THE POP STAR Lady Gaga has brought the normalization of pornography to new levels. Her sadomasochistic Youtube music video Bad Romance is probably the most popular video on the Internet, with 242 million views. It features erotic dancing, nudity, simulated intercourse, and violence. Gaga makes the sign of the cross while swiveling her hips and the final scene shows the star in bed with a charred skeleton, her breasts emitting flames. The video has been viewed by many millions of teenagers.

Gaga apparently sees herself as the leader of a quasi-religious art cult with Michael Jackson as her inspiration. She states in Rolling Stone, “Michael got burned, and he lifted that glittered glove so damn high so his fans could see him, because he was in the art of show business. That’s what we do. I don’t even drink water onstage in front of anybody, because I want them to focus on the fantasy of the music.”

Jesse Powell writes:

The latest cover of Rolling Stone magazine features Lady Gaga almost in the nude looking tough holding two machine guns. In the teaser for the article it states: Lady Gaga tells contributing editor Neil Strauss art is life and not being fierce isn’t an option: “When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl,” she says. “Then I say, ‘Bitch, you’re Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.’ 

Also on the subject of Lady Gaga, it appears she has started a new craze among teenage girls of wearing potentially dangerous circle contact lenses that make your eyes look unnaturally big, like a baby’s eyes. I think the idea is that they make you look innocent and helpless and this elicits an affectionate care-taking response from men. These circle contact lenses are popular in South Korea and Japan, and since Lady Gaga used the enlarged eye look in her music video “Bad Romance” it now apparently is catching on in the United States. These lenses are not legally sold in America; you have to buy them from manufactures in Asia over the Internet, and they carry risks to the users’ vision that is the basis of the concern and condemnation of this new trend among teenage girls. Here’s a CBS segment on the fad.

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A reader writes:

I really doubt Lady Gaga started a craze with the big contact lenses. Her big eyes in the Bad Romance video were obviously computer-generated. The oversized lenses are used by some in Asia to get the innocent, doll-like look and cosplayers sometimes use the contact lenses to make their eyes appear more anime-like. I certainly don’t see many girls using them in imitation of Lady Gaga. Perhaps some do, but to call it a craze or fad is just exaggeration.

Laura writes:

I think you are quite wrong. An instructional video on how to obtain “Lady Gaga eyes” through make-up and contact lenses has ten million views. The fact that Gaga’s eyes were computer-enhanced does not mean people don’t try to obtain the look in other ways.

Laura adds:

Lady Gaga is a perfect example of what T.S. Eliot called the “diabolic imagination.” She is the strutting, crotch-grabbing, hip swiveling, eye-batting embodiment of a subhuman urge to delight in perversion. “[T] number of the half-alive hungry for any form of spiritual experience, or for what offers itself as spiritual experience, high or low, good or bad, is considerable,” Eliot wrote.

Gaga’s fans are half alive.

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