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Every blog I know of that isn’t visibly partial to Lady GaGa’s success is weighing in on one topic: What is this chick’s deal?
Let’s face it: The staples of mainstream popularity are both there and totally not there. Is she nice to look at? Yes and no. Unlike Britney, the package isn’t polished by nature (not to say that Britney’s is, but at least it is more obviously so). Lady GaGa’s look is all about the fact that is it very much a look. A wig, a leotard, no pants, big glasses. She’s basically completely manufactured. Whether this vision is her own or not is hard to determine. I would say that it likely was her last resort after not making it as a pop star looking like she did when she came out the gate of her mom’s vagina. She looks, as I say, like her name is Lauren. When stripped down to her bones, she looks like your average Abercrombie customer who would go by the name Lauren. With the wig and the whole deal, she becomes Lady GaGa.
So why can’t Lady GaGa make it in the world as a Lauren? How does that happen? The answer is simple: When someone isn’t marketable, no one will market them. Take away the whole “rockstar” bit and she’s just another brown haired girl who can sing. Awesome. Even the most middle American can tell you that being able to sing doesn’t get you too far. You can have a good enough voice to make it to the last round of a nationally televised singing competition, but that doesn’t mean anyone will know your name or face at the same time next year. Without a marketable personality, whether it be the one you were born with or something you have developed overtime, you don’t have a product. People need her to take her pop sensibilities and shove them in a unitard to get it through their thick heads that it’s something worth listening to. Even if it’s not!
Honestly, I can’t blame a bitch for becoming who she needs to become in order for people to hear her voice. If she has to become a parody of a fraction of her personality, I guess that’s what she had to do… and with the help of a good record label and a publicist who will stick her in front of any microphone that’s flipped on BANG! She’s a success. Maybe she’ll disappear after a year or two, but she sure as hell got a lot further than the people who lacked her savvy. Sometimes you have to give in to the machine a little bit in order to figure out how it works. All you starving artists out there can throw your food stamps on the ground while you stomp on them with your Salvation Army shoes, but at a certain point it’s undeniable that the game needs to be played both ways. You give up a bit of yourself and then you
reapRAPE the rewards. You take whatever comes back at you and you make something bigger and better for yourself that’s more in the direction that you originally hoped to lead yourself in.Yeah, I know that she was a successful singer/songwriter before she was “GaGa”, but I also know that it wasn’t enough for her. She wanted her face out there, and when her face wasn’t good enough, she gave them one they could understand. That’s what a smart business woman does. She’s winning. Maybe not entirely on her terms, maybe in a way that her own family wouldn’t be able to recognize her at first, but she’s DOING IT and that counts for enough as far as I’m concerned.
And yeah, her music is meant for discos and childrens birthday parties. I’m not claiming that I care about her music, but if the pop-culture community is going to get together and have an asthma attack about her success, I can at least throw a little bit of common sense their way.
this is really well-written, and it says what i feel about lady gaga pretty efficiently. do this more!
