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Old 09-14-2010, 08:53 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Watch her performances of Speechless on her tour, it's not rare for her to cry during the song. Also, her performance of "Brown Eyes" on Jonathan Ross' show was heartbreaking. Her videos are very cold, and some of her performances are, though she has her very vulnerable moments.
This isn't a comment against you, Consolator; I'm just musing out loud about the topic of Lady Gaga seeming cold to some people:

I wonder if people sometimes expect a female performer to be more vulnerable than a male performer, and hold it against her if she *doesn't* seem vulnerable. I've never heard anyone say of a male performer, "Oh, he doesn't tear up! He must not be in touch with his emotions. He is cold," and disliking him for that.

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she's giving people what they want, and shamelessly so. That might turn a few people off, but really, you have to consider what the turnoff is. It's not revulsion with GaGa herself. It's the realization that this presentation is what our culture amounts to. I agree she is one of the best singers we have, and a flamboyant performer, too. At the same time, I find myself hoping, more often than not, that we'll be able to do better in the future.
Yes, I agree with what you say, マイケル : Lady Gaga's ostentatious emphasis on *things* (clothing, etc.) rather than mainly on the music alone may make us face something we don't like about our culture: its shallow consumerism.

That being said, one of my favorite songs and videos was always Madonna's Material Girl, and I didn't mind its shallow consumerism message at all, though I assume the song was meant to be ironic rather than an endorsement of materialism. I wonder to what extent Lady Gaga's outfits and personas are intended in the same way. Or maybe she is just having fun thinking up and appreciating new and odd things!

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Somebody made a really good point about Gaga.
That she doesn't need people to like her, she just wants people to talk about her.
Which is what everyone is doing.
What do you guys think about this?
I agree, AwwSugar: I think she doesn't need people to like her. I don't think she is concerned so much if she appears sexy, for example. I feel a lot of her clothing isn't intended to be sexual so much as provocative and startling. I assume she *does* want people to like her music, though.

And I think of course she wants people to talk about her; this increases interest in her music, her shows.
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