Lady Gaga Wants to be the Next Andy Warhol

[big_dog]

It's all part of a concerted association with the art world that is to be clinched next month with the launch of a social media app that seeks "to make connections between music, art, fashion and technology". True, you could argue these connections are already there, but these will be Gaga's own connections, fabricated in her bespoke Haus of Gaga workshop. Her team promise to "explode on to the physical and virtual universe" with the album, which will announce a new age, "an age where art drives pop, and the artist once again is in control of the icon".

Gaga's involvement would "bring a new perception or an experience of the avant garde to a mass audience": "Any artistic intervention into the masses will only move societies in borderline conservative countries to have more acceptance towards human rights issues, women's rights and artistic freedom. Art cannot change the world within a bubble. It takes artists like Warhol, Koons and Abramovic to make strong waves of change in conservative societies."

Her promotional trailer for the album Artpop is not the first to deploy reverse psychology in the marketplace, but the flamboyant New York singer could well be the first to bill her campaign as the birth of a new artistic movement. Citing the work of pop artist Andy Warhol, Gaga, 27, is setting out "to alter the human experience with social media" and to "bring art culture into pop in a reverse Warholian expedition".

As a diverting entertainer, Gaga can still deliver. "Her get-ups and pronouncements and cultural nods are roughly 347% more fun, and preposterous, and outré, and enjoyable than most other mainstream pop artists. So when Gaga sings, 'now art's in pop culture's in me', it's not entirely posturing."
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/18/lady-gaga-artpop-album-avant-garde

[xchrom]

1. fine with me. she can be interesting. nt

[big_dog]

2. at least she is trying in her videos

[Botany]

3. Gaga, 27, is setting out "to alter the human experience with social media" and to "bring art .....

.... culture into pop in a reverse Warholian expedition".

aka look I am cutting edge so go and buy my album.

BTW do people buy albums anymore?

[trumad]

4. No---they don't

they download.

[Botany]

5. Those crazy cats are way cool Big Daddy!

[KittyWampus]

11. That's a great graphic. Thanks for sharing it.

[kentauros]

6. Well, I do, because Amazon and other outlets don't offer FLAC.

So, in order to get better audio quality, I have to order the physical copy. At least one of my favorite artists (Bill Nelson) has started to offer new releases as digital downloads, and FLAC format only

[big_dog]

10. or burn it off fdr free

big problem for the coporate music industry

[dogknob]

7. Any article that begins with "A wants to be the next B..."

...is going to be the work of some lazy-ass hack who can't think about anything except as a combination of other "approved" things.

While I'm not a "Little Monster," I do see the obvious; Gaga is about 347,000% more talented than Madonna and has a well-deserved following.

Maybe she has become "too big..." a phrase you never really heard too much until the consolidation of the media and the assassination of John Lennon... maybe she will now have to endure her own coordinated "U2 backlash."

One thing is for sure: she is genuinely terrifying to the wrinkly old white men who hold the leashes of nearly every popular media icon. By contrast, all Bono seemed to want was a Maserati.

Camille Paglia is irrelevant because she seems to have missed out on something: without ERA, the "sexual revolution" was just a big scam for the boys.

You go, Gaga!

[kentauros]

8. She'll need to learn how to do culture-jamming first.

And plenty of people have gone before her in that field: negativland, SRL, EBN, and ECC.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Unless I'm mistaken, negativland like wrote the book on culture jamming.

look! socks!~

[Beaverhausen]

12. While talented, she is not very orginal

Which Warhol was.

[Egalitarian Thug]

13. Exactly. Andy Warhol invented Andy Warhol. Striving to be the next Andy Warhol is the

antithesis of Andy Warhol.

But I like most of her music (if it is indeed her music).

Come to think of it, I've never seen her live, so I'm not entirely sure if I actually like her(?) music at all.