Advantages: Two albums for the price of one. Diverse range of GaGa songs! Disadvantages: One or two songs are a little bit too weird. Still worth it though!
So unless you have been sitting under a rock for the past eighteen months you will in some way be aware of the presence of slightly wacky but extremely talented Lady GaGa. Following the immense success of her debut album The Fame, GaGa had released a follow up to support her debut with the new and different The Fame Monster. Does it live up to the hype? You betcha!
The woman behind the mask
GaGa or Stefani Germanotta as is her real name is only the tender age of 23. She has been breaking out into the music scene for sometime and for many years prior to becoming a performing artist in her own right she wrote songs for the likes of Britney Spears and The Pussycat Dolls. Whilst working as a song writer she caught the attention of Hip-Hop star Akon who appreciated her raw talent and he immediately signed her to his label. After a few ...
Advantages: 16 tracks is more of a bargain Disadvantages: Absolutely nothing!
does has a reason to it, so expect nothing less than excellent in this album. As her album so rightly named "The Fame" see Lady Gaga change pop culture into something more anticipated, so that is why Lady Gaga in my opinion is the defining star of 2009 and the one to look out for in future. ...
Advantages: Find out why I was absent from Ciao for so much of last year. Disadvantages: Find out how I snatched disaster from the jaws of success!
On 19th January last year I published a very up-beat review of my personal 2008, a year which in many respects had, for us at least, been one of the best. I was full of optimism for 2009, which had already gotten off to a good start. Whilst that review was generally very well received, there was a pattern to the comments along the lines of ?lucky you, we should have been so lucky?. I wondered if I had done the right thing publishing ?my good year? when so many others had obviously had such a very hard time of it.
In actual fact I had published it for that very reason, seeking some kind of lighter hearted take on 2008, having read so much gloom and doom, and even hearing it first hand from a group of my own customers who were already feeling the most bitter-cold wind of change that they had known.
Being a natural born pessimist I ...
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