Look, there’s no problem with enjoying Neko Case over Lady Gaga. Or the other way around. Simply a preference. But pretending there is some sort of pop hierarchy or objective standards when it comes to music (and evaluating music) is some stuck-up bullshit if you ask me.

And not sure if it matters, but Gaga writes and produces her own tunes (as well as for others), so she’s clearly got talent. Plus she went to NYU, so some smarts there as well. But yeah, the press certainly likes to talk about her outfits. Though I should note, rarely is it an artists’ fault what the press chooses to obsess about.

Anyway, LCD Soundsystem are fun. Glad to hear you like to dance.

My point was mostly that Lady Gaga’s output is not extraordinary, she does not deserve the press coverage she mostly generates due to her “wacky costumes”, and the over saturation of her thoughtless music is just more of the same from the cookie cutter factory of mainstream pop. If I’m going to invest my iTunes downloads on a female musician, I prefer the ladies on my list.

Also, Sasha Frere-Jones (and the New Yorker) have been writing on pop music for a few years now.

Last point — music is versatile and diverse. It can be used and enjoyed in a lot of different settings. Some like to dance to it, others to study, and others still while in their car. Most? All of the above, and then some. That said, it doesn’t seem like you’re the dancing type (hating on disco, synths and pop-stars), which is too bad. Dancing’s fun.

And hey, what-do-you-know, so’s Lady Gaga