Friday 19 August 2016

Camille Paglia - Lady Gaga and the Death of Sex

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/magazine/article389697.ece

"Furthermore, despite showing acres of pallid flesh in the fetish-bondage garb of urban prostitution, Gaga isn’t sexy at all – she’s like a gangly marionette or plasticised android. How could a figure so calculated and artificial, so clinical and strangely antiseptic, so stripped of genuine eroticism have become the icon of her generation? Can it be that Gaga represents the exhausted end of the sexual revolution? In Gaga’s manic miming of persona after persona, over-conceptualised and claustrophobic, we may have reached the limit of an era…"

"For Gaga, sex is mainly decor and surface; she’s like a laminated piece of ersatz rococo furniture. Alarmingly, Generation Gaga can’t tell the difference. Is it the death of sex? Perhaps the symbolic status that sex had for a century has gone kaput; that blazing trajectory is over…"

Not sure what to make of all this, it makes some interesting points. Being sexy publicly was once considered risque but now perhaps it's overdone? 
Might come back to this at some point.

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