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In light of the recent Rolling Stone cover featuring Lady Gaga looking like the love child of Tom Petty and Bette Midler wearing nothing but bubbles and a bad peroxide perm, I find myself wondering: Am I the only one who just does not get it?
Let me be clear. LG has her place in the world. I think she lends something legitimately fun and refreshing to pop music. It’s like Britney’s bubblegum pop mixed with, oh, I don’t know, a hit of acid. She’s like Cindy Lauper with a slightly better voice and significantly less clothing.
But this fancying herself as a performance artist? A revolutionary? Come on. It’s going to take a lot more than Spoofing Warhol’s Factory videos and refusing to wear pants to get on that level.
Her newest video premiered tonight on a prominent blog to “rave” reviews (from the blogger himself, someone who, like LG, fancies himself to be this millennium’s great contributor to American culture). I watched all 7 minutes of the video, and all I could think about was how LG would’ve been great in Mr. Petty’s “Don’t Come Around Here No More” from the early 80′s, the time period the seems to have given her a lot of her inspiration.
In other words, it’s all been done before.
Well, maybe all of it except the hair-made-hairbow. That, I will readily admit, is pretty cool.
I sincerely adore Lady Gaga with her strange dresses however she really let herself down this time being seen out in see through underwear.