Earlier this week, British music mag NME set out to determine the “10 Most Pretentious Albums Ever.” The list includes (genuinely pretty terrible) conceptual fare like Kiss’ Music From “The Elder,” Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music and, uh, Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, which somehow bested all competitors to nab the #1 spot.
How? Well, as NME writer Priya Elan wrote, “On Born This Way, [Gaga] seemed to believe in her own hype, convinced she had a message to share. Cue an album of unwieldy ‘anthems’ that couldn’t mask the fact that the fun had left the building.” Elan singled out the thumping “Scheiße” as BTW’s most pretentious moment, adding, “Did electroclash die for this?”
Snap. As you’d probably expect, those jabs had Gaga’s Little Monsters on the offensive, and they launched an all-out attack on Elan in the comments section of NME’s website. But Gaga herself remained above the fray — for a while, anyway.
On Thursday night, she took to her Twitter account to hit back at NME, a publication that’s certainly been no stranger to charges of pretentiousness over the years.
“Oh the irony of winning ‘Most Pretentious Album Ever’ from none other than NME. *Eye roll,*” Gaga wrote. “I might laugh forever [and] then return to narcissism.”
Double snap. Having sufficiently eye-rolled her way through the situation, there’s been no further comment from Gaga about the list.
How? Well, as NME writer Priya Elan wrote, “On Born This Way, [Gaga] seemed to believe in her own hype, convinced she had a message to share. Cue an album of unwieldy ‘anthems’ that couldn’t mask the fact that the fun had left the building.” Elan singled out the thumping “Scheiße” as BTW’s most pretentious moment, adding, “Did electroclash die for this?”
Snap. As you’d probably expect, those jabs had Gaga’s Little Monsters on the offensive, and they launched an all-out attack on Elan in the comments section of NME’s website. But Gaga herself remained above the fray — for a while, anyway.
On Thursday night, she took to her Twitter account to hit back at NME, a publication that’s certainly been no stranger to charges of pretentiousness over the years.
“Oh the irony of winning ‘Most Pretentious Album Ever’ from none other than NME. *Eye roll,*” Gaga wrote. “I might laugh forever [and] then return to narcissism.”
Double snap. Having sufficiently eye-rolled her way through the situation, there’s been no further comment from Gaga about the list.
Well as you might have found out Lady GaGa has been sewed for one reason and heres the story:
Lady GaGa made a song that is very bad because the title I can not say I'm Still ******* you I think thats it. Well she made a song similar to that and one of her dancers said " I'm not performing this song" Lady GaGa had then fired him! Then the dancer had finally decided to sew her for such a bad song! So now Lady GaGa is sewed. The Judge Says " Either you get rid of that song or you re name it a diffrent song" I haven't heard anything for it yet. But when i do I will contact you and tell you right away! Ok! Lady Gaga didn't make the choice. So do you think She should get rid of it or rename it! I say rename it so she still gets more views and a better cerear and everything And Mostly..... FANS!!!!! So lets help Lady GaGa I fell bad for her! Team GaGa 4 eva!
Lady GaGa made a song that is very bad because the title I can not say I'm Still ******* you I think thats it. Well she made a song similar to that and one of her dancers said " I'm not performing this song" Lady GaGa had then fired him! Then the dancer had finally decided to sew her for such a bad song! So now Lady GaGa is sewed. The Judge Says " Either you get rid of that song or you re name it a diffrent song" I haven't heard anything for it yet. But when i do I will contact you and tell you right away! Ok! Lady Gaga didn't make the choice. So do you think She should get rid of it or rename it! I say rename it so she still gets more views and a better cerear and everything And Mostly..... FANS!!!!! So lets help Lady GaGa I fell bad for her! Team GaGa 4 eva!
Wambie girls, Lady Gaga is number 1 when it comes to most powerful stars...
So you might be wondering, how the heck did that happen? Well, because she has made $90 million dollars in 12 months! Plus, she's a hit on the Internet, remember that Lady Gaga managed to get 10 million followers on Twitter !! .
Oprah Winfrey, is no longer in position number 1, that title is now held by Gaga.
Justin Bieber is in position number 3 (he made $53 million), and is the youngest to have ever been on the list. Katy Perry is in position 12 and Beyoncé Knowles & Britney Spears have lost rank on the list.
La Gaga doesn't stop, but Justin is getting closer and closer to the throne!
Lady Gaga has had many hits on Youtube for her other videos like "Poker Face" (374,606,128 views), "Just Dance" (272,941,674 views) and "Bad Romance (360,020,327 views). Added together, that's over one billion views.
Lady Gaga will soon have company in the one billion views club. The Twilight saga is close behind with 980 million, and Soulja Boy has 860 million...
Justin Bieber fans should not get too upset that the Queen of funky pop beat him to a billion. His video "Baby" still holds its record.
The awards, now in their eleventh year, are one of the country’s most prestigious music prizes and celebrate both French and international music.
Also among the winners this year was Rihanna for International Female Artist of the Year and Beyonce Knowles who scooped the NRJ Award of Honour.
However, the event was overshadowed by a blunder that saw the Black Eyed Peas wrongly named Best International Group, a prize which was meant to be given to German band Tokio Hotel.
Choreographer Kamel Ouali, who announced the award, realised his mistake after no one came to collect the award. He returned to the stage to apologise and name the real winners.
Lady Gaga, who could not attend the ceremony as she was performing in New York, will be touring the UK later this year, starting at Manchester’s MEN Arena on February 18th