Lady Gaga The Fame Flag

Lady Gaga The Fame FlagThe times were crying out for a pop star like Lady GaGa a self styled, self made shooting star, one who mocked the tabloid digital age while still wanting to wallow in it and one who's smart enough to pull it all off, too. That self awareness and satire were absent in the pop of the new millennium, where even the best of the lot operated only on one level, which may be why Lady GaGa turned into such a sensation in 2009: everybody was thirsty for music

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producer Richard Gottehrer -- a veteran of the Strangeloves ("I Want Candy") who also wrote the girl group standard "My Boyfriend's Back" -- sanded down the band's rougher edges

The starry-eyed darkness of "Only You" comes closest to a modern take on indie rock

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