Showing posts with label Lady Gaga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lady Gaga. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
"Perform this way": Weird Al does Gaga
The parody
The original (which works just fine as a self-parody, if you ask me).
Yes, the lyrics are laughable in some spots, but have you listened to Beyoncé's new song "Rock the World (Girl)"? It's grotesque, but not it a good way.
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
"Bad Project" Lady Science and Zheng Lab
We return momentarily to the topic of "Bad Romance" parodies for this gem, "Bad Project." I post this for all of my friends and colleagues who are research scientists! You know who you are.
For those of us who have never worked in a lab, "Western Blot" refers to a lab technique for mapping proteins in a tissue sample (I think!).
Translations of the Chinese characters on the tubes (from the YouTube comments):
The lab fashions are priceless!
For those of us who have never worked in a lab, "Western Blot" refers to a lab technique for mapping proteins in a tissue sample (I think!).
Translations of the Chinese characters on the tubes (from the YouTube comments):
Friday, June 04, 2010
Thursday, May 06, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
Hello, Hello, ( yep yep yep yep yep)
Folks (if there are any out there besides my faithful two!) I keep writing more serious posts about more serious topics, and then not posting them. I'm not sure where the inhibitions are coming from. Maybe it's because so much of what I want to write about is really too personal for what this space was originally intended to be; maybe it's because I feel guilty putting quality time into the blog that should go into other kinds of writing. Actually, I haven't been writing much because I've been grading midterms and now I have to read graduate student proposals and scholarship applications.
From my couch I can see a squirrel in the tree outside the window (no leaves yet to hide the critters).
P.S.
Sesame Street-Gaga mash-up: the song Telephone with the space guys:
My brain has been colonized by Lady Gaga songs. I also like this "Key of Awesome" parody, and this Pamplamoose cover.
From my couch I can see a squirrel in the tree outside the window (no leaves yet to hide the critters).
P.S.
Sesame Street-Gaga mash-up: the song Telephone with the space guys:
My brain has been colonized by Lady Gaga songs. I also like this "Key of Awesome" parody, and this Pamplamoose cover.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
More Lady Gaga
In our house, we are big Lady Gaga fans. This clever and vocally splendid acapella cover of a medley of Lady Gaga songs shows why they have become such earworms: the arrangements and harmonies are incredibly sticky! Great singing by nayamarie2009!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Sunday morning Lady Gaga earworm
Major earworm alert!
When I first saw Lady Gaga perform on SYTYCD, I thought she was creative, albeit a little sharp through the first half, a little awkward with the props, a little "who expected to see her out in daylight?" very underground club. But she sang live, unlike many of the musical guests on STYCYD and I liked her creativity.
Now she has perfected her live performances to the point where she is in complete control of her persona, the sets, lighting, costumes, dancing, and the catchy disco/dance-pop sound she's going for.
After seeing her perform "Bad Romance" and "Speechless" (piano's on fire! yaahhh!) "Ra Ra oo la la, ga ga oo la la!" has been STUCK IN MY HEAD all week long, during class, over Thanksgiving, and this morning. As she starts out on her North American tour for "Fame Monsters" with Mark Kanemura as one of her dancers (yay, Mark!), I need to hand off this earworm to someone else, so looky here and listen up!
Every time she has performed the song on TV in the last few weeks, the costumes and sets are a little different: on Gossip Girl, on the Ellen show, on Leno (clip taken down).
Of course, the Gaga parodies are popping up like mushrooms! We have our Saturday night lip-syncing in homemade costumes in your living room version (awesome!), the rewrite as Rad Bromance version. And Barely Political adds Lord Gaga to the mix:
Earlier songs given the remake treatment for laughs include the clever Pokeman parody "Pokéface" of "Poker Face"; "Just Dance" is transformed into "No Pants" in homage to Lady Gaga's costume preferences, and we go to the level of meta-parody with the fan-stalker song "Paparazzi" turned into a Lady Gaga-inspired hymn to Michael Buckley, YouTube star of "What the Buck?"
She does not have the musical or emotional range of my beloved Annie Lennox, who also played with disco-synth and gender-bending in her performance and videos for many years, but Lady Gaga has a healthy sense of humor, and is so much more interesting to watch than most of the other big pop stars right now, as she proved on the AMAs where she was far more interesting than J-Lo, Shakira, Alicia Keys, Rihanna, and even Adam Lambert, who, sadly, did not entertain me.
Here is the awesome DJ Earworm's mashup tribute to Annie Lennox, made with her collaboration:
When I first saw Lady Gaga perform on SYTYCD, I thought she was creative, albeit a little sharp through the first half, a little awkward with the props, a little "who expected to see her out in daylight?" very underground club. But she sang live, unlike many of the musical guests on STYCYD and I liked her creativity.
Now she has perfected her live performances to the point where she is in complete control of her persona, the sets, lighting, costumes, dancing, and the catchy disco/dance-pop sound she's going for.
After seeing her perform "Bad Romance" and "Speechless" (piano's on fire! yaahhh!) "Ra Ra oo la la, ga ga oo la la!" has been STUCK IN MY HEAD all week long, during class, over Thanksgiving, and this morning. As she starts out on her North American tour for "Fame Monsters" with Mark Kanemura as one of her dancers (yay, Mark!), I need to hand off this earworm to someone else, so looky here and listen up!
Every time she has performed the song on TV in the last few weeks, the costumes and sets are a little different: on Gossip Girl, on the Ellen show, on Leno (clip taken down).
Of course, the Gaga parodies are popping up like mushrooms! We have our Saturday night lip-syncing in homemade costumes in your living room version (awesome!), the rewrite as Rad Bromance version. And Barely Political adds Lord Gaga to the mix:
Earlier songs given the remake treatment for laughs include the clever Pokeman parody "Pokéface" of "Poker Face"; "Just Dance" is transformed into "No Pants" in homage to Lady Gaga's costume preferences, and we go to the level of meta-parody with the fan-stalker song "Paparazzi" turned into a Lady Gaga-inspired hymn to Michael Buckley, YouTube star of "What the Buck?"
She does not have the musical or emotional range of my beloved Annie Lennox, who also played with disco-synth and gender-bending in her performance and videos for many years, but Lady Gaga has a healthy sense of humor, and is so much more interesting to watch than most of the other big pop stars right now, as she proved on the AMAs where she was far more interesting than J-Lo, Shakira, Alicia Keys, Rihanna, and even Adam Lambert, who, sadly, did not entertain me.
Here is the awesome DJ Earworm's mashup tribute to Annie Lennox, made with her collaboration:
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