Since she hit the scene back in 2008, Lady GaGa has been on the receiving end of many a criticism.
Labelled a copy-cat by sects of Madonna’s fan base and cited as being blasphemous by The Catholic League, Ms. Germanotta is one entertainer who very few have little to say about.
Now, readers of Billboard have shared their thoughts on ‘The Fame‘ singer.
They think she’s overrated.
Full story below…
On the organization’s 2011 ‘Year In Music Poll‘, GaGa beat the likes of Britney Spears and Justin Bieber to be named as the ‘Most Overrated’ artist of the year with 30% of the vote.
With 25% of the vote was Pop princess Rihanna and close behind was the ever animated Rapper Nicki Minaj with 13%.
Seeing as this week saw Forbes name GaGa Pop’s highest earning female artist, we doubt she’ll lose much sleep over this particular ‘win’.
So what do you think?
I don’t think she’s overrated. She hasn’t had a #1 single since “Born This Way” although her album sales have been doing well. If anything Rihanna and Katy Perry are overrated. What’s a bunch of #1 singles going to do for you if people won’t remember them in years from now? Where’s their talent? what do they have to bring to the music industry? They’re all about image whereas Gaga is not only about how she looks but her music as well. Gaga has a reason for the things she does and has impacted the music industry. She’s working with legends such as Tony Bennet, Elton John, Cher, Clarence Clemons, Sting, etc the list goes on and on. Katy Perry is doing the most to work with relevant artists just to stay relevant.
FLOP T*****
Gaga is definitely not overrated and I’m not even a huge fan of hers. I don’t even need to say who SHOULD of came in at number one with that poll.
@THE GREAT LACEFRONCE
H** HUSH
LADY GAGA>RIHANNA
If she gets rid of the overrated theatrics, and stop making music thats overly trendy then i think she will be fine… People were saying the same thing about Beyonce being overrated, and now that she decided to follow her passion not not promote her self to the zenith degree they call her a flop. Guess you cant please everyone so to you Gaga i saw follow your heart and do what you love!
well considering that is more talented than the various brinteys , rihanna , justin bieber eccc.
SHE IS TALANTED AND WORKS HER ASS OFF…OVERATED..NOPE…TOTALLY DISAGREE AND IM NOT EVEN A HUGE FAN.
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Did They LIE???
*Sips M***** Juice*
A joke
Let me say I just checked Billboard for some information and people who comment on that site are a joke and a bunch of kids so no wonder the results of this poll. One question: does TGJ really thinks this was worthy of a post?????
Also Billboard is great for the numbers and information but Billboards critics must be the worst I´ve ever seen cos I just read an article in which they peaked their top20 singles of the year (supposed to be a quality thing) and they chose “Bass” by Nicki Minaj… LOLOLOL and We found love in also top20. A joke is what they are when it comes to opinion. They should keep just giving the info and the numbers of the biggest market and that´s it
that grape juice is starting to get on ma nerves…need a better blog to read,,,wtf for posting this bull
This is actually reader’s poll. And you can see Britney is dominating that poll. Even her performance with Rihanna at BMA voted as best awards show performance lmao. Her fans worked so hard on this.
Lady Gaga dared to do dance-pop before it became popular in the USA
The dared go with an unconventional image
She plays piano, she sings well
She produces, she writes her songs and arranges them
She dances
She directs her videos
Can your fave? No.
Well, she IS OVEREXPOSED.
Her album “BORN THIS WAY” is average at most! ‘Judas’ is the only song that looks like it would have been on ‘The Fame Monster’, the others are just blah
If it wasn’t for her antics, this album would have come and gone.
I think she’s really talented. If she just get rid of the meat dresses and all that mess, I think she’d get more respect because she really has a fantastic voice!
Btw the title is very misleading.
Billboard is a company, TGJ. Are you that desperate of a lawsuit?
@Lames, Loosers, Ass Holes, Haters
& Horses Batups,,,,The did not do this
Article on Rihanna or Katy now did they.
And another thing everything that one
person love is not always anothers cup
of tea.
@ Saul,,,,Fall on your own Sword, bytch.
U Mangie bytches can’t keep RIHANNA’S DAM NAME
OUT OF YOUR PPUKKKKKI NNN MOUTHS TO SAVE
YOUR BROKE D*** SOULD, RIHANNA KEEP KILLING
YOU BYTCHES HER SONGS OR MORE MEMORABLE
THAN MANY SONGS THATS OUT THERE RIGHT NOW
AND IF HER SONG WAS JUST PLAIN SIMPLE MINDED SONGS
THAT DID NOT HAVE A HEAVY MIKXTURE OF WHAT CAN HAPPEN
IN DEAALY LOVE CONNECTION AND ETC RIHANNA MUSIC IS SO
DAM HEAVY THAT SHE HAS HAD THE CANCER SOCIETY AND R***
ALL AFTEER HER AND HER TRUE TO LIVE SONGS/VIDEOS AND HER MUSIC HAS BEEN WELL REPORTED KEEP “tALKIN tHAT tALK, BYTCHES”.
AND MIND U THIS HAS HAPPENED JUST THIS PASS YEAR BYTCHES, RIHANNA SING PUKKKKKIN GROWN ASS MUSIC FOR THE GROWN AND S*** AND SHE HAS NO PROBLEM THROWING THEM LYRICAL CONTENTS
RIHANNA THROWS THEM HEAVY HEAVY LACED SEXUAL CONTENT AND SHE DOES IT WITH CLASS AND STYLE SHE THROWS DOWN SOME BADASS LYRICS JUST ASK CALVIN HARRIS, WEST, JAY, JUSTIN, CALVIN HARRIS, AND EMINEM BYTCHES AND RIHANNA HAS 1.9 BILLION YOUTUBE VIEWERS AND HER AND EMINEM HAS OVER 400MILLION VIEWS AND SHE HAVE GOT 47.8 MILLION FACEBOOKS LIKES AND 10.7 MILLION TWITTER FOLLOWERS AND SHE THROWS IT DOWN LIKE A SUB MARINE GOES TO THE BOTTOM OG THE OCEANS BYTHES AND EVERY ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE MEGA ARTIST FROM SEA TO SHINNING SEA. RIHANNA IS UNIQUE, DIFFERENT AND SHE CROSSES ALL DEMOGRAPHICS WITH HER MUSIC A PERFECT CROSS AND MAIN STREAM ARTIST BECAUSE RIHANNA APPEALS TO THE UP TOWN CROWD AND THE HOLE IN THE WALL CROWD RUDE BOY, SKIN, CKB, AND MANY ISLANDS AND POP , R&B SOUL GROOVES U BETTER ASK SOMEBODY. ASK MEN .COM WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT RIHANNA ASK ROLLING STONE ASK EMINEM, JAY, WEST, TI AND MAROOM5 BYTCHES!!!!!!
There you have it.
Although they’re just stating the obvious… We’ve known for about a year that this b**** is overrated.
Hell Yeah!!!
Average singer with gimmicks. If it wasn’t for the dramatic outfits and the rest of it she wouldn’t have been as big as she is.
Stripped back she’s basic.
Rihanna is not overrated at all… She doesn’t use gimmicks to hide her vocals, she’s true and real and if she has a bad performance she doesn’t try cover up… So if anybody is overrated it’s Gaga who uses ridiculous costumes and pathetic lyrics, I love Gaga in The Fame era but now she’s popped.
Rihanna has consistently grown in the industry unlike Beyonce who just sounds the same on every record. Rih has the ability to be s*** without sounding like a w**** like most pop artists (Keri, Kelly Rowland, Britney etc)
What does having a #1single have to do with overratedness? Yes GaGa is overrated. Rihanna and Katie Perry is not ovverated because people don’t put them up on pedestals and claim that they are Gods like they do GaGa.
Oh and TGJ, that poll is based on opinions of readers, not Billboard. Your 2nd -rate base journalists should be careful the way they word their articles…
Lady Gaga overrated? LMFAO! You people just really don’t understand REAL TALENT! What took most of the artist you worship on this site years to get a number one hit to someone who’s album sold in one year and hasnt stopped saleing since she stepped on the pop world plus she WRITES her own sh!t!!!! Lady Gaga pushes the limit and those who don’t see that are crazy
lmaoooo
if she got rid of the over the top gimmick, people may be able to see that she can in fact sing and is talented. for next album, she should strip back and showcase her talent!
She is one of the few artist i noticed that can sing and dance at the same time. she should take a year off, work on her dancing a little more and write ballad songs.
who got to be joking!!! If anything the only reason why people “think” Rihanna had progessed is because of her constant image change. But if I were to compare LOUD to GGGB, it pretty much the same. The only album were rihanna may have progressed is rated R.
Alicia keys makes the same type of music, and stays in her own lane so why do people want beyonce to have drastic change like rihanna. no just no, beyonce has to put more soul into her music. Alicia keys has a weaker vocal, but she is ahead of beyonce in rnb and soul because her music has emotions!
Plus Rihanna cannot sing for sh*t. Hence: why she uses a backing track that was loud enough to not hear her in her tours and x factor performances! Yes, most artist have used backing tracks including beyonce, but it was never loud enough to overtake them. And dont give that “technical” issues when is happens all the time in her tour and both x factor performances. tbh, this generation are so s*** that they use backing track. LOOK at Prince, MJ and the best of all Jay brown who all were able to dance and sing at the same time. Jay brown in his 70s was still dancing and singing at the same time. The question why these current superstars treat us like shyt and dont put efofrt into their performance and current trend their MUSIC!?
MRDIVABITCH
December 16, 2011 at 12:21 pm
Lady Gaga dared to do dance-pop before it became popular in the USA
The dared go with an unconventional image
She plays piano, she sings well
She produces, she writes her songs and arranges them
She dances
She directs her videos
Can your fave? No.
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REAL TALK!!! expect the dance pop.
This girl brings something (new) to the table. She has the brains and talen to execute her ideas and that’s why she is #1
Lady Gaga is not overrated. I think most people didn’t even know what the word meant and just voted for Gaga.
GAGA>Your Faves
@Roman Beyonce has grown Dramatcly COMARE her DIL era Voice to NOw
Her tone SHe is a True Vocalist and has Growth ! lmaoo u are delusional
Rihanna always sounds the same “sings” about the same S** S** S**..changes her wig to be relevant and all her hits are without singging always ” Eh EH EH EH”
“na na na”
Beyonce is waaaaay more taleted then Rihanna
SO ass GAGA , gaga aint Overexposed
RIHANNA IS THE GIMMICK OF THE GENERATION
Well in all fairness, that’s not her fault in particular. It’s the public who hyped her up.
She’s OVERRATED!!! I kinda miss Beyonce to be honest with ya lol
I agree with KINGPHOENIX…But i dont think Ga Ga is overrated at all. She’s a Pop star and love the theatrics and costumes and whole 9..at least she’s intersting to watch
NO SHE IS NOT OVER-RATED!!
ALL THE HATERS WILL JUST HAVE TO DEAL
THAT GODGA IS LORD OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY!
SIPS MOSCATO!!!
I think its the public who make her & other popular artists of tday overrated. For me, I just enjoy their music. Could care less about who they’re screwing or if they’re even screwing… Ppl really need to let these celebs be & live their lives. They do deserve privacy no matter what their profession is.
I bet those readers are Britney and Justin fans. I could give a s*** about what “readers” think about Gaga. My girl is slayin the game right now and will be for a long time. Deal with it!!
They are all over-rated..yacki be with her “w****” album..Whorana with her talk that crap and Lady gag me with her Born on another planet cause earth shouldnt claim such mess. and katy Scarry and all the rest! Nicki Garbagi cant for get her..one min im hard..next im a sellout and doing songs with a 10 year old..negro please~ NEXT
I’m not surprised at these results at all or the three top “winners”. If you read blogs OUTSIDE of TGJ and a few others, you would already know that most people think that each and every one is overrated.
The only difference between the 3 listed is that I often see people then comment about how at least GaGa writes and plays instruments. This poll is all opinion though and not fact.
Overrated? she can sing, play over 10 instruments, writes all her music, produces, designs her tour sets, produced a very successful holiday special, has played a major part in politics in the US & India, has held political press conferences with embassadors, performed for the Queen, praised by several real icons (Tony Bennet, Barbara Streisand, Cindy Lauper, Patti Labelle, Cher etc..) She has inspired iconic fashion designers new lines. Performed to a sold out tour everynight on her WORLD TOUR 3 years no break. If she is underrated then is the rest of these half ass artist out? She is the hardest working person in the industry, like her music or not…
Oh please this b**ch gets nothing but constant praise! The gays love her because of her pro-gay stance which is cool but no different than the many artists – including Madonna – that came before her. The media blathers on about her constantly. I don’t understand the hype for she is average at best. Don’t get me wrong she has some talent but the things she is able to get away with is simply outrageous. Let someone else admit they were addicted to cocaine and still is a member of “green peace” and I don’t mean the activist group! The media would eat them alive. Hell some ppl can’t enjoy a cigarette without it making headline news! Whatever criticism “Man Caca” receives is well earned and mainly true!
Gaga is far from overrated… Rihanna should be at the top.of that list… no shade.
To me Gaga’s NOT overrated.
She isn’t underrated either.
Gaga stans overrate her.Gaga detractors underrate her.That balances it out for me.
@ROMANISDUMB,,,,,You can say what ever about Rihanna and her music i would love for you to try and prove that Rihanna’s music is what you say it is to the million buyers of her new album “TTT” IN JUST 3 WEEKS. aND TRY AND CONVINCE THE MILLIONS & MILLION Youtube Viewers of her music
when you get some time check out rihanna 1.9 Million youtube vieweres of her Music Videos That along with Rihanna’s Face Book Likes and Twitter Followers tells a different tale of Rihanna thr super star. People or just trying to RAGGGGGG ON GA GAS TALENT BECAUSE GA GA IS DOING HER PUKKKKKKIN THING AND HAVE BEAT THEIR ASSES WITH SALES AND HE FAT ASS BANK ROLL FOR THIS PASS YEAR. With Ga Gas Sales you do not see no Bytches talking s*** about others who made more than Ga Ga Sitting on their asses and did not tour like they do with Rihanna and her salary. Some one with a rabbie brain is always trying to down grade these younger artist with a truck load of b/s. Ga Ga is “ARTIST” AND THEY DO THE KINDS OF THINGS GA GA AND OTHERS DO FOR A LIVING AND LIKE SHE IS DOING IS WHAT IT TAKE TO MAKE IT OUT THERE IN THE INDUSTRY. And i know some negative feed back isn’t going to slow Ga Ga Down All of the artist came to win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ga Ga is the top Artist this year and many or pissy and bitter
because she is on top and good for Ga Ga i am sure that
shes not losing any sleep over what “they have to say aganist
her, real talk.
@TONY ONLY IN YOUR PUKKK IN DREAM.
Rihanna stays in many bytches head and rih is doing her thing and
theres not a dam thing you bastards can say or do about it but
wish it was rihanna they was refering to lol.
Reaaallly?????! fuuck yoou h***!!!!!!
Gaga is very overrated and I sense a public backlash brewing against her. This a READERS poll; as opposed to some journalists opinion. This is just the kind of thing that happens when campy pop stars are overexposed. As soon as we move on to a POST-Gaga world, the better off music will be.
Stop it with the Rihanna bashing, no one is acting like or referring to Rihanna as God like some of these crazy Gaga stans. I never heard Rihanna claim her music is going to be life changing or say her videos and music are going to be “EPIC” these are just some of the reason a lot of people feel Gaga is overrated. She should have never said the Born This Way was going to the album of this generation, which is was not even better then The Fame or The Fame Monster.
“LADY GAGA
Behind the ludicrous and attention-seeking Halloween costumes, the obnoxiously overblown music videos, the swagger jacking of Madonna’s personality, and the conspicuous plot to manipulate the socially awkward and misfits of society into thinking that they have a voice (and are empowered) through her, is a bunch of banal and contrived gibberish heavily propped by media hype that does not live up to it. What began as a bouncy, pixyish, one-woman-show-esque version of what the Spice Girls did in the late 90s has now become an egotistical, overproduced–yet still oddly generic–mess of grating sounds that is irritating to listen to and takes itself too seriously.
Once upon a time this character that is ‘Lady Gaga’ may have provided a cheeky and quirky contrast to what had been the model of what was popular, and it may have been quasi-endearing, but when pop stars infuse that much camp into their image, at a certain point the irony *will* get old and lose its charm. In the meantime, this woman has literally crammed about a decades worth of gimmicks, put-on’s and media saturation into a three year span. We have seen her show up kite high, in meat dresses, with horns attached to her head, dressed as a man, with discharged gay soldiers as her escorts, etc., etc. The ‘shtick’ is old. There are only so many heavy-handed stunts you can use to dumbfound the public into noticing before they become either hostile or jaded, and a backlash ensues.
Lady Gaga has always been a ‘character’ for show, but she has become a caricature and a parody of herself. No longer is it “refreshing,” abstract or inventive; it is now tired and dated. Overexposure is killing the cat and quite frankly Gaga is losing her relevance. By making herself into such a sneaky little cartoon who is force-fed to the public in obscene dosages, she has backed herself into a corner. The only thing left for her to do at this point is to throw on a pair of jeans and act normal, but how boring would that be for someone who named herself ‘Lady Gaga’ and made being strange her ticket to fame? She was here; she dominated the world of music and got her press, but the milk is now sour. The writing was on the wall when dowdily dressed and anything-but-flashy Adele c*** blocked what was supposed to be a Gaga-dominating 2011. Kids do not listen to her, it is not “cool” to be a walking freak show…and quite frankly it is not cool to like Lady Gaga now.”
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#OVERRATED!
Notice how celebs only get overrated when ppl get tired of em. Proves they’ve done their job and have nothing else left to prove. So if she’s overrated who cares.
Justin Bieber is overrated and annoying. I hate him. The queens gaga, nicki, and rihanna are all famous cuz they have relatable pop music for everyone. Not little kid crap. You see no one liked aaron carter anymore after he was an adult. Same will happen to justin.
Definitely talented but DEF a MAdonna wanna be
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When two songs from Born This Way flopped on charts…It’s pretty sure that this b**** is overrated, over-hyped and fame hooker.
50:50 !!!!
BUT HEY , she is talented , m*********** 😉
What’s new?
THIS UGLY T***** IS VERY OVERRATED!
HE HAS NO TALENT, HE’S FUGLY AND HE’S LOSING ATTENTION/POPULARITY SO QUICKY 🙁
This is for Gaga haters out there only, Pop music was great and it had began to declined losing its formula thanks to the overrated moron Lady Gaga who had destroyed today’s generation which is now becoming thick and the encomy is losing its money power also, I just can’t stand and don’t like people liking her and had a stupid dumb following for asshole fans – we don’t want anymore those so called Alice in Wonderland wannabe fantasy influence on female popstars okay or I’m going to stop listening and prefer reading instead!
Lady Gaga has admitted that her music is “shallow,” and passes it off as “art.” I’ll go one step further and say that if you take away the throbbing euro beat and predictably outlandish props, it’s juvenile and boring.
But hey, if shallow, juvenile, and boring are your thing, she’s one hell of a performer. She thrives in an era of vacuous, talentless pop culture.