# Will Lady Gaga be "relevant" a year from now? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 16, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006 "2010-09-16T19:36:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/241 "2010-09-23T04:30:03Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > > [@Kurt](#): > > > > I can’t believe anyone would argue with any degree of conviction that she’s not, perhaps, the most famous woman in the world right now (let alone that her fame is overshadowed by “Octomom”? I mean, seriously?). > > I would say Hillary Clinton is the most famous woman in the world right now. Definitely more famous than LGG: Angelina Jolie Madonna The Queen of England Oprah Probably more famous than LGG: Sarah Palin Sandra Bullock Fairly recently deceased and still probably more famous than LGG: Mother Theresa Lady Di ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/242 "2010-09-23T04:31:11Z")
I’m not sure that Gaga has matched Madonna’s worldwide recognition yet. Also I’ve found Oprah Winfrey to rank surprisingly high even among non-Anglophones. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/243 "2010-09-23T05:19:56Z")
I really don’t think that Sarah Palin is more famous worldwide than Gaga. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/244 "2010-09-23T06:10:36Z")
But what about Octomom? ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/245 "2010-09-23T06:31:45Z")
Madonna and Oprah look down on Gaga from a huge distance, I think. We have to remember the older generations who are likely to have heard of Madonna and Oprah, but wouldn’t know Lady Gaga from the next current singer. Of course this is all keepin in mind that the Octomom beats them all. ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/246 "2010-09-23T06:33:15Z")
Duplicate post deleted, sorry - Octomom compelled me to sing her praises twice ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/247 "2010-09-23T06:47:46Z")
> [@multimediac17](#): > > Duplicate post deleted, sorry - Octomom compelled me to sing her praises twice And it was good. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/248 "2010-09-23T07:04:06Z")
As pop stars go, I think it’s hard to beat Madonna - she’s had how many decades now? 3? And if you think anyone outside of the US even thinks about octomom… you’re right! We all have little shrines to the shining example of (faux) fertility that she is. Why, all we want are familys of 18, like how every Chinese family used be in the last 2 decades. Ayup. la, la, Octomom. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/249 "2010-09-23T07:42:48Z")
> [@Tabby\_Cat](#): > > I really don’t think that Sarah Palin is more famous worldwide than Gaga. Shrug, I really don’t know. I listed her under “probably” because all of my international friends know her, while a lot of my (American) family members wouldn’t know Lady Gaga from Jimmy Joe Bumbletits. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/250 "2010-09-23T11:32:38Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Jimmy Joe Bumbletits. Great band name. I would think Madonna, Oprah, Hilary, maybe still Diana, all would be known to more people worldwide than LGG. No cite to back that up though. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/251 "2010-09-23T14:33:43Z")
I think Lady Di is fading, at least outside of the North America/Europe/Australia axis. She just doesn’t come up anymore in most places, and it’s going on a whole generation now that she’s been dead. ---
**Author:** ![Kurt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kurt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kurt)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/252 "2010-09-23T14:49:00Z")
I don’t mean to quibble over details – Oprah and the Queen are clearly two of the most well-known women in the world – but am I deluded in thinking there’s an enormous gulf between the level of fame enjoyed by Lady Gaga and that of “Octomom”? Am I just that out of touch? I’ll admit I rarely watch TV. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/253 "2010-09-23T14:54:37Z")
Can we _please_ stop talking about OctoMom? Seriously, the thought of her makes my vagina cringe, and she looks really creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/254 "2010-09-23T14:55:07Z")
If anyone in Thailand has ever heard of Octomom, they forgot it a long time ago. This thread was my first inkling of her. I thought at first it must be a band! Lady Gaga’s songs, on the other hand, receive wide play over here. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/255 "2010-09-23T15:50:46Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > If anyone in Thailand has ever heard of Octomom, they forgot it a long time ago. This thread was my first inkling of her. I thought at first it must be a band! [Here, Sam, this will explain everything for you](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wujlieYG47s). ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/256 "2010-09-23T15:55:38Z")
Um, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/257 "2010-09-26T05:41:31Z")
Ok, this is the way it goes… Kate Gosselin on the the [Cover of People](http://hot-on-net.blogspot.com/2010/09/kate-gosselin-people-magazine-2010-pics.html) looking really really fuckable, or Lady GaGa on the cover of Rolling stone looking meta-sexo-violent and totally airbrushed? Kate Gosselin will soon be in competition with The Octomom Show. I’d rather watch that than stupid fuckin Kendra. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/258 "2010-09-26T08:47:01Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > Ok, this is the way it goes… Kate Gosselin on the the [Cover of People](http://hot-on-net.blogspot.com/2010/09/kate-gosselin-people-magazine-2010-pics.html) looking really really fuckable, or Lady GaGa on the cover of Rolling stone looking meta-sexo-violent and totally airbrushed? > > Kate Gosselin will soon be in competition with The Octomom Show. I’d rather watch that than stupid fuckin Kendra. I think the best part of Kate Gosslin on that cover is how absolutely naturally beautiful she is. That woman is a paragon of natural beauty-- no surgery, no Photoshopping, just a beautiful woman who has had eight kids and not a single tummy tuck for blur tool ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/259 "2010-09-26T08:54:36Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > > [@devilsknew](#): > > > > Ok, this is the way it goes… Kate Gosselin on the the [Cover of People](http://hot-on-net.blogspot.com/2010/09/kate-gosselin-people-magazine-2010-pics.html) looking really really fuckable, or Lady GaGa on the cover of Rolling stone looking meta-sexo-violent and totally airbrushed? > > > > Kate Gosselin will soon be in competition with The Octomom Show. I’d rather watch that than stupid fuckin Kendra. > > I think the best part of Kate Gosslin on that cover is how absolutely naturally beautiful she is. That woman is a paragon of natural beauty-- no surgery, no Photoshopping, just a beautiful woman who has had eight kids and not a single tummy tuck for blur tool How can you speak to whether that image was photoshopped? As far as I’m concerned all magazine covers get spruced up with photoshop. I guess I just don’t know why she, a beautiful woman on a magazine cover, is labeled “naturally beautiful” as opposed to other, presumably unnaturally beautiful women on other covers. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006/260 "2010-09-26T16:27:37Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > > [@devilsknew](#): > > > > Ok, this is the way it goes… Kate Gosselin on the the [Cover of People](http://hot-on-net.blogspot.com/2010/09/kate-gosselin-people-magazine-2010-pics.html) looking really really fuckable, or Lady GaGa on the cover of Rolling stone looking meta-sexo-violent and totally airbrushed? > > > > Kate Gosselin will soon be in competition with The Octomom Show. I’d rather watch that than stupid fuckin Kendra. > > I think the best part of Kate Gosslin on that cover is how absolutely naturally beautiful she is. That woman is a paragon of natural beauty-- no surgery, no Photoshopping, just a beautiful woman who has had eight kids and not a single tummy tuck for blur tool Well, she had cosmetic surgery, on like the second season, I believe. A doctor donated I believe a stomach reconstruction, and a breast lift, if not a boob job… so she’s not entirely natural either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-lady-gaga-be-relevant-a-year-from-now/554006.md?page=14)