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She Pop: Fame Kills. So Does Trying To Understand Lady Gaga.

Music post by SadyDoyle on September 23, 2009 - 9:30pm; tagged fame kills, kanye west, Lady Gaga, madonna, mandingo, race, sex, She Pop, the language of image, the quest for meaning.

The forthcoming Kanye West and Lady Gaga tour/collaboration/alliance/bizarro-pop-Voltron makes sense for so many reasons. Primarily: Kanye and Gaga are both famous because they do weird things in public. Do you like their music? Do you not like their music? It doesn't matter! What did you think of the weird thing? Did you think it was weird? Because, if so, they have succeeded! And even I, an earnest unpacker of Meanings for lo these many blog posts now, have to admit that I enjoy Kanye and Gaga primarily because they make Meaning effectively useless.

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