{"id":2627,"date":"2010-01-26T07:33:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2010-01-26T07:33:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T15:33:10","slug":"fever-ray-sends-up-gaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/26\/fever-ray-sends-up-gaga\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever Ray Sends Up GaGa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ymCP6zC_qJU\" title=\"Fever Ray receives the prize for the year to dance at P3 Guld\">Fever Ray receives the prize for the year to dance at P3 Guld<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Did you see that horseshit &quot;New York Times&quot; theater review of Lady GaGa&#8217;s Radio City gig?\u00c2\u00a0 How come no one can say all these theatrics are bullshit?\u00c2\u00a0 That it should be about the music, and her stage antics are so sophomoric as to be laughable.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, laughable.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00c2\u00a0 took Karen Dreijer of Fever Ray to take the piss out of GaGa.\u00c2\u00a0 At a Swedish awards show.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean come on, tiny girl with no charisma wears outfits to add mystery and catapult her career into the mainstream?\u00c2\u00a0 Alice Cooper getting decapitated on stage was limit-testing.\u00c2\u00a0 GaGa oozing blood is so tame, that the mainstream isn&#8217;t even offended.\u00c2\u00a0 I mean shouldn&#8217;t the establishment be pissed off at cutting edge culture?\u00c2\u00a0 Kind of like &quot;Jersey Shore&quot;.\u00c2\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t think those kids are playing roles, then you&#8217;re probably a member of one of those organizations protesting, fanning the flames, making the ratings grow.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine someone taking the piss out of GaGa at the VMAs?\u00c2\u00a0 Making fun of her?\u00c2\u00a0 Kanye was just a jackass, stealing the mic shows no innovation.\u00c2\u00a0 But how about Dave Grohl, he supposedly has a sense of humor, how come he didn&#8217;t wear a gauzy mask, how come the Foo Fighters didn&#8217;t change outfits five times?<\/p>\n<p>Really.\u00c2\u00a0 GaGa is not without talent.\u00c2\u00a0 But when we trumpet crap like this without taking shots at it, the mainstream public just goes huh?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s like some outcast appearing in high school in four different outfits, he or she would be laughed off campus.\u00c2\u00a0 But no, in the bizarre world of MTV, everybody in the club is good, no one can be criticized.<\/p>\n<p>You know the business is fucked when Sweden is hipper than America.<\/p>\n<p>GaGa is not without talent, but she&#8217;s doing the same act Madonna did, twenty five years later.\u00c2\u00a0 Do we have no Internet, no YouTube, are today&#8217;s children so out of it that they&#8217;ve never seen Madge&#8217;s act?<\/p>\n<p>GaGa&#8217;s not dangerous, just stupid.<\/p>\n<p>This is the emperor&#8217;s new clothes.\u00c2\u00a0 Ridiculous.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">See GaGa&#8217;s original outfit 35 seconds in here: <br \/><a title=\"Lady Gaga\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Shocking MTV VMA 2009 Fashion\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/video.tiscali.it\/canali\/truveo\/2450031134.html\">Lady Gaga\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Shocking MTV VMA 2009 Fashion<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fever Ray receives the prize for the year to dance at P3 Guld Did you see that horseshit &quot;New York Times&quot; 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