Take some rope, plenty of black PVC fashion outfits, a kindergarten kid’s paint palate, a truckload of peroxide. Pour all of these ingredients onto a Catholic schooled, New York Italian, classically trained female, pianist singer, songwriter…. then add a camera, and what do you get, a Mess in Japan!
Just kidding.
Stefani Germanotta, the artist known as Lady Gaga, has just combined all of these elements with her larger than life pop persona to deliver to Vogue Hommes Japan Magazine’s fashion savvy audience (the men of Japan) what Lady Gaga believes that they want to see. Lady Gaga believes that the men of Japan want to see the female version of the late Hollywood actor David Carradine’s death in Thailand, reinacted for them in Japan.
Again, it’s a mess in Japan.
But two things hold true, the editor of Vogue Homme Japan believes that Japanese men want to see this concept and Lady Gaga has been cast in this light for their magazine audience. Also, on this blog, horiwood.com, David Carradine‘s death news has garnered 80,000 hits, for one post on Carradine alone. Media savvy Lady Gaga, who lives life in the fame game by the amount of google search trends and results, obviously is giving the Asian world, what the Japanese and other Asian nations have been searching for online, of American Entertainment news.
Even though this is a mess in Japan, Lady Gaga is very smart at knowing what’s rating on the internet in Asian cultures. So, despite whether we judge her or not, for these pictures, she is increasing her audience loyalty to her in Japan and throughout Asia by giving the Japanese what they want to see. An America pop Geisha whose restrained. It provides the viewer and the reader with a sense of power, over an American woman. It makes the Japanese man feel privvy to a sense of cultural imperialism over America.
Again, it’s a mess in Japan. The only person winning with this representation, is Lady Gaga. She has already flirted with a near death experience, when an actor in her music video for her song, Paparazzi threw her off a balcony, and her character in the music video fell to the crowd almost dead, but then had to recover from the many injuries she sustained (a metaphor for the collapse of the global economy). But yeah, she’s done this theme already before, she needs a new one! Asap!!!
Her vision of achieving her ambition of global domination in pop music (Madonna styles) and furthering her appeal into Asian markets are these consequent photos.
Well, at least she is perceptive. But when all of the hooplah is stripped away, it’s still a little bit messy. It’s like Memoirs of a Gaga Geisha meets a cowboy’s rope from Texas that’s finished by art time at a kindergarten in New Jersey.
Where did the Manhattan go from this girl? Again, I kid.
Is this art we ask? Apparently the Japanese think that this is the new form of American art. I don’t know if we can call it fashion. It’s something messy in between. More about Gaga than the clothes.
I am left with a sense, after seeing Katy Perry too live in concert recently in LA, that young artists like Lady Gaga, have an ego and media profile bigger than their song list is capable of perform to a live audience. Their heads are bigger than a riveting concert, you paid a ticket to see. Yawn! Because they are limited in concert, Katy Perry needs a reality check as does Gaga. Rather than give Lady Gaga a disproportionate amount of press, what is needed is for Stefani Germanotta to get her behind into the studio and record another hit album.
Like Katy Perry, only have one album of songs, means that they disappoint their audience in concert, because they are not the big superstars they appear to be in the media.
In concert they have 4 good songs, at best, and they have to resort to gimmicks and covers, let alone a two hour concert experience. They simply are not capable of yet carrying the true pop star/ performer title yet. We are in love with Lady Gaga’s pop potential, but she has not yet delivered two hours worth of concert material, that she herself has earned by creating it. This girl needs a reality check up from the neck up.
To use a comparison for Lady Gaga to emulate and try and remain a sustainable entity in music and entertainment lets look at Beyonce, known as the Queen Bee.
Beyonce Knowles started having done several albums all with #1 hits in the all girl group Destiny’s Child, before she even had the audacity to go out on her own.She proved herself that she had the talent to be in the highest selling girl group of all time in music. Then she did solo magazine covers and photo shoots, once shed earned it. She was not conceited.
Although Lady Gaga is a more gifted pop songwriter than Beyonce is, Lady Gaga could do with taking a note out of Beyonce’s book and getting back to the studio. At least Beyonce can entertain a crowd, dancing and singing non-stop for 2 1/4 hours.
Art direction/ styling: Nicola Formichetti. Photography: Nobuyoshi Araki
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 9.10.2009~
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I didn’t hear she was immitating David Carradine’s death. It’s supposedly an Illuminati murder. We have more info on this topic on our site.
HORIWOOD: Lady Gaga… reads google trends, she finds out what themes and people the world is googling, then she does some “artistic” take on it… she knows David Carradine’s death was a huge deal. i like her perceptiveness, but sometimes her interpretation of the take, is a little hit or miss. Her music is good though.
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