Inside a GaGa Mind

If you have seen the Telephone video by Lady Gaga, feat. Beyonce, then you, like me, are hopefully thinking, what the fuck!?

Let her explain…

Wow, she actually seems sane!

I believe that Lady GaGa is the Andy Warhol of the 21st Century.

Her messages on consumerism, and literally what America is physically consuming, the vast amounts of food, is ‘doing her tits in’ and so, she makes a mockery of it in plain sight, in a music video- the most viewed medium of today, and no one gets it…

I guess history is cyclical, it just changes a tad, just as computers have slight upgrades, but the program is still the same…

Andy Warhol

“Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.”

“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly. “

“I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”

“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.”

From Andy’s art, you could see the iconic consumer items he picked up on were campbell soup cans, coca-cola bottles… Lady GaGa chose cigarettes, diet coke cans, and sandwiches…

…I forgot to mention her statement about the Telephone, what her entire song is about! How obsessed individuals are with their telephones, I know I am one of the guilty party! My blackberry = my crackberry!

…If they open up a rehab center for blackberry users like they are doing for Cyber addicts right now, I am going to get checked in! (BTW, if you haven’t read, a rehab center for individuals as young as 12 years old is being opened in London, the internet has become an actual addiction for some, causing actual withdrawal symptoms. It is causing a deteriorating of social skills with the younger generations. Crazy isn’t it!?)

I think Warhol, and now GaGa, are throwing things we don’t even realize we abuse back into our faces. Like the obsession with mass consuming- Warhol’s prints are always of several of the same subject/object on one canvas, and then substance abuse because of the desire to mass consume, GaGa’s restaurant scene in her Telephone video is very interesting, I believe it depicts this notion of mine. The extras are all eating food in a piggish manner and then all die because they are poisoned by the food… hmmm