Cancon in the Canadian Top 40: Martin Solveig and Dragonette (peaking at #9), Alyssa Reid, Fefe Dobson, JRDN, Avril Lavigne, Shawn Desman, Three Days Grace, Neverest, These Kids Wear Crowns (9/40 = 23%, one of the lowest Cancon percentages yet!)
Notes: Lady Gaga is at the top of both the US and Canadian charts. I'm not sure what opinion I should have of Lady Gaga. I've been reading Johnny Rotten's autobiography and I have a strange mix of respect and disgust for him, much the same way I feel about Lady Gaga. Rotten's take on life is to do everything as an individual and screw anyone who doesn't like it. He refuses to conform because conformity means buying into the larger social and musical meme and drains your ability to be creative. I think Lady Gaga does the same thing, but she doesn't do it as a middle finger to the rest of the world, she does it to stay commercially relevant. No one would pay much more attention to her over, say, Britney Spears, since they play a very similar style of music. It's only the spectacle she creates that makes her more visible. One gets the sense that her image is one that's produced and not one that is genuine, unlike Johnny Rotten, which makes me think of her as less of an artist and more of a performers. That's fine and all, but it doesn't make her music more compelling.
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