Emily Hayden: Lady Gaga

I was watching a show, 100 Sexiest Videos of All Time, and one of Lady Gaga's videos came up so I decided to go read Emily's thesis and learn more about her (Lady Gaga of course).

The question that arose to me while reading was, has the creation of Auto Tune deadened our sense of classic music? When we hear a young child sing do we commend her for taking on the challenge or do we cover our ears and squint our eyes because the sound isn't "perfect" as we are used to hearing? I also don't accept the claim that music isn't about quality or authenticity anymore but entertaining. Music can still entertain whilst having quality. Wouldn't that make it 10x better even?

But focusing on her thesis:

• I liked her introduction paragraph. I thought it was creative how she spoke anonymously about this character and then introduced her in the end.
• I think it was important to include Gaga's history so that we can see where this "performer" came from.
• I felt like the thesis wasn't just about Lady Gaga but Andy Warhol too. I appreciated that, because I definitely got the sense that Warhol was a huge inspiration to her work.
• She pointed out several things I agree with or found enlightening:

"The biggest pop stars do not write their own music. In fact, Lady Gaga wrote songs for other pop stars, including Britney Spears, before she became famous (Grigoriadis)." (9)

"Another occurrence to note is the decrease of the “band” – our society emphasizes the individual" (9)

• I liked the connection between Lady Gaga and Post modernism

**Oh, and might I add seeing 6 pages of sources was a bit overwhelming

I was skeptical about this thesis in the beginning because I don't really like Lady Gaga, but

I liked this thesis!