This morning I woke up to a news story circulating the wires about Lady Gaga enlightening us on something she calls her 'drunk diet':
"I live my life as I want to, and creatively. I like to drink whiskey and stuff while I am working. But the deal is I've got to work out every day and I work out hung over if I am hung over."
No way. No F#%@ING way. You mean to tell me she attends to her daily tasks when she's hung over from drinking Jack and Cokes the night before??? Wow that is really something else, what a trailblazer! You know, I think I've heard of these "drunk diets" before and may have even been on them, but they were called something else. Oh, that's right, "college". And actually "today".
Jiminy Christmas, how do you like that? Me and Lady Gaga on the exact same diet program! And if I'm not mistaken, I believe every famous rock star and gifted "musical genius" on the planet Earth has been on this diet too.
So why is this news? Why is the fact that Gaga gets drunk yet still, through some divine miracle the fuckwit gods bestowed on her, manages to function with a hang over the next day a breaking story? She just sounds like an asshole. And this is my problem with Lady Gaga.
Let's just put aside the fact that I don't, and have never cared for her music and am genuinely, sincerely confused by the recognition she gets for it and feel like I'm missing something. To me it just sounds like your garden variety recycled top 40 pop. And let's also table the fact that I don't ever care about what bizarre thing she is wearing or doing. Sure, of course I am struck when I see her being carried in a giant egg down the red carpet by men wearing nothing but skin-tight short shorts, but it has no effect on my life or feelings about anything. It just makes me think she's an asshole and weird. I see her in whatever freak costume she's wearing that day, think okay, that's weird; yup, she's an asshole and then I never think about it again.
But, where I start to care is the media printing stories such as this drunk diet steaming pile. Every day I wake up to a new headline in the news about Lady Gaga like this one. This was just today's. I'm not looking for them, they're just there staring me in the face. I realize that by writing this I'm part of the problem but this has really been bugging me since that joke of a Vogue cover story on her, parts of which I am actually pretty appalled made it to print. I want my 10 minutes back.
So my beef with the media is how she can say something totally asinine like today's nugget and we not only take the time to write it up, but actually validate "drunk diet" as if it's a real thing and give it meaning instead of calling her out on being full of bull. It's totally offensive. Look, no one is forcing me to read any of the Gaga articles but it's hard to ignore them when your job is to stay on top of the news and pop culture and they're at the top of the news feeds and on the cover of magazines. I'm offended each time I read one of these things, and I'm pissed off at my industry.
But back to what sent me into orbit this morning and why Gaga is a jackass. In today's earth-shattering report, she says she lives her life "creatively". I don't even know what that means. Do you? Well, let me take a stab at it. If I am reading this correctly in the context in which it was said, she's referring to the fact that she likes to drink while she works. And to that I have some of my own breaking news to share: DRINKING DOESN'T EQUATE TO CREATIVITY OR LIVING 'CREATIVELY'. IT JUST MEANS YOU LIKE TO GET DRUNK.
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Chende
February 23, 2011
11:05pm
So happy to learn I'm not alone. I've always seen her as trying too hard to make up for a lack of creativity.
sk
February 24, 2011
3:49am
So much hate. Get over it and move on.
February 24, 2011
3:52am
Likewise, bitching about someone doesn't equate 'thoughtful critique' or 'meaningful writing.' If you want the level of conversation to be raised, start doing the heavy lifting yourself.
February 24, 2011
4:36am
She is a master of fame, she knows exactly what she is doing. Whether you love her or you hate her, you're still talking about her. I also think you're taking her way too seriously.
kmalszecki
February 24, 2011
5:27am
Eh, screw the above detractors. This is a commentary not a research paper. She sucks, it's obvious. The writer has already apologized for writing about it at all - so suggestions of not to think about it or not to write about it are redundant and besides the point. So Gaga's a drunk, Bieber's got a haircut, Hilton has gained a couple pounds, Lohan has got a big decision as to how much time in the slammer she's willing to gamble on... these celebrities are all lame, but it's funny to watch them flail around for us, if you ask me. I just hope, and here's the Bible-belt-sounding line, that Lady Gaga doesn't propel the drink/fuck/make shit art generation to much further into the ground. That's all I gotta say.
February 24, 2011
7:05am
She is the epitome of "trumped up". She had the fortune of connections with talented marketing people. The kind who take a simple "boy band" and find a way to squirrel them into a daily tidbit in the media until the public develops an addiction. After a couple of decades since Madonna, she got the idea that there needs to be a 21st century version. And so she embarked on "creating" this persona. She is nothing but marketed popularity hype and the gullible youth generation today is eating it up. Because, since the "Me" decade is still so highly admired, everybody seems to need a "Famous" decade. Everybody can be a star. Look, Lady Gaga is doing it--why not me? Lady Gaga's success is a sure sign that a large chunk of the population following her has no sense of taste--they need it spoon fed for them. But like all things, they do tire or wear out. Eventually there will be an awakening, especially after Gaga does something seriously stupid, where people will say "Huh... and why did we like her? I can't explain it."
Emm
February 25, 2011
8:51am
Meh, you all sound bitter and jealous. Lady G actually can sing and so what if she is gimmicky and wears costumes...maybe if she was a man you'd hate her less? Also, she sings Pop songs. Most songs on the radio and the net are pop songs. Albeit I do agree that validating drinking by inventing the name of 'drunk diet' is pretty lame, especially since most of us know it as a liquid diet or liquid lunch. I wish Gaga would listen to Ozzy and others when they say they like her and her work but she is overexposed and needs to sit a few rounds out.
February 26, 2011
12:48am
This is some of the worst writing the Internet has ever bestowed upon me.
Mando
February 28, 2011
4:22am
Lady Gaga's not an asshole, you are. You and Lady Gaga on the same diet? Don't you feel special? Only problem is you're not Lady Gaga and you can't pull it off. As 50 said, "Let them hate and watch the money pile up!"