Monday, May 25, 2009
I'm very suspicious about Lady GaGa. She dresses in an outlandish manner ("a more cartoonish Gwen Stefani"/ "a John Galliano fashion show on (even more) crack"), and conducts herself in interviews like a drivelling loon, yet her music is so accessible. How is it possible to simultaneously produce mainstream magic like "Pokerface" and act like you're on a day trip from the mental asylum? GaGa's muse Grace Jones was absolutely eccentric, but her music was equally as odd, and thus she was genuine. An image needs to supplement the music (and vice versa), not contradict it, otherwise the whole persona comes off as wildly unauthentic, as is the case with Lady GaGa.