Response to Elona’s "Gaga the Fame Monster: Monsters and Christianity in Popular Culture"

Hey Elona! Thanks for the great and interesting post! It can be found here: http://ekhoy.blogspot.com/2011/03/gaga-fame-monster-monsters-and.html


Lady Gaga has set herself apart in society as being “different”. She pushes herself so far outside the box of the norm just to prove that she doesn’t care what others have to say about her. She is who she is and she makes no apologies for it. But why does she do it?

Lady Gaga believes that everybody should be able to express themselves the way they are without feeling like they need to conform to a certain type. She is a firm supporter of marriage equality and often speaks out on gay marriage. Gaga does what she wants, when she wants and so far it’s brought her worldwide attention from every age group.

Listening to the song “Monster” is interesting because of the negative light she speaks about monsters (in this case the new boy she’s dating ends up being a monster) and in turn calls her fans “little monsters”. She uses the word monster in many different ways but mostly to describe how a monster is like an outcast in society. She claims to hate fame yet she attracts the most fame out of almost any other artist this decade and because of this calls her album “The Fame Monster”. What I don’t get is why she has to try so hard to set herself apart?

Noticing all her monster versus human references, the Christian ones seem to be the natural ones to follow.

I want to thank you for pointing out the heavy Christian symbolism in her videos because I always found it interesting for a person who believes that everyone should be “free” and not confined to rules demonstrates Christian symbols in her videos.  The “monster” that she has in her Bad Romance video is extremely similar to the picture you posted about “Saint Wolfgang”. You really nailed it when you spoke about evil collaborating with this pious. She does see herself as the evil spirit in society and collaborating as you put it, with the Christian tradition.

It really makes you wonder if she believes that by her over sexualisation and other outrages behaviour means that she believes she is a “saint”. Kind of ironic. Her uniting with the Christian tradition to her might mean to “better” society by telling everyone it’s okay to let completely loose and let the monster inside of you escape.

Completely crazy? Yes. Completely wrong? Maybe so. One thing for sure is that Lady Gaga won’t be slowing down anytime soon.



Xo,

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