What's Old Is New Or Recycled

They say nothing ever really goes out of style, the name just changes. The aforementioned sentiment is true in all arenas of our lives. In the fashion circles, bell bottoms were all the rage in the 1970s. During the 1980s, they were out of style. But then during the late nineties, we witnessed a resurgence of them, only this time, the pants were known as flare jeans or wide leg pants. The same goes for artists and styles in the music industry. Most artist that gank someone else's style and try to modernize it don't really do it justice. Take Miley Cyrus, for instance. Miley Cyrus is the 2010 Britney Spears. A bad revamping of Britney Spears with a few subtle changes. Yet you step into rare air space when you talk about artists like Lady Gaga. If today's musical landscape was high society, Madonna would be considered old money and Gaga would be called nouveau riche-meaning new money. But why is Miley Cyrus not as accepted as Lady Gaga? Miley's execution is horrible.

before you embark on a task, you think about your plan. and while most plans look great on paper, the execution of said plan is usually the part that ruins you. Miley Cyrus and Lady gaga both had plans. Miley was going to go the Disney route and establish a fanbase by having a television show where she sang and danced. Lady Gaga decided to appeal to the audience that was ostracized by their peers. She was going to win them over by daring to be different and showing the people that were doing the ostracizing being different was cool. That sounds a lot like Britney Spears and Madonna. Britney started out as a mouseketeer on The New Mickey Mouse Club, where she sang and danced. Madonna is queen of the gays, if you exclude Barbara Streisand. But I digress. The reason Gaga is widely praised by the general public is because she is doing the Madonna thing equal to or, to some, greater than Madonna. The same can't be said for Miley.

Cant Be Tamed is the title track from Miley's second album. This parallels Britney in more ways than one. Britney's second album was Oops! I Did It Again, where the main message was how she wasn't as innocent as people believed her to be. Miley tries to deliver tha same theme with Cant Be Tamed. In the video, she's in a cage. The lyrics talk about her not being put into a box. Translation: I'm not as sweet as you think I am. As a writer, I would have to say that's slight plagarism. the lyrics are probably the same too. Not feeling that. In essence, Miley's whole career has plagarized Britney's. Miley is becoming tabloid fodder now. One word for Miley: yikes!

As for Lady Gaga, she took the central message of Madonna and created something totally unique. Madonna was daring in her fashion choices, but I never saw her rocking a dress made out of Kermit the Frog beanie babies. Plus, Gaga writes songs with layers. It will take more than one listen to catch everything she's throwing at you in Bad Romance. Some people still haven't peeped everything. Did you catch the Alfred hitchcock references? Or do you know what a 'leather studded kiss in the sand' is? Yeah, look into that one. Madonna gave you things like that in her music also. She delved into the bizarre just because she could. That's what Gaga has taken from Madonna. to me, thats not plagarism, just infinite flattery.

I mean, sure, they're both doing the same thing. Miley and Gaga are stealing someone's style to better their career. While Miley is still learning where she fits in, Gaga knows who she is. Which makes Gaga the winner because at some point the student must become the teacher. It doesn't matter if the student takes the positon by force or if it's passed down to them. Lady Gaga is starting to become the teacher slowly but surely. Miley cyrus is still sitting in the back of the class chewing her gum loudly and texting her classmates for the right answers.