Lady Gaga Album Inspired By Def Leppard

Lady Gaga says her new album draws inspiration from Def Leppard.

It follows news from fellow pop starlet Ke$ha who recently claimed her new album will "resurrect rock".

Gaga told The Sun she fell in love with Def Leppard when her dad Joe played their records when she was young.

"With my music there's lots of really big Def Leppard-style melodies in the choruses but it's electronic dance music," she said. "I'd call it avant-garde techno rock. It is very hard and very edgy.

"It is an exploration of electronic music and techno songs but I have created a genre of metal/dance/techno/rock/pop music with a lot of anthemic choruses, because that is actually the music I love."

Sorry Gaga, which one of those five genres did you say you loved?

The Leppard influence goes beyond a recollection of her youth, having hired their producer Mutt Lance for the song "You And I".

Last year, Gaga said she "lived and died by Iron Maiden", making sure to get snaps taken with the band after one of their shows. More recently, Brian May revealed that he had been speaking to her about filling in for Freddie Mercury for a Queen reunion.

Keen-eyed UG readers will remember our predictions that the likes of Lady Gaga and Ke$ha will be making moves towards the rock world after making what seemed to be a concerted effort to place rock stories last year, with all those backstage photos and praise for rock bands from before their time.

We think the record-breaking U2 tour revenue could be part of what influenced their decision to go rock, but that might be too cynical.

Let's hope their efforts help convince the wider music press to stop suggesting rock is dead. After all, if the biggest pop artists in the world are taking part, it has a hope of gaining new fans to live on into the distant future.

Comments

[Iliekgitaz]

I'm getting tired of these articles

Look Lady Gaga and Ke$ha are not gonna resurrect rock ok? That's like saying Lil Wayne resurrected rock because he made an album with guitar on it, which to this day still haunts me.

Btw I listened to her album and I listened to a lot of DL and I have to say I hear NO influence from them in her songs at all whatsoever.

[Trent Armitage]

Iliekgitaz wrote:

I'm getting tired of these articles

Look Lady Gaga and Ke$ha are not gonna resurrect rock ok? That's like saying Lil Wayne resurrected rock because he made an album with guitar on it, which to this day still haunts me.

Btw I listened to her album and I listened to a lot of DL and I have to say I hear NO influence from them in her songs at all whatsoever.

Quit being a negative nancy :'(

I can hear some instances of some Def Leppard

[ctb]

Cool.

[BigSpence]

In other news, local liberal arts student locked out of his room because student life requested a surprise lock change on him for some reason. More at noon.

[Glass Prisoner]

Do we care?

[harpcicle]

Hearing about all these pop stars being influenced by rock is getting pretty dull. Pink's second album was very rock orientated back in 2003 or so and she just got on with it without trying to garner attention for being a pop artist mixing rock

[WholeLottaIzzy]

Her music is cool. Imagine how good it would be if she was influenced by a GOOD classic rock band?

[CR!$+@]

Come on guys she has a realy good voice i think she could totaly pull it off you know if shes not in a bad romance.

[eloera1]

I dont get why UG post articles like this??? I mean I dont have anythin against Lady GAGA, but umm.. this is a GUUUUUIIIIITTTTARRR website!!!!

[indyrock91]

Oh yeah. that makes me want to buy it...

[Sparda93]

GaGa really can`t be this twisted, she hasn`t done anything to prove her love for rock, nor her passion for it.

[Pagan_Poetry]

I'd accept Lady Gaga into the rock world any day. She's at least got some talent and writes her own songs. So meh, why not? Worth a shot.
Ke$ha on the other hand I do not. Hearing that she could actually kind of sing on that Bob Dylan song only made me hate her lazy ass more.

[Tigershark2112]

I'll believe it when I see her drumming with one arm...

[Lord_Doku]

I'm interested in this album.

As long as it won't set the standard for future rock songs.

*insert Fruity Loopy Slayer plugin with dubstep bass and ambient synths*

[iplayat11]

eloera1 wrote:

I dont get why UG post articles like this??? I mean I dont have anythin against Lady GAGA, but umm.. this is a GUUUUUIIIIITTTTARRR website!!!!

Click the top 100 tabs by hits. There is a lot of pop music in the top 100 including bruno mars, katy perry, and even lil wayne. Clearly pop music fans bring a lot of traffic to the website. Why wouldn't UG offer news that may be of interest to a large demographic of the website's users?

[WantsLesPaul]

The only reason I hate Lady Gaga so much is because she's a giant attention *****.

[vikkyvik]

Sparda93 wrote:

GaGa really can`t be this twisted, she hasn`t done anything to prove her love for rock, nor her passion for it.

She doesn't have to do anything to prove her love for rock, nor her passion for it.

Why people get worked up at these articles (stupid as they may be) is beyond me.

[Supersonic1]

"avant-garde techno rock"

umm...what?

[pwninator123]

eloera1 wrote:

I dont get why UG post articles like this??? I mean I dont have anythin against Lady GAGA, but umm.. this is a GUUUUUIIIIITTTTARRR website!!!!

Oh, I must've missed where it said Music News.

[Pagan_Poetry]

eloera1 wrote:

I dont get why UG post articles like this??? I mean I dont have anythin against Lady GAGA, but umm.. this is a GUUUUUIIIIITTTTARRR website!!!!

I'd check your keyboard if I were you. Some of your keys seem to be sticky.
Plus I'd rather have this than Courtney Love describing how she shits and which Gallagher brother hates potpourri more.

[Iliekgitaz]

Trent Armitage wrote:

Iliekgitaz wrote:

I'm getting tired of these articles

Look Lady Gaga and Ke$ha are not gonna resurrect rock ok? That's like saying Lil Wayne resurrected rock because he made an album with guitar on it, which to this day still haunts me.

Btw I listened to her album and I listened to a lot of DL and I have to say I hear NO influence from them in her songs at all whatsoever.

Quit being a negative nancy :'(

I can hear some instances of some Def Leppard

I'm not being a negative nancy, I'm just speaking the truth. Pop music can't bring back rock, all that it will do is have people gain interest in edgier pop music.

[pwnadgebunny]

it's still good to see these pop artists respecting rock. lady gaga is easily my favorite current pop artist out there right now.

[spiff-corgi]

Pagan_Poetry wrote:

Ke$ha on the other hand I do not. Hearing that she could actually kind of sing on that Bob Dylan song only made me hate her lazy ass more.

Am I missing something here? You hate her more after hearing her sing alright? What?

[Pagan_Poetry]

spiff-corgi wrote:

Pagan_Poetry wrote:

Ke$ha on the other hand I do not. Hearing that she could actually kind of sing on that Bob Dylan song only made me hate her lazy ass more.

Am I missing something here? You hate her more after hearing her sing alright? What?

Basically the fact that she can kind of sing and flat out doesnt is god damn irritating. It proves that she could be more but relies on nothing more than auto tune, annoying talking and the work of producers to get money. She's lazy in every sense of the word (especially look wise. She looks like an eel drowning in olive oil). If it was just her being absolutely terrible and being made huge because of the producers, it'd still be annoying but okay, it's been done many times already so I'm kind of used to it. The fact that she CAN sing a bit just irritates me so much more. She's nothing more than a cash grabbing slob that has no artistic integrity whatsoever when she very well could have.

[spiff-corgi]

Pagan_Poetry wrote:

spiff-corgi wrote:

Pagan_Poetry wrote:

Ke$ha on the other hand I do not. Hearing that she could actually kind of sing on that Bob Dylan song only made me hate her lazy ass more.

Am I missing something here? You hate her more after hearing her sing alright? What?

Basically the fact that she can kind of sing and flat out doesnt is god damn irritating. It proves that she could be more but relies on nothing more than auto tune, annoying talking and the work of producers to get money. She's lazy in every sense of the word (especially look wise. She looks like an eel drowning in olive oil). If it was just her being absolutely terrible and being made huge because of the producers, it'd still be annoying but okay, it's been done many times already so I'm kind of used to it. The fact that she CAN sing a bit just irritates me so much more. She's nothing more than a cash grabbing slob that has no artistic integrity whatsoever when she very well could have.

See I KNEW you'd have a good reason. You're Pagan_Poetry.

[switch625DL]

AAARRRRRGGGHHHH goddamn bit*ches, 'they love rock', they say. stupid cu*nts. She won't ever come close to the musicianship and awesomeness of Def Leppard. She will be gone in few years. Def Leppard will last forever. Like Steel Panther's song... Gold digging who*re. With no talent at all.

[Engel22]

People wonder why certain artists keep saying that Rock is dead, well, here's the answer to those questions. Gaga and Ke$ha are not going to revive Rock N' Roll, they're going to kill it if they have their way.

[Pagan_Poetry]

spiff-corgi wrote:

See I KNEW you'd have a good reason. You're Pagan_Poetry.

I don't know what that means, but thank you nonetheless. =]

switch625DL wrote:

AAARRRRRGGGHHHH goddamn bit*ches, 'they love rock', they say. stupid cu*nts. She won't ever come close to the musicianship and awesomeness of Def Leppard. She will be gone in few years. Def Leppard will last forever. Like Steel Panther's song... Gold digging who*re. With no talent at all.

Jeez did Pokerface kill your dog or something?

[RideTheRoses]

So Lady Gaga wants to be rock huh, let's give her a test,
if she can name the fifth circle hires Steve Vai for her next tour she's in, otherwise, she knows where the door is.

[Raven_Flight]

I just love her a bit more each day

[silent caution]

makes sense...the only way to enjoy it if you are deaf

[Pagan_Poetry]

RideTheRoses wrote:

So Lady Gaga wants to be rock huh, let's give her a test,
if she can name the fifth circle hires Steve Vai for her next tour she's in, otherwise, she knows where the door is.

What kind of a test is that?

[guitarlad89]

ahhh, influenced by def leppard..... well that explains why it's shitty.

[Michael Stewart]

Poser!!!! Oh yea, my metal album was influenced by Tupac.

[nailsarecruel]

Iliekgitaz wrote:

I'm getting tired of these articles

Look Lady Gaga and Ke$ha are not gonna resurrect rock ok? That's like saying Lil Wayne resurrected rock because he made an album with guitar on it, which to this day still haunts me.

I remember being directed by a live performance Wayne did and he pulled out a guitar and started making pling pling plong plong noises.

It really killed me when the recording picked up chicks screaming what sexy things they'd allow this guy to do to them, then a couple of them started screaming "He's so TALENTED when he did what I guess he imagined was a solo.

I tell you, people flip out over Miley and Kesha's trying-too-hard antics, but to this day I can't name how I felt about that particular piece of feedback.

[Joey Radical]

I kind of like Lady Gaga. It would be waaay better if she played rock though.

[Reagar]

Lol Def Leppard. Maybe she'll start singing more explicitly about people jizzing on her
I think maybe she's probably included as many tags as possible so that it gets reported on lots of websites, cause her music is not metal, and I'm not even a metal fan so have no pride at stake in that statement

[BOYERxBREAKDOWN]

Maybe she'll do an album with Lou Reed. *trollface.jpg*

[haygoe]

Reagar wrote:

Lol Def Leppard. Maybe she'll start singing more explicitly about people jizzing on her
I think maybe she's probably included as many tags as possible so that it gets reported on lots of websites, cause her music is not metal, and I'm not even a metal fan so have no pride at stake in that statement

if your not a metal then umm why are you on this web site jw lol

[m4ss3 m/]

App for blocking Nickelback from internet? How about one for this c*nt?

[e7add9]

Wait, AVANT-GARDE? bitch PLEASE

[the_messenger66]

Sigh, she is trying too hard to be different by labeling herself, "avant-garde". ("ooh, I'm so edgy.") She's trying to live up to the image she wants to be. Mashing genre's together doesn't make it avant-garde. It's like putting a bunch of food together and making....a sandwich?? Even though the sandwich itself was revolutionary, Lady Gaga is a sandwich made of sandwiches crying out for attention in an over saturated cheeseburger like music industry. I'm not saying that she isn't talented, she is. But she's just taken the 80s and ran it through a machine worthy of Wonka and created a pop monster (and there's definitely no metal in there, that's for damn sure.)

[lmo2th]

This is just Lady Gaga trying yet again to expand into a market she was never meant to expand to. First she was saying her work was like Green Day, then Iron Maiden and now Def Leppard.

[Iced Earth9]

Is it me or does she make a new album every 2 weeks?

[6-String_Madman]

Trent Armitage wrote:

Iliekgitaz wrote:

I'm getting tired of these articles

Look Lady Gaga and Ke$ha are not gonna resurrect rock ok? That's like saying Lil Wayne resurrected rock because he made an album with guitar on it, which to this day still haunts me.

Btw I listened to her album and I listened to a lot of DL and I have to say I hear NO influence from them in her songs at all whatsoever.

Quit being a negative nancy :'(

I can hear some instances of some Def Leppard

Hey! Go see an OTOLOGIST...

pwnadgebunny wrote:

it's still good to see these pop artists respecting rock. lady gaga is easily my favorite current pop artist out there right now.

Hey! Go see an OPHTHALMOLOGIST...

[jhart08]

no, no your not

[ijackson57]

Iliekgitaz wrote:

I'm getting tired of these articles

Then don't read 'em!

[Swannie]

if lady gaga is avant garde then i'm king arthur

[GREENWARRI0R]

Rock needs no resurrection, it's fine the way it is.

[Duongy]

these pop artists think they can do anything, it really takes a rockband to resurrect rock not some pop artist that doesnt have a dresss sense

[SoulShredder]

How much did lady gaga pay you guys ?

[nightruler666]

other failed attempt to get me to listen to pop music

[Instant Mash]

Never heard of this Mutt Lance fellow, but if he's anything like Mutt Lange...

I don't listen to Lady Gaga. If this new album is new album is any good then I might give it a try. Otherwise, I don't really care.

[Vyden09]

Who gives a flying ****. It is just ****ing music calm down and ****ing enjoy it, if not then don't listen to it.

[daverolston]

Although I don't care for her music that much I think Katy Perry could sing for a rock band no problem. Also, Faith No More are the greatest avant garde band OF ALL TIME.

[Skuzzmo]

Vyden09 wrote:

Who gives a flying ****. It is just ****ing music calm down and ****ing enjoy it, if not then don't listen to it.

Yes...this.

[guitaristtobe40]

I have no doubt Lady Gaga was influenced by Def Leppard, there are many artists who are influenced by musicians outside their own genre of music; but why does UG need to post an article everytime a musician declares it? Its nice to know, but its not exactly exciting news.

[Dewy141]

You're all a bunch of whiny bitches

[Minivirus2]

I have created a genre of metal/dance/techno/rock/pop music

Ok, I take offense to her stating metal as part of her sound. You claim to be heaviyl influenced by DL? Well, DL is easily classified as a hair metal band. Now, do you know what hair metal is comprised of? It's typically: pop choruses, pop song structures, scales associated with pop music, feminine imagery, generally softer metal guitar tones and more kick drum.

Lady Blahblah, you've taken ALL OF THE POP ELEMENTS of DL music and now you decided that you can call your music metal!? No! Just no. You're missing most, if not ALL of the elements of metal which are found in DL's music.

[jordo246]

When she can hold peoples attention with her music and not some stupid costume or wearing next to nothing on stage I'll listen to it.

[Tigershark2112]

She clearly doesn't know the meaning of 'avant-garde', or John Cage.