Lady Gaga and the death of sex

The Sunday Times ^ | 09/11/10 | Camille Paglia

[AtlasStalled]

Lady Gaga is the first major star of the digital age. * * * [D]espite showing acres of pallid flesh in the fetish-bondage garb of urban prostitution, Gaga isn’t sexy at all – she’s like a gangly marionette or plasticised android. How could a figure so calculated and artificial, so clinical and strangely antiseptic, so stripped of genuine eroticism have become the icon of her generation? Can it be that Gaga represents the exhausted end of the sexual revolution? In Gaga’s manic miming of persona after persona, over-conceptualised and claustrophobic, we may have reached the limit of an era…

[Pox]

That skank is no icon to anyone but the terminally delusional.

[Snickering Hound]

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

author has a good point...the sexual revolution has burned itself out....

for example, marilyn Monroe was sexy AND smart...and a nice person...

Lady Gaga has none of those qualities.

[omega4179]

LGG is so last year I can’t believe they are writing articles about her.

[Domestic Church]

Thanks! Just sent this to one of my teens.

[decisis]

GA GA OOH LA LA

[meanie monster]

Thats A Man Baby :D

[HereInTheHeartland]

Is she/it/he a guy or girl?
I thought I heard once that she/he/it was a transvestite ...
Sorry, I just don’t take the time to follow this stuff...

[dalereed]

Who or what is a lady gaga?

[Tanniker Smith]

She's still out there and attracting people.
I heard about the crowds outside the Today show for her appearance earlier this summer. I hope parents didn't bring their kids, but they're are plenty of dumb parents in NYC.

I was told about this when I was commenting to someone about the trashy-looking Katy Perry wannabes waiting to use the ladies room (ha!) at the McDonald's down the street from the Today show. It's also across the street from Fox News where they were having their own concert that I was watching. Apparently, Lady Gaga really packed them in.

[donna]

Camille Paglia needs to face the fact that her own moral code leads to Lady Gaga and eventually cannibalism.

[Cyber Liberty]

This article is what happens when a “cultural writer” spends too much time with a pop tart. Geesh. Paglia’s pi**ed because Gaga wore her shades during the interview.

[Lazlo in PA]

Madonna was hot and had some great songs. This beat down whore is a POS. I guess my Gen X side is showing threw. Some of her music is OK in short bursts. Bad romance is good dance music.

[Joe 6-pack]

Christopher Walken performs Poker Face

[sergeantdave]

“How could a figure so calculated and artificial, so clinical and strangely antiseptic, so stripped of genuine eroticism have become the icon of her generation?”

Long live Twiggy.

Anyone under 50 remember her?

I’d post a picture but nobody could see her. Go look -

http://www.twiggylawson.co.uk/

[swatbuznik]

For as androgynous as she is, is it any wonder she’s supports gay activism?

[Dilbert San Diego]

I second the motion. What is a “Lady Gaga”? Is it a boy or a girl? Is it human?

[Malsua]

Back in 1984 or so when we first saw Madonna, she was someone you’d actually like to meet and talk to. She was talented, interesting and put on a good show. Madonna was also very sexy. Not all that pretty, then or now, but she had allure.

Gaga is none of that. She’s not sexy in the slightest. She’s wearing “shocking” outfits to wear shocking outfits. It’s like some 10yo girl wandered through the backstage of La cage aux folles trying on the outfits. It’s good for a the briefest moment then it’s over.

[bigbob]

If it’s true that she also has boy parts, that makes this argument a slam-dunk!