Lady Gaga's Swine: Song Analysis
ARTPOP Popular music artist Lady Gaga performed at the 2014 South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. During her performance of "Swine" from her album Artpop, Lady Gaga had a performance artist vomit black liquid all over her face and chest.
Fellow musician Demi Lovato expressed disapproval towards the concert on social media. She claimed that Gaga was "glamorizing" bulimia.
BULIMIA
An estimated 4.7 million women and 1.5 million men suffer from bulimia nervosa. The disorder involves a cycle of binging on food and purging it through vomiting, excessive exercise, or laxatives. Children as young as six-years-old have been diagnosed with it.
CARPENTER, KAREN Famous for her work with the duo band The Carpenters, American musician …show more content…
The song was released on their 1971 album Carpenters and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100.
Carpenter received massive praise for her work on the popular rendition. Critics claimed that her emotional vocals expertly captured the essence of loneliness and pining conveyed through the lyrics. Carpenter would later reveal that "Superstar" was one the hardest songs for her to sing because of her own intense struggle with …show more content…
"(They Long to Be) Close to You" became number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and was The Carpenters’ breakthrough hit. The fantasy film MirrorMask (2005) featured a surreal rendition of the song, sung by robots.
NORMAL
Children are able to recognize their reflection in the mirror at fifteen-months-old. By the age of six, 50 percent of girls and 33 percent of boys have expressed the desire to be thinner. At seven-years-old, 25 percent of all children have tried dieting. Researchers claim that these children are strongly influenced by mainstream media, which tends to equate normalness with thinness, and thinness with beauty.
OZ
In 1967, two years after The Carpenters began recording, Karen Carpenter turned seventeen. Concerned about her 145-pound weight, she started the Stillman water diet, a diet that involves cutting out any foods containing fat or oil. When The Carpenters' fame peaked in 1975, she only weighed 91 pounds.
By thirteen, I was over 160 pounds.
Late one night, I crept into my mother's quiet bedroom and stole the ancient laptop from her school bag. The decrepit machine whirred and hissed angrily, lacked an "n" key, and only functioned when tethered to the charger, but it served us well
Fellow musician Demi Lovato expressed disapproval towards the concert on social media. She claimed that Gaga was "glamorizing" bulimia.
BULIMIA
An estimated 4.7 million women and 1.5 million men suffer from bulimia nervosa. The disorder involves a cycle of binging on food and purging it through vomiting, excessive exercise, or laxatives. Children as young as six-years-old have been diagnosed with it.
CARPENTER, KAREN Famous for her work with the duo band The Carpenters, American musician …show more content…
The song was released on their 1971 album Carpenters and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100.
Carpenter received massive praise for her work on the popular rendition. Critics claimed that her emotional vocals expertly captured the essence of loneliness and pining conveyed through the lyrics. Carpenter would later reveal that "Superstar" was one the hardest songs for her to sing because of her own intense struggle with …show more content…
"(They Long to Be) Close to You" became number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and was The Carpenters’ breakthrough hit. The fantasy film MirrorMask (2005) featured a surreal rendition of the song, sung by robots.
NORMAL
Children are able to recognize their reflection in the mirror at fifteen-months-old. By the age of six, 50 percent of girls and 33 percent of boys have expressed the desire to be thinner. At seven-years-old, 25 percent of all children have tried dieting. Researchers claim that these children are strongly influenced by mainstream media, which tends to equate normalness with thinness, and thinness with beauty.
OZ
In 1967, two years after The Carpenters began recording, Karen Carpenter turned seventeen. Concerned about her 145-pound weight, she started the Stillman water diet, a diet that involves cutting out any foods containing fat or oil. When The Carpenters' fame peaked in 1975, she only weighed 91 pounds.
By thirteen, I was over 160 pounds.
Late one night, I crept into my mother's quiet bedroom and stole the ancient laptop from her school bag. The decrepit machine whirred and hissed angrily, lacked an "n" key, and only functioned when tethered to the charger, but it served us well