Didn’t much care for the hype at first, I had a kneejerkk “can’t be anything if so many people like-it” reaction. But she writes catchy songs, oozes intelligence, and has her own kind of performance art that is, indeed, reminding me of Bjork.
I like the outfit, but I had to dish out some snark. The outfit for meeting the queen is an interesting combination of appropriate and waaaay out there. At least she could theoretically sit down in that one.
She kinda reminds me of Alicia Keys, except Alicia Keys didn’t make that Glam/Media Icon jump, which, I suppose, stars at that level are presented with the option to do.
I also think she should have come up with a better stage name. I heard it’s in honor of the Queen song “Radio Ga Ga”, which makes me feel a bit better about it, but it’s still not a great name. I mean, there are even other Queen songs that would have been better. “Lady Killer Queen”, “Lady Bohemian”, “Lady Bicycle”, or even “Lady Fat Bottom Girl”, although she’s not really built for that last one.
I heard that someone asked if she was going to tone down her dress for her meeting with the queen. Lady Gaga responded, “If the Queen wants to meet Lady Gaga, I assume she wants to meet Lady Gaga.”
It’s not “in honor” of the song, it’s rooted in it being her entrance song. The name was presented to her based on that and a sort of typo (story here). It wasn’t a situation where someone was perusing Queen song titles (or perusing anything, for that matter) looking for a stage name.
I don’t get how she sounds like Freddie Mercury either, but she’s apparently experimented with a lot of approaches and styles while searching for her persona, so maybe she went through a phase that was particularly Queen-y.
There are some that say that she is somehow? involved in the illuminati, and that there are all these symbols everywhere. I don’t have the energy to find out if all of that is true, but I do like that Bad Romance song. It’s catchy.
There is no such thing as “Illuminati symbols,” other than Masonic symbols, because the Illuminati (a sort of offshoot of the Freemasons) were suppressed in 1784, and in their approximately eight years of existence do not seem to have developed any symbolism of their own. Nor to have accomplished much of anything else, really.
There is some symbolism which has become associated with the Illuminati in conspiracy-theory culture and in pop-cultural memes derived therefrom. For an artist to make use of such is a sign of sophistication, not affiliation. If Lady Gaga is a Robert Anton Wilson fan, good for her!
Does it have a name? I’ve never seen it anywhere else.
