My online writer friends, particularly my gay online writer friends, 
were making a lot of noise about Lady GaGa a few months ago. So I was 
curious what the chatter was about and have taken the time to pay 
attention.

She did a spot on Saturday Night Live, and another with Elton John at 
the Grammies. You can find her on YouTube.

It is said that she is very intelligent, which she may be, or that can 
be taken as it is often said of entertainers who write analytical papers 
and drop out of NYU because they are geniuses. As a performer once you 
get past the garish costumes the music is not all that exciting and she 
is obviously clumsy in her live presentation. Clumsy as in she is not 
Ginger Rogers smooth and clumsy as in I really don't think she meant to 
bang herself in the forehead with that fancy hula hoop. She says that 
she wants to recreate Warhol's Factory... but for me at least there is 
something that does not quite make the chops of a Warhol. There is so 
much about the presentation that comes off as 'packaged' and not in a 
sense to cause an existential crisis on the part of the audience. I 
prefer Patti Smith. I also prefer not to have my musical or aesthetic 
tastes blatantly mass cultivated.

For me the most exciting thing about Lady GaGa is Reverend Fred Philips 
of Topeka, Kansas' Westboro Baptist Church and his nutcase family are 
running around protesting her performances.

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