{"id":127,"date":"2013-09-28T22:12:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T03:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyville.org\/xblkx\/?p=127"},"modified":"2013-11-03T22:12:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T03:12:16","slug":"lady-gagas-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga’s art"},"content":{"rendered":"

In reply to an article analyzing the art of Lady Gaga, which I thought was great…
\nhttp:\/\/theotherjournal.com\/2011\/05\/23\/gaga-a-gogo\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I wrote:<\/p>\n

This is a really great analysis and discussion that you wrote.\u00a0 It’s too bad that everyone is not taught from an early age how important it is to give everything a less superficial examination and help them develop the mental tools to do so.\u00a0 I particularly liked your point about the ‘conventional notion of a dichotomy between pop and art.’\u00a0 It was certainly relevant to the topic and still is.\u00a0 As someone who was guilty of this with my own early dismissal of Lady Gaga as “probably another pop star being fed to us” but realizing a year or so later that assessment was completely wrong, I have developed a deep admiration for her art, her social commentary, and her messages, many of which are deeply personally meaningful.\u00a0 For me, at the age of 49, many of the ideas in those messages, which you mentioned but didn’t fully elaborate on, are the same as the ones I’ve come up with on my own after decades of self-searching, introspection, reading, and thought, concepts which represent everything I believe in and are the source of my happiness, self-identity, and desire for personal growth.\u00a0 I could only imagine how much of a head start I could have had on this process if she had existed 20 years ago (which, of course, never would have happened as her success is the convergence of many factors including technology and less restrictions on speech and performance art to name just two important ones).<\/p>\n

If you were ever to follow up with a continuation of your analysis, I’d certainly be there to read it.\u00a0 I wonder what you thought and how you feel about the 2013 “Itunes Festival” performance.\u00a0 If you haven’t watched it (linearly, not in pieces), I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n

The last thing I wanted to mention is how interesting it was to read points about “pop” and “art” in your article from over two years ago and know that her new album, out in a few months, is titled ARTPOP.\u00a0 I’d say you’re one of those who “gets” it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In reply to an article analyzing the art of Lady Gaga, which I thought was great… http:\/\/theotherjournal.com\/2011\/05\/23\/gaga-a-gogo\/ I wrote: This is a really great analysis and discussion that you wrote.\u00a0 It’s too bad that everyone is not taught from an early age how important it is to give everything a less superficial examination and help […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lady-gaga","category-myself","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}