Without Make Up Lady Gaga Is Joseph Gordon-Levitt With A Guitar (So Not Bad At All)

I’ve never been goo-goo for Gaga, but there is no denying that she has become the icon of our times.

Unlike many other pop stars, the feminists have flocked and the fashionistas adored her — so she has shot to the top pretty much unscathed… until now.

Lada Gaga And The Pornificaiton Of America asks what messages her insanely adoring fans take from her carefully cultivated image:

That Gaga’s fan base is significantly younger and therefore less capable of comprehending the difference between reality and fantasy and more likely to interpret imagery on a literal level than the fans of past artists demonstrates why Gaga is such a central factor in the pornification of American youth through popular music. Anything they see, whether it’s Gaga caged up with vertebrate sticking out of her back or Gaga using her sexuality to seduce and then murder a male counterpart as she does in “Bad Romance,” is accepted as fact. Her outrageous fashion choices and excessive make-up keep up this façade.

From Elvis on, adults have fretted about how their little angels turn into obsessive fans, and whether they will be permanently scarred. They will not.

If history is anything to go by, they will look back in 15 years and laugh about their wide-eyed fascination. Eventually they will see that the glitter and glamour is simply another marketing ploy.

With Lady Gaga, the medium is the message. In fact, without her elaborate costumes and insane videos she is basically just Joseph Gordon-Levitt with a guitar.