The singer’s new track, “Born This Way,” was intended as an anthem to diversity and acceptance. But as Jacob Bernstein reports, her core fanbase thinks it’s just a pandering piece of pop.
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On Monday—after Gaga performed the song at the Grammys with a troupe of scantily clad dancers while donning a ponytail reminiscent of early ’90’s Madonna—Andy Cohen, the Bravo host, wrote on his blog that he found her number “very Blond Ambition meets Express Yourself.” This did not appear to be a compliment.
Even among Gaga’s most reliable demographic—denizens of the gay club world—the reaction was far from uniformly positive. Jared Needle, who with his business partner Josh Wood is the biggest gay party promoter in New York, said, “I find the lyrics cliché and the melody overly Madonna-esque. It seems pretty en vogue at the moment to pander to people’s concerns about bullying. It’s a good PR move because it’ hard to hate a song that speaks to acceptance—unless that dialogue seems forced, inauthentic, and disingenuous. I sort of liked Gaga more when she sang about dancing as opposed to trying to be the voice of a generation.”
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