Lady Gaga certainly isn’t the first female pop star to get experimental with her fashion choices. Madonna had her cone-shaped bras, Cher her feathered headdresses, Cyndi her neon hairdos. Right now, we’re definitely at a high point in the history of female singers’ creative sartorial decisions, with Rihanna going military-bondage chic, Katy Perry aiming for 1950s pin-up girl, Ke$ha choosing to bathe with glitter instead of soap, and Beyoncé wearing whatever she pleases.
But even amongst this wide array of exciting fashion, Gaga stands out. Unlike her contemporaries, Gaga isn’t trying to be pretty.
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i like to see her (or anyone) wear the zentai type outfits. i have 5 of those zentai suits myself. I got a pic or two on my profile. The other stuff is too wild for me.
There is nothing new about this…see David Bowie, Elton John, Queen, Marlyn Manson, Alice Cooper, Annie Lennox, etc etc etc…
@Kenneth Lynch: Keeping in mind five out of the six people you’ve just mentioned are men.
The way men can appeal to women (or men) is far less stone cut than the other way around, so it’s inspiring and, if nothing else, interesting, to see people play with the boundaries like Lady Gaga does.
And whether it’s existed before or not, Lady Gaga’s certainly brought this into mainstream culture far more so that it’s ever been before. So her own idea or no, she’s certainly become the pop icon for this type of sexiness.
@Maddie,
I guess you must mistake men for being one-dimensional in the fact the men find women attractive in a variety ways. I know that the common belief is that men perpetuate the ideal of certain body type or “look” but my experience is that men are attracted to a huge variety of women in a huge variety of ways. She is merely the pop icon of this generation…but every generation has one and the idea of most of them is a move to androgyny in effort to negate people like you who want to sexualize everything.
I never said men were the only people who judge women. Our entire society, both male and female judge women in the media on a different scale. It’s not an attack on men saying there a far fewer bizarre women in the spotlight, it’s an attack on the media as a whole.
Maybe I am sexualising everything, but this is a topic about sex, and the way we perceive it. Lady Gaga may end up seeming an androgynous character, but it’s not purposeful. She plays herself out as a sex icon, and that’s why it’s fascinating that she’s, at least partially, pulled it off.
Given, in doing that, she’s raised the question of her gender, but I feel that’s more of a testament to the masses wanting to explain a sexually outright female as opposed to her making a play for androgyny.
She is also a social activist and performance artist, identifies herself as a feminist, and says, “I find that men get away with saying a lot in this business, and that women get away with saying very little. In my opinion, women need and want someone to look up to that they feel have the full sense of who they are, and says, ‘I’m great.’ ”
From my post Lady Gaga: “I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.”
http://womenandtalent.com/352/
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