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Is Lady Gaga the most pretentious artist ever? |
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Arctic Monkeys give her a run for her money.
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From an interfering in politics and social perspective, absolutely. In terms of image Gaga has it sewn up.
Brian Eno is an artist, musician, producer and systems thinker. Like other intellectuals and cultural theorists he provides insights into many aspects of culture including architecture and management practice. Gaga is not Eno or Bono but she aspires to be understood as an artist. Why shouldn't she have more aspirations than just selling records? Doesn't everyone? |
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Bono isn't pretentious in regard to economics, he has read up on the subject and is quite competent in talking about economic theory at the highest level with Presidents, economists and other political leaders. Why should pop stars be singleminded and only interested in music?
Brian Eno is an artist, musician, producer and systems thinker. Like other intellectuals and cultural theorists he provides insights into many aspects of culture including architecture and management practice. Gaga is not Eno or Bono but she aspires to be understood as an artist. Why shouldn't she have more aspirations than just selling records? Doesn't everyone? |
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The problem is her artistic pretentions are just that: pretentions. Her wacky.imagery has become stale & her music is not great art-its just pop.
Gaga only aspires to art not great art and the only requirement for something to be art is that we accept it as art. A lot of pop music is art, some of it is great art (The Beatles, VU, Prince) some of it is utter garbage. Also artists, even great artists, go through indifferent periods but you judge then on the artistic artefacts they produce through the course of a career. And so far Gaga stands up quite well. I'm not a Gaga fan but some of her music and imagery is beautiful and disgraceful at the same time. And she is far from the most pretentious artist ever. |
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Bono isn't pretentious in regard to economics, he has read up on the subject and is quite competent in talking about economic theory at the highest level with Presidents, economists and other political leaders. Why should pop stars be singleminded and only interested in music?
Brian Eno is an artist, musician, producer and systems thinker. Like other intellectuals and cultural theorists he provides insights into many aspects of culture including architecture and management practice. Gaga is not Eno or Bono but she aspires to be understood as an artist. Why shouldn't she have more aspirations than just selling records? Doesn't everyone? |
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