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Apr. 13th, 2012 10:15 amDay 23: Your opinions on Lady Gaga.
I have lots of thoughts about Lady Gaga, but rather than write an essay, I thought I'd point you to this post of Sady Doyle's, which says it all with an eloquence I don't think I could manage.
In the past, Doyle had written of Lady Gaga 'Like, basically I think she is an undercover performance artist attempting to decode the whole "sexy pop star" thing and its implications re: gender and sexuality and also sort of taking the piss with the whole sexy pop star thing whilst wearing corsets with exploding breast cups and disco ball dresses and what-have-you and singing songs about the disco sticks and the bluffing of muffins and I love her. Embarrassing, but true!'
In a later post, she had changed her tune slightly.
Gaga’s controversies used to be more interesting than this. They used to bring up stuff like, say, trans prison issues, or the politics of depicting human trafficking, or whether femininity and female sexuality were a means by which women were oppressed, or a means of empowerment (answer: Both, provided you can shoot fire out of your nipples). [...]
Next time, come up with something that’s actually offensive. Or, at least, cool-looking. Give me something to talk about. You are the Internet; our fate is in your hands.
Which is basically my thinking too. And her songs are good to dance to.
( the other days )
As you may have noticed, I've been away from the internet for a little while, so I'm behind on this meme. I will remedy that by posting three times today!
I have lots of thoughts about Lady Gaga, but rather than write an essay, I thought I'd point you to this post of Sady Doyle's, which says it all with an eloquence I don't think I could manage.
In the past, Doyle had written of Lady Gaga 'Like, basically I think she is an undercover performance artist attempting to decode the whole "sexy pop star" thing and its implications re: gender and sexuality and also sort of taking the piss with the whole sexy pop star thing whilst wearing corsets with exploding breast cups and disco ball dresses and what-have-you and singing songs about the disco sticks and the bluffing of muffins and I love her. Embarrassing, but true!'
In a later post, she had changed her tune slightly.
Gaga’s controversies used to be more interesting than this. They used to bring up stuff like, say, trans prison issues, or the politics of depicting human trafficking, or whether femininity and female sexuality were a means by which women were oppressed, or a means of empowerment (answer: Both, provided you can shoot fire out of your nipples). [...]
Next time, come up with something that’s actually offensive. Or, at least, cool-looking. Give me something to talk about. You are the Internet; our fate is in your hands.
Which is basically my thinking too. And her songs are good to dance to.
( the other days )
As you may have noticed, I've been away from the internet for a little while, so I'm behind on this meme. I will remedy that by posting three times today!
