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Originally posted by martikaisback
If she wants to make a TRUE risky artistic statement, she'll have to disappear for at least 5 years and then come back to release music as Stefani Germanotta and without the over-the-top fashions and weaves/wigs.
After all, she claims that's she's not in it for the money.
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Why? Why is it impossible for Lady Gaga to make the statement? Why is it that the two are anything different? Lady Gaga isn't as much of a mask anymore as people seem to think it is. It's not like she's doing much different now than she would have wanted to do anyway - go listen to her song "Electric Kiss" from before she adopted her stage name. Does that not sound exactly like the message Lady Gaga tries to convey? She's not a different person. She's an exaggerated person - the over-the-top fashion
is her statement. It's her way of getting your attention focused on the message she already wanted to convey, and it's working.
Artistically I think she perhaps has even more potential with her stage name; the fact that people view her differently gives her almost an excuse to go over-the-top and crazy with any artistic statements she wishes to make. She doesn't have to be concerned about ending up as a dead-end flop with no shot at a career, because she already has the fanbase and following she needs to make her artistic statements noticed and to spread a message if she wishes, as well as support herself so that she may continue doing basically whatever she wants. Sure for a while she might stick with pop music and try to cling to the throne she currently holds, but eventually I think her label will stop caring about her being the top celebrity on Earth, even if she remains as such. I have a feeling she cares less about that than one might expect, given that she released BTW. BTW might not have been risky to some people, but it definitely was for a pop star who relies on public perception to sell and to earn money.
I think I kind of got off on a tangent there but whatever.
