Who hasn’t heard of Lady Gaga’s hit single, Bad Romance? It’s all over the internet, music televisions, and radio stations. Even if you are not into music, you can’t help but hear it. Bad Romance was actually written by Gaga herself while she was touring from 2008 to 2009. According to her, this song was inspired by the paranoia that she felt while on the tour. Gaga first sang this song at Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer 2010 show in the Paris Fashion Week, last October 6, 2009. The song received a lot of positive reviews from critics. Like Poker Face, this song was also a huge success reaching number one on Irish Singles Chart, UK Singles Chart, Canadian Hot 100 and the German, Swedish, Danish and Austrian Charts. It also hit number two at New Zealand, Australia and the United States. Bad Romance has been nominated in ten categories at the 2010 MTC Video Music Awards. It won seven awards including Best Female Video, Best Dance Video, Best Pop Video and Video of the Year. The music video has been critiqued by a lot of people to be extremely provocative. It shows Gaga in a bathhouse being kidnapped by supermodels and sold to the Russian Mafia for sexual slavery.
Provocative is right. I for one like Gaga’s songs. I just don’t really like her – and her videos. They show explicit content and are extremely provocative. I wouldn’t want my future kids to be watching her videos. They are bordering on soft porn already. Tsk, tsk. What is happening to the world? Gaga certainly is very weird. But the good thing about it is that she is using her “weirdness” to stand out and be different. Aside from her songs, it is Gaga’s uniqueness that makes her sell.
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