“The last thing a young woman needs is another picture of a sexy pop star writhing in sand, covered in grease, touching herself. My image was an issue at my record label. I fought for months and cried at meetings. I got criticized for being arrogant because if you’re sure of yourself as a woman they say you’re a bitch whereas if you’re a man and you’re strong-willed it’s normal.”
-Lady Gaga in Q Magazine
i like her and all – but i dont think showing your vagina off is much different…which has happened w/her vag slips on stage
except when those things happen on stage it’s a lot different from when lindsay is hammered and fucked and clambering into the nearest limo.
where is this image she’s referring to?
Amen sistah!
One of my professors always talks about how “wise” Lady Gaga is at such a young age (my prof is in her 50s), and now I get why.
How is her image much different than the image she describes? She is an extremely thin woman with an overtly sexual image.
Unlike Sean Penn, and Kate Moss, both of whom I severely despise, I like Lady Gaga for some reason – well there’s a lotta reasons.
Now, maybe she’s being too defensive here, and it sorta sounds like it, but I was not in those meetings nor did I have a fly on the wall with a webcam. If she’s correct, then right on, Lady! If she’s not recounting things reasonably accurately, then stop the drama, Gaga, you’ve won the wars – what’s to complain about?
And young women need the image of a woman who is so insecure about herself she has to dress outlandishly to direct attention from her self perceived insecurities? Hmmmmm.
she’s very cool, and very right. what she’s trying to say is her image is about art and less about sex. and some people aren’t ok with that (her label). we need more famous people like her.
agreed!
She sings about sex all the time and she often wears clothing out walking around that is little more than underwear. Her clothes may be more zany, but she honestly dresses sexier than many pop stars.
Love her. LOVE HER. And absolutely agree with her.
How is her going out dressed in glorified underwear any better?
Maybe she can talk about this sort of stuff when she feels comfortable enough with herself to go out and not be dressed like an extra from a Drag show.
I want to believe that she really is a 4th-wave feminist, but given her friendship with the profoundly misogynistic Perez Hilton, I have my doubts.
What the hell is a 4th-wave feminist?
1) Suffrage – check
2) Drive a car – check
3) Wear a pantsuit in public – check
4) Dress like John Wayne Gacy and have the clueless masses fawn over you like you’re Jesus, Buddha and Einstein?
Of course, Hog Fat Hilton hates women, I wonder why?
While I think Lady Gaga is describing her not buying into the traditional sexed-up pop starlet image, I don’t think it’s because she was necessarily taking a stand against the objectification of women considering what she sells is pure sex.
Just because she’s trying to be sexy doesn’t mean she’s objectifying herself. Objectification comes from female desperation and male fear and their desires for dominance. I want to dislike her, but I don’t. I hate the get-ups that seem a little too “LOOK AT ME!” but I guess it’s her thing and certainly makes her memorable, so it seems to be that she’s the one calling the shots.
She seemed like a down to earth person when Barbara Walters interviewed her (that sounds cliche’d). I think she’s just a kook who found her niche. I still want to dislike her and her crazy costumes, but I can’t help liking her music.
Judging from the outfit I just saw a photo of her in yesterday with her ass hanging out, she has no problem putting herself out there as a piece of meat.
But if you’re saying that the deciding factor re:objectification is if she decides to put herself out as a half naked piece of meat versus someone else telling her to do that, then you’re right, she isn’t objectified.
I think it’s actually more pathetic when you do it to yourself, but whatever.
I think it’s wrong to think of it as pathetic… She is putting herself out there, but is pretty much in control of the image that is portrayed. She does sell sex- but it’s not from a male perspective, and that is the crucial difference. She’s not selling sex from the tone of ‘Wouldn’t you want to have sex with me?’ rather she is telling the people watching that she is a sexually liberated woman.
In some ways you can see that tt’s almost as if she is objectifying herself rather than have someone else do it for and about her- pre-empting the situation. I think its rather a clever move…
And yes her outfits can be way over the top- but would we have noticed her if she’d made all her appearances in pair of jeans and a comfy tshirt…? I like the extravagance, it makes her unique.