«I GUESS I'VE BEEN INFLUENCED BY EVERYBODY. BUT THAT'S GOOD. THAT'S POP»

Lady Gaga soaks up our ancient heritage of Pop Music; myriads of memory-lane transfers can be spotted, if you look close enough. Gaga is a Mediterranean squishy-sponge, a mirror to her heroes, on her freshman effort The Fame. The gallery of influences read like The Book of Who's Who. The oval portraits of David Bowie, Laurie Anderson, The B-52s, Madonna, Queen, Abba, Blondie, The Village People and Andy Warhol are ragbag pop-ups on your ipod, as you crank up tu Gaga, and gyrate or flip-flop intimately in your garbage dump of a cozy flat

Newsblaze
Dec 14 2009