Gaga Fever - Mary R.

Whether we will openly admit it or not, there is a time when all us of just can’t stop “rah rah ah ah ah-ing” to ourselves. If we’re not belting out Bad Romance, maybe we’re serenading Alejandro, or “just dancing”. Lada Gaga, love her or hate her, has the ability to take songs with catchy, annoying beats and catchphrases and imprint in our minds. I wouldn’t call myself a Gaga fan necessarily, but sometimes when open up I open up my iTunes, I find myself searching vigorously for Telephone. There isn’t much I can relate to with Lady Gaga; her lyrics don’t speak to me, her odd outfits aren’t cool and different to me, they’re weird, and I was horrified by her 2009 VMA performance. After Gaga’s controversial performance, John Kubicek, a writer for BuddyTV, took it to the Internet to write his review of the night. He said he believes Lady Gaga “delivered what [he] maintain[s] is the single greatest VMA performance of the last five years”. I’m not sure what attracted him to her staged death that came at the end of her song, made complete with fake blood spilled everywhere. I know she is taking a risk, breaking away from the norm, and making a performance that sets her apart and will be talked about, but I found this a little too over the top. I know that I may sound a little annoying as I was 15 years old when I watched this, and I am on the younger side as VMA critics go, but luckily, I stumbled across the Diary of a Hollywood Street King, Jacky Jasper, who shares a similar opinion to mine regarding Gaga’s performance. In his post he calls the “so-called artist’s” performance horrifying. He is “appalled” that Gaga would mock the handicapped, and he doesn’t agree with anything that blogger Perez Hilton is saying about supporting Gaga, and he believes that Gaga, with the help of popular blogger supporters like Perez are “furthering the destruction of real art”.
In continuing her destruction of real art, Lady Gaga kept the jaws dropping when she arrived at this year’s VMAs in an outfit made entirely of meat. Along with being disgusting, this can also be offensive to many people. She has taken her wacky style to another level, and is no longer wearing clothes that are not just socially weird and unacceptable, but are actually offending some people. While I am aware that the animal rights activists can be a little crazy and wait for opportunities to ounce on people, I think on this one Lady Gaga took it a little too far.
Although Gaga has stirred up many controversies, I don’t let it get in the way of my liking of her songs, and try to look past the crazy lifestyle that she leads to create an image of herself. After all, would people actually liker her songs if they weren’t accompanied by her absurd ways of life and shocking performances?