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MIA’s point was simply that while Gaga is considered one of the most interesting people in music, the actual music she puts out is a far cry from interesting. Some of us like interesting music and have no interest in following the artists’ lives and publicity stunts. Gaga seems to pander to the opposite by making boring music that her fans can sing along to while they read tabloids about the latest shocking thing she did *that has nothing to do with music.* Its a perfect match for that crowd. There’s no need for either side to feel bitter as they are clearly on different missions. My guess is that it was Gaga’s overt copping of MIA’s sound that prompted Maya to publicly say something about Gaga.
Making music that sounds like 20 years ago is not the same as making music with the same attitude and creativity as a scene from 20 years ago. Regardless of what Gaga’s music sounds like, it is still structurally formulaic.
Are you guys really basing your entire analysis of an artist as a whole off of a single song? Just about anything Diplo makes can make it into the mainstream (he’s a world class DJ for christ’s sake), especially if say…it happens to get used on a mainstream movie trailer 6 months after the track is released. Though the really baffling thing is why would the fact that Paper Planes is MIA’s only real mainstream success have anything at all to do with her artistic merit? Her albums aren’t full of Paper Planes knockoffs that just haven’t had their chance to hit the mainstream yet. It sounds like she really had fun during the process of making her first album and tried to turn the dial to eleven on both concept and progressive structures on her second. Whether you like her music or not, you can’t deny the fact that she’s a genuine artist. I’m not a fan of Gaga’s music, but I still give her the credit of having natural talent.