THE HOLY SISTER OF THE GAGA DADA
Tuscaloosa Ann Powers, the gilded official rock and pop music critic of the Los Angeles Times, filed from Boston, a city larger than the little LA of the South in Alabama, on Lady Gaga.
"I'm here to defend Lady Gaga against all comers," Tuscaloosa Ann once wrote. Today she made good on the threat, putting the big picture together for those of us just a little too dim to see it.
Drawing out the thread of her verbosity well beyond the shape of the argument, Tuscaloosa Ann's prose on Gaga took up a lot of space in the Sunday paper. Probably more than front page news on alleged averted terror plots and whatever was running anywhere inside on healthcare reform.
Obviously, DD cannot reprint all of it here, only sample bits of the rich fabric.
"Yet there [Gaga} was, in a blond Hollywood bob and black tuxedo-bra much like the costumes Madonna wore 20 years ago ..." wrote the Tuscaloosa one on the first page, right next to the giant picture of Lady Gaga in her blond Hollywood bob and black tuxedo-bra much like the costumes Madonna wore 20 years ago.
"This [success] is all happening not because Lady Gaga is cute or takes off her clothes but because (to use one of her favorite words) she is a monster -- a monster talent, that is, with a serious brain."
" 'If you ask somebody where you see sexism in your life, all they think of is the old stuff,' said Nona Willis Aronowitz, co-author of the new book Girldrive: Criss-crossing America Redefining Feminism, by phone."
"But then [Gaga's] public appearances began to not simply provoke but disturb. She made a video for 'Paparazzi' that had her in gilded crutches and a leg brace. She turned that vision even bloodier [Ace Bandages] on the MTV Video Music Awards ... She's worn costumes that recast childhood icons like Kermit the Frog and Hello Kitty into ingenue's pelts. The Kermit dress was designed by Jean Charles de Castelbajac, who'd previously adorned Madonna in teddy bears ..."
"Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with ..." Lady Gaga says to Powers at some point in the interview.
"Indeed," Mr. Spock once said.
Tuscaloosa Ann Powers, the gilded official rock and pop music critic of the Los Angeles Times, filed from Boston, a city larger than the little LA of the South in Alabama, on Lady Gaga.
"I'm here to defend Lady Gaga against all comers," Tuscaloosa Ann once wrote. Today she made good on the threat, putting the big picture together for those of us just a little too dim to see it.
Drawing out the thread of her verbosity well beyond the shape of the argument, Tuscaloosa Ann's prose on Gaga took up a lot of space in the Sunday paper. Probably more than front page news on alleged averted terror plots and whatever was running anywhere inside on healthcare reform.
Obviously, DD cannot reprint all of it here, only sample bits of the rich fabric.
"Yet there [Gaga} was, in a blond Hollywood bob and black tuxedo-bra much like the costumes Madonna wore 20 years ago ..." wrote the Tuscaloosa one on the first page, right next to the giant picture of Lady Gaga in her blond Hollywood bob and black tuxedo-bra much like the costumes Madonna wore 20 years ago.
"This [success] is all happening not because Lady Gaga is cute or takes off her clothes but because (to use one of her favorite words) she is a monster -- a monster talent, that is, with a serious brain."
" 'If you ask somebody where you see sexism in your life, all they think of is the old stuff,' said Nona Willis Aronowitz, co-author of the new book Girldrive: Criss-crossing America Redefining Feminism, by phone."
"But then [Gaga's] public appearances began to not simply provoke but disturb. She made a video for 'Paparazzi' that had her in gilded crutches and a leg brace. She turned that vision even bloodier [Ace Bandages] on the MTV Video Music Awards ... She's worn costumes that recast childhood icons like Kermit the Frog and Hello Kitty into ingenue's pelts. The Kermit dress was designed by Jean Charles de Castelbajac, who'd previously adorned Madonna in teddy bears ..."
"Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with ..." Lady Gaga says to Powers at some point in the interview.
"Indeed," Mr. Spock once said.
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