Gagging at GAGA

Who is that UGLY girl?

Gaga of course. I won't use the first part of her idiot name.

Yeah, I know she chose it as some kind of parody-cum-statement or other, related to "Radio Gaga" disposable pop culture (of which she is a prime example). She chose to be artificial and obnoxious and a fashionista fuckwit. So why's she posing without make-up??

She decided to take a "selfie" (as these things are now called) and stick it on her Facebook page to...surprise...promote her new album (not even due till November). She says it's a stripped bare and honest look at her oh-so-fascinating self. The real deal. Sure, sure...whore.

What I find amusing here, is that she's homelier than Patti Smith, whom she seems to be emulating in this pose.

She might've actually been like Patti. But if she didn't wear outrageous make-up and costumes and pander to gays, she would just be another starving singer-songwriter with a day job and some indie releases. Better to sell out and SELL!

She also could've been like Lene Lovich, and been artistic and costumed in a much more interesting way. But...all she would've had was a year or two of success and then, like Patti, get no attention with a new release. And it's been a long time since Lene's put out a CD.

(Lene, I parenthetically note, was really a very sweet lady. I interviewed/photographed her and she was nice, sensitive, clearly one of the emotionally fragile, but had found a way of coping by becoming LENE LOVICH...while not losing herself by staying in character. Yes, she had the make-up on and was wearing an eccentric outfit, but it was more like a kid back from trick-or-treat than the conceit of an "artist" ala Gaga. She didn't have Gaga's ego.).

Lennon, who was rarely wrong, was wrong about "we make her paint her face and dance." No, we don't. Bitches like Madonna and Gaga are shrewd enough to do it, and make the world pay for it. They "re-invent" themselves with paint and dance, and they'll steal from anyone and everyone to keep the spotlight on them. Plain? You bet they're plain. Worse than plain. But pop culture today means that as long as your "beats" are familiar, and your dance moves are easy to follow, and you flaunt your genitalia and bellow simple words...all you need is a very big box of crayons so you can change the color of your lipstick, hair and idiot outfits.

And when you're a creature like Gaga...by the time you wipe off the make-up, it's still a fake face. Nothing is real.

And some of what Patti Smith and Lene Lovich survives as art, while the Gaga albums...will, like Flock of Seagulls CDs and Madonna's stuff...just be landfill ga-ga-garbage.