This quote from Lady Gaga seems true for everyone:
"When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl," she says. "Then I say, 'Bitch, you're Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.' "
In most ways each of us is getting up in the morning and fulfilling an expectation that we’ve set for ourselves – embodying the persona we’ve created.
I admire Gaga for her intelligent blatancy. Her unabashed celebrity creation IS a mash up of all of the past celebrities she is accused of copying, and that’s the point. The banal critic adores pointing out influences for current stars, as if it establishes his credibility or lessens the star’s current stature.
It doesn’t. It’s the opposite. We live in a mash-up culture where reinvention and amalgamation is prized.
Which should be everyone.
2 comments:
I really didn't enjoy that interview as she kept ping-ponging with what she was saying; contradictory, intensely personal without being at all revelatory, self-absorbed, self-loathing. And I took no insight from it; I mean, I don't blame her or criticize her for what she was saying in that interview, I just didn't want to READ it. Bad article, IMHO.
BUT! I love what you've pulled out of there and I immediately feel better about the piece. Thanks.
Amazing quote. I feel that every morning, you are absolutely right.
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