Ever since Lady Gaga came on the scene in 2008 with her clubby, electropop debut album Fame with its breakout tracks "Just Dance" and "Poker Face." I was a chained and tethered little monster fan. Then she made additions to Fame with extended tracks and titled the album The Fame Monster. It included "Alejandro," "Bad Romance," and "Telephone." I was running every day during that time and hitting the pavement hard, and I think those three songs helped me crank out an extra mile or two when I was huffing and puffing in the high altitude of Salt Lake City.
I watch period movies just for the costumes. Two of my favorites are Marie Antoinette and Age of Innocence. It's costume porn for me. I ooh and ahh over the clothing, and Lady Gaga has given me oodles and oodles of costume porn. I just swoon and drool over her costumes. I say costumes, because we know those ensembles are not outfits or knock-about clothes. She is like a runway and not a ready-to-wear runway. Her clothes are like fluffy dreams and scary nightmares, and they are just sublime, but with the smoke and mirrors of her costumes, I feel as though I have no idea what her face looks like.
She's worn facial prosthetics to give herself razor thin cheekbones that could slice slivers of roast beef at a deli, googly cartoonish eyes in her "Bad Romance" video, different skin tones or skin paints rather, contact lenses and then there are sunglasses, hats and wigs that camouflage the face. All of these bells and whistles make it hard to see the face beneath and know what the real face is.
I want a picture of Lady Gaga with a bare face with no accouterments. I need to know what she really looks like in order for her to be a human and not some powerhouse performer that could, for all I know, be an android. Even though I've seen some pictures that have hinted at what she looks like I'm unconvinced that's the true face, because there aren't other similar pictures to corroborate that she does look like that. It's the great Gaga Face Conspiracy.
I think she has a not so nice face. It's OK. I still love to dance to her. I wish I was ballsy enough for a Gaga halloween costume. Which one would you do?!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure about real Gaga face, but she posted pictures of real Gaga body today on her site to say a big fat f-you to the media for calling her fat. Loved it!
ReplyDeleteI would totally be Gaga at the 2009 VMAs. It'd be the ensemble she wore for her performance of Paparazzi not the meat dress. Which one would you do? I'm dying to know.
ReplyDeleteI loved the eff you she gave haters too. Haters gonna hate though, but at least she's speaking out and against instead of eating cucumbers and lemon water. Thing is though the pictures she posted of her body looked faboosh. If the media is going to call that fat, we are going to have a o a massive epidemic of eating disorders.
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