Zimmerman


 * Lady GaGa **



African American culture has a lot to do with dancing and music which is also a big role in Lady GaGa’s videos; she dances in all her music videos and even has a song called “Just Dance” In the article “Introduction” Leppert states that, “Whatever else music is “about,” it is inevitably about the body; music’s aural and visual presence constitutes both a relation to and a representation of the body.” Like when Lady GaGa signs she is not only signing but putting her whole body into her song. Making it not only a message you can hear but also a message you can see. When Lady GaGa dances she puts her whole heart and soul into it just like African Americans did.
 * What would the article “Introduction” say about Lady GaGa? **

**What would Zipes say about Lady GaGa?** I think that he would think that Lady GaGa is about as big of a phenomenon as Harry Potter is. Zipe’s say that, “To be phenomenal means that a person or commodity must conform to the taste of hegemonic groups that determine what makes up a phenomenon.” And I think that Lady GaGa is for sure the taste of her generation with her style that is crazy and her own. She is a one of a kind singer with her crazy clothes and her incredibly intense videos because she is unusually kissing a girl or killing a guy. He is also a phenomenon because of all the products she has sold; everything from t-shits to dolls. Everyone wants to know what is going on with Lady GaGa there were even rumors that because she is bisexually that she had a penis, of course this was false. But that is how crazy some people are over her and make things like that up because she is that big of a celebrity. She is an amazing performer.

The way I can connect the article “Princess and the Magic Kingdom” is thru Lady GaGa’s music video Paparazzi. Just like in the princess movies, in Paparazzi there is a kingdom with castle only in modern day looks and Lady GaGa is the "princess" as you notice she is also beautiful and beauty is offten related to power. You dont see an ugly princess ever. In the article they say that the princess has to go thru hard times before she can be happy, in the video Lady GaGa is pushed off her balcony by her boyfriend. Then the mood changes and Lady GaGa becomes the Femme Fatale.  Paparazzi "Promise I'll be kind" "But I won't stop until that boy is mine"
 * What Would Do Rozario and Rebecca-Anne say about Lady GaGa?**

What he Femme Fatale is, is a sexually attractive character that is evil, like for instance in the video Lady GaGa wants to get bad at her "boyfriend" and kill him. So she poisions him and is happy about getting him back for what he did to her. Although the ending of this video is not like the average Disney movie she is happy in the end because the paparazzi is focused on her again and not someone else. media type="youtube" key="QgKrzdaDQMw" height="385" width="480" What would Lamb, Sharon, and Lyn say about Lady GaGa? ** Well when we are born we are distinguished by colors to know genders, girls are in pinks and boys are in blues. The girls’ norm is to wear pinks, frills, and glitter; they are taught this at a very young age, which is what they are supposed to do. When we learn from a very young age that girls should wear pinks, it offten sticks with them like it does from Lady GaGa. <> “Some girls seem to love everything pink and glittery while other girls want nothing to do with it. Why? There are a lot of reasons, including what their parents are drawn to, what their friends like, and what shows and ads they’re watching on TV” For example finding that picture of Lady GaGa was very hard because she has her own sense of style. And that rarely revolves around the color pink. Like in these pictures what Lady GaGa wears is not in any "girly" colors, her main color in clothes are black, blue, and white. But Lady GaGa's clothes are very revealing and to be honest I do not know if you can find her in an outfit that is not revealing. So that only backs up what the authors in the article "What Girls Wear", because they say that they want to start dressing in revealing clothes at a young age, and with the TV and Interent promoting clothing styles like this it is understandable why kids want to dress different. Lady GaGa is very popular, but does not need little girl trying to dress like her. Celeberties need to think about their clothes before they put them on and think of what kind of image they are sending out to others.
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 I think Schrum would say that Lady GaGa inspires teens to be what they want to be. On the other hand Lady GaGa is very provocative and is a little too much for teenage girls to look at. On the cover of Twist (a teen magazine) Lady GaGa dresses appropriately, but still maintains her style. As you can tell though as the readers age is older she tends to lose more clothing, what could this be promoting in the teen culture? That it is okay to dress however you want even if the outfit is scandalous. In these pictures it shows a couple of magazines that Lady GaGa has been in, note the way see is dressed in the teen magazines. ~
 * What would Kelly Schrum say about Lady GaGa? **

Now take a look and some young adult magazines that she is in. In Rolling Stone she is naked with bubbles around her private parts, and in the article she has naked girls laying around her covered in soap and water.

 In Q magazine she isn’t even wearing a shirt; you can also visibly see most of her boobs. Finally in the magazine OUT she is completely naked and her makeup is all messy her hair looks bad and it looks like she just had sex to be honest. What happens when teens see this? Teenage culture magazines emphasis on appearance more than anything, teens may not be reading these magazines but they may look at the cover. Lady GaGa doesn’t promote careers, she doesn’t promote in marriage, and she promotes her songs and clothes. Schrum would say that Lady GaGa is lost in her appearance and her music and isn’t focusing on messages about marriage or about a career.

My first point is a quote from page 288, “Focusing specifically on girls’ teenybopper culture, they demonstrated that female youth culture, unlike its male counterpart, is connected more to family, domesticity, and romance and, therefore, offers girls different possibilities for resisting social expectations” (Mary Kearney) A lot of Lady GaGa’s songs are not about family and domesticity, but they are about romance or living “your” life up. So therefore Lady GaGa is contradicting what Mary. At the same time Lady GaGa is resisting social expectations, because she is so unique. In the article “Producing Girls” she makes the connection that female adolescents have been empowering females of all ages because of the feminist movement, I believe that Lady GaGa is very empowering. Almost everyone knows her for her unique and creative style. Mary’s basic concept in the article is that author’s of magazines need to focus on what girls can do. For example Lady GaGa she didn’t listen to how in magazines authors would write about the different types of songs she should listen to, but instead she made her own songs. Magazines need to promote options for girls like instead of promoting different types of music, to promote how to start a band, be a singer, or play and instrument. We need to start challenging feminist ideologies, like Lady GaGa does. She would say that Lady GaGa is a revelation of the female character. Lady GaGa does not play the “female roles” as Inness, Lady GaGa is not a caretaker she is a musician spreading her messages through song. “Action girls who more resemble G.I. Joe than Barbie-have the licensing power today. There is a clear trend toward tough female characters”, says Russ Brown in Inness’ article. This is correct because if we look at Lady GaGa the role that is playing is a strong woman. Like in the music video Bad Romance she kills the man she likes and in the music video telephone she is in jail portraying herself as a tough girl. Stereotyping is something we all do but Lady GaGa is a difficult person to do that to, you don’t know what to expect from her. “Gender roles influence how children and adults construct their identities.”(Inness) Although Lady GaGa is going against stereotypes for women, she also is a perfect example for it. In all of her videos she is very sexualize and most people refer to women as being more sexualized than men. Also because of Lady GaGa she has changed to image of women, she inspires people to be true to themselves.
 * What would Mary Kearney say about Lady GaGa?**
 * What would Sherrie Inness say? ("Its a Girl Thing") **

I think Lisa could relate her article to Lady GaGa very well in the music video “Poker Face” because in the video Lady GaGa is the one who is in control even though the men think that they are. "In The Powder Puff Girls, little girls take center stage as action heroes exactly because they are both little girl and superheroes, and, just as adult female action figures challenge gender stereotypes, the Powerpuffs revise definitions of girlhood within mainstream American Popular culture."(Lisa Hager) What Lisa is proving here is that Powderpuffs are not going with the "norm" just like Lady GaGa she is challenging stereotypes. I think men like this video because of the darkeness, poker playing and Lady GaGa’s sex appeal. Girls like this video because of the fashion and dancing. Like in the Powder Puff Girls, boys like if for the violence and girls like it because of the "girly" colors and the strong female roles. Just like in the Powder Puff girls how they promote a message Lady GaGa’s message in the video is that it is okay if you think your sexuality may be different, you don’t have to wear a “poker face” or a mask to cover it up; oh course Lady GaGa's message is more for older people rather then kids like in the Powder Puff Girls.
 * What would Lisa Hager say about Lady GaGa?**

As seen above is Lady GaGa’s “poker face” in reality it is her mask when she had thought about other girls and had to hide them behind a “poker face” To the average person this might not be a strong message but to girls that are trying to figure out their sexuality it is a very strong message. Lady GaGa is very sexualized in the video like the picture below. The way this realates to the Powder Puff girls is because they fight for justice and Lady GaGa is trying to fight for people to be themselves. Powder Puff girls promote a message and so does Lady GaGa. Both boys and girls watch the Powder Puff girls and both men and women watch Lady GaGa’s video for different reasons.

Well she would examine all of her points in her article with Lady GaGa in real life. First she would look at the politics of advocacy and that means is "pleading for and promoting a speifice cause, or upholding a particular point of view or course of action as being valid and right"(Sherrie Inness). So what does Lady GaGa promote? She promotes that everyone is different and everyone should be themselves with there on style. Lady GaGa for instance promotes gay rights because she is bisexual. In the picture below is Lady GaGa in her new hit Telephone, where she is in a female jail and kisses a girl for the music video. Her goal her was let people know that it is okay to be gay, but she does this in a different way as you can see her outfit is something else of the normal. So it also is an intest to other viewers.
 * What would Sherrie Inness say about Lady GaGa? ("Anti-Barbies")**

Lady GaGa politics of attack "is generated by the authors' sense of amusement, outrage, or contempt when they encounter something that runs counter to their concepts of right and wrong, good and evil, justice fair play, deceny, or truth"(Sherrie Inness). Her attack is to fight the norm and be yourself don’t be something you are not. You will never see Lady GaGa in "normal" clothes her style is her own and she is herself. She designs most of her clothes and they are one of a kind. Also you will she that she is always doing her own thing and sometimes her style can be very funny. Politics of assent is the "ideologies generally prevalent in the society"(Sherrie Inness). Lady GaGa's politics of assent is that that being yourself is being real with yourself. Finally like in the article Sherrie makes the connection on page 179 that girls need to realize that even though the feminist movement taught girls that they can do whatever they desire, but in reality most girls are stuck in the roles of their mothers or grandmothers and are caretakers. The connection is that Lady GaGa has beat this trap and is doing her own thing, she is an entertainer.

Allan Johnson would say that Lady GaGa is an exceptional example for his article “Where Are We?” he talks about several main points; obsession with control, male dominance, male identification, male centered. The music video is about all of these is Lady GaGa’s song “Bad Romance”. When Allan talks about male dominance he is saying that men are higher than women in the economy and in Lady GaGa’s song she makes this true with her lyrics: “I want your love, love, love, love. I want your love.” “You know that I want you. You know that I need you.”
 * What would Allan Johnson say about Lady GaGa?**

There are even more lyrics about how she just wants to be excepted by a man. Also how in the video a bunch of men are all watching her dance in hardly any clothes this may imply that the men are higher than her. The next thing is male centeredness meaning that everything revolves around then man and in this music video it is clear to see that she is doing and acting the way she is for the man that she wants. Also all the people watching are men and they are all good looking. The third thing is obsession with control and in the video the men are the only ones watching and “judging” her and her dancers to see if she is good enough. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Gisha','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: 'Gisha','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Lady GaGa is very sexualized to look appealing to men like in the first picture, she may be wearing a lot of crazy clothes, but they are all sexy. Black bra and panties with jewls wraped around her body, one scene she is naked and showing her skinny body. Also in when she is in the tub she is wearing a plastic dress and you can see thru so she taped two white X’s over her nipples then two girls take her top off. In the tub scene(picture above) her eyes are enhanced too look bigger then what they are, to look more appealing to the men. The Song is basically about how she wants to be with a man she will do anything because she wants him so badly. She realizes that there are things wrong with him, but she doesn’t care hence bad romance. Finally in the end of the music video she kills him and lays in bed his skeletons because he is now hers. Finally male identification all of the males in the music video are strong and good looking, they are also standing and the girls are on the floor. This may be symbolizing men having more power than the women. So over all I think that Allan would agree and say that Lady GaGa is portraying a lot of aspects in his article.

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