Mirrion Rizzons 11,636 Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/apr/10/10-years-of-lady-gaga-how-she-queered-mainstream-pop-forever we stan an iconic legend they also shade katy by calling IKAG "The closest we got to queer representation was the tasteless gay-baiting of Katy Perry’s I Kissed a Girl in 2008." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRoof 21,600 Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 I.M.P.A.C.T Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saade Baena 1,786 Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 Thank You Gaga I'm so blessed to stand a Living legenda Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARTCHAOS 1,687 Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 I Kissed a Girl is a bop, the shade was unnecessary But The Guardian is right, Gaga is that girl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaronyoji 2,055 Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 mhm. i mean, just the fact that born this way has the word transgender in it, way way before the visibility that group has now, i mean when you really think about it is astonishing, and to also have it be no. 1 for six weeks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
giskardsb 12,565 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Great article. I love that the author celebrates Gaga as a created drag creation, rather than deriding her as many fans seem to do. Is it more empowering to believe that Gaga was “always that way” or that she invented her own reality? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miel 15,009 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 It really is the truth, whether people like it or not. At least for the late 2000's/early 2010's, Gaga was the queer icon for a whole generation. And to have her be a queer woman herself, alongside being a fairly outspoken activist (that's not just a twitter activist), is very, very special. People honestly and truly do not give her name the credit it deserves, sometimes. 3 points in and ready for more Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miel 15,009 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Also, that article is very powerful. I think people tend to forget how much of an inspiration she really was, and is, to many people. For me, a poor brown queer kid from the hood, she was literally my first positive frame of reference of what life could be, if I lived it authentically and honestly. 3 points in and ready for more Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuuri 21,636 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 1 hour ago, Rafr88 said: I Kissed a Girl is a bop, the shade was unnecessary But The Guardian is right, Gaga is that girl Did it lie tho? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
teawhore 7,667 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 don't come for IKAG. don't. but come thru gaga ♡ nyc ♡ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miel 15,009 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Also, as much as I think IKAG is a damn good pop song, the author is kind of spot on, given the context. The media landscape of 2008 and beforehand was banally heteronormative. The fact that IKAG was considered spicy, even though it was more or less kind of girl-on-girl pandering, says a lot. [I did believe that it was genius to have IKAG and Ur So Gay on the same album, as I thought those songs combined were a commentary on straightness, at that time... in the end, I don't think she intended that at all.] 3 points in and ready for more Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
giskardsb 12,565 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 5 minutes ago, TEAWHORE said: don't come for IKAG. don't. but come thru gaga Ikag is literally a straight woman using causal lesbianism as tittilation. It has nothing to do with actual LGBT issues. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
teawhore 7,667 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 14 minutes ago, giskardsb said: Ikag is literally a straight woman using causal lesbianism as tittilation. It has nothing to do with actual LGBT issues. nah it's her experimenting with a woman and writing a song about her bicuriosity a la Poker Face, she's not exploiting anyone ♡ nyc ♡ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackthorns 487 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 this article articulated a lot of thoughts about Gaga that I didn't know how to put into words honestly. Particularly "Her otherness made my own otherness feel more aspirational than painful." If you need me, you know where to find me: seeking validation and self-love in my dumpster Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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