Top Ten Tuesday: Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper "Shallow"

I forgot that I didn't actually post about this song on Tuesday. That's ok. I've watched the video now and the song is very good and the video is a very throwback-feeling video where it's a performance and clips from the movie. I love that kind of video when it's from the soundtrack of the movie. Everyone is talking about how great this movie is. Have you seen it? Is it so great? Let me know!

Top Ten Tuesday: Lady Gaga "Million Reasons"

This song came on my Pandora the other day and I was like "Wow this is amazing! Who is it?" and I looked and was delighted that it was Lady Gaga. I love this kind of departure! Enjoy!

Oh...I guess this is from last week's Top Ten. I forgot that yesterday was a holiday. Maybe I'll do another Top Ten tomorrow!

Top Ten Tuesday: Lady Gaga "Dope"

I know. I know. The day has come to the blog where I post about Lady Gaga. And not just as part of a list of other huge, smash hit artists. As a subject of her own. And I gotta say, I feel pretty good about it. What a song to make the Top 10. Even if you don't like her fashion or her overall style of music, there's not a lot you can deny in this video from her recent ARTRave concert:

And here's the studio track which I was worried wouldn't hold up to that amazing live performance, but it does.

And of course this song really reminds me of her SNL performance where I started realizing that underneath it all, she's a pretty fantastic musician. Just watch the whole thing before you tell me I'm insane.

Lady GaGa Medley (@ Saturday Night Live) BMF by BlakMusicFirst

Actually I think the image of that beautiful girl with all that musical talent peeking out from her weird atomic orbital costume is pretty much the perfect image for Lady Gaga's place in my mind. Her talent perhaps is lost on people who can't see past the costume. And I'm glad that that first video is out there because the weird costume is nowhere to be seen. And I don't miss it :)

Top Ten Tuesday: Lady Gaga "Applause"

I was excited this week because I saw that Eminem's new song made the Top 10 and it meant that I could hold off Lady Gaga or Miley for another week, but the song doesn't have a proper video yet. So my plan is to put the Lady Gaga song on this week and, as long as the Eminem song is still in the Top 10 next week, put it on, even if it's just the audio version.

Say what you will about the genre of music she makes, you can't say that Lady Gaga's videos aren't interesting to watch. She definitely has cribbed some stuff from Madonna. Plus maybe like Bowie? I'm not sure. Certainly not the worst song I've ever heard and some interesting visual stuff, to boot.

I guess I was a little hesitant to put a Lady Gaga song on my site, but the thing is that I am interested in exploring, or at least taking a peek at, as much music as I possibly can. And sometimes that takes the form of a relatively unknown Scottish band and sometimes it takes the form of this. And it would be a disservice to what I want to do here, if I cut myself off of this mega-popular stuff.