I don’t get gaga.
Her name is Lady Gaga. She’s a big baby.
And more to my horror, an article in harper’s (faludi’s piece on feminism’s ritual matricide, an excellent read) quoted Judith/Jack Halberstam, the gender studies professor at USC, on the future of feminism being the “brave new world of Gaga girliness.” gulp.
For real? Is this really the direction we’re going in? She seems to me to be but a revival of Madonna-style subversiveness, yet so much less shocking, all about design and appropriation. I appreciate her eccentricity, but I also feel like dancing around in a thong, shooting her glamor vibes throughout prison is a problematic image.
What does it mean for us for Gaga to be the representative of the next wave? Any of you Gaga fans out there, please enlighten.
c
