Lady GaGa Says She’s All Women! Question Is… Who Cares?
Rumors have been circulating lately about the gender or shall I say the genders of Lady GaGa. Many people thought that The Princess of Pop (yeessh) is a hermaphrodite. For those of you who do not know what a hermaphrodite is, it is a person born with both male and female genitalia.
The picture that had everyone a-buzz, is the one below. It clearly shows a “bulge” of some sort in the crotch region.
People were wondering, if this was carefully placed “package” for shock value for her career? Or a photo-shopped picture? Or is Lady (I use the term lightly) more than just a lady?
Well Lady finally came forward and put an end to the rumors and said that “she was not offended, but her beautiful vagina was very offended”. Thank God that is cleared up, I will no longer have sleepless nights. *snicker*
Wait….what did she say? Her beautiful vagina? Who the hell talks publicly (or at all for that matter) about having a beautiful vagina? (with the exception of the Vagina Monologues)
Wow! Talk about being totally full of themselves.
The Examiner.com reported:
Since the hermaphrodite rumors started circling around Lady Gaga back in August, the singer has kept quiet about whether or not she has both parts.
Lady Gaga reportedly told an Australian radio station, “My beautiful vagina is very offended. I’m not offended; my vagina is offended. I’m not embarrassed. I sold four million records in six months; I’m not embarrassed about anything. I think this is society’s reaction to a strong woman.”
“The idea that we equate strength with men and a penis is a symbol of male strength, you know, it is what it is. But like I said,” the dance-pop diva reiterated, “I am not offended at all, but my vagina might be a little bit upset,” she added.
The singer has been flaunting her naked body in various magazines since the rumors began, hoping to disprove that she may have both man and lady parts, but we all know what a little Photoshop can do.
What do you think? Is Lady Gaga telling the truth or just deny, deny, denying?
My reply? Who gives a damn? Sorry, I could care less what she’s packing, and besides, what’s the difference? Are people saying if GaGa was a hermaphrodite that they wouldn’t be fans any more? Why, can’t a hermaphrodite be a diva too?
This story oddly peaked my interest and I decided to look more into GaGa’s music, since I wasn’t too familiar with it, and I wanted to see what the fuss was all about. What I discovered wasn’t much. I found an ok looking gal who loves to dress in kooky outfits and writes some really lousy songs.
GaGa is going the ol’ shock diva route because she basically needs those costumes and stage performances to hide her lack of talent. Her audience needs a lot of distractions. And now that she has a following, he crappy songs wont’ matter as much.
Her voice and song style comes pretty close to Madonnas, although Madonna’s songs were better written. Now I am not a fan of Madonna’s either, but nobody can deny that when Madonna blew up big in the 80’s that she was at least original and her songs were much better than GaGa’s.
I have to say, that some of GaGa’s outfits are very cool, I will at least give her that. I love the way she sometimes meshes a vintage look with wackiness and forms some pretty outrageous get-ups. BUT…is that it? Yes, that’s it.
Let’s not forget this has been done a hundred times over in the music biz, and way before she strapped on that bubble suit for the cover of Rolling Stone.
Performers have been making names for themselves via shock for years. Way back when, Liberace was one of the first shockers and was the king of outlandish outfits. He was one of the first pioneers of “putting on the dog“.
Although Liberace’s voice was far from good, he did play a mean piano. And look at Elton John, who started out as sort of a meek country bumpkin and ended up going all Liberace on everyone, once fame came knocking on his door.
Elton was not only an elaborate dresser, but he had quite the collection of outrageous glasses, which became a signature for him. So was Elton copying Liberace? It really didn’t matter, because he can sing and play piano to boot.
There was David Bowie who dressed up as Zigggy Stardust, and Cyndi Lauper who started an entire fashion craze with her gobs of costume jewelry, and her poofy crinoline slips.
But again like Elton, this girl can sing.
Take the band Kiss for instance, who was popular in the 1970’s. They rose up in the ranks due to their alter ego wild costumes, pyrotechnics on stage and Gene Simmons spewing blood and wiggling that long snake of a tongue. It was freaky to see a band dressed like that with full face paint back in the 1970’s, and it was very innovative. (I was never a Kiss fan though, I think their movie ruined it for me *snicker*) But they did have some talent to back up their look.
Alice Copper, another unusual performer, used to hang himself on stage complete with an entire gallows set up on stage. He also would whip bloody plastic baby dolls on stage during his Dead Babies song… but again…Cooper had the talent to rock the house.
Let’s not forget Dee Snyder in Twisted Sister, ok… never mind, we can forget that one.
(Just have to mention, and way off topic, but I think Christina Aguilera definitely stole Dee’s look when she did the video for Moulin Rouge).
And what about Boy George? He started out rather tame with Culture Club (well sort of) and then showed up in an airport one day dressed like a Geisha girl, and got more outrageous from there. But nobody can deny that the man possessed decent set of pipes on him. We won’t get into where he is today.
Back to Madonna… one of the biggest shock divas. (who is sadly still trying to shock people today, you can stop now)
She started a whole fashion trend with her pointy bustiers, rosaries, rubber O ring bracelets, and boy toy belt buckles.
Who can forget her humping a wedding veil and rolling around on the floor, when she performed Like A Virgin for the 1984 MTV music awards? Looking back on Madonna’s perfomance in that video, it wasn’t a very good one, but people were so wrapped up in the lyrics of the song and what she was doing on stage, that few people noticed the bad notes she hit. Rr the fact she was fluffing up her hair after she took off her veil, and that she became semi entangled in the veil at one point.
Madonna continued to push the envelope in her career and put many Catholics and others’ knickers in quite the bunch with her Like A Prayer video.
Fact.. it was her highest-selling single and viewers voted the video as the “Most Groundbreaking Music Video of All Time”.
Many people argue that Lady GaGa is a huge Madonna rip off. Although I am not a Madonna fan at all, her pop songs were much better than GaGa’s. (never thought I would be defending Madonna’s music)
Yes.. shocking people has always worked. (Right Cher?)
And we certainly couldn’t name all of them here. But one thing for sure… they had the right stuff.
But does GaGa have the right stuff? Is her only claim to fame shocking the audience with costumes and stage humping, so they won’t notice her lackluster singing? It looks that way. Although her fans would certainly disagree.
GaGa is also trying to further her career by posing for an ENDLESS amounts of nudie photos. Now I am not a prude in any sense, but honey if your bringing out all the goods now, what’s left? Put that dern thing away!
Take for instance this lovely photo of her half straddling a skeleton. Yawwwwnnn. Needless to say, I had the same reaction as the skeleton. DEAD BORED.
There is the chance of spreading yourself (no pun intended) too thin in this business, especially if that’s all you have. So GaGa better come up with some decent hits soon.
Now before you jump down my throat, I did listen to some of her songs and watched her videos. I suffered through “Paparazzi”,
and “Poker Face,” (she obviously likes to stu-stu-stutter in her songs). I then went on to listen to ”Just Dance” (total Madonna rip off), “LoveGame” – (that’s the “I want to take a ride on your disco stick” song) and ”Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)”, which was eh eh, more boring than the title. And finally let’s not leave out “Beautiful Dirty Rich”. (”Bang bang we’re beautiful and dirty rich.”) Well she got the dirty rich part right.
My conclusion?
I find her ba-ba-ba-BORING and repetitive. Perhaps I am jaded by years of watching others before her do the same things, only better. The difference again is they HAD TALENT and it was new.
I happened to catch a video of her on YouTube. She was a guest on some sort of talk show in Tokyo. Her performance was not any better than a night at a karaoke bar or a cruise ship talent show. She did a slow and painful version of “Po-po-po Poker Face.” Her piano playing sounded like she was wearing oven mitts. And frankly, I could NOT stop staring at the elephant on her head.
Yes, you heard me. She had a wig on her head in the shape of an elephant, complete with eyes. However the elephant did work as far as taking my attention away from her piss poor performance.
Smart gal. The acoustic rendition of this song made me cringe more than her other version. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s worth the laugh. Click here.
GaGa just doesn’t cut it for me. She is probably thinking, Hey! look at me in my rubber spider bubble dress with the giant butterfly on my head, aren’t I outrageous? NO! Sorry, you are not.
But who is laughing all the way to the bank? She is.
As she said, ”I sold four million records in six months; I’m not embarrassed about anything”. Bless her little heart.
But I say, if you are going to be a diva today, you better have some talent to back it up.
It’s very hard to get ahead these days in the music industry. Unfortunately many talented people fall by the way side, and some with little or no talent make it big. Just doesn’t seem fair. Hello William Hung!
There have also been some American Idol contestants who made it to the top, but I still don’t understand how some of them got there…. (hello Clay Aiken). Sorry Claymates. Are there any left out there?
I do give Lady GaGa SOME kudos for her confidence and for being able to make it in the music industry today, despite how little talent she has under those bubbles. But everything she does seems “borrowed” from either someone or something that came way before her. Even her name was taken from Queen’s song Radio GaGa according to her.
So for all you fans out there who are gaga over GaGa, and whom I expect will be barraging me with some lovely comments…just know that she is not the inventive ground breaking diva you think she is.
It’s all been done before many, many years ago and by people who wrote better songs and who had much more talent.
In fact even GaGa’s hair and face have a familiar look to it. GaGa has said that Donatello Versace is her favorite fashion icon. Um, clearly…she totally stole her look. I guess we know early what GaGa will look like when she gets older and has had a few nip, tucks and plumps. Scary isn’t it?
So getting back to divas from way back when… Who had the coconuts back in the 1940’s, to put a pile of fruit on her head and wear gigantic platform shoes and outrageous midriff outfits?
Why it was the lovely Carmen Miranda of course. Aka Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha. Here she is in one of her many wacky costumes complete with Christmas ornaments glitz and feathers! Carmen was also an actress and appeared in many movies. Watch this vid to see some of her many outrageous outfits and actual movie footage.
I can easily see GaGa taking Carmen’s Chica Boom song and adding some techno tracks and coming out on stage with fruit on her head. Errr…I mean humping some fruit on stage. Gee, I hope GaGa doesn’t read this, I don’t want to give her any ideas.
Chica chica boom chic baby!
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How many songs are using Auto-Tune? … Auto-Tune describes this as The Cher Effect. This is The Cher Effect from her 1998 #1 Billboard Hot 100 song “Believe” (#1 during March/April 1999). At 52 Cher helped pioneer a music effect that is being used over 10 years later — about 45 years ago, on December 26 1964, Cher first entered a Billboard Singles Chart with “Baby Dont Go” by Sonny & Cher, The song reached # 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1965 — Chers first Billboard Hot 100 entry was on July 3 1965 with “All I Really Want To Do” which reached #15 — Sonny & Chers first Billboard Hot 100 entry was on July 10 1965 with “I Got You Babe” which reached #1 — Wikipedia reports that in 2008 Chers Caesers Palace show in Las Vegas sold 99.2% of its tickets, Sonny & Cher played Las Vegas in 1969 and Cher first Played at Caesers Palace during 1979-1982.
Comment by The Cher Effect — September 8, 2009 @ 2:51 pm
Perhaps before writing your extensive, what, discursive essay, you should have did a little more “research”. I dunno, maybe at least checked out Lady Gaga’s past. You may just have come across her classical training, or thefact that she recieved early acceptance to a prestigous art school (which very few people in the world, ever, have had).
On the other hand, why bother? You’re only a blogger. No one pays attention anyway.
TTYL xox
Comment by Jane — September 8, 2009 @ 4:35 pm
Ahhhhh yes #2, but you obvioulsy paid attention.
As far as GaGa’s past goes….what is the difference? I only go by what she is doing now and what she puts out. Which is garbage.
Classical training you say? Well then! That makes her stuff even worse! Thanks for the heads up!
Comment by Queen — September 8, 2009 @ 5:24 pm
IT IS!! she is a dang man
Comment by jOSIE — September 8, 2009 @ 6:20 pm
DID YOU EVEN GO AS FAR AS TO WATCH THAT BITCH PLAY A FXCKIN PIANO?
OR SING LIVE?
OR GIVE A HELL OF A STAGE PERFORMER.
SHE IS UNDOUBLEDLY ONE OF THE MOST TALENTED MODERN POP STARS.
AND THE FIRST WOMAN IN A DECADE TO HAVE ALL HER SINGLES CONTINUOUSLY GO #1, MOST DOWNLOADED ARTIST EVER, BEST SELLING FEMALE POP ARTIST OF 09′.
GO FUCK YOURSELF WITH THIS SHIT, WITH A VOICE LIKE CHRISTINA, AND HANDS LIKE ELTON, WITH THE STYLE OF GRACE JONES.
THIS BITCH KICKS ASS ! SO FUCK YOU, YOU PATHETIC PEREZ HILTON RIP OFF!
Comment by Oh Hell NO — September 8, 2009 @ 10:44 pm
@ Josie, how does classical training make her stuff worse?
Because she is trained in REAL MUSIC that degrades her?
HELL NO! Get some taste bitch.
Comment by O — September 8, 2009 @ 10:45 pm
When i first heard Just Dance – I thought, Oh no, another crap artist with a good first single, she’ll be gone in a month…..
…. How wrong was I!? I youtubed her and saw her live performances, playing a Piano and singing… could Madge do that? No, all madge can do is roll around cracking ribs. GaGa can sing, dace, play ACTUAL instruments, writes amazing pop songs – count the number one’s (not only hers but Britney too) How can you say she isn’t talented? Yes she is surrounded by a lot of hype but all stars are nowadays, it’s the world we live in, where everybody can have a say and has an opinion, but you should base that opinion on talent – this girl has it, how many number ones have you had?
Comment by Dennis — September 9, 2009 @ 5:29 am
To “Oh Hell No”,
Queen here, thanks for taking time to SHOUT at me.
However I was insulted by your “Pathetic Perez Hilton Rip Off” comment. As if. Give me a break.
If you would have taken the time to read the article, you would have noticed that I did watch several of her videos. And then I wrote MY conclusion.
I wrote MY opinion on the videos and I am pretty sure I am entitled to that? Just like you are to yours.
And just because she has hits doesn’t mean she’s good. IN MY OPIONION.
It also does not take away from the fact that she is a total rip off.
Not to mention her upcoming what ever the hell she is doing with Michael Bolton? Another “performer” who had SEVERAL undeserved hits, whose voice sounds like skinning a cat. The two together should be interesting.
Oh~ And Christina Ag.? She sucks too. IN MY OPINION. Grace Jones? freaky and snappy dresser, (thanks for reminding me of her)
But her voice? SUCKED, another one who got by on shock value alone. But at least she did it first.
(And the time she sang with Pavarotti in 2002??? That was painful to watch.)
Now go calm down that hissy fit.
Comment by Queen — September 9, 2009 @ 7:34 am
Oh and to “O”….
I am the one that said the fact that she has classical training makes her stuff worse.
Classical training or not, she can’t write songs worth a damn.
And if she is SO “classicaly trained”, why does she use Auto-tune SO MUCH?
She uses auto-tune usage as musical talent. It’s not.
Comment by Queen — September 9, 2009 @ 7:44 am
Lady CaCa is banned in my household. My hubby has been a professional music journalist for 30 years and he considers her incredibly derivative an completely over-rated. Queen is hardly alone. Only the young an uninformed think she’s some kind of phenom.
Comment by D — September 9, 2009 @ 9:02 am