Will [Insert Artist here] be around in 5 year\'s time?
 

I haven't seen a thread like this so I thought I'd start one. Basically you've got to discuss if the artist who's the current topic will have any longevity and or will disapear.

The first artist is LADY GAGA.

Lady Gaga's has had huge success all over the globe but I don't think she'll be around in five years time. I think her music lacks variety. She'll definately get a second album but I think people are becoming bored with her, nevermind the fact that she's quite egotistical (She considers herself a work of art??!?). If she can lose the attitude and try to be more malleable when it comes to music then maybe she will. The problem is that her target audience tends to latch on to the 'next big thing' if she's not careful she'll be forgotten.

What are you're thoughts?

WILL GAGA BE AROUND IN 5 YEARS TIME?
Yes: 50% No: 50%

WILL THE SATURDAYS BE AROUND IN 5 YEARS TIME?
Yes: 6 No: 7

WILL THE TING TING BE AROUND IN 5 YEARS TIME?

Gaga is a one (album) hit wonder

Hopefully not.

And I can imagine people getting bored of her as her music is quite repetitive and similar sounding, so I don't thinks she'll be around a decade at the most.

In 5 years time she will be hardly heard of.
Her music style just cannot go on for 5 years. She would need to change, and then everyone would dislike her.

No, She will never quite get the fame she wanted and she will never be like Kylie/Madonna

how did i know this thread would be about lady gaga

Music's a lot more sensational and selective these days - with the rise of the internet, the elitism of popular (teenage) culture and the decline of physical sales and television performances.

If you look at musicians that were big 5 years ago - there are indeed a few that are still around. Keane, Scissor Sisters, Britney, McFly, Eminem, U2, Girls Aloud, Robbie Williams.

But there also plenty who've disappeared now - Busted, Michelle McManus, Natasha Beddingfield, Shapeshifters, Anastacia, D12, Ronan Keating...

I think that music is a lot more 'viral' nowadays and whilst you can be lucky sometimes in securing a one-hit wonder (see Orson, Sandi Thom, Daniel Powter for example), although you might have had more success in the 80s/90s, you're much more unlikely to today. Music is a business now, and a very saturated one.

I think she will be around. I think she is creative enough to sustain a career. She might be an overnight recording sensation, but she is the prodcut of the underground, and has been doing her thing for a long time. I think those types of artists can usually maintain, and always stay current. She will never get old!

Some answers: Bored with her? says who? If anything she has more and more fans!

Her music lacks variety? Dance music has been around since the 90's now, and its pretty much the same since. People still lie it, so the variety thing is a non isuue.

I think Lady GaGa is very versatile.
And I do think she will be around in 5 years time. Fame like that just doesn't disapear.

I think she loves her work and music too much to give up/become unpopular x

It's not JUST gonna be about her, I'll change it every once in a while.

Natasha Beddingfield is very popular in America though..

Lady Gaga's a one trick pony; so until she releases a song that's different to everything else she's done, there's no way she's making it past five years; I give her three tops if she stays the same.

I can see her being around for a very long time while keeping her uniqueness.
I think she will be able to change enough to not become repetitive and boring unlike most artists who are currently in the charts

No I don't think she will. She's pretty much this years Katy Perry - known for releasing very catchy, up-tempo hit singles and then release something slow that doesn't quite match the success.

Lacks variety? what bullshit.

Listen to Just Dance
Listen to Brown Eyes
Listen to Poker Face
Listen to Again Again
Listen to Starstruck
Listen to Paper Gangsta

her music is very variable from pop, electro, dance, techo, ballad-pop, rock n roll, r&b, hip-hop and blues.

Cant be sure, I mean she is great, and will be one of them who are still remembered in 20 years time, but not sure if she can carry on

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Spot on! Just Dance and Poker face are the only ones that are really similar

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I doubt that very much.

Why not? She took the music scene by storm, so she'd be remembered for that at least

By her fans, maybe, but she's hardly had the same revolutionary impact on the music scene that artists did 20 years ago. See Madonna, Depeche Mode, The Stone Roses... even some people on here won't recognise the two last names there, which is awful really, but there are musicians who've come and gone since then with the same popular impact she has had.

Sure, but who does revolutionary change the music scene these days? :puzzled:

Course Gaga will still be around, she's unique, she can sing to different types of music and she's worked towards this for years with the Haus of Gaga.