I watched it an it was before I'd seen anything else she'd done and I also grew up through the early madonna years. I was like ... oooh, so *all* kinky Catholics grow up to be like this.
I didn't see it so much as about gay men or whatever the discussion is now, but I thought it was about kink -- particularly kink about costume, clothing, and ... ritual, visually at least. I didn't get the story the vid was tryign to show, but I loved the sense that there was a story. Like you the most I got from it was facism and in particular, the romaticizing/idealizing of facism. (I'm almost entirely talking bout the visuals here).
Then I watched as many of her other vids as I could find easily and sexual violence, power dynamics, and costume fetish all seem to be the predominant themes in her visual style. It's like Lady Gaga is her own personal kink_bingo!
now I want to write a story about how Lady Gaga is a futuristic sex robot gone rogue and Torchwood has to track her down
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2010-06-09 02:31 pm (UTC)I didn't see it so much as about gay men or whatever the discussion is now, but I thought it was about kink -- particularly kink about costume, clothing, and ... ritual, visually at least. I didn't get the story the vid was tryign to show, but I loved the sense that there was a story. Like you the most I got from it was facism and in particular, the romaticizing/idealizing of facism. (I'm almost entirely talking bout the visuals here).
Then I watched as many of her other vids as I could find easily and sexual violence, power dynamics, and costume fetish all seem to be the predominant themes in her visual style. It's like Lady Gaga is her own personal kink_bingo!
now I want to write a story about how Lady Gaga is a futuristic sex robot gone rogue and Torchwood has to track her down