During my Super Bowl evening this past Sunday, I was asked a
very important question.
“Would you pick
Beyonce over Lady Gaga?”
What an awful question to ask me because it puts me in such
a horrible position. Having to chose
between two such amazing artists.
I mean, Beyonce has been in my life (meaning in my music
library) for so long. I was listening to
Beyonce before I hit high school.
Destiny’s Child was huge! My
friend and I even wrote our own version of “Jumpin’, Jumpin’”:
Ladies leave your pads
at home
Your pockets are full
of tampons and the bathrooms are gross
Now all you fellas
leave your girl with her cramps
‘Cause it’s 11:30 and
the club is PMSing, PMSing
Ok, maybe I was immature in middle school but you cannot tell
me Weird Al wouldn't love to be able to say he wrote these lyrics!
On the other hand, I traveled to Fort Lauderdale to see Lady Gaga in
concert and believe me, she did not disappoint. The woman played the piano with
her stiletto heel!
I have been looking through a lot of spreadsheets and
numbers lately at work so I decided to take that and apply it to this
conundrum. Please see below my Beyonce/Lady
Gaga Chart, rating each artist’s top song in a few important categories, on a scale from 1-10, 10 being the best. A total possible score of 100.
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Beyonce
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Lady Gaga
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Song
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Score
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Song
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Score
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Naughty
Song
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“Partition”
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10
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“I Like It Rough”
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10
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Loving
Men
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“Drunk In Love”
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9
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“LoveGame”
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9
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Hating
Men
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“Sorry”
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10
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“Swine”
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6
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Ballad
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“I Was Here”
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9
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“You and I”
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8
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Anthem
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“Run the World (Girls)”
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10
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“Born This Way”
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9
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Best
Quotable Lyric
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“I woke up like this”
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10
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“I’m just bluffin’ with my
muffin”
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7
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Revenge
Song
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“Ring the Alarm”
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9
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“Bad Romance”
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10
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Love
Song
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“Halo”
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9
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“The Edge of Glory”
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8
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Girls
Night Out
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“Crazy In Love”
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5
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“Just Dance”
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9
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Phone
Call Song
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“Video Phone”
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6
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“Telephone”
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9
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TOTAL SCORE
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87
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85
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I did not add up the scores until I had totally filled out the chart. This was so I could
maybe see if I was completely wrong in my quick response that I gave to this
puzzling question during Sunday’s halftime show. I wanted proof in numbers. And this is pretty damn on point!
The score was a 2-point difference with Beyonce ending up with the higher score. And that is
correct. I think both divas have amazing
talent. I have seen both ladies in concert,
I have all the albums of both artists, I have t-shirts of both women that I
wear pretty regularly and I enjoyed both of their halftime show
performances.
BUT . . . I love Beyonce a little bit more. I am a little more likely to say “ladies, now
lets get in formation” than I am to say “put your paws up.” And though I think it is great that Lady Gaga
has done so much with Tony Bennett, Beyonce had Kendrick Lamar and Jack White
on her last album. I just think I enjoy Beyonce's music, lyrics and overall presence a tiny bit more than Gaga.
So, during Super Bowl LI, when I was asked “would you pick
Beyonce over Lady Gaga?” my answer was an unwavering “yes.”
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