Lady Gaga is flailing. She’s drowning, not waving. Which really sucks for her, because she’s an amazingly talented artist. If you don’t believe me just watch this video of her singing “Hair” on Howard Stern, which I’ve just re-watched and teared up over. At the most base level, without any of the accoutrements, Lady Gaga is an accomplished, capable, and passionate performer. Somehow however, that very rare fact has been lost, and possibly suffocated, beneath a menagerie of wigs and the oiled, fetishized bodies of her many dancers.
She’s finally succumbed to the death knell of her career, and in what are perhaps her final moments, like a monkey, she’s flinging **** at a wall, praying in between swings that something will stick.
Kat George listens to "Poker Face" to remember the good times. Follow her on Twitter - @kat_george
