Sideshow: Behind the glory of Gaga

September 14, 2010|By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
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  • Lady Gaga, in meat dress, at the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday.
  • Lady Gaga, in meat dress, at the MTV Video Music Awards Sunday.
  • Oprah Winfrey and her audience/traveling companions for a December trip to Australia.

Lady Gaga may not be the well-adjusted, all-American girl we've been led to believe! So says Maureen Callahan in her allegedly sizzling tell-all bio, Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga, which has been excerpted by RadarOnline. The book says Her Gracious Gagaship is "exceptionally passive-aggressive. . . . One minute she'll praise a staff member and the next minute they're fired." Donald Trump-ian harshness! Seems Gaga has fired 150 people in the last two years. (That's the real reason for the high unemployment rate.) But that's not all. Callahan says Gaga - who's playing two shows at the Wells Fargo Center, starting Tuesday - was sought by record execs as a songwriter because she was "not pretty enough to be a pop star." Ouch!

Callahan goes for the jugular by claiming that Gaga so hates being lonely, she would have former assistant Angela Ciemny snuggle with her in bed - albeit in an entirely asexual manner. Gaga has yet to comment.

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Lady Gaga puts sex to death

If Lady Gaga weren't famous enough (and, can we talk, she sort of is), now she's double-triple-perfect famous, because our own Camille Paglia, yep, her, professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts, has penned an essay calling Gaga unlovely things. In the Sunday Times of London, so we know it's true. Can you love this title enough?: "Lady Gaga and the Death of Sex." Paglia says Gaga has no sex appeal, is just selling weirdness, and basically spells the end of the sexual revolution. (Wait . . . there was one? Why didn't someone tell us?) What? You didn't like Gaga's meat dress on the MTV Video Music Awards? I'll take mine rare! Seriously, we thought Cher's appearance at the awards, wearing on her head what was apparently a Newfoundland, was what killed sex . . . forever, OK?

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