Adding her well-informed voice to the image vs talent debate, Joss Stone has announced that she feels Lady Gaga's musicality gets lost among her outlandish outfits.
Speaking to CY Interview, the 'incomparable' soul singer explained that she feels "shock value is good and gets people to watch you", but when a female artist "actually can sing songs and she can play piano, it just feels like it might overshadow what talent she does have."
Part-time image consultant Joss is convinced that if Gaga ditched her costumes, people would still love her. "[Gaga] can sing, but then people forget she can sing because she’s doing all this crazy stuff. I guess [her tour is] a great show. I mean, I’ve never been, but I’m sure it’s awesome.”
She goes on to claim that popstars' over-use of eye-catching outfits is all Madonna's fault and ladies in pop today should learn where to draw the line. "Madonna’s not the best singer in the world, but she was awesome with her entertainment and all of her shock tactics and stuff and that’s where it began. She then inspired all sorts of other girls to do that. But I don’t know, I just think music’s kind of important too. You’ve gotta know where that line is especially when you are good at singing."
"I would never want something I’m wearing or the way I’m dancing to overshadow what I’m doing," she added. "I’d rather grab people’s attention with my voice.”
Indeed.