Ok, everyone knows that I have a shameless love for Lady Gaga. I think she’s very talented (Disagree? Youtube “Lady Gaga Acoustic” and watch her actually playing and singing her songs) and yeah, she’s got the whole “I’m gonna shock you!” thing going on, but that’s no different from what many pop starlets in the past have done (Britney Spears,
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If Lady Gaga can't write from the gay perspective, I guess Charles Dickens should have never written from the perspective of the poor and downtrodden. Maybe Anne Rice should cull her desire to write from the vampire perspective. Isaac Asimov probably has no business writing from the robot perspective...
I think you see where I'm going with this.
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That being said, the actual lyrical content of the song is not an issue. Not being bi (nor gay), I can't personally say if there's any relationship between the two. But I do have sexual proclivities that are... ehrr... "outside the norm" as it were. In my own teeny-tiny way I have actually been persecuted over it too, so I can grok that, in some small way.
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I'm willing to let it slide, because like with a lot of her stuff, Gaga made it really catchy and there's enough of herself in the song where I would call it more an homage than a rip-off.
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