i tell you wot, a lot of cultural criticism is just a load of all sank, often because the cultural crumbs its describing is a vacuous shell with no substance. but sometimes the art piece is pleasing and also has meaning and sometimes a piece of journalism helps one get that meaning, or at least see a perspective one may have missed. o joy! In the film, Dr. Caligula controls a man named Cesare, a somnambulist (i.e. a sleepwalker) whom he flaunts as an exhibit at carnivals, and has him do his bidding to carry out various fatal “predictions.” (Dr. Caligula also wears a top hat, which we see Gaga emerge from in a scene soon after.) Gaga told ABC that the cover image for “Applause” is an ode to the jester, and explained, “What I mean is not that I live for attention, but I live for making them happy. And that’s when the applause happens. When the audience loves it.” In this image, Gaga, much like Cesare, is performing for an audience, and willing to do anything to appease her master. For Cesare, that meant, uh, killing people. For Gaga, it’s catching whatever knives and daggers her critics may throw at her, and continuing to transform and reinvent herself for our enjoyment. The applause — her fans’ satisfaction and happiness — is its own kind of control over her. Transformation! Magic! Get it? buzzfeed/azafar/every-cultural-reference-you-probably-didnt-catch-in-lady-ga
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:50:49 +0000
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