Tag: Madonna Lady Gaga
The Video for “Runway” Offers “Glamorized Backrooms” a.k.a. Corporate Gay Settings to Go With Its Corporate Gay Sound
Like the shit-tastic, highly sanitized Michael, Lady Gaga and Doechii’s “Runway” video is bound to be a “crowd pleaser.” Which is to say, of course, [Read More…]
Lady Gaga’s “Corporate Gay” Single, “Runway”
When The Devil Wears Prada came out in 2006, Lady Gaga was still slumming it at shows on the Lower East Side. Which is, incidentally, [Read More…]
What It Says That Both Madonna and Lady Gaga Are Feeling the Push to “Return to Their Musical Roots”
When Confessions on a Dance Floor came out in 2005, it was preceded by Madonna’s big announcement that she was going “back to her roots” (i.e., the [Read More…]
Lady Gaga Focuses on Shaking the “Disease” of “Lee Quinzel”
It doesn’t seem coincidental that Lady Gaga would opt to release a new single soon after the critical and commercial failure of Joker: Folie à [Read More…]
And So The Pop Star Begat… Lolahol
In the end, it was only a matter of time before Madonna’s firstborn should fully take advantage of the womb from whence she came. Sure, [Read More…]
“Bedtime Story” and “Dark Ballet” Bone Fellini in “911”
While it is perhaps redundant (not reductive) at this juncture to point out that Lady Gaga has a tendency to “borrow” from Madonna–a fact that [Read More…]
Don’t Talk to Madonna About Using Gas Masks (or Riding a Disco Ball) In Your Performance
While Madonna and Lady Gaga may have played nice for the cameras at M’s illustrious Oscar after party last year in 2019 (which is ten [Read More…]
Too Gay To Function: “Rain On Me”
In the tradition of gay icons having songs about rain–from Barbra Streisand’s “Don’t Rain On My Parade” to Geri Halliwell remaking “It’s Raining Men” to [Read More…]
Madonna Takes on the Character of Her Truth or Dare Persona for 1990 Iteration of Maternalness
Sucking on her candy of choice in those days–a Mike and Ike–she says, “I think I have unconsciously chosen people that are emotionally crippled in [Read More…]
Lady Gaga’s “Perfect Illusion” Video: Not Just Unpleasant For Epileptics
Lately it seems as though there is no better example of someone whose flame burned too brightly at the outset of her career for it [Read More…]
