By Eliot Glazer, MTV News
We've loved Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" ever since it hit the charts/airwaves/blogosphere in February, even though the honorary gay anthem sounds eerily similar to Madonna's "Express Yourself." The comparison to Madge has haunted Gaga throughout her relatively brief but astronomical career, but Lady Gaga's latest photo shoot, this time for i_D magazine's "Exhibitionist Issue," has made us have a change of heart.
Looking fierce in a black latex and/or rubber and or/plastic jacket and, heh, edgy makeup, Gaga has established a new pastiche -- one that's less "couture '80s punk monger" and more "alien with an extensive back story" (as narrated in the prologue of her "Born This Way" video). The image of Lady Gaga may have been conceived in Madonna's womb, but with this new record and certainly this new look, the singer has been reborn (in some sort of galactic space goop, if we recall correctly), and no longer can the case be made that she's a modern day imitation of anything that came before.
So let's talk about said new look. It's her strangest one yet, and is a symbolic gesture meant to encourage the isolated, introverted and bullied to love themselves, no matter who or "what" they might be. Lady Gaga is now officially an alien named Mother Monster, and even if she chooses to boast a slim, sexy bikini-clad body like other pop stars, that body is still unapologetically abnormal. Gaga/Stefani/Mother Monster was, indeed, born that way.
We've loved Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" ever since it hit the charts/airwaves/blogosphere in February, even though the honorary gay anthem sounds eerily similar to Madonna's "Express Yourself." The comparison to Madge has haunted Gaga throughout her relatively brief but astronomical career, but Lady Gaga's latest photo shoot, this time for i_D magazine's "Exhibitionist Issue," has made us have a change of heart.
Looking fierce in a black latex and/or rubber and or/plastic jacket and, heh, edgy makeup, Gaga has established a new pastiche -- one that's less "couture '80s punk monger" and more "alien with an extensive back story" (as narrated in the prologue of her "Born This Way" video). The image of Lady Gaga may have been conceived in Madonna's womb, but with this new record and certainly this new look, the singer has been reborn (in some sort of galactic space goop, if we recall correctly), and no longer can the case be made that she's a modern day imitation of anything that came before.
So let's talk about said new look. It's her strangest one yet, and is a symbolic gesture meant to encourage the isolated, introverted and bullied to love themselves, no matter who or "what" they might be. Lady Gaga is now officially an alien named Mother Monster, and even if she chooses to boast a slim, sexy bikini-clad body like other pop stars, that body is still unapologetically abnormal. Gaga/Stefani/Mother Monster was, indeed, born that way.
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