Q for Queen Gaga
Lady Gaga strapped a dildo to her vagina for a Q magazine photo shoot. This is a statement about “the most humorous rumour of her life” and her femininity, and to make fun of “the hilarity of the media”. Going too far as perceived by many, Gaga is not only a fame monster sculpted in designer clothescreations. She has a vision that is artistic and that speaks to (young) people who’re little monsters. She believes money ruined this world and she used to read tabloids with a scholarly approach. The fact that she was a prodigiously talented child, studied at a Catholic high school and led a disciplined high school life (I believe she’s still very disciplined, considering her professional and constant better-than-ever output), and enrolled early in a prestigious arts school is perhaps often missed. While her talent lies in both her music and her image, the two are in fact one and the latter shouldn’t have overshadowed the former as she always answers. She’s gained enormous attention worldwide, but she deserves yet more positive attention. Please try to listen to her more and criticise her less. Here are some of the things she told Q.
On the MTV Awards fame kills spectacle, she explained the metaphor and the reason for denying Interscope something beautiful:
The world is looking for a story about me being fallen. So maybe if I just show them what it looks like, they’ll stop looking. Here’s what I look like while I’m dying. And I bled to death surrounded by flashing lights and was hung like a martyr in all of my blonde glory. Like many others before. Princess Diana. Marilyn Monroe. Anna Nicole Smith. …the last thing any young person needs is another photograph of a woman rubbing her glistening tits, enjoying life, because that’s not how we fucking feel.
As a teenage art student Gaga wrote about the death of God (no, she doesn’t hate God, she always thanks God and her fans) in relation to shock art and analysed Spencer Tunick:
Why are people so offended by the naked, organic person and not offended by the evil that’s surrounding them in Times Square? The commercialism, corporate America… And I talked about how the apocalypse has already happened. Racism, gay-bashing, wars, the Presidents we’ve been through. [Whispering] We’re already in it. So now we must be joyful and rebuild.
I must admit I myself am a little surprised to read Gaga commenting on money and commercialism, as she’s always so branded and Warhol-reincarnated (well, technically it wasn’t possible…Gaga’s an ’86 kid), and extravagantly glamorous. This is exactly the type of misconception around her. She truly devotes herself to art:
But you don’t have to know anything about art to love it. And if you’re reading this article and think Lady Gaga is wildly pretentious and think the cat’s miaow, that’s not the case. I just take what I do seriously. My art is liberation. Things confine us as human beings. As a society. And I want to free you. I want to free you.
Now, are we really so incapable of accepting this little girl from New York?
