister pop star who handed her the role, she worked her way up the clubs in NYC until she finally made it big. She has even written songs for other so called “artists” whose job is to look hot and dance around on stage while attempting to sing (Pussycat Dolls). She takes her job seriously and realizes that it’s not just the song, it’s the performance, entertainment and stage character that makes a pop star.
So I have to say… way to go Lady Gaga for bringing lots of great songs to the pop world, while taking your job and artwork seriously. I actually have some respect for this lady!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngf5Oo_XrjI&feature=channel_page