13 Jan 09
Icy love songs, shameless pop music that comments on its own shamelessness as it goes along: it’s hard not to feel that you’ve heard a lot of this before. The title track reiterates her belief in her own originality - “I’m obsessively opposed to the typical” - but elsewhere you’re struck by the feeling that Lady GaGa’s pronouncements of her own uniqueness may have less to do with shamelessly talking herself up than the fact that she has absolutely no idea about what constitutes the typical.—
The Guardian’s review of Lady Gaga’s album “The Fame”
I only really like one song of hers and the whole “I am totes different” thing is getting a bit tiresome. She’s pretty much up there with the Ting Tings in terms of individually.
