{"id":3630,"date":"2012-04-30T12:15:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T11:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2012-08-23T17:20:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T16:20:26","slug":"the-bridge-toyah-talks-lady-gaga-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-bridge-toyah-talks-lady-gaga-comparisons\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bridge: Toyah Talks Lady Gaga Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3632\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"gaga12a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/gaga12a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"157\" \/>Toyah was interviewed on &#8216;The Bridge 102.5&#8217; on Saturday morning on <em>The Nick Alatti Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Nick asked Toyah about Lady Gaga and that some have said she was the forerunner to her. Toyah said: &#8220;If you look at something in a compartment, nothing is new. Lady Gaga is completely different to what I&#8217;m doing, but I was doing it 30 years ago. I suppose I&#8217;ve always used image to go hand in hand with my music. It&#8217;s important to me. The music compliments the imagery as well. It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve always been interested in. I don&#8217;t go onstage in a little black dress or a demure little cocktail dress, I&#8217;ve always gone onstage and made a statement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Toyah also said that &#8216;The Changeling Resurrection&#8217; tour was structured with &#8220;four day breaks&#8221; to enable her to be able to sing the songs with her voice in peak condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Not sure if Lady Gaga has been influenced by Toyah&#8217;s visuals, I&#8217;d say the\u00a0creative team\u00a0working with Katy Perry have plundered Toyah&#8217;s visuals far more. Has to be said, though,\u00a0that the intro vocals to Gaga&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o8uMXyxvbKA\" target=\"_blank\">Government Hooker<\/a><\/strong> do sound more Toyah than Toyah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah was interviewed on &#8216;The Bridge 102.5&#8217; on Saturday morning on The Nick Alatti Show. Nick asked Toyah about Lady Gaga and that some have said she was the forerunner to her. Toyah said: &#8220;If you look at something in a compartment, nothing is new. Lady Gaga is completely different to what I&#8217;m doing, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,45],"tags":[220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7736,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions\/7736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}