Gaga refers to her music as “soulless electronic pop” and says things like “we’ve already killed everything” and “the apocalypse has already happened.” Her sensational aesthetic has a divisive effect and tends to generate one of two reactions: She is either the most awful, most infuriating cretin ever to crawl out of corporate entertainment, or she’s an ingenious Warholian synthesis of David Bowie and Madonna with admirable Jay-Z-style business savvy.
Lady Gaga defends her Soulless electronic pop
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We discussed this eysterday: she's walking a similar line to Andy Warhol, but from what we can tell - she's way on the otherside of that line. As Matt said, Andy Warhol had a certain ambiguity about his work - which allowed a social commentary, whereas it seems Lady Gaga is just plain meaningless - embracing the meaningless.
For this idea I had a possible argument that we could use: While Lady Gaga is a logical conclusion of the post-modern - resulting in a comfortable, rich, fame kind of lifestyle many of us aspire to; it is not the only possible conclusion.
And given a choice, what would you choose?
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