A post about Lady Gaga and Born this way

Apr 24, 2011 10:05

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, ( Read more... )

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auturgist April 24 2011, 18:07:43 UTC
I think artists have the right to say whatever they want -- in fact, that's kinda their job. They say things and their audience chooses to agree or disagree. That's how they initiate discussions and get the world talking about issues that need to be addressed.

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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labrynthos April 25 2011, 21:42:46 UTC
This.

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final_destiny April 24 2011, 20:11:29 UTC
I think it's more than just okay for an artist to write from a perspective that is beyond their own experiences; it's a major (perhaps even necessary) step in the process. It's one thing for a gay artist to advocate tolerance; but once a non-gay artist does it, then it gains a whole new level of common acceptability.

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big_danny_t April 25 2011, 11:40:06 UTC
I agree with the assessment of the music video. I kind of liked the cheesy sci-fi beginning of it, but the rest of it was pretty much just LCD ass-shaking. Now, while I do, in fact, very much enjoy staring at Gaga's ass, the video just wasn't as creative as her previous efforts.

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rtred April 25 2011, 06:25:37 UTC
If I have a problem with the song, it's because it sounds more than a bit like Madonna's 'Express Yourself.' Given that she has patterned herself after Madonna, copying her songs is more than a bit much.

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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big_danny_t April 25 2011, 11:36:00 UTC
Yeah, that is something I noticed. First time I heard it, I couldn't quite place it, but after a while I was like, yeah, it's very similar to "Respect Yourself".

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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trishalynn April 25 2011, 10:27:20 UTC
Within the gay community, it's worse to be bi than it is to be gay because everyone always assumes you're faking it. That's kinda fucked up right there.

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