Lady Gaga has blasted herself back onto the top of the music scene with her newest single, “Born This Way.” The glam goddess has sparked quite a controversy on her latest tune, many saying that it sounds a little too close to Madonna’s “Express Yourself” for the brand of music genius. What these critiques are forgetting is that every single new pop song already sounds like 20 others that have already hit the charts, and been forgotten in the dust. Remember when Coldplay got called out for “Viva La Vida” stealing the unknown riffs from the Creaky Boards? Bill Gates got accused of stealing his programming for Microsoft. Accusations happen all the time.

What the real problem is with the new “hit” is the awful “feel-good” and “love thyself” tone it’s taken. It seems that at some point between “gettin’ slizzered” and going “alcohol insane” our beloved pop icons have decided that it is imperative to remind us to like, like ourselves, or something like that. Christina Aguilera tried to do that in 2002 by remind us all that we are all beautiful, and now 9 years later pop is trying to do that again.

This wave all started with Katy Perry’s “Firework,” touching our hearts with deep metaphorical questions like, “Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?” in an attempt to connect with her audience on a new level.  Then came Ke$ha’s “We Are Who We R” in which she reminds us all that “You know we’re superstars, we are who we are!” When I first heard these songs I was left speechless. I was confused, and frankly felt kind of violated by these singers. Why were they trying to tell me how to behave or think? They were just supposed to lament about last Friday’s drunken mistakes, not tell me to like myself. I was supposed to draw esteem out of their failures! Now I’m just confused and Miz Gaga ain’t doin’ nothing to make it better.

First off, “Born This Way” features 25 “babies.” Not one, not two, but 25. I don’t get that her repetition of the word is to belittle me, or make me love her, but I don’t like it. The main problem I have with BTW is the fact that I no longer feel or see that fun loving Gaga that got drunk at clubs and forgot how to use her phone. I want her back, not this new and improved, politically savvy icon that’s here to make it all better. She’s bringing me down man, and I really don’t like it.