I Realize That This Is Several Months Late, But...

i was in the shower the other day, and it occured to me that there are a LOT of thematic and stylistic similarities between gaga's bad romance video and david fincher's classic madonna video, express yourself. i call it fincher's video, because madonna's career has been all about recognizing other people's talent and then misappropriating it as her own- sort of like sitting on somebody else's handlebars as the person peddling sweats balls and wheezes as madonna screams "WHEEEEEE!! Look at MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!*" a lot of (or, you know, ALL) the anti-gaga stuff i've heard could easily be said about madonna... i think that the pains that have been taken to portray lady gaga as being an active part of the creative process is a reaction to that, and part of a larger trend toward giving ALL of the credit to the recording artist- beyoncé's writing credits, for example.

*(it's WWTDD.COM day here at SLWMAC- i couldn't find the original posting, but the madonna/handlebars analogy originally appeard there- and i think it was probably funnier the way he wrote it.)