Thank You Lady Gaga For Rescuing the 2000's From Musical Mediocrity

Hello,

This blog was inspired by hearing Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" on my iPod on my morning walk. I was reminded of how great her music is and how revelatory it/she was in a not very interesting time for music.

The first eight years of the 2000's featured some great music. Among the amazing artists of that time included Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Green Day, Shinedown, Linkin Park, Black Eyed Peas, Shakira, Nelly Furtado, Mariah Carey's comeback, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Fergie and Lifehouse.

Thanks to bobborst.com for the following year end chart information.

Before Lady Gaga exploded on the scene, these were some of the biggest "hits": (which features such dumb lyrics as "my boo"- really?) "Dilemma"- the #4 song on the 2002 year end chart

Usher's "Burn"- the #2 song on the 2004 year end chart. This is better than some of the crap coming out at this time, but quickly wears out it's welcome.:

The above song also says "my boo" and "what am I gonna do with my shawty gone". Really?

And what the hell is this steaming pile of crap? Sean Paul's "Get Busy"- how did a song this bad end up being the #3 song on the 2003 year end chart At least it didn't include the words "my boo".

Perhaps the worst of them all, Flo Rida. His way to fame was raping a 80's hit, add some lame raping and create his terrible songs. "Low"- the #1 song of 2008:

I don't hate all hip hop music, but a lot of it's terrible. Here are a couple of good songs from before Lady Gaga saved us all.

Nelly's moment of brilliance "Hot In Herre":- #3 song on 2002 year end charts.

Outkast's "Hey Ya" (still rocking on my iPod all these years later)- #8 song on 2004 year end charts:

Lady Gaga's "The Fame" CD was released on August 19th, 2008. It started out selling slowly, but she quickly pushed her way on to the world's consciousness. And again thank goodness she did. As an artist she's amazing, she brought us some of the most danceable and innovative music in several years. Her music was like a rose crawling up through so much dung. Seven years later she's still growing strong, although she has stayed out of the spotlight recently. Whereas some of these other artists have completely fallen off the musical map. And with the music they borrowed, stole "created", does that surprise you? Thank you Lady Gaga for great songs such as these:

"Poker Face": (the #2 song on 2009's year end chart)

"Just Dance": (the #3 song on 2009's year end chart)

"Lovegame" (the #35 song on 2009's year end chart)

"Paparazzi" (the #53 song on 2009's year end chart, also the #64 song on 2010's year end chart)

This could be the best song of this century so far, it's great on so many levels. "Bad Romance": (the #8 song on 2010's year end chart)

"Telephone" (the #16 song on 2010's year end chart)

"Alejandro" (the #33 song on 2010's year end chart)



2010 megamix:



And of course Lady Gaga knows how to write a ballad, one of my favorites of her most recent songs "You and I":

My only frustration with Lady Gaga is her blatant use of sex to sell her music. Stefani you don't need sex to sell your music. You're being played by the music industry. There's a distinct line between sexy and skanky, you're clearly on the skanky side of that line. Continue to make great music and stop trying to sell a skanky image that may or may not represent you. The skankiness is mainly why I don't post most of your actual videos Stefani.

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