Lady Gaga Research Paper

Lady Gaga is someone that has pushed the limits of style, music, fashion and gender. When you think of Lady Gaga you will probably remember her eccentric outfits, and lyrics. Gaga’s music videos always portray over the top versions of herself and others in eccentric situations that seem to have nothing to do with the actually song. What is more important is how Gaga uses this style. She does not shy away from her differences and encourages not only herself but her fans to push the envelope and because of this Lady Gaga has created something called Gaga feminism. According to Halbertsam, “Gaga feminism is a politics that that brings together meditations on fame and visibitlity with a lashing critique of the fixty of roles for males and females”(5). Halbertsam is implying the feminism and gender are fluid and we do not have to follow a strict norm set how males and females should portray themselves, and that being you is what is most important. What lady Gaga has done is shown us this in a way that is mainstream and causes people who otherwise would not consider these concepts to …show more content…
Gaga does this by directly addressing her gender identity in the music video for her hit song “Telephone” she is thrown into a prison cell and stripped naked. After the prison guards get her naked one exclaims “See I told you she didn’t have a d*ck”. This addressed a rumor that said Gaga was transgender. She used that moment in the video to reclaim her identity. The prison itself may showcase the “prison” that people may be trapped in when wanting to express their sexuality. The guards stripping her down naked to reveal her genital’s show that there are systems of power that may be trying to demean or embarrass people but you must stay true to yourself despite this. What this video has done is given her a way to reclaim her identity in a way that entertains pop culture