Lady Gaga

I bet you never thought I would have a post on Lady Gaga. It isn't really about her as you will see. Before I get to the point, I do need to write some preface. I have heard Lady Gaga, I have seen her pictures and even heard her do an interview. She seems like a fairly nice girl with a perspective I am not entirely in agreement with. She is 24, a child.

Lady Gaga is the biggest new celebrity, she wears outlandish costumes and writes her own music. I have to give her credit for writing her own music, it is dance music (which I do not particularly care for) and is very popular. She studied music and is very much into fashion and art. Artist should be. Someone said she is a cross between performance art and pop music. I think I can agree with that.

If I have an issue with Lady Gaga, it is with her message. I understand she is personally against violence; but, her message is of the hopelessness of finding love. This is not a message I agree with or condone. Still, I would fight for her right to write her songs and have people decide for themselves.

The short of it is, I know who she is, believe she has a kind heart and believe her message is bad. I regularly talk to people in their 20s and I am sure she would be quite a lot of fun to talk to. We would probably discuss her music and its message rather than her clothes. Heck, if I ever did meet her I would want her to be dressed in her costume. I am sure it would be fun and amusing for both of us.

We have now got the general garbage out of the way. Recently, Lady Gaga was given a lot of grief over her attending a baseball game in New York. Some claimed they were shocked and offended by her outrageous behaviour. This is utter nonsense. The press complained that she showed up at the game in a revealing outfit. This is a sport that promotes men being half naked and painting themselves with their teams colors while getting drunk and into fights. Lets not forget that they invited Lady Gaga and then expected her not to wear something to be noticed. Am I to believe that the owner of the Mets is retarded and didn't know who she was?

It is also claimed that Lady Gaga flipped off some reporters, yeah, like that has never happened before and this is worthy of international news? A 24 year old at a baseball game was scantily clad and flipped off some paparazzi. Hang her, make it international news, draw and quarter her. Give me a frickin break. Why and how is this news?

The truth of the matter is that the Mets wanted the publicity and so did Lady Gaga. She is big news and everything she does gets reported so the Mets invited her and hoped to get a news story out of it. I guarantee that they did not invite her so that she could show up in a summer dress and quietly come and go. They wanted the publicity. When the San Diego Padres invited Roseanne Barr to sing the National Anthem, do you really believe they thought she could sing? Plenty of singers out there and Roseanne was not know for singing, she was a comedian.

Artificial dramas are created for publicity, that is all this is. The dramas are used to get people to take positions on silly things. Publicity is a drug and all the junkies come out to get their fix. Jerry Seinfeld decided to publicly talk about how Lady Gaga had talent but not class. If he wants publicity all he has to do is put on a show. How lame. Hey, Jerry, why don't you talk about how you were involved with a child and things that matter like the economy or the wars. Oh or talk about how your friend, Larry David, pissed on a cross on television, I guess you don't find that offensive.

The media only makes money when people are outraged or we are at war. Check out the days on when newspapers and television watching were at their highest. Conflict, controversy and bs are the trade of the media. Lady Gaga is merely the lightening rod of the moment. Stop being led into stupid discussions over meaningless things while the economy is being destroyed and our way of life is coming to an end. Focus on what matters.

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