Posted on 06/07/2011 5:22:13 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Did anybody else watch the 60 Minutes segment about Lady Gaga last Sunday? I never paid the least amount of attention to the whole Lady Gaga craze until then. Watching that show I was astounded at what a complete manufactured phony Lady Gaga is. Plus there is nothing unique about her. She is no different than a horde of other Manhattanite jaded nightlclub dregs deep into drugs. Talent? Not much and what little there is is electronically enhanced. And 60 Minutes was actually plugging about some sort of "message" she was delivering. As far as I could see, that "message" shtick is strictly PR for the rubes that follow her. The secret to the Lady Gaga success is entirely in the marketing.
Therefore I am creating a counter to Lady Gaga...Daddy GooGoo. I actually field tested Daddy GooGoo yesterday. Daddy GooGoo is also completely manufactured but, thankfully, sans a "message." Daddy GooGoo can't sing a note but perhaps electronics can take care of that. The phony Daddy GooGoo personality incorporates elements of the adult baby recently in the news as well as a bizarre pic I once took of my father and my uncle Marty. It was at a Thanksgiving dinner and without warning took a photo of both of them. The camera captured the most bizarre photo I've ever seen (I have to find that photo) because both of them spontaneously broke out into what I could only call proto-Daddy GooGoo poses. Like a couple of big babies.
Another aspect of Daddy GooGoo is that he has to have hot young chicks care for him.
WAAH!!!! Daddy GooGoo wants champagne! Daddy GooGoo wants caviar! HUG MEEEEE! FEEEEED MEEEEE!!!!
Yes, stupid and ridiculous but is it any more ridiculous than that utterly phony jaded dreg known as Lady Gaga? And at least Daddy GooGoo gets those hot chicks to cuddle him. (Now to convince my wife that it is all part of performance art.)
Say hello to Daddy GooGoo. The anti-Lady Gaga.
I’d rather listen to Doc Watson fart through a field phone than to have to watch most of what passes for entertainment today.
I feel the same as “Scotty” on American Idol. When he met her, he kissed his cross for protection against what she represents.
I call her “Lady Caca” - very apporpriately.
Daddy GooGoo refuses to be touched by those creepy vampire chicks. Only healthy young wholesome chicks are allowed to cuddle Daddy GooGoo.
WAAAAAH! FEED DADDY GOOGOO GRAPES!!!
I apologize for the mental torture of seeing and hearing her.
You did remember to coffee up after hat to fortify your mind from miss poke-pokepokepokepoke her face, right?
[The zombies in my area repeatedly play her drek all the darn time.]
The Lady Gagme phenomenon is nothing new in the “music” industry. Find a fairly attractive package (which can also be “enhanced” with little difficulty), develop some kind of weird persona around it, put a few million into special effects, gimmicks, promotions, and payola and voila! You’ve created Madonna or Christina Aguilera or Justin Bieber or Cher or Justin Timberlake or Marilyn Manson or any of a hundred other mediocre “talents” who succeed because they’ve got good PR people, not because they’ve got any extraordinary musical gift.
Wasn’t there a movie based on that topic? “The Idolmaker?” I think it was based on Fabian. An early manufactured rock star.
She isn’t a phony.
She, of sound mind and judgement, decided to create this public persona and steal as much money from idiots who believe major label recording artists should be genuine artists and unique, or whatever stupid notions people project onto celebrities.
For pitch shifting, try any of Eventide’s pitch shifters. They make me sound like the Fourth Tenor.
Marilyn Monroe -> Maddona -> Lady Gaga
She's not my taste in music, but she writes all her own music & plays a few of the instruments as well. A far cry from a Brittney Spears which is ALL electronically enhanced.
She quite talented and has, at the young age of 26,mastered the art of media.
Should be Subtitled
Tracing the decline of classy, beautiful and sexy as we know it.
So she writes her own dreck? I am not aware that Patsy Cline wrote her own music but guess which one I would prefer to listen to? In fact I have a collection of Patsy Cline albums. A TRUE talent. Daddy GooGoo listens to her all the time.
Unfortunately, the only taste people who like Lady Gaga have is in their mouths and even that is questionable....
CHANGING TIME (By Daddy GooGoo)
(Electronic music)
Mum mum mum mahhhh...
Mum mum mum mahhhh...
I need a changing and I need it really bad
A big wet crapload in my diapers makes me sad (I love it)
It’s really quite unpleasant and I think you will agree,
The stink tells you that it’s time to change me.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhhh, oh-oh-e-oh-oh-oh
I need a changing and I need it right now,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhhh, oh-oh-e-oh-oh-oh,
I need a changing and I need it right now,
Chorus:]
I need you,
I need you,
To change my dirty diaper
(He’s got the stinky britches)
I need you,
I need you,
To change my dirty diaper
(He’s got the stinky britches)
Du-du-du-du-du-du-Dirty diapers,
Du-du-du-du-du-du-Dirty diapers.....
When it comes to music, I’m still back in the 40’s and 50’s (if not earlier). Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Basie, Ellington, Dixieland & Jazz. That’s all I listen to. When I turn on the ignition, Sirius boots to the Sinatra Channel. When I want something a little “wild”, I slip CD’s into my changer of Satchmo, Bobby Hackett, Eddie Condon, Bud Freeman, Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, Benny Goodman, Ben Webster, Clifford Brown, Art Pepper, Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, Lester Young, or some such.
I was acquainted briefly with Satch. It was he who gave me the nickname Jimbo. Lady Gumbo? She’s a joke.
I would agree. But talent, like beauty, is in the eye & ear of the beholder, yes?
At any rate, I am a Rolling Stones / Allman Brothers lover. Both of which, my 81 year old father would say, play "noise."
This aspect (that, if one totally commits themselves to something, no matter how insane, that it will work ...almost like a personalized version of 'if you build it they will come') can be seen with a lot of 'weird' people in the entertainment industry, but also is present in the business world. I've experienced it (and done it) myself a number of times.
Actually, a more pertinent example is Obama. How did an inexperienced junior Senator, with zero experience apart from being a community organizer and an amorphous background/history, come out of (literally) nowhere and, with a simplistic (nigh childish) mantra of 'hope and change' become the president of the most powerful nation on Earth? I think it is more than idiotic voters (or in Gaga's case, music purchasers) ...and it is not as simplistic as mere 'confidence.' If that was the case every idiot would be Obama/Trump/Gaga/etc. It is an almost pathological (actually, totally narcissistic/sycopathic) level of self-importance (a quasi-messiah state), with the facet that is even more shocking being the lemming-esque tendency for society at large to not just acquiescence to their unabated self-importance, but to more than that almost lay themselves prostrate at their feet. I remember as a kid watching a Michael Jackson concert and marveling at how people would go into a rabid fervor, with convulsions and all that, yet all the guy had done is say 'hallo' to the crowd. Or, in the business world, how people like 'Chainsaw' Al (who's claim to fame was turning around floundering companies, when all he did was simply fire most of the staff, get huge bonuses due to the uptick in bottom line due to slashed costs, and by the time the reality that you need more than cut costs to turn around a company hit he had already moved to the next company that was willing to worship him ...even though he had an established track-record of short-term success and long-term pain).
Lady Gaga is just the latest study in the human condition ...how a funny looking lanky lass with a weird voice and weirder clothing can become wealthier than 98% of the human population (whether you base it on current or historical-to-current) and have people going (literally) ga-ga over her when they should be laughing their sides off! At an even baser level are all these people who are 'famous for being famous.'
Humans are easy to manipulate, and entire fortunes can be made off it. Your Daddy GooGoo character ...really flesh him out, put him on YouTube, and I guarantee you can spin (at least) a couple hundred-thousand off him if you make him outrageous enough. Guaranteed. It just needs to be so stupid it makes sense.
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