Lady Gaga's meat suit.

[Chewster]

What has that got to do with anything? oO

What difference does that make?

And to be fair, most soldiers are treated like meat in the army.

Just feels completely random. The "meat suit" will have no meaning unless she tells them what it stands for, completely making the suits point well....pointless when she could have told them from the start.

And why does she care? that's really my main point by that phrase, how can she fix a problem she hasn't experienced? it feels like a tacky grab for attention.

Who says she's trying to fix the problem? As I understand it, it was done to raise awareness.

I'm not saying this isn't poorly thought out or a grab for attention or whatever (I have no idea either way since I don't watch MTV), but someone saying she cannot solve the problem, or at least attempt, because she isn't gay and in the army, is just flat out stupid. Plenty of people of different backgrounds can rally around a cause that may have no direct effect on them.

 

[AgentNein]

I really don't know much about Lady Gaga. All I know is that her music sounds like shit, so I don't pay any attention to her. However my brother absolutely detests her. He knows a lot about the music industry, since music is his passion. According to him, Lady Gaga just wears these outrageous outfits for attention. She's not really insane, she doesn't believe any of the messages she is sending. She just does this to get attention without actually having talent.

Yes she's doing it for attention. No she's not crazy. She's a fucking performer. It's not even a dirty secret, she fully admits she's over the top for publicity's sake. Anything wrong with that? Not everyone wants to be a 'serious musician' type. She's in good company, as well. Look back at Bowie, the NY Dolls, the glam movement and the punk movement, all of that was just as much about a striking and controversial aesthetic as it was about the music (despite what the punk revisionists may have you believe).

I'd say there is something wrong with lying about what you believe in, claiming to be representing a stance on an issue you don't care about, and making yourself look like an ass just to garner attention.

I don't necessarily disagree with you. This whole Meat suit in support of gay soldiers feels disingenuous. I mean, that's what she is, admittedly, but when she's talking about something that IS important to some folks, it's little offensive to be so flippant about it.

 

[Atmos Duality]

Lady Gaga is a dumb *****, trying to raise awarness by talking about "controverse" topics...

It's a PR/popularity move. Celebrities do it all the time.
It makes money.

 

[DeepComet5581]

Lady Gaga is clearly insane and has no control over herself...she must be purged immediately

Maybe so, but in this war against Katy Perry, who has more publicity?

I don't really care. Their music is crap so both can just disappear from the music scene.

I agree, but that wasn't my point.

They do provide comic relief.

 

[AgentNein]

I read in an article recently that said, despite what millions of teenage girls say, Lady Gaga is not original. That she is exactly 50% Madonna and 50% Marilyn Manson. I never really paid much attention to her, but this really does make me agree with this estimate.

Replace Madonna with Bowie and I'm with that. But I mean, who's truly original out there? Musicians don't exist in a vacuum. When someone makes music, it's informed somewhat by the musical climate of the world (whether they admit it to themselves or not). Either going with the climate, against it, looking to the past, etc.

True originality in music (or any art) is essentially outsider art. It can't be informed at all by the musical climate of the world, and thus it can't really say anything worthwhile (because it's completely ignorant of the 'world conversation' that's already been going on, sort of like the douche who walks up to a conversation at a party, and jumps in without knowing what the fuck anybody was already talking about).

 

[ssgt splatter]

What?
...
...
Picture please.
I hope I don't regret this.

 

[Frankydee]

Is she implying that she's been in the Army and she knows for a fact how homosexuals are treated? I hate when celebrities do stupid shit like this without doing some sort of real life research for themselves.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Lady Gaga is clearly insane and has no control over herself...she must be purged immediately

Maybe so, but in this war against Katy Perry, who has more publicity?

I don't really care. Their music is crap so both can just disappear from the music scene.

I agree, but that wasn't my point.

They do provide comic relief.

No Justin Bieber provides that.

 

[seanmcdow]

unless that dress was frozen wouldnt it stink?

 

[Cliff_m85]

Soooo... Lady Gaga wore a dress made out of raw meat to the MTV Awards.
She said it represented the way homosexuals are treated in the US army.
Um, any thoughts?

I would've preferred it if she just said it was a huge 'fuck you' to PETA.

 

[StriderShinryu]

Hate lady gaga, her music sucks and is only in papers for her next break down or weird clothes she wears. I am not against people looking strange, take a look at death metal, goth etc. But she does it for the ratings and for column inches in the papers. She is not shocking. A meat suit? Who cares. Is any one really shocked? No one is. Funny how todays music industry is won by clothing and shock instead of actual talent and quality songs.

Musical tastes aside, are you inferring that death metal groups, etc. don't wear their outlandish outfits for image and hype? Certainly they don't get as much attention as Gaga does but surely their music would sound exactly the same whether they wore costumes or not, wouldn't they?

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

I look at who our celebrities are, the people we're choosing as our entertainers, and I'm embarrassed for this country/world.

 

[Casual Shinji]

This is her hook line and sinker.

Our gossip is her oxygen; without it she dies.

 

[esperandote]

gross

 

[rokkolpo]

i don't know if it was a statement for the killing of animals and wearing them as clothing or against it.

was she being ironic?

 

[DeepComet5581]

Lady Gaga is clearly insane and has no control over herself...she must be purged immediately

Maybe so, but in this war against Katy Perry, who has more publicity?

I don't really care. Their music is crap so both can just disappear from the music scene.

I agree, but that wasn't my point.

They do provide comic relief.

No Justin Bieber provides that.

No, he provides a target.

 

[Vaccine]

Who says she's trying to fix the problem? As I understand it, it was done to raise awareness.

I'm not saying this isn't poorly thought out or a grab for attention or whatever (I have no idea either way since I don't watch MTV), but someone saying she cannot solve the problem, or at least attempt, because she isn't gay and in the army, is just flat out stupid. Plenty of people of different backgrounds can rally around a cause that may have no direct effect on them.

Raising awareness = trying to fix, she's just a catalyst so to speak.

And I know people can rally and do those things, abit a weird concept for me.
But she's a celebrity, she could pick any controversy topic, wear a meat suit and justify it, "meat is murder", "the teenage workforce is treated like meat", "animal cruelty".
My phrase just pokes fun at her reasons behind the choice of topic.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Lady Gaga is clearly insane and has no control over herself...she must be purged immediately

Maybe so, but in this war against Katy Perry, who has more publicity?

I don't really care. Their music is crap so both can just disappear from the music scene.

I agree, but that wasn't my point.

They do provide comic relief.

No Justin Bieber provides that.

No, he provides a target.

Very True. I still laugh at the clip in which he got hit by a water bottle. I only wish it was a brick.

 

[Treeinthewoods]

A dress made of meat represents how gays are treated in the US military?

I'm not following here...

For what it's worth, the dress looks delicious. Must smell like ass though, after a little time on the stage under the hot lights.

 

[AgentNein]

Raising awareness = trying to fix

Just wanted to take a small exception to this, not necessarily. Raising awareness is just that, raising awareness. It's what people do when they don't really know how to fix something, they do the next best thing that a celebrity in the spotlight CAN do, keep the problem fresh in people's minds. Make sure they don't forget about it.

With that said I'm not entirely convinced that Gaga isn't just trying to be Gaga, but yeah.