Questions

• Is Lady Gaga’s weird image manufactured or is it a self-made image?
• Can Lady Gaga be the new sex symbol in pop music?
• Could Gaga change her image as her career progresses like The Beatles?

Response

            In Camille Pagila’s article, “Lady Gaga and the Death of Sex”, she claims that Lady Gaga is destroying the sex revolution that was started about one hundred years ago, and that Gaga’s image might be all manufactured. I think that Gaga’s image is all faked based on the facts the Camille Pagila gave us about her childhood. Gaga said that she was an outcast in school and was underprivileged, but really she went to the same private school that Paris and Nicky Hilton attended (they are defiantly the opposite of underprivileged). She was also very gifted in music being a very good piano player another reason she should not be an outcast in school. Lady Gaga reminds me a lot of a rapper named Rick “The Boss” Ross, whose career has been manufactured completely. In his songs he talks about himself being this bad ass gangster who dealt a lot of cocaine and called all the shots. Then it comes out that he stole all of his stories from prisoners he used to talk to in prison while he was a correctional officer. I feel that Lady Gaga has maybe not stole her image from a specific person, but rather her image was made up by either her producers or herself to appeal to a much wider audience. I think she realized that Americans love an underdog story and that is exactly what her story has is all about. I think she might be a little weird but I don’t think she is as over the top weird as she dresses and her whole attitude behind her weirdness. Especially her comments about sex saying that she does not do it and stuff like that, but yet in her songs she talks about some pretty vulgar stuff that you would expect from Lil’ Wayne not Lady Gaga.