The Fame

The Fame

By: Lady Gaga
Reviewed by: awesomeVia, 15
Rating: Really liked it


Seriously, Lady Gaga is an international phenomenon as well as an pop culture icon. She has hits that you may have heard of like "Just Dance", "Poker Face", and "LoveGame" all possessing an electronic dance tune/rhythm. And she also wrote them too with some help from RedOne and etc.

Lady Gaga nee Stefani Joanne Germanotta was a songwriter based in Yonkers, NY who got her stage name from the Queen song "Radio Ga-Ga". She used to be just a songwriter for Interscope writing songs for artists like Britney Spears (Circus) and etc., then getting ready for her debut as a solo artist. She has good taste for music as she claimed in one interview that David Bowie, Queen, Madonna, and Michael Jackson were her main influences.

The reason why I didn't rate the CD amazing because of her fashion sense and the auto-tune. She sparked some controversy from the costumes she wore at her concerts like the ceramic body armor she wore at one of her concerts to her hair bow made of her real hair. But this at least shows that she wants to have individuality. Plus in some songs like "Poker Face" and others, she may have gotten her voice amplified too much.

Her songs actually make some sense. In "Paparazzi", she refers these photo-snapping pests as a stalker type which really they kind of are. "(Eh, Eh) Nothing Else I Can Say" is sort of based from Rihanna's "Umbrella" play-on with the word "umbrella" and at least this song doesn't sound like she amplified her voice too much. "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" has a catchy tune as well as the alluring "Starstruck". The title song of her album "The Fame" actually makes sense quoting that we're "doing it for the fame". I mean isn't it true that we modern-day civilians and celebrities would do the most random and stupid things all for the fame?
So other than the amplified voice and the weird scandalous outfits that she wears at her own concerts, she is a talented, theatrical singer/songwriter who shows off a lot of her individuality.


Recommended to: Anyone gregarious, party lovers, trendsetters/followers, avid dancers, current fans of her, fans of the genre Pop/Top 40, Rihanna fans, Britney Spears fans, and mostly every teen or young adults