Thursday 1 July 2010

Lady GaGa ?


To the globalised world we live in, this is Lady gaga, To her Friends and family She's Steffani Joanne Germanotta. What is it about this Sensational Artist, that makes her a globalised, untouchable superstar?

Pictured above is GaGa herself in her New York yankees Jersey sporting just her underwear and heels at a recent game. Slandered constantly by the media, with "what's she wearing now?" "Ohh GaGa the Supreme Freak" This woman has fast become an international icon for fashion, liberation and individualism...  I think the hook she has is that, people feel she's displaying  and demonstrating their inhibitions. She likes to go out in daringly glamourous emsembles, saying what she thinks, dancing like no one is watching. All while demonstrating her passion for art.

To most people they respond with how she's a freak her videos are salacious. They often spark outrage and shock eventually becoming over editted, commercialisation distorts the artist meaning of her videos.People say she knows how to get attention, "she's just a mentally unstable young lady with alot to learn". To me and she's an artistic and lyrical genius, using art to communicate a story of how fame kills. 
An avid user of symbolism in her music videos, performances and lyrics. GaGa had her self killed on stage while Performing Paparazzi at the MTV VMAs, which is a song about her taunting fame and how she'll "be there biggest fan and follow them until she loves them"  Recently at a concert in England a parent complained when her 12 year old daughter saw GaGa being mauled by her dancers, she said it was too raunchy that she was appalled, and thought she brought being a slut to a new level. Even with attractive, catchy lyrics. She's not all that suitable for children. Art cannot be tammed or capped, Simply Misunderstood as a freakish attention seeking weirdo. My interpretation of her art and symbolism is very much different, to many critics.

Last year in a video interview in norway when the interviewer asked if her videos were over sexualised and distracted people from her music. She bit back,

"You see, if I was a guy, and I was sitting here with a cigarette in my hand, grabbing my crotch and talking about how I make music 'cause I love fast cars and fucking girls, you'd call me a rock star. But when I do it in my music and in my videos, because I'm a female, because I make pop music, you're judgmental, and you say that it is distracting. I'm just a rock star"- Lady gaga

However with a massive fan base that's only getting bigger, the only way is up for this inspirational Woman.