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Kind of late, but I was remembering the conversations we were having after watching the Monster Ball. We talked about Lady Gaga wanting the attention and constantly telling the crowd to cheer and scream for her. I think this parody of her song "Applause" touches on a lot of that and throws a little Madonna in the song as well. And it's pretty funny. Enjoy!

This was amazing! I think it is so relevant so the point about authenticity. At first Gaga was considered new, original and exciting but now people have gotten bored of her. Maybe it's because she has lost her authenticity and originality or is it just because people can see through all her make up, clothing and persona, therefore diminishing her as an artist.

I found this Facebook page made especially to shoot down lady gaga and show all the ways in that she has 'supposedly' copied other artists images. At face value when looking though the collective photos that people have added to prove so, it is quite astonishing at the resemblances between lady gaga and other artists before her.

I posted this article in response to the articles about Miley Cyrus smoking weed on stage. This is Lady Gaga doing the same thing and like Cyrus she is also in Amsterdam. I don't understand what the fuss is about it's legal in the Netherlands so really why bother? These artist never smoke tobacco or drink alcohol on stage and these are legal substances in most places, plus they would impare their performances which fans pay money to see. I would be so annoyed that I payed money to watch an artsist get high on stage and then perform not because its predominately an illegal substance but surely they want to be at their best and their fans want to see them at their best.

I agree that people may have gone overboard with miley when you compare her to gaga because she has done the exact same thing. I think the reason for this is because people still have this goody-goody, disney image of miley and cannot still tear themselves away to look at her in this new light. Also Gaga never started out the same way as miley so i don't think people really care if she smoked weed or had a drink on stage, therefore i think origins play a big role for the perceptions of people in relation to artists such as miley and gaga.

Cover of We Can't Stop that is interesting in its representation of black people. Links to what was discussed in class, in Cyrus' video the balck women are used as props in this video they play a much more active role.

This video is fascinating -- it seems to not only speak to Cyrus's original video, but also the Pixies video we watched the first day of class (I'm thinking of the scenes of bathing in milk and fruitloops). A perhaps reclaiming of black bodies and spaces?

Get the scoop on Nicki, Miley and Charlie Sheen! It amused me that this came up on my newsfeed on facebook and it quite simply gives the real name of pop stars and their origins

I did not post this necessarily for the article itself, but the comments. Look at the hatred towards her, as well as a few comments about her right to do as she pleases, because she is a grown up woman.

Thanks for the plethora of comments to read through, Neil. I had to stop reading them... I do find the original post interesting for it's title: Why are we concerned that she "violates" objects? Shouldn't people be what's inviolable?

Very good example fo how Gaga uses others originality in her videos

She has done a few popular songs from women we discussed in class. She also rapps/sings Eminem. She does do the covers well

I tried to find the uncut song with the original video but was unsuccessful. The lyrics do the video justice though, but feel free to check out the official video too if you'd like.

This is an image, since I couldn't find a video of this, but I think it works anyways.  When we were talking in class about how Same Love portrays gay people in the wrong light, it made me think of this scene in Modern Family.