Lady Gaga gets my respect for being a style chameleon and for cranking out the catchy singles — there’s no one whose music I’d rather hear more during a spinning class (sorry, Madonna) — but her her lack of self-awareness is pretty jaw-dropping.
In the January issue of Elle, she talks about how she doesn’t want to be seen as yet another oversexed pop tart:
“My album covers are not sexual at all, which was an issue at my record label. I fought for months, and I cried at meetings. They didn’t think the photos were commercial enough…The last thing a young woman needs is another picture of a sexy pop star writhing in sand, covered in grease, touching herself.”
I think most people would agree that we are at a saturation point with the Britneys and the Mileys and everyone who came between them, but Gaga undercuts her own message by appearing on the cover with bedroom eyes and hair and wearing a sheer lace bustier. There’s also the topless photoshoot she did for V Magazine (NSFW) this summer where she is, wonder of wonders, touching herself.
And let’s not forget the sexually-charged lyrics of her hit songs, like “LoveGame”:
Hold me and love me
Just want to touch you for a minute
Baby three seconds is enough for my heart to quitLet’s have some fun,
This beat is sick
I wanna take a ride on your disco stick
Plus it’s not hard to parse her metaphors in “Poker Face”:
I won’t tell you that I love you
Kiss or hug you
Cause I’m bluffin’ with my muffin
I’m not lying I’m just stunnin’ with my love-glue-gunning
I’m sorry, we’re not supposed to read her as a sexy pop star? Because lyrics and photos speak louder than words.
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Don’t worry Lady G. I’ll never see you as a sexy pop star. Mainly because you have the face of a gargoyle.
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I was gonna ask if these comments were before or after her nose job but Pastafarian was just that much quicker.
Can’t blame her for getting that schnoz job at all.
To me, she’s actually pretty…once she’s out of the Bizarro-world outfits and in regular clothing.
The tattoos, however, are a compete turn-off.
She’s not bad looking but she is certainly nothing special. I had my daughter’s ipod playing in the car the other day and on came Lady G’s Christmas song. Apparently Lady Ga Ga’s Christmas tree’s ‘delicious’. So now we have filthy Christmas songs to contend with. Synced my daughter’s ipod up and took that little ditty offa there.
Are you sure Lady Gaga is actually a woman?
Yeah, b/c she looks sorta like a bleached Eric Bogosian. Which would, of course, account for the deceptive baked-goods analogy.
I like the fact that as shes whining about being “another sexy pop star” her pics on the magazine cover right next to an article about britney spears.
Who cares about Lady Ca Ca? I’d rather dry hump an electrical socket than assault my ears with “her” tunes we know she didn’t write, produce, or (possibly) perform on. (Milli Vanilli is still fresh in my mind when it comes to musical betrayal.)
Lady Ca Ca is another figurehead for another prefab music company… I’ll stick to my underground metal that relatively few listen to, but for all the right reasons.
Oh yeah, drop the “Lady”… a little truth-in-advertising, please.
I think those contentious record company meetings went along these lines:
Record company guy: Hey baby, how about some more skin in these pics?
Lady Gaga: Why? Do you really think straight guys are going to buy this album?
I forgot to add something.
I realize she has to make up for her plain-as-white looks with all these stupid, made-and-thought-up-by-others outfits (which also serve as a distraction from the – dare I call it – “music” she queefs out, again thanks to others). Fine, whatever.
The only refreshing thing is that she adds something I’ve screamed years for: more ugly people in the position of fame. I’m tired of fake looking humanoids being all up in our ‘tainment. I want more ugly people… hey, it would be a more accurate reflection of reality than what’s going on now, right?
And boy does Lady Ca Ca deliver. So plain, I couldn’t pick her out of a lineup of one, yet ugly enough to keep rats out of my garage.
this parade of this type females currently in the media remind me of a line I heard the other day: ‘A fifty dollar haircut on a fifty cent head”
Autotuner needs to die. And a firey death to all performers who use it too.
@quigonkick: Whether you like them or not, she definitely writes the songs. Before she worked on her own record, she was writing songs for other artists.
This isn’t a case of a no-talent “artist” being manufactured by a record company. The girl taught herself to play piano when she was four years old. Closer to a prodigy than a no-talent.
She’s not “Another Sexy Pop Star”? What else is she?
Another Sexy Pop Tart, apparently.
If she is so concerned about being taken seriously and not being sexualized, why does she spend 99 percent of her time not wearing pants? That is actually the only way I can identify her. The one who looks like a drag queen without pants. Maybe that’s why she doesn’t wear them, to prove she is a woman.
I think most of her music is annoying, which of course means it gets stuck in my head easily. If I hear her stammering p-p-p-p-poker face one more time…
LOL, you guys kill me. And me too, my reaction has always been…is she really a she? If so, I’d agree also that she looks better without the freak on.
blurp, Thanks for setting me straight then. This is a shock of shocks.
And on an extremely sarcasm-free note, I’d like to admit that I’m an idiot for not looking into this before running my fingers. “Know your enemy” is a favorite saying of mine and this time I didn’t do that. So since I committed stupidity here, it is here I’d like to apologize to Lady Ca Ca for the uninformed and untrue statement. I knew better. My bad.
Back to the real me.
Of course, if blurp is putting me on and Lady Ca Ca hasn’t written squat (notice how I’m still too lazy to verify this), the above statement is null and void. If politicians and “stars” can weave caveats into their apologies, then so can I.
You know who else wrote his own songs, and played piano at 4 years old? Mozart. Is it possible Lady Gaga is the reincarnation of old Wolfy?
If I just listen to her songs and not try to watch her videos or her perform, I may actually enjoy them. If I watch her then to me it looks like someone is trying to overcompensate for her lack of singing. And PErez adores her, so that is enough for me to hate her.
“I fought for months, and I cried at meetings.”
GRRRRRL POWER!
Yeah, Pasta, that does strike one as rather manipulative and retro, doesn’t it? “I’m so tough and empowered that I cry whenever somebody doesn’t fall all over himself letting me have my way.”
Eh…I still love her and all the crazy she brings into this world.
Well, if you believe a lot of feminists, the only way to show you are truly empowered is to go have sex (preferably starting as a teen so you can not tell your parents, illustrating your maturity), get pregnant, then go pay someone (or better yet, get the government to pay someone) to kill the baby. Repeat frequently, as your sole role as a woman is to conceive then kill your children to prove you have control of your body.
I got a tip for Lady Gaga: say no. Then don’t undermine your position by acting like the pop tart you claim you aren’t.
Boy, I am cranky today! This is what happens when you have to carry your own skittles.
Lady Gaga pisses me off. She’s just a pop star with a bizarre wardrobe, yet everyone’s creaming their damn panties over her. I don’t get the hype.
OKAY SERIOUSLY I DONT GET WHAT ALL THE HYPE IS ABOUT EITHER…..SHE IS A HERMAPHODITE…..SO SHE IS A MAN AND A WOMEN……SO FOR ALL YOU STRAIT GUYS UR NOW GAY……HER MUSIC IS SOMEWHAT STUPID I MEAN SHE IS REAL SEXUAL…..I WANNA TAKE A RIDE ON YOUR DISCO STICK……WUT THE FUCK IS A DISCO STICK AND THEN IN ANOTHER SONG SHE SEDS SOMETHING ABOUT A PORNOGRAPHIC DANCE FIGHT…..SHE MAKES NO SINCE AND SHE IS VERY UNORIGINALLY…..MOST OF HER CLOTHES COME FROM ROISION MURPHY SO OBVIOUSLY SHES GETTING FAMOUS OFF OF SOMEONE ELSE BUT HEY SHELL GET OLD AND NOBODY WILL EVEN RECOGNIZE HER ANY MORE……HER MUSIC IS CRAP AND PEOPLE SHOULD STOP WASTING THERE MONEY
ONE MORE THING I HAVE OTHING AGAINST LADY GAGA…..PEOPLE WILL SAY SHE WALKING ART….IMMA A MUSICIAN MYSELF BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT WHEN SHE FIRST STARTED OUT SHE WAS BETTER BUT WHEN THE FAME GOT TO HER HEAD SHE STARTED LACKING SO RIGHT ABOUT NOW IM NOT REALLY INTO HER OR THE MUSIC