Lady GaGa's 'The Fame' an insult to music, talent

Lady GaGa is not a musician, nor can her racket be considered music. This is a musical failure that should have been rejected to enter the social fabric of the U.S.

Her album, "The Fame," is shockingly awful. It is torture on the ears and an abomination to music in general.

Yet, she is the logical extension of a new era of "music" made by people who seem to hate music. Plastic beats, plastic vocals and a seemingly plastic person singing the vocals are the essence that is Lady GaGa.

She is not alone. Lily Allen is another example of musical failure that is somehow popular. It seems that at the tail end and the beginning of a new decade, people rush to listen to fake, awful music. Music whose purpose is to force a listener NOT to think.

Just think back to 1999 and remember the biggest selling act of the time. N*SYNC's "No Strings Attached" sold more albums than anyone that year (probably even that decade) and now someone could not sell their copy used for more than a quarter, and that would be considered more like charity than anything else.

The power of music is that it is supposed to hit a chord, emotionally, within a listener.

Yet, Lady GaGa and her ilk are making music that denies people any emotion. It is Muzak for the numb.

Lady GaGa's lyrics are about money, parties and other aspects that people in today's economy simply cannot relate to. She has money and she flaunts it in her fans' faces and they love her for it.

The album, as a whole, sounds the same throughout.

Any attempt to isolate tracks and relate the pros and cons about them would be redundant.

Simply put: Lady GaGa is rich and parties. Paris Hilton already has that job in the States and we do not need more of that.

Going into this album objectively, this writer had not heard any of Lady GaGa's music before, nor had known much about her.

The 40-some minutes that followed was an experience best represented by the film "Pi," when the main character puts a drill into his skull.

Usually, most albums have a moment that is decent. "The Fame" does not.

If there is, the endurance to find it would be equal to finding a nugget of gold in a river of dung.

If one is looking for mindless, emotionless music that is not techno, Lady GaGa is for them.

For everyone else, it is just another brick in the wall in the downfall of music.
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