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Username wrote:Lady Gaga is first 'billion-view' artist on YoutubeNordic wrote:She and her people are brilliant marketers. Maybe they're ex-Obama people.
Username wrote:~Username wrote:Lady Gaga is first 'billion-view' artist on YoutubeNordic wrote:She and her people are brilliant marketers. Maybe they're ex-Obama people.
hmmm . . ."brilliant marketers" . . . yes, which might include setting up bots to continuously click on your videos, making it appear to be more popular than it actually is.
just a thought.
not a gaga fan here.
(makes no sense to me.)
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compared2what? wrote:82_28 wrote:Agreed barracuda. Very, very odd. It feels like something synonymous to a whole culture's denial of heroin addiction just before they overdose and die.
I don't get this. As best I can understand the parallels, the non-commentary on the pixelated depiction of shaved pussy in a pop music video is to the denial of heroin addiction just before overdose and death (approximately) as the non-outrage at the Ziegfeld Follies' incorporation of near-nudity as a feature of legitimate theatrical entertainment is to the indifference to workplace safety for sweatshop employees just before the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
IOW, there are no parallels. In what way does the failure of society to comment on pixelated pussy (shaved, waxed, or au naturel) in a music video provoke you to feel something synonymous to what you'd feel about a culture's denial of the threat posed by a widespread and potentially lethal addiction ?Another thing. I woke up this morning and it dawned on me that I will never be able to unexperience this Lady Gaga . It kinda drove me nuts and gave me anxiety for awhile.
I feel for you. I too am sometimes genuinely disturbed, frightened depressed or otherwise upset by an encounter with this or that one-hundred-percent fictional event, image, or personality to which I was randomly exposed in the course of voluntarily watching works of commercial mass-media video and/or film entertainment while fully and consciously aware that's what they were.
It kind of drives me nuts and makes me anxious when that happens. In fact, it makes me want to get that shit out of my brain. Happily, I almost always find that it's actually pretty easy to do that simply by turning my attention to the more immediate, engaging or important attention-requiring events of which daily life is made.
To be honest with you, though, if I were so profoundly affected by memories of a pop starlet's video that I found myself thinking and saying that I'd experienced and would never be able to unexperience her -- rather than, say that I'd watched her video and was very troubled by the lasting impression it had made on me -- I'd be grateful to anyone who pointed out that I'd probably get over it more quickly if I were a little more disciplined with myself wrt making ordinary rational distinctions between fantasy and reality.
And I'm not making fun of you or calling you crazy at all, btw. Emotional experience doesn't really take place in a time-space dimension, and it's mostly if not entirely an internal process. So making that distinction isn't always as much of a bright line affair as the enlightenment might have led you to believe. Elisions happen. That's natural and harmless, as long as you're roughly aware of it on some conscious level that does occur in real time and space, as far as I'm concerned.
You just shouldn't have to be so distraught over a pop video. It can't hurt you. You're much more powerful than it is. Please don't wreck your nerves feeling avoidable anguish over it. Life comes with more than enough unavoidable anguish en suite already.I don't like where any of this is going. It simply will not end well. Let's put it that way.
Again, I simply do not understand what you're saying. What is "this" and where is it going? What would constitute an ending for it? What did constitute its beginning?
I mean, honey, it's a video.
Later, he and Linda Fox went back up on the roof to view the remains of Belial. But to his surprise he saw not the carcass of a wizened goat-thing; instead he saw what looked like the remains of a great luminous kite that had crashed and lay in ruins all across the roof.
Somberly, he and Linda gazed at it as it lay broken everywhere, vast and lovely and destroyed. In pieces, like damaged light.
"This is how he was once," Linda said. "Originally. Before he fell. This was his original shape. We called him the Moth. The Moth that fell slowly, over thousands of years, intersecting the Earth, like a geometrical shape descending stage by stage until nothing remained of its shape."
Herb Asher said, "He was very beautiful."
"He was the morning star," Linda said. "The brightest star in the heavens. And now nothing remains of him but this."
"How he has fallen," Herb Asher said.
"And everything else with him," she said.
Together they went back downstairs to call the city. To have the machine come along to haul the remains away.
"Will he ever be again as he once was?" Herb Asher said.
"Perhaps," she said. "Perhaps we all may be." And then she sang for Herb Asher one of the Dowland songs. It was the song the Fox traditionally sang on Christmas day, for all the planets. The most tender, the most haunting song that she had adapted from John Dowland's lute books.
When the poor cripple by the pool did lie
Full many years in misery and pain,
No sooner he on Christ had set his eye,
But he was well, and comfort came again.
"Thank you," Herb Asher said.
Above them the city machine worked, gathering up the remains of Belial. Gathering together the broken fragments of what had once been light.
dbcooper41 wrote:http://buzzbeyotch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/lady-gaga.jpg
what message are they sending?
who created her?
RocketMan wrote:I can see why some aspects of GaGa are disconcerting but the old-fashioned moralism of the Illuminati-mind-controlled-sock-puppet crowd is a bit tiring sometimes. I'm talking about the hand-wringing about transsexuality, homosexuality and all kinds of sexuality, frankly.
AhabsOtherLeg wrote:This is why I prefer Lily Allen. She's just a girl, singing about the real world, and her tights are very nice.
LilyPatToo wrote:Loved the Lily Allen video--thanks for the link, Ahab. Did anyone else notice the shots of the black & white tiled floor? It's a common image trigger for people who've been subjected to systematized mind control abuse. When I see them in videos or movies (The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, for a recent example), I always wonder whether the director included the shots because of awareness of mind control associations or simply because they can be so visually stunning
Pele'sDaughter wrote:I've been curious but haven't been able to make it through even one of her videos. It has nothing to do with my age or whatever because I enjoy all sorts of outrageous things or can at least tolerate them.
LilyPatToo wrote:Did anyone else notice the shots of the black & white tiled floor? It's a common image trigger for people who've been subjected to systematized mind control abuse. When I see them in videos or movies (The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, for a recent example), I always wonder whether the director included the shots because of awareness of mind control associations or simply because they can be so visually stunning...?LilyPat
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