Reflections on Lady Gaga

Recently I was surfing the channels in search of something interesting to watch. I was leaning toward "River Monsters," but decided at the last minute on an interview on Fuse TV with Lady Gaga. I think what caught my attention was a clip being shown where Lady Gaga dressed in something that looked like red ribbon was standing and singing on stage with a group of guys.

Now, I'll admit that I am definitely not up on contemporary pop music, if that's the right genre, but I had seen Lady Gaga on TV once before. At that time, she had a lot of weird makeup and clothing, and I had a sort of flashback. Although I am a product of the 60s, my flashback was not LSD induced, which would probably make this article much more interesting, but since I never took LSD, that's not a possibility. Not that I had a lot of moral convictions against LSD back in those days, but I did have an aversion to seeing the inside of prison and frying my brain.

But I better get back to Lady Gaga or you might begin to think I just don't remember the LSD thing. In this video clip, Ms. Gaga wasn't wearing all that stuff on her face, and I thought she looked very pretty. I was impressed by her voice, although I can't truthfully say I understood much of what she was saying. I'm not sure that's her fault, though, because I've discovered as I grow older, the words to music often don't make it all the way into my brain. I figure my mother had the same problem wondering what "Do Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Do" meant.

I sat and listened to Lady Gaga talking to the man from Fuse TV. She looked kind of cute with her blunt-cut blond hair framing her face, and I heard her talking about her passion for her music. In this day and time, I found it refreshing to find a young person passionate about something. I was also impressed as she talked about being a misfit in school. I found her honesty refreshing as she spoke about feeling like she didn't belong in high school, and I thought I can see why people relate to her. She said that when she got out of school, she realized there were a lot of those "misfits" out there, and she found a whole new group of friends. I got from her interview that she's trying to tell those people feeling left out, you're still worth more than you think. Since she seems to be very successful, there must be quite a group of them out there. I know even a lot of us old timers who can relate to that feeling.

I must say I enjoyed the interview somewhat. I don't think I'll probably become a fan, Not so much because of her outlandish appearance or anything like that. After all, I come from an era of Alice Cooper. Mainly, I can't take all that high energy going on in front of me. I just can't spare the energy.

For those fans out there, I say enjoy, and your hearing is better than mine, which it probably is, I say sing right along with her. Me, I think I'll stick with something a little easier for this brain. "Do Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Do." That's more my speed, although I'm really not sure what it means either.

Source:

www.fuse.tv