It's the front page on YouTube, rather than the front page of the paper these days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ95z6ywcBY&feature=topvideos

Watch it.


I think Lady Gaga is creating contemporary art history. Our time will be remembered by her work. I was under the impression that America had forgotten about art and that the art scene is just a bunch of kids painting stick figures with stoney messages written next to them. (Not to say that there isn't beauty in that.) But then I realized that America is just treating art the same way he treats everything else. Television, media, product placement. Celebrity royalty. The true royalty ruling elite to the American people are the celebrities. Art as a method of money making. Other artists have used fame and money as an outlet for their art, but none as successfully as Lady Gaga. For example, Jeff Koons understood that in today's world, the art doesn't have to be beautiful. It doesn't matter what the fuck the art is, as long as it has a famous name behind it. It just needs to be something to buy and sell. For HUGE amounts of money I might add. Artists like Matthew Barney understand the idea of putting celebrity appeal behind their work. The artist must be a celebrity, as well as utilize celebrities from other realms such as Bjork or Beyonce. (is that cheap shot at the marriage of two amazing artists? (bjork and barney?? nahhh fuck it) The American people flock to celebrities. Celebritism. I made this word up just now, and it means the worship of all things celebrity. Actually I'm sure someone else has already made up that word.


I love how forward she is about sexuality within her music. The difference between her musical sexuality and other artists such as The Pussycat Dolls or any other nakey dancing music videos is that she is owning it and claiming it, rather than presenting it others as eye candy. To excite men, and to put envy in women. Honestly most men seem to fear Gaga rather than or as well as excite them. Women, for the most part, respect rather than envy her like they would most other pop stars. She is also a huge step toward openness to homosexuality, by forcing so many Americans to confront it in popular culture within her videos. People can't hide from it if it's on television and the internet all over the place. We accept what our role models teach us to accept.

America does support the arts, but they do so through the beautification of money making. Advertising has become an art. Put the ads within the art(product placement), and the art between the ads on televison. It all blends together smoothly and artistically. You come out of it effected in many ways, but at least it was art, beautiful, or interesting or colorful or scary or.....ettccc.