It's arguably the most famous painting by the artist Johannes Vermeer, entitled Girl with a Pearl Earring. The Gaga comparison is founded on the idea that ARTPOP was about bringing the art world into the sphere of pop culture, which Lana is doing (either intentionally or by chance) in changing her profile pic to a photo inspired by the piece.

Lemme break it down for you. Gaga has created the earth, the sun, art, pop and the gays. Every memory of a time before Gaga is a hoax. So logically everything is a reference to Lady Gaga.

Very fame and IV !

Yes!

History can be divided into 2 parts.

B.G.= Before Gaga, when nothing existed
A.G.= After Gaga, when she created the entire universe

Both artistes actually share a lot of fans, so

I mean, you'd think it'd be easy to understand It's clearly a "jokey" thing, but it's flying over some people's heads, which isn't surprising

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tbh


Oh, and for you uneducated persons Gaga was transformed into famous pieces of art and featured in the Louvre. It's really similar to what Lana did.

Monsters aren't dragging her; we are applauding Lana's acceptance of ARTPOP into her life.

When did I say Gaga was the first to do it? Hell, when did she even say she was the first to do it? I was just answering the question of how the two are related, a parallel of which was meant in a joking manner. It's not that complicated or serious.

Pop culture isn't made up solely of music - in it is also photography, film, dance, theater, and more, plus the contemporary artists that actually do and make these things. As Lana is one of the more known of these contemporary artists (in context of the vast amounts of artists out there), she has a voice in pop culture. In this case, whether it by purposefully or just incidentally, she's using that voice to bring awareness to Vermeer's masterpiece. Again, I'm not saying she did or didn't mean to do this, but no matter what her intentions were, that's inevitably a side effect of her action. Perhaps her true intention was to cast a parallel between her and the girl from the painting - we'll never really know, unless she speaks up about it of course.