well.. hehe in the
Appropriate setting - I like strippers... I even admit to using my Tivo super-slo-motion and freeze frame to check out Gaga's back side during the pirouettes she did.
BUT there is a difference between Racy, lusty, and lascivious (perhaps many early Beyonce, Shakira, and at time Mariah videos) and just plain simple vulgarity without any remotely titillating aspect to it. The way Miley held the chinzy soprts-fan prop to her groin like as a, erm, phallic appendage just has no "charm" (!) lto it anywhere
.... the other strippers in the cheapest strip club would run Miley out of the place for lack of any talent at the profession
and it's even worse to see the most vulgar stuff marketed to the young teens that watch it.
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Quote:Gaga's still pretty entertaining at least. But I like old school Gaga. She used to have a subtle message/point to what she was doing. And if you didn't get it, than too bad for you. Old school Gaga I could break down and show people why she was talented. Now it's clearly just for attention.
I agree with 85% of your sentiment. The sardonic social commentary was perhaps less than Papparizi and Pokerface and the melody still sounds pretty darn simple after the first few lessons.
However, I felt like there was more to the Dance act than just the strip part ...it had me contemplating it like I might a modern painting in some ways. Was it a reference to the existentialism in Alice in Wonderland . The first outfit did seem referential to the Queen of Hearts and was constuming pruposfully referencial to an Editorial/Advant Garder/Couture look? transformed into what might have been evocative of office attire(? shoulder padded blue Jacket and skirt? maybe a stretch I agree), down to naked minimalism ? Whether accomplished or not, I will give credit for an effort to have a cerebral overlay.. over her(gaga's) strip show.
The lyrics are a bit introspective auto biographical perhaps too ...
NOT too special but at least there are interesting allusions toward ones self perception and even a few references to notions of art and degnerativism (perhaps quite Telling of Miley's predicament? )
Verse 1)
I stand here waiting for you to bang the gong
To crash the critic saying, "Is it right or is it wrong?"
If only fame had an I.V., baby could I bear
Being away from you, I found the vein, put it in here
refrain:
I live for the applause, applause, applause
I live for the applause-plause
Live for the applause-plause
Live for the way that you cheer and scream for me
The applause, applause, applause
Verse 2)
I've overheard
your theory "nostalgia's for geeks"
I guess sir, if you say so,
some of us just like to read
One second I'm a
Kunst, then suddenly the
Kunst is me
Pop culture was an art,
now art's a pop culture in me
Song ends with :
A-R-T-P-O-P
Kunst reference -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art
Pop Art is a nuanced term for those that study social and art history as well -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_art
My intent isn't to give Gaga -too- much credit.. but I think the "just for attention" line might be a bit unfair towards her intentions...even if the actual product falls short of her intentions.
