She is in the "Essentials" category

 

Chart-topping dance-club diva. Warholian pop-art star. Avant-grotesque performance artist. Oscar-nominated actress (and Oscar-winning balladeer). Protest singer. Old-school standards crooner. Metallica frontwoman: Few artists in history have reinvented themselves as many times as Lady Gaga, and fewer still have done it as successfully. The world is a weirder, more boundary-free place with her in it. As Amanda Petrusich wrote in her review of 2016’s Joanne:

 

At the start of the decade, Lady Gaga worked hard to reposition pop as a high art or vice-versa—both absorbing and extending a lineage that included oddball visionaries like Andy Warhol, Klaus Nomi, Prince, David Bowie, Grace Jones, Elton John, Madonna, and Missy Elliott. Most of her avant-garde gestures were extra-musical, a string of cheeky, absurdist visions realized entirely outside of the studio and only tangentially in conversation with her bloodless dance jams (Gaga herself has referred to that early work as “soulless electronic pop”). It’s not hard, now, to recall these stunts from memory: She was sewn into a dress fashioned from slabs of flank steak for the VMAs. She hatched herself from a semi-translucent egg at the Grammys. She hired a self-described “vomit artist” to puke a steady stream of syrupy green liquid onto her bosom during a SXSW performance. Her repeated and earnest disavowal of anything remotely normative was (and remains) plainly empowering for anyone sitting at home alone in her room, feeling like a true weirdo. The idea was always to fracture and reestablish a hierarchy. Only Gaga could turn “monster” into a term of endearment.

 

Notable reviews: The Fame Monster EP (2009), Born This Way (2011), Joanne (2016)

Further reading: “Why ‘Shallow’ Is Destined to Be a Karaoke Classic” (2019)

 

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-gu...ortant-artists/

 

Maybe she should've been in the "Icons" category (why Solange is there with her only couple of albums we will never know)

 

YES great inclusion/words on her. Her influence is undeniable on so many of the new generation of popstars - many of them cite her as an influence and inspiration!

Wait, Madonna not being on the list? I know it's only the past 25 years but still - we had Ray of Light and Confessions on a Dancefloor in that time (+ a whole heap more)

Oh wow that's a big omission... but maybe they consider her peak to be 1985-1991? She has *too many* highs

It's amazing how predictable they are. Y'all give this magazine too much credit.

That list is actually "the most important", not influential.

 

Not so many main pop girls (or women) there, so I'd say it's great to see Gaga included.

It's a list of 200 artists, if they didn't include Gaga in that predictable list they should close this site for good.

But aren't ALL sites predictable... Like those 12 Beatles song on the Rolling Stone The 500 songs of all time list?

 

Buzzjack's contests are like the definition of predictable usually :P