I'm your biggest fan, I'll follow you until you love me
For her companion album to The Fame, Lady Gaga appropriately titled it The Fame Monster. Indeed her performance has centered on our obsession with fame, with celebrity - the notorious Lady Gaga, if you will. Yet it was on The Fame's fifth single that her scrutiny on celebrity and obsession came to stunning clarity.
Straight off, I will say that "Paparazzi" is one incredibly good pop song. It's the song Madonna should have released. The slinky melodies, dominating beats, alternately sensual and snappy lyrics - "Paparazzi" took all the best elements of Euro-dance and blended them into a song of perfect hooks and was just inescapable. Coupled with a video that was a spectacular pastiche of Noir, Hitchcock and Matthew Barney excess, "Paparazzi" mined the comparisons between celebrity obsession and romantic ones cleverly and shrewdly. If it's over the top, then it's meant to be - one gets the sense that Gaga is in on the joke. In the chorus, Gaga sings baby, there's no other superstar, you know that I'll be and it's really hard to argue with that.
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