‘Hype’ is a disgusting word. But when an album, which was a self-declared phenomenon before it was even an album, appears to be an experiment in hype itself, it becomes an unavoidable part of the conversation. There’s been a suspicion in the...
As the May arrival of the ‘Born This Way’ album hurtles closer, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to get through a minute of the day without seeing or hearing Lady Gaga . Not that we’d want to. And tonight (March 28), at her show at...
10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week (12/02/11)
1. Lady Gaga - Born This Way When Lady Gaga recorded ‘Bad Romance’ she simply had a couple of Number Ones in need of a follow-up. Two years later she’d marked her territory as the most important pop star of a generation and the pressure...
Live review: Lady Gaga/Alphabeat/Semi Precious...
After dropping nearly a million on redesigning her stage show (she got ‘bored’ with it), the none-more-OTT first Lady Of Crazy is in town. It’s not the set, costumes or dances we’ll remember tonight, though. It’s the look in her eyes....
Album review: Lady Gaga - 'The Fame Monster'...
Let’s just get this out of the way, shall we? About 99 per cent of pop is drudging twuntery assembled by blank-eyed robots who are unjustly rewarded with mountains of cash, while all my favourite bands languish and die in places like Tacoma,...
