Returning folk outsider Joanna Newsom has slated oddball popster Lady Gaga.
Lady Gaga! She’s weird. Or at least, that’s what they want you to think. If an enormous advertising budget and countless label boffins help turn you into a maverick then perhaps you’re not that unique after all.
Hailing from California, Joanna Newsom is a true original. Her voice is unlike anyone else around right now, with the singer recently releasing a lavish three disc album to widespread critical acclaim.
Opening herself up for interviews, Joanna Newsom recently revealed her dis-taste for pop icon Lady Gaga. One of the best selling artists on the planet, it seems that sales figures are now enough for the Californian artist.
“I’m mystified by the laziness of people looking at how she presents herself, and somehow assuming that implies there’s a high level of intelligence in the songwriting” she told The Guardian.
“Her approach to image is really interesting, but you listen to the music, and you just hear glow sticks. Smart outlets for musical journalism give her all this credit, like she’s the new Madonna …”
“Although I’m coming from a perspective of also thinking Madonna is not great at all. I’m like, fair enough: she is the new Madonna, but Madonna’s a dumb-ass!”
However Joanna Newsom later clarified her views. “I may have contradicted myself. My problem isn’t actually with Lady Gaga. But there’s not much in her music to distinguish it from other glossy, formulaic pop. She just happens to wear slightly weirder outfits than Britney Spears. But they’re not that weird – they’re mostly just skimpy.”
“She’s fully marketing her body/sexuality; she’s just doing it while wearing, like, a ‘fierce’ telephone hair-hat. Her sexuality has no scuzziness, no frank raunchiness, in the way that, say, Peaches, or even Grace Jones, have – she’s Arty Spice! And, meanwhile, she seems to take herself so oddly seriously, the way she talks about her music in the third person, like she’s Brecht or something. She just makes me miss Cyndi Lauper.”
Arty spice? PRICELESS.
