Lady Gaga.
Two words that garner a range of emotions. While her "Monsters" revel in her confidence and self-esteem, her haters have tried everything to break her spirit. Calling her a transvestite, trashing her music sense and even calling her sense of style 'bad taste", they've done it all. I'm going to restraint myself from taking sides and offer an outside perspective.
While you can't deny the fact that her choice of apparel is daring at the least, how is it that our society has become so inscrutably intolerant that we've labeled it 'bad'. Who are we, as individuals, to question her choices? Haven't others before her done the same? Let's start off with Cindy Lauper. If you don't know who she is, I'd suggest you search for the songs 'Girls just wanna have fun' and 'Time after time'. The vivid and intense colours combined with a fauvian choice of complementary colours caused quite an amount of strife among the fashionistas of the day, but now, such combinations have a noun coined just for that. Let's welcome 'eclectic fashion' onto the stage.
Madonna may be known for her choice in underwear (or just normal clothing if you're willing to consider teh conical bra genre clothing), but her choice in music too was questioned. Arguably, her earlier songs do sound like Lauper rip offs, but eventually even she managed to find her niche in the realm of superstardom by finding her own 'unique' personality. And if today's commercial music is anything to go by, I believe both Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears consider her one of their biggest inspirations, not to mention the millions of people worldwide who finally acknowledged her presence as a strong and fierce singer.
Isn't Lady Gaga doing just the same? So what if her lyrics are provocative? I'm sure 'Like a Virgin' wasn't exactly met with approving nods. If you've heard her sing the a capella version of her songs, you'd agree that she can actually sing and do it well.
So if you've got hate ( no, I'm not going to plagiarize Arjun Rampal's - You're my bait), let it go. Chances are that Lady Gaga could become a huge inspiration for other artists in the future. Till then, why not bear with the Monsters, the Beliebers ( that's a story for another day) and the various other groups of people who willingly name themselves with imaginative and quirky collective nouns.
Two words that garner a range of emotions. While her "Monsters" revel in her confidence and self-esteem, her haters have tried everything to break her spirit. Calling her a transvestite, trashing her music sense and even calling her sense of style 'bad taste", they've done it all. I'm going to restraint myself from taking sides and offer an outside perspective.
While you can't deny the fact that her choice of apparel is daring at the least, how is it that our society has become so inscrutably intolerant that we've labeled it 'bad'. Who are we, as individuals, to question her choices? Haven't others before her done the same? Let's start off with Cindy Lauper. If you don't know who she is, I'd suggest you search for the songs 'Girls just wanna have fun' and 'Time after time'. The vivid and intense colours combined with a fauvian choice of complementary colours caused quite an amount of strife among the fashionistas of the day, but now, such combinations have a noun coined just for that. Let's welcome 'eclectic fashion' onto the stage.
Madonna may be known for her choice in underwear (or just normal clothing if you're willing to consider teh conical bra genre clothing), but her choice in music too was questioned. Arguably, her earlier songs do sound like Lauper rip offs, but eventually even she managed to find her niche in the realm of superstardom by finding her own 'unique' personality. And if today's commercial music is anything to go by, I believe both Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears consider her one of their biggest inspirations, not to mention the millions of people worldwide who finally acknowledged her presence as a strong and fierce singer.
Isn't Lady Gaga doing just the same? So what if her lyrics are provocative? I'm sure 'Like a Virgin' wasn't exactly met with approving nods. If you've heard her sing the a capella version of her songs, you'd agree that she can actually sing and do it well.
So if you've got hate ( no, I'm not going to plagiarize Arjun Rampal's - You're my bait), let it go. Chances are that Lady Gaga could become a huge inspiration for other artists in the future. Till then, why not bear with the Monsters, the Beliebers ( that's a story for another day) and the various other groups of people who willingly name themselves with imaginative and quirky collective nouns.
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