Why People Love Lady Gaga
Why People Love Lady Gaga
People see her clad in either very little or way too much with head gear that was designed to shock and awe. She walks into the room with the confidence of a model, accented by the occasional dance movements that look more like spasms than choreography. This is a day in the life of Lady Gaga. If that made her sound like some alien she-beast from the future, one would be wondering how she has acquired millions of fans around the globe that love and adore her. This paper will demystify why people love Lady Gaga for everything that she is.
First and foremost, Lady Gaga is a singer and a songwriter. Her musical and performance style is yet to be equaled. She takes inspirations from Madonna, Britney Spears, David Bowie, Michael Jackson and Queen. Don’t mistake her for just any pop singer: she is the blatant, in-your-face personification of all these artists mixed in with copious amounts of blood, booze, and possibly drugs. Her persona (or rather, personas, since there are simply too many to distinguish) is chock-full of meanings and symbolisms on so many different levels, some of which are more obvious than others. She is all about showing and telling in everything she does. Theatricality is her life.
When people watch her perform, they don’t just get a song, they get the whole show. Lady Gaga describes her Monster Ball Tour as an electro-pop opera. "The basic philosophy of the show is theatrical," she said to MTV, "And that 's what opera is — it 's an ostentatious, over-the-top interpretation of a story.” She also says "... it 's also done in what now is becoming my aesthetic, which is, you know, it 's part pop, part performance art, part fashion installation—so all of those things are present...” .
The main inspirations of Lady Gaga behind her show were film musicals like The Wizard of Oz (1939) and West Side Story (1961), science-fiction film Metropolis (1927), and the television mini-series Angels in America (2003).
People see her clad in either very little or way too much with head gear that was designed to shock and awe. She walks into the room with the confidence of a model, accented by the occasional dance movements that look more like spasms than choreography. This is a day in the life of Lady Gaga. If that made her sound like some alien she-beast from the future, one would be wondering how she has acquired millions of fans around the globe that love and adore her. This paper will demystify why people love Lady Gaga for everything that she is.
First and foremost, Lady Gaga is a singer and a songwriter. Her musical and performance style is yet to be equaled. She takes inspirations from Madonna, Britney Spears, David Bowie, Michael Jackson and Queen. Don’t mistake her for just any pop singer: she is the blatant, in-your-face personification of all these artists mixed in with copious amounts of blood, booze, and possibly drugs. Her persona (or rather, personas, since there are simply too many to distinguish) is chock-full of meanings and symbolisms on so many different levels, some of which are more obvious than others. She is all about showing and telling in everything she does. Theatricality is her life.
When people watch her perform, they don’t just get a song, they get the whole show. Lady Gaga describes her Monster Ball Tour as an electro-pop opera. "The basic philosophy of the show is theatrical," she said to MTV, "And that 's what opera is — it 's an ostentatious, over-the-top interpretation of a story.” She also says "... it 's also done in what now is becoming my aesthetic, which is, you know, it 's part pop, part performance art, part fashion installation—so all of those things are present...” .
The main inspirations of Lady Gaga behind her show were film musicals like The Wizard of Oz (1939) and West Side Story (1961), science-fiction film Metropolis (1927), and the television mini-series Angels in America (2003).
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