Reply #14: Stupid in what sense? I only know 2 & they meet my criteria: a MELODY

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I don't look at videos, so that might delete one level of stupidity for me. Plus, lyrics and just-rhythm are non-existent as criteria for me. If the music has a MELODY, a catchy-tuneful-hooky MELODY, that puts it at the top. After that I might pay attention to the lyrics and usually a good melody is going to have good-everything.

So, Ms GAGA, at least for me in "Bad Romance" and "Alejandro" passes the catchy-tune test. AND she has a good voice. The only other one I've heard is "Pokerface" and didn't get past the tune level.


Somebody in their 20s?/30s was trying to clue me in to kewl music and played something without identifying it. This person claimed this was the epitome of kewl-ness. After a minute or two of NO discernible melody, depressing at that, I put my arms straight out in front of me and said, "This is ZOMBIE music." It was something by Pink Floyd, whoever that is. There was only a couple of little places, like a "bridge"?, where it had a tuneful interlude.

Bottom line, she's got the melody thing and the voice, don't need to look at her or her act. But "Bad Romance" has sort of wound down for me in appeal, like it's got an expiration date.

As for lyrics, was it Dr (Samuel?) JOHNSON who said, "What is too silly to be SAID, is SUNG." On Edit: Google tells me it was VOLTAIRE.