an hermaphrodite pop cyborg, with some kind of psychic power that stops me turning off!
I fear to look, yet I dare not look away.
At least that's what would happen if I had actually watched it. Which I didn't.
(Was that Ellen at the start?)

somewhere that she's bisexual. I'm warming to her.

Dressing up and showing off. That's all pop should ever be about, and she does both brilliantly. (She can also sing a bit, which never hurts either.)

scares the children and horses all to the good better than armies of faceless Coldplay blokes.

I wouldn't buy any of her records (yet), but I love her. As Archie says she can sing a bit and play and I suspect that she's worth keeping an eye on. You can leave that with me, happy to oblige.

Plus - she's clearly having such a laugh at the moment.

The penny has dropped

Looks like Ruud van Nistelrooy with a blond wig.

Not a good look

So no thanks

'Someone Will Win A New Ford Taurus LTD'?

And if not are they actually giving away the company as a prize? I knew that the recession had hit the US car industry but still ...

Bright, funny, provocative, colourful.

And Poker Face is this year's best pop song, bar none.

I watched the clip.

She's gone up in my books. Not only has she employed Axl Rose on drums and Jack White on guitar (seriously watch any footage of her live from V or Glastonbury - it's uncanny), she can also play piano really well whilst stood on a stool in heels. Respect.

Makes you wonder why she's gone down the lame-pop route rather than the jazz torch singer in a Billie Holiday / Nina Simone vibe?? Because she does have the voice (sort of), and the keyboard skills.

Was studiously ignoring it for months, but Paparazzi got the better of me, having been to a festival for three days and come out with it stuck in my head having heard it being played by one of the stalls.

thanks

whether I like her or not. It doesn't really matter whether any of us here like her or not. What matters is that in an age of bland, photocopied churn-outs masquerading as pop stars, there are still artists out there who are prepared to at least try to do their own thing and not slavishly follow the pack.

When I look at that video and the few other performances I've seen by Lady Gaga, I see an act that shows evidence of wit, style and creativity. Regardless of whether she has come this far on sheer strength of talent and single-mindedness alone, or has been marketed and styled and put on that path, I don't care. She does it very well and it's still different enough from most of the rest of the pack to be A Good Thing.

If I was 14 years old and just discovering a love of pop, I hope my younger self would look at what Lady Gaga does and how she does it, and nod my approval.

30 odd comments in, and no-one has mentioned the hat. It's brilliant.

Shelf life -- 6 months tops.

She always strikes me as having the hard hearted look of a Vulcan, the cold calculating eyes of a shark and is about as sexy as a sock mark. No Thanks

Makes a noise that isn't in any way whistleable
Metallic coneage
An undercarriage that drops out
Gasps and a big boom before it disappears into the distance forever

I posted this video because I wanted to see if she had the same affect on the good readers of the Word Blog as she had on me. I happened to see her performing live, by chance, I almost missed it purely based on my perception of her. "Yuck, not Lady f%&^*ing GaGa" but against all my usual criteria for enjoying music I was very impressed. As has been mentioned she is the perfect "Pop Star" she ticks all the boxes and then some. This performance on something like Top of The Pops (RIP) would have fired her into our consciuosness like nothing since Boy George's first appearance.

Talent comes in many forms and we can all be guilty of assuming something is not for us, it is too easy just to ignore something new. Fear, ignorance or just plain stubborness means we determine what is for us without taking a chance. Agreed discovering Lady GaGa is not a life changing experience but what else have we all missed by simply saying "Nope that's not for me" and not clicking play? I you still haven't tried it why not give it a go?

I have been listening to Hear'Say's first album this week. It does have some good songs on it. It's a pop album. Not Mozart. It's only meant to be mildly diverting. Though their maulings of "Monday Monday" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water" are still painful.

Oh, and Gaga is a lot more palatable than Florence / Machine or Kate Nash.

I could take or leave Just Dance, but warmed to Poker Face, then Paparazzi won me over and I bought the album. It's not bad; not brilliant, by any means, but fun listening while you're driving.

So she might be a little contrived - which chart star isn't nowadays? But sometimes you just want something a little straightforward and light, and all credit to her for trying to be something other than a Kate/Lilly/Amy clone.

Normally my musical taste runs a little darker and complex - goth, darkwave, industrial, prog. But I'm finding myself liking the occasional pop song. Do I need treatment?

...and an absolute highlight of Glastonbury this year. Watch her performance there & the audience reaction. One of my favourite Glastonbury moments since the Waterboys in 1986. And as someone who's been declared bankrupt on a number of occasions she's not doing such a great job of separating the kiddies from their pocket-money (well keeping it, anyway).

As to the look & chutzpah, it seems very New York: early Madonna sexuality, Debbie Harry anthemic pop & blonderama, Bette Midler's gay steam-roominess, Streisand's nose, & I'd disagree about the eyes: in a certain Somerset evening light, particularly honest & attractive. There is both calculation & vulnerability.

The piano-playing, I thought was self-taught, rather than classically-trained.

If today's Metro is to be believed.

It's hardly Tammy Wynette and the KLF or Dusty and the PSBs, is it?

I gave her album another listen for the first time since it was released. It's very much a pop album in that it's front loaded with the singles, the middle's a bit undistinguished and the last third is so-so. You wouldn't complain if any of these songs came up on shuffle, but it's a bit of a slog to hear as a whole album in one sitting.

is sexy as hell whether she has a penis or not. Pokerface is the best pop song i have heard this year and her video for it is equally great. If it is manufactured so be it - I dont think that makes it bad. Am I likely to buy the album? - definitely not but that doesn't mean I cant appreciate a decent pop song when I hear one.

however I might touch her with a Bargepole.