“I remember similar arguments about how the suggestive pelvis twisting of Elvis Presley and the shocking hair styles of the Beatles would add to our downfall as a society.”
I would hardly compare Elvis Presley and the Beatles to Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga has an emotionless sound and nihilistic lyrics (indeed, she views her muse as some robot from outerspace). In contrast, Elvis Presley and the Beatles were full of emotion and passion — you know, human qualities. Culture does reflect the values of its consumers, and I think you can learn a lot about a person by the music he or she listens to. I don’t have a problem with Lady Gaga’s exhibitionism — which is a far cry from a few pelvis thrusts from Elvis or the mop hair of the Beatles — but with the utter lack of humanity in her music. Can you really envision Lady Gaga singing Love Me Tender or Hey Jude? It unfortunately would be humanly impossible for her, and it’s odd that so many in today’s generation connect to Lady Gaga precisely because of her seeming absence of human emotion.
“sociopaths were executing other human beings long before Lady GaGa”
Really? Wow, I learn something new every day.