MTV
bans 'Telephone'. Few people notice. But serious faces now people, let's do a poll (yes, another one). Why did MTV (bother to) ban the video (considering it doesn't actually air videos)?
View poll: lolbanned! The ~shocking video can be found under the cut, for all two of you who haven't seen it yet. (
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And as cliche as it is, I don't think you can dismiss the social influence that performers like Madonna and Gaga have. Gaga's a pop cultural bellwether - I mean, there's a reason we have Gaga now, and not ten years ago - and some of the thorniest knots of contemporary sexual politics are being mapped on to her. Her lack of deeper public identity makes that possible, but I don't think that means we should discount her... artistic agency in the process.
I don't know, I'll get back to you on this. I have a lot of Thoughts On Gaga that I'm slowly hammering into some semblance of argumentative order.
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