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Old 11-24-2009, 11:24 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Is Lady Gaga in on her own joke?

If you have no familiarity with Lady Gaga past being the latest pop tart flavor-of-the-month Britney Aguilera knockoff with overproduced over-engineered, and overplayed throbbing-beat, dance-mix, chart-toppers, allow me to present a slightly different perspective:



And to demonstrate that this gal is still under the blond wig:





Ok, so she can sing without Autotune. That doesn't mean there's a brain behind the voice, right? She could still be the pop culture manufactured Mike's Hard Lemonade to more serious musicians hearty Belgian Ale. Is there substance as well as talent?


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At age 11, she was set to join Juilliard School in Manhattan, but instead attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private Roman Catholic school. Playing piano by ear from the age of 4, she went on to write her first piano ballad at 13 and began performing at open mike nights by age 14. At age 17, she gained early admission to the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. There, she studied music and improved her songwriting skills by composing essays and analytical papers focusing on topics such as art, religion and socio-political order. She later withdrew from the school to focus on her musical career

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During [2007], she began writing for artists signed to Akon's Konvict label, as well as Fergie, the Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears, and New Kids on the Block.[6] After hearing her sing a reference vocal for one of his tracks, Akon formed the opinion that she was also a good singer.
From Lady Gaga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Which brings us to a discussion. Do you consider putting on a trashy glam fashion hypersexed persona and catering to popular music aesthetics to be 'selling out'? If so, is "selling out" in that way even a bad thing? Do you think it's an act? To clarify, how much of what she does and "is" do you think is calculated for shock value, news headlines, and marketability?

Here's my take, feel free to diverge. I am probably over thinking things, but I would like to think she is effectively trolling all her critics by doing what she knows will get her money and fame, and then over the next few years/albums, she'll slowly reintegrate her more serious work into her pop albums...exhibit "A" in this belief is the above-proven existence (and performance) of 'serious' acoustic cuts of her two biggest pop-hits thus far. In my opinion, who cares if she dresses like a scifi hooker? More power to her!


Oh, finally, just for fun, and to prove I'm not the only one overthinking her, here is an interesting article outlining the various Illuminati symbolisms surrounding her:

Lady Gaga, The Illuminati Puppet | The Vigilant Citizen
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