J. Valjean
BANALITY
Eh... I don't see what's so genius about Lady Gaga. She does say some extremely intelligent things sometimes, but always manages to say something very dumb to follow it up. And her being the "new face" of feminism... how was that allowed to happen? If a system is still patriarchic and pop music still objectifies women, having a "feminist" singer objectify herself and her followers and then speak of gender issues really muddies the water. Like she'll be talking about a very legitimate thing, such as beauty standards on the bodies of women and how women shouldn't be afraid to own their own bodies and not live up to these litmuses set by the male system, but in the mean time she'll be prancing around naked, dressing provocatively and that objectifies her and her followers and women in general as "sexy pieces of art" or "sex machines" whatever- look at Times Square there are billboards of naked looking women and what not, that's all sexualization and objectification of the woman. With Gaga, instead of having naked women dancing around for men to see and implanting society with more objectification, you have naked women dancing around for men to see and objectification only this time the naked women talk every now and then about gender issues. It doesn't work. It feeds into patriarchy with a misleading label that it's for women and it's good for them. Besides, Gaga's got a huge record label deal. Big label heads want to keep the sexism and status quo to make money, because status quo is the best way to make cash in capitalism. And as for her music? It's not really anything special.