Thanks for the clarification on Britney - I agree.
I'm still curious as to why people are so sure as to what GaGa's relevance/impact/status will be years from now when she's pretty much brand new?
Why not wait to see what else she does in a year or two before slapping the "irrelevant" and "forgettable" labels on her?
You don't like her songs? Fine! You think she's irritating? Great!
Guess she's having an impact already, if people are rushing to write her off so quickly.
I'm not saying that. As I wrote, she prooved that she's intelligent, that she can write and produce good pop songs and it seems that her graduation skills have something to do with arts.
But she's still pasted and using/wasting the "Madonna formula" (let's call it this way) in a frenetic rhythm. If she runs away from it and then starts to build something of her own, who knows if she won't stay around here for many years and remembered as other icons...
I think that Gaga can win in the future if she starts to follow a new path. Meanwhile she's too pasted to what's been done before (exhaustively), I don't think so.
And I'm definitely not a fan of the "Bad Romance" song and video. Starting on the fact that it's a twin sister of "Poker Face" (rhythm section, chords progression, structure, etc). Then the video: on the last years, I've never seen a bigger amount of ideas, concepts, methods, references in one sole video like "Bad Romance". It lost all the focus, the concept (if it has ever existed besides the trying to be a trendsetter... like Madonna was/has been, once again), cohesion is zero... a big mess for me. The performance of the last MTV Awards mirrors this idea very well... It's excessive, it has loads and loads of visual noise for something so simple. No one asked that and her music doesn't ask that neurotic euphoria of her persona and full ideas.
Plus, she doesn't have a bad voice (I actually like it, and she knows her vocal range and possibilities very well), but I hate the fact that she changes melodies (on new versions for instance) drastically, specially vocal melodies (MTV Awards performance I talked about... and she goes out of key sometimes because of those "show-off borderline improvisations"). It doesn't bring anything good or fresh to the songs. It's just more show off for me. And she didn't need it.
So, I don't think she's talentless (I think it's the exact opposite, she's proved she has talent), but she's wasting it with that "psychotic excessive show off" and with the collage to Madonna's formula.