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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Deka1184 on April 06, 2010, 12:03:49 am
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As someone who is a huge fan of both Lady Gaga and Quentin Tarantino, I was of course very interested when I heard that the video for "Telephone" was going to be shot by a director who is trying to pay hommage to Tarantino's style. Like any Gaga fanatic, I saw this right when it came out almost a month ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ95z6ywcBY
After watching this video several dozen times, I can conclude that its a really good mix of Tarantino's and Gaga's style, yet at the same time it leaves me somehow unsatisfied.
What do you think?
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There aren't words to describe how vile and debased that was.
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There aren't words to describe how vile and debased that was.
MORAL PANIC
Anyway, as a piece of performance art, I didn't think it was nearly as good as Bad Romance.
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What do Gaga and Wolverine have in common?
They're both X-men.
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There aren't words to describe how vile and debased that was.
Dude, it's Lady Gaga and Quentin Tarantino.
I say again, Lady Gaga and Quentin Tarantino.
What did you honestly expect?
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There aren't words to describe how vile and debased that was.
Dude, it's Lady Gaga and Quentin Tarantino.
I say again, Lady Gaga and Quentin Tarantino.
What did you honestly expect?
And yet in spite of all his yelling we still have fewer teen pregnancies than ever!
(He has yet to acknowledge this in the other thread.)
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You know, I just can't bring myself to care about Gaga and Tarantino hasn't been the same since Kill Bill. Inglorious Basterds was a disaster of a movie and everyone involved in it should have been kicked in the crotch.
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I'm supprised no one has commented on the pickup
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IMHO, Tarantino never was a good director.
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IMHO, Tarantino never was a good director.
like almost any good director he has his moments of brilliance and some really low points, spielburg and Lucas are the same
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You know, I just can't bring myself to care about Gaga and Tarantino hasn't been the same since Kill Bill. Inglorious Basterds was a disaster of a movie and everyone involved in it should have been kicked in the crotch.
Not what's-his-name, the guy who played Hans Landa the Jewhunter and managed to land an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
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Not what's-his-name, the guy who played Hans Landa the Jewhunter and managed to land an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
He should have been kicked in the crotch twice for wasting his talent on this film.
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I did like Landa but otherwise I agree, that movie was a sodden mess.
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Didn't bother to see the movie, but on the topic of Lady Gaga,
- Eurgh.
- Wear some proper clothes woman!
- Easy on the make-up Gaga, easy.
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There aren't words to describe how vile and debased that was.
hahahaha
i thought it was funny
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I haven't heard anything worse than Lady Gaga in years. YEARS. That is the most overrated woman ever...
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Gaga is good in my opinion but both the song and video for telephone rank alongside vomit at least videophone was listenable
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Clicking on that link implies supporting Lady Gaga in some fashion, so yeahno.
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Geeze guys, there must be some sort of sale at the HLP Haterade stand.
Its true that the Telephone vid doesn't hold a candle to the Bad Romance vid, but remember the Bad Romance vid was 100% Gaga, and nothing out there can beat 100% Gaga so its understandable.
Although I didn't care much for the Kill Bill series, I really liked Inglorious Bastards. Not his best, but I thought it was quite solid. Death Proof, however, was probably the worst film I've ever seen, not gonna lie.
I do like the song Telephone, and quite frankly I believe every song on Monster is incredible. The Fame was alright and it caught my attention but I didn't really start adoring her style till Monster. She goes so much further beyond every other bland popstar out there. She manages to be constantly fresh and revolutionary while simultaneously leading the mainstream and I have an incredible respect for that.
I coulden't stand video phone. Beyonce never ceases to bore me to death. The only thing that made that song good was in the video where the guys in suits have cameras for heads. That was awesome. :nod:
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Lady Gaga is amazing and everyone who doesn't think so is just insecure in his masculinity. :P
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Yeah, because it's impossible to just not like that kind of music...
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Clicking on that link implies supporting Lady Gaga in some fashion, so yeahno.
You're missing a great Command and Conquer reference.
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Clicking on that link implies supporting Lady Gaga in some fashion, so yeahno.
You're missing a great Command and Conquer reference.
I'm not watching that piece of crap to look for it, so enlighten me.
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You're intrigued, I can telllllllll
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Battuta, you facetious bastard!
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Clicking on that link implies supporting Lady Gaga in some fashion, so yeahno.
You're missing a great Command and Conquer reference.
I've never played them, so it'd be lost on me anyway. :p
And seriously, pop music as a whole sucks ass, but Gaga's version of it is like suckage squared.
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Lady Gaga is amazing and everyone who doesn't think so is just insecure in his masculinity. :P
+1
She's so awesome she even makes AvP into a worthwhile game (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/03/08/wot-i-think-aliens-vs-predator/)
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Lady Gaga is amazing and everyone who doesn't think so is just insecure in his masculinity. :P
So, you are feminist to the point of calling anything not female a misogynist, but a bimbo who runs around effectively naked in order to sell more records is OK?
*Lib is confuzzled*
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Wasn't she nearly killed in a wardrobe malfunction a couple of weeks back?
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So, you are feminist to the point of calling anything not female a misogynist
It seems like you can't even finish a sentence without being a retard.
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Lady Gaga is amazing and everyone who doesn't think so is just insecure in his masculinity. :P
So, you are feminist to the point of calling anything not female a misogynist, but a bimbo who runs around effectively naked in order to sell more records is OK?
*Lib is confuzzled*
I'm guessing you have no appreciation of classical statues. Those darn things all take their clothes off to get good spots in museums.
Also, you do the red text thing by typing 'backslash me', like /me is showing Liberator how to do this.
/me sayeth 'behold!'
I imagine that once you get over your terror of sex you will be more relaxed about such things.
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Is it wrong to be terrified of sex with Lady Gaga? :p
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Not at all. Part of her charm is that she's so darn creepy.
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Is it wrong to be terrified of sex with Lady Gaga? :p
:lol: Now one point to be made is that, when I at least listen to music, I don't stare at a picture of the "artist" or "artists". That could get rather gay rather quickly.
And as for Lady Gaga not being that hot? Not everyone likes bleach blondes with more makeup than common sense. And I'm terrified of the idea of having sex with Lady Gaga. It's not a question of which STD I'd get... it's a question of which STD would I NOT get!!
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I'm just envisioning her moaning, "OOH LAA OOH LAA LAA LAA LAA LAAAAAA!"
*shudder*
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I think her persona has an appeal similar to those of a lot of the glam rock and Europop musicians she consciously borrows from. I don't really listen to her music (or most of her influences either) but the whole aesthetic universe she's assembled carries a colorful kind of allure.
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So, you are feminist to the point of calling anything not female a misogynist
It seems like you can't even finish a sentence without being a retard.
/me is still confuzzled.
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Her suggestion is that the only reason Gaga's music should frighten you (rather than inspiring, say, a cordial 'not for me') is that you are afraid of sex and female sexuality because you can't possess it or master it.
Thus the tendency to assess her by her sexuality and then demean it as meaningless, since women are judged by how desirable they are (a trait she is happy to satirize at some length.)
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No, it's because of exactly what he said. "You're such a feminist you call everything not female a misogynist." It's just a retarded ****ing thing to say.
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That too.
There is the question, though, of why a nearly naked woman who does not appear to be bothered by such nearly naked state inspires such terror.
She was a Catholic schoolgirl and apparently very studious. I didn't pay the slightest bit of attention to her until she started causing such an uproar, and was pleased to discover her music was both hilarious and self-aware.
And she's cool enough to either directly or through her creative team put Command and Conquer, Star Wars, and Dune references in her music videos. That's pretty badass.
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So, you are feminist to the point of calling anything not female a misogynist
It seems like you can't even finish a sentence without being a retard.
/me is still confuzzled.
zack just seems to be trolling again (with that post at least). Then again: "That word, I don't think it means what you think it means." (A cookie for the first to get the reference)
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Liberator is the troll here and you know it.
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Look! A slapfight!
Someone get a hose! These things are better when wet!
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Liberator is the troll here and you know it.
You're both trolls. Liberator was just being the less irritating troll at the moment. Now begone both of you, unless you have something constructive/interesting to say!
To not be a hypocrite: I still don't like Lady Gaga's music, even if Bad Romance is irritatingly catchy.
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Maybe I should have responded to Liberator in exactly the way he started this whole thing.
Liberator: You're such a conservative you call every independent woman an uppity dyke.
There we go.
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Liberator is the troll here and you know it.
You're both trolls. Liberator was just being the less irritating troll at the moment. Now begone both of you, unless you have something constructive/interesting to say!
To not be a hypocrite: I still don't like Lady Gaga's music, even if Bad Romance is irritatingly catchy.
I don't like most of her music either, I just think she's an awesome reality troll.
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Liberator is the troll here and you know it.
You're both trolls. Liberator was just being the less irritating troll at the moment. Now begone both of you, unless you have something constructive/interesting to say!
To not be a hypocrite: I still don't like Lady Gaga's music, even if Bad Romance is irritatingly catchy.
I don't like most of her music either, I just think she's an awesome reality troll.
You know, that I can actually agree with.
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Oh come on, I was waiting for someone to get the hose... I even got the novelty dirty fight mud out!
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Lib she doesn't do it to sell records, she does it for the art. She controls every aspect of her songwriting and performance and she loves every bit of it. Do some research on her before you put her in a pigeon-hole.
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Lib she doesn't do it to sell records, she does it for the art. She controls every aspect of her songwriting and performance and she loves every bit of it. Do some research on her before you put her in a pigeon-hole.
Pigeon-hole? Could you explain that term? The only place I've heard it is in government class, and I highly doubt you're talking about leaving a bill in committee long enough for people to forget it.
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THE INTERNET SPEAKETH (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonholing)
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THE INTERNET SPEAKETH (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonholing)
Right, a categorizing scheme based on stereotypes.
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Right, so I'm a misogynist if I enjoy looking at barely clad women and I'm also a misogynist if I object to they're being barely clad as demeaning and exploitive.
Guess it's damned if you do and damned if you don't.
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Nobody called anybody a misogynist, so iunno wtf you're on about.
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Right, so I'm a misogynist if I enjoy looking at barely clad women and I'm also a misogynist if I object to they're being barely clad as demeaning and exploitive.
Guess it's damned if you do and damned if you don't.
When were you called a misogynist?
Why are you a misogynist if you enjoy looking at barely clad women? That alone wouldn't qualify you.
Failure to account for context. A woman being barely clad doesn't have to be demeaning and exploitative.
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Lib she doesn't do it to sell records, she does it for the art. She controls every aspect of her songwriting and performance and she loves every bit of it. Do some research on her before you put her in a pigeon-hole.
It wouldn't suprise me if she did it for both. Not necessarily for money, but to get noticed. A large part of making it in the art world is just getting noticed. The music videos and the crazy outfits might also serve to propel her into the spotlight. There are other precedents: k.d. Lang, Elton John.
I think her current style is hugely influenced by her current position in the music world. Her artistic practice will probably change overtime, and could very well move away from where she is now.
@iamzack: Insulting people by calling them a retard doesn't further your goal of convincing people you're right. I agree with you on a lot of issues, but not the name calling.
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Normally, I don't either, but I'm really sick of Liberator's **** at this point.
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Just so we're clear...I'm a Moronic Misongynistic Retard. Right! Off to whereever those belong!
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Just so we're clear...I'm a Moronic Misongynistic Retard. Right! Off to whereever those belong!
*sigh*
So, making up an insult directed at you, and then acting offended that you insulted yourself? Not likely to earn you much pity.
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Some mod should split off this OT crap.
I'll sacrifice some goats and summon Nuke.
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All I have left is my sarcastic attempts at humor and you won't even let me have those... :sigh:
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:nervous: ABANDON THREAD :nervous:
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All I have left is my sarcastic attempts at humor and you won't even let me have those... :sigh:
GENDISC
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:nervous: ABANDON THREAD :nervous:
(http://static.funnyjunk.com/gifs/abandon_thread_.gif)
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Godammit why are you leaving the thread! Stop telling people its bad or everyone is gonna leave it. Hell, it only has a few bugs. Without a few individuals it would be a very productive discourse, some mod should come here and fix this.... Uggh I can just tell im not getting a highlight out of this. I don't want to work on it anymore. **** it. Lock the thread.
Now that, Lib, is sarcasm.... self-parodying sarcasm at that. :drevil:
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Godammit why are you leaving the thread! Stop telling people its bad or everyone is gonna leave it. Hell, it only has a few bugs. Without a few individuals it would be a very productive discourse, some mod should come here and fix this.... Uggh I can just tell im not getting a highlight out of this. I don't want to work on it anymore. **** it. Lock the thread.
:wtf:
You do know the only thing that gets highlighted are released threads and major announcements, right? I don't believe a GenDisc thread has been highlighted ever.
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(Hint: that was part of the joke, tootsie)
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General B, you of all people should get the joke. :lol:
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i r too srs
y so srs, battman
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In before lock.
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:nervous: ABANDON THREAD :nervous:
(http://static.funnyjunk.com/gifs/abandon_thread_.gif)
thanks snail
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/me adds "abandon thread" and "In B4 Lock" images to the list of annoying ways people try to tell me how to do my job.
Now the rest of you just calm the hell down before I wade in with bans and monkeyings.
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You have to admit that transforming snail is pretty damn badass, though.
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You have to admit that transforming snail is pretty damn badass, though.
he's used it before and i was going to use it on post but couldnt find it
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*snip*
maybe you should do your, uh, job better. :P
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i r too srs
y so srs, battman
****ing battman
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*snip*
maybe you should do your, uh, job better. :P
Given that I'd start by banning you for flaming on other threads, you'd better hope I don't suddenly become competent instead of the gradual limbering up I'd planned on doing. :p
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/me adds "abandon thread" and "In B4 Lock" images to the list of annoying ways people try to tell me how to do my job.
Is that how you interpret them?
Huh.
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If it's not meant to be a subtle attempt to get the thread locked then it's simply spam. Either way it's an annoyance that has started proliferating recently and thus needs to be stamped out.
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If it's not meant to be a subtle attempt to get the thread locked then it's simply spam.
Or it could be a subtle attempt to get some people to stop being ****tards, or at least point out to them that they're being ****tards, or something completely different. Cue a speech from Battuta about the mind and binary choices.
But sure, if y'all mods want it stamped out, have at it.
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in b4 mod actions
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Or it could be a subtle attempt to get some people to stop being ****tards, or at least point out to them that they're being ****tards, or something completely different. Cue a speech from Battuta about the mind and binary choices.
It's never worked then. The problem is that that sort of comment is the clarion call for spammers to simply come in and post more nonsense until the thread dies. I can't remember many cases where the thread has improved after such a post and in those cases I can remember I always thought the call was very premature and the thread could (and did) have saved itself anyway because the next few posters didn't follow suit and instead kept debating the actual topic at hand.
in b4 mod actions
In B4 iamzack ban
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Fair enough.
/me taunts iamzack from behind the mod
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/me breaks mxlm's nose
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/me shields mxlm
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/me insults iamzack and Dilmah G.
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/me wishes he were a bad enough mod-dude to shut everyone the hell up.
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/me is bad enough
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/me just got back. Wonders why he never read this topic....then realised.