Lady Gaga to Likely Sell 1 Million Copies of "Born This Way" During First Week

Say what you want about Lady Gaga, but she knows how to market. She certainly has made herself into an icon after just one album, and I think many will compare her to Madonna in her influence. I think it is still a bit early to say her career will follow the same success with this being just her second album, but you have to admire her ability to put on a show. She just seems to have that same type of charisma Madonna did in her early years, and we all know how huge Madonna became eventually. I expect Lady Gaga to be right next to her a decade from now, but I suppose she has to keep putting out decent tunes still, which I am pretty sure she is capable of considering her background.

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I'm not professing my fandom of her by any stretch. She still sings pop music and I find it to be one of my least favorite genres. I do admire her ability to market though and give her a lot of credit for designing this larger than life image and taking the world by storm.

As for her new album...another marketing genius ploy. She had her album on sale on Amazon.com for 99 cents one day only and it got so much traffic Amazon servers went into shock. Still thee were over 330,000 units processed on that day. She got the buzz from the price, and the Amazon servers getting shut down, and she will likely sit atop the Billboard charts as #1 her first week. Something a 99 cent release is a bit of a cheat to get eh? It is projected that 1 million copies will sell week one, so it isn't like she wasn't going to be there anyways right?

'The Hangover 2' Not Much of a Hit With Critics

'The Hangover 2' opens this weekend, and critics feel like they are being cash-cowed. Another sequel made to try and squeeze money out of the success of the first movie, but bringing little to the table to get viewers excited. Sounds like critics would rather treat get body acne treatments than watch this film.

While 'The Hangover' was a decent comedy, and better than most in recent years, I didn't feel like I was watching anything special when I saw it. It got a lot of hype, and people seemed to enjoy it, but I still felt it wasn't an instant comedy classic by any stretch. It was sort of like Zombieland to me. Full of hype with very little payoff, and trying way too hard to appeal. Like the people making it had some references to what is cool, but didn't really "get it" with what they were referencing. Just trying too hard.

Times critic Betsy Sharkey, accusing the film of existing purely as a crass cash-grab without any good comedy to justify itself. She writes, "Me, I'm left with morning-after regrets. Lost is the fresh, perverse, painfully politically incorrect R-rated pleasure that came when 'The Hangover' ate up the summer of 2009."

Manohla Dargis of the New York Times: "If you superimposed a diagram that mapped out all the narrative beats, characters and jokes in 'The Hangover Part II' over one for 'The Hangover,' the two would align almost perfectly."

Roger Ebert's two-star review gives the film credit for having a few laughs (mostly because of Zach Galifianakis), but Ebert takes offense at one photograph, seen during the film's closing credits. Like the first one, "The Hangover Part II" saves the final revelations of the boys' wild night out for a montage at the end. "It's not that I was shocked. This is a raunch fest, yes, but not an offense against humanity (except for that photo, which is a desecration of one of the two most famous photos to come out of the Vietnam War). The movie has its share of laughs."