Lady Gaga vs. Katy Perry? Options

[Kathleen]

So upon the release of Lady Gaga's latest video, "Alejandro," Katy Perry posted on her Twitter account, "Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke."

So which videos/singer do you prefer -- videos about faux lesbianism or ones that feature latex outfits and swallowed rosary beads?

[fixtatik]

lol, typical mainstream media bashing, just surface arguments, might as well say all Americans are money hungry yanks. In your attempt to sound smart, you've generalized all people and music into categories. Really? this generation is dumb? You realize there are baby boomers that still don't know how to operate a computer or pass a high school US history test right? lmao@ music is no longer poetic, im not even gonna comment on that

*ahem* Thanks for proving my point. Adult literacy rates in the US have fallen in the past 20 years. :)
mainstream
(n.) - the principal or dominant course, tendency, or trend
(adj.) - belonging to or characteristic of a principal, dominant, or widely accepted group, movement, style, etc.

No where did I "bash" mainstream media. I simply stated that because she's popular, more people know of her, and more people are shocked. A band with 10 fans could perform nude while slashing the necks of puppies, but hardly anyone would be shocked by that, because it is not of the mainstream.

she was never new to begin with. whole point is she doesn't want to be worship as a pop singer who wants to look good or just do shit for no reason. she doesn't want to be glorified as an icon. she's just doing what she wants to do for her fans. can you find someone else that consecutively says they do everything for their fans and their fans only? gaga doesn't give a rats ass about the music industry, mainstraim stuff, or her own record ppl. she ignored her director when he thought dance in the dark should have been a single instead of alejandro. why? cuz of her fans appreciated alejandro more.
oh and she doesn't have a directed type of audience. she doesn't make songs for preteens. she makes songs cause she wants to express herself and put emphasis on certain subjects. who cares if tool does 10x or even 10000000x weirder stuff than gaga. it's about the message she's trying to raise for people.

For the same reason you don't care that Tool (or other bands) are different, I don't care that you're a fan of Gaga. I listen to her music. What bothers me is that fans will fight to the death defending the "honor" of someone they don't know. Because of how far they'll go to defend Lady Gaga, it makes me wonder why she's so special to deserve such treatment. I'd be willing to bet all of my limbs that if you were as dedicated other bands/artists as much as you are to Lady Gaga, you would find that there are many who are as or more in tune with their work and audience as Gaga is. Though, I would like to learn your rationale behind your claims. Who's to say it isn't a marketing tactic, for her to flaunt about how much she hates the industry? In history, the more someone brags loyalty to their employer (nation, fans, etc.), the more likely it's not as true as they want you to believe.

Of course, I could just be way off, being that she's mainstream pop the rate of to-the-death fans is just that of lesser-known artists. Still, it feels like she's getting a disproportionate amount of response. You could go on a tech blog and find posts about her.