Dressing up like an idiot
It is 15 years since Pulp released their classic number one album A Different Class – flowery acrylic shirt enthusiast Jarvis Cocker spelling out their central message on the album’s sleeve: “We don’t want no trouble, we just want the right to be different, that’s all.”
And now Lady Gaga has single-handedly reinvented the scandalously absent tradition of Dressing Up Like An Idiot in pop. Not even Madonna, in her 1990s conical bra pomp, ever wished to look like a cartoon Hallowe’en sci-fi buffoon with a plate of spaghetti where her face once was, wearing a corrugated Dalek for a jaunty pill-box hat.
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The five-foot tall, big-nosed Italian-New York boho is now the planet’s greatest subversion-pop radical, the two-fingered antidote to the 10-year tyranny of airbrushed beauty and physical “perfection”, who says “my art is liberation”, who represents “the freedom to be who you really are”, who sings like Freddie Mercury and is permanently number one while redefining the classic 1980s Adam Ant mantra: “Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.”
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Back at the O2 arena, a young Gaga fan wearing a triangular blue wig and matching triangular shoes, teetered out of the venue into her unforeseeable future, possibly with no job, minimal prospects, a Tory government in power for all eternity and the pop-liberated cry of: “I’ve got such a stupid big smile on my face!”
Sylvia Patterson on Lady Gaga
Comments
| 8 March, 2010, 12:57 am |
I think she’s just great. Quite simply fantastic. The best pop personality since Roy Wood.
| 8 March, 2010, 2:19 am |
Yeah excellent, caught her on the Woss show while channel hopping. Sounded like he’d been a git to her last time but now she’s properly famous he was evidently switched to suck up mode.
| 8 March, 2010, 6:22 am |
I too think she’s a great personality, her songs are quite catchy and 2009 was a huge year for her. She could take a break for a year and come back as I think the general audience will be fed up with her constant promotion.
| 8 March, 2010, 9:31 pm |
i respect the love of dressing up but the songs are dreadful really banal pop ‘ga ga roma roma’ yuk no thanks i’d rather have pulp or pj harvey or interesting music pref. with intelligence, thats why i’m supporting radio 6 rather than radio 1 where ga ga’s songs are played, it just sounds like chav music with a relentless monotonous beat. i guess a lot of guys like her for obvious reasons, the eternal blonde fascination, tits on show but fortunatly my boyfriend can’t stand her either phew!
| 11 March, 2010, 2:52 am |
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Lady Gaga is a Shoreditch Cascada: cheesy Euroshite that is somehow acceptable for fashionistas because she’s dressed up in bog roll like a baddie from Scooby Doo.
That tune she did sitting in a giant bath for the Queen wouldn’t be out of place being sung by a Swedish nobody for Eurovision.
The rest is window dressing.
Case closed.
| 11 March, 2010, 7:04 am |
That tune she did sitting in a giant bath for the Queen wouldn’t be out of place being sung by a Swedish nobody for Eurovision.
I know. Absolute genius, you can’t buy that.
| 19 March, 2010, 3:33 am |
Lady Gaga is just adorable, talented and has personality. To be a little controversial is always better than dull.
| 30 March, 2010, 7:22 am |
even if i did not already like ms gaga, the bile poured out on her from the media whoretrots of c unterfire would make me a fan.
http://www.counterfire.org/index.php/features/111-music/4323-lady-gaga-thats-not-what-a-feminist-looks-like
| 13 August, 2010, 2:51 pm |
Well she did say she’s a cocaine user which explains her lyrics, rubbish coming out of her mouth and outfits…
| 17 August, 2010, 5:33 pm |
I think GaGa is great. Even if you don’t like her music or fashion sense, you gotta respect her for not being afraid to be different.
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