Lonewolf Diaries: Lady Gaga Sells Sex, MSM Predictably Buys
by Steven CrowderLady Gaga’s new video, “Telephone” hit the streets last week. You’ve all heard of it, I’m sure. As nothing more than violent softcore porn, even MTV has allegedly given it the shut-out. Not only is the video a tasteless, boring herpes-fest, but it’s indicative of a larger problem facing Americans (particularly young ladies today). Can anyone guess what it is?

Let’s be honest; in the world of popstar Divas… Lady Gaga isn’t exactly a Bo-Derek-perfect-10. So how does she find a way to close the gap? As many ugly dames have done since the dawn of time, she decides to up the ante of sluttiness. I speak the truth. Women, if you don’t live up to the current magazine standards of “beauty,” the message being pumped to you through pop culture is loud and clear: ugly and/or fat chicks need to go fishing with dynamite.
Even more confusing is when pop-musicians use said form of packaging to try and push a corporatized “be proud of who you are” message (see any “Pink” music video ever made). By default, we end up breeding a generation of slutty, shallow, self-absorbed, empty shell human beings and then confusedly ask why they have “self-esteem” issues. Whatever happened to the idea of esteeming others first? Seems to me that that would do wonders for the tweens self-confidence (not to mention their productivity levels). You know who was big on that concept? Jesus. We can’t have that.
Now it also has to be mentioned that conservatives often discredit themselves by accusing people whom they detest of being “talentless.” I was shocked at the responses to my recent Sean Penn piece referring to him as a “terrible hack.” Listen, Sean Penn is one of the best actors on the planet… Who also happens to be a really big douche. To maintain our credibility, we need to maintain an honest dialogue.
Lady Gaga is immensely talented. She’s a fantastic pianist, a gifted singer and an engaging performer. But that’s not why the mainstream media gives her so much attention. If she weren’t acting like a dime-store floozie, the alphabet networks would pay her little attention, relegating her to a life of smoky bars and indie record labels instead of sold-out arenas and platinum albums. When it comes to capturing the attention of mainstream media and liberal publications, there is but one simple truth: Perversion Sells.
Not only does perversion stir up waves of fabricated “controversy,” it allows modern leftists to put on their introspective thinking caps and “examine the societal consequences” along with “what the video is truly meant to convey.”
Perhaps the video is meant to be a satirical reflection of our current society’s difficult circumstances?
Maybe, Lady Gaga is trying to put our lives in perspective through the theatre of the delightfully absurd?
Or maybe, just maybe she’s a harlot who’s realized that flashing her genitals to the camera while making out with pornstars might help her pocket a little extra coin through additional video play and record sales.
When the media acts as though they’re “offended” or that something “has gone too far,”always know that it’s a prefabricated reaction designed to make it look as though they’re taking the high road (much like Sean Penn with his Haitian camera crew).
Trust me, they want to keep this cash cow alive.






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Steven,
Caught you at the Glenn Beck show in NYC. That was one tough crowd, and they were sober as a stone. Don't take it too hard. On lady gaga – I spent two years at ASU and I thought I let loose – these days my behavior looks tame.
Joe
I saw this video when I woke up one night and said "What the hell is this $#!t?" I couldn't understand what the heck was going on. What women's prison allows 5 inch stiletto heels?
Great observations. Another great post! Keep it up!
I have to disagree on the Sean Penn thing. And as always, I have to point out that it's not because he's a douche – Ian McKellan is a complete perv off-camera, and he's an awesome actor – and I hated Penn long before he started shooting his mouth off.
Penn overacts in everything. He's twitchy and screamy and tries to draw attention to just how HARD he is acting. A great example of this is "The Game", an underrated movie that is entirely held together by Michael Douglas even though Penn drops in a few times and does his best to tank it.
u are all very stupid lady gaga is the shit.
Once again, you're right on target.
To be honest, I truly do admire the men who are disgusted by certain female antics.
You all disappoint me as you fail to see the meaning behind Gaga's songs. She is the greatest artist that pop culture has experienced since Madonna. Her ability to express her ideas in such a captivating manner is remarkable. You are all quite vacuous.
saw a video of 'Lady GaGa' from her salad days back in New Yawk…
On Babs Walters show. The most interesting of 2009, or some such nonsense. She was playing the keyboards
all pudgy and brown haired.
No attractive in the least…
When the media reacts with horror, and states that someone has "gone too far", it's in reaction to something said or done by Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh or Andrew Breitbart. It's NEVER in response to someone slutting it up like Lady Babytalk.
Is it really about being attractive dcase? Is that what you judge people on? It is dull minded idiotic people like you that ruin this world. It is people like Gaga that make it that much greater.
Wow. You're a genius.
I think Lady GAGA has immense talent, too bad she degrades herself to prostitution level. Does any entertainer/performance artist really need to go to this level of perversion? REALLY?
to attract fans like you, she must be
How?
That assumes we all think Madonna is a greatest artist of pop culture. Neither Lady GaGa nor Madonna would ever have been popular if they didn't embodies perversion and shock factor. Like Howard Stern. They all have redeeming qualities but the packaging disguises everything else.
You may not like this fact, but it is a fact nonetheless: Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga) is a major major talent. Compare her to any other female star in pop music, and it's just no contest. She's an awesome singer, she's a great player, and she seems to have a very shrewd business sense. Like I say, 1984 Madonna, but with talent in addition to the ambition. I don't blame her for what the seamy underbelly of our society demands of it's pop divas, and I think if she manages to thread the needle and avoid the pitfalls of stardom, she very well may go on to be positively legendary. Yeah, that's a big if.
Oh, and the fact that she's actually kind of plain in real life is an added cool factor as far as I'm concerned. Mae West was no ravishing beauty either, but she had all the sex appeal. Remember, eros is all in the mind and the physical reality of lovemaking is kind of grim without it.
Please tell me you inadvertently left the /sarc tag off….For your own sake.
I've seen or heard Lady Gaga so I'll take a listen since it appears she attracts soooo many faaaaabulous fans; it better be good otherwise the fans will hear about it for wasting my time with their bad advice.
Lady Gaga is a female version of Marilyn Manson and her career will last just as long.
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It's unfortunate that Lady Gaga chooses to go gutter in marketing herself because she is actually a very talented singer/songwriter/musician. She seems to need to surround herself with this over-the-top persona, which in the early stages of her career was effective at getting her noticed, but now comes off as trying too hard. Believe me, if she released an album of pop standards accompanied by her own piano playing, she would wow people. A strange bird, indeed. But I like most of her music.
Actually we're so pretty, oh so pretty, we're vacuous. And we don't care.
Tried to watch it. SO BORING, so trashy. I wondered why she had so many cigarettes on her sunglasses and why she let that lesbian kiss her without appearing to wonder, "Hey, who is this person I can't see for the cigs on my shades kissing me?" I wondered, but I didn't stick around to find out.
actually i have a 4.4 so thanks bud i am and its pretty pathetic that you are sitting here blogging hate about LAdy Gaga. Have you seen one of her interviews? Have you seen her intellegence? Have you made an effort to look any deeper into any of her songs?
Have you forgotten to put the "/sarcasm" tag, or are you truly that dim?
Lady Gaga is able to accept everyone for exactly who they are. She was ridiculed in high school and is now being exactly who she wants to be. Most of America loves and is inspired by that. Also, try watching her grammy performance with Elton John. Its truly incredible.
Ok so you say 'eros is in the mind-appearances unimportant' but when your Lady Gaga lover can not longer afford the botox, the silicone, the face-lifts, the butt-lifts, the yoga, the organic, the anorexic and all the other addiction to sweet sixteen keep that thought in your eros mind.
wait!? they don't allow 5 inch stiletto heels!?
Dear Guest Who Writes "her talent is as big as her string bikini",
Lady Gaga began learning piano at age four and was accepted to Juilliard, a prestigious arts school, at age eleven. She has more talent than you could ever hope to have. Sorry about that.
We have Sumner Rothstein to thank. Read the Fable of the Ducks and Hens some time – you will be amazed how applicable it is.
http://www.heretical.com/pubs/fabledh.html
"u are all very stupid" … pretty broad statement.
"lady gag is the shit." ….nnnnn… not sure if that explains anything, pro or con, towards MSM or Lady Gaga… I do recall her screaming for Obama to "WAKE UP!!!" concerning giving gays rights they already have.
Haven't seen the video, don't really want to now.
All I can say is, what can we expect when porn is completely rampant in our culture and encouraged on tv, movies etc. Even the tv shows that supposedly have strong female characters are all about the woman as an object of lust, or munipulating others with her sex appeal always always always.
I am sick of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pornography is addictive. It ruins sex, and it's ruining our culture. Let's get rid of it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The thing about Lady Gaga is that she's tacky. Yes, she is talented. She's quite the pianist, and her voice isn't bad at all. She knows how to write a decent hook. But then she routinely takes off all her clothes and does photo- and videoshoots in multiple stages of undress. Nearly all of her songs have foul language and graphic sexual descriptions. She's put out like, four songs that are suitable for kids to listen to, and yet people still market her to the tween crowd. If she'd put her clothes back on and stop singing about her various sexual encounters, she'd be great.
Yes, you're right. She is that.
She's smart enough to have scammed you into believing she's smart.
Seriously, dude, she's a manufactured product, as focus-grouped and brand-managed as a Mr. Clean commercial.
Beth, there are countless artists who don't feel the need to dress like a Cirque du Soleil held in a strip club to make the same ideas. And that was the point of the article — she has talent, but masks it behind shock value. How many people will be turned away from her work because they don't feel the sybaritic need for ever increasing shock?
You are so wrong and so pathetic
Yes, eros is truly in the mind. So why does "Lady Gaga" insist on shoving her erotic bits in the camera?
Exactly who she wants to be is an exhibitionist whore?
I LOVE GAGA
OK, she's got talent. Too bad she dresses and behaves like a five-dollar hooker.
Ivana, I completely agree. I'm glad we share the only intelligence on this page.
Hey, I may be fat, short, dim, ugly and have excessive back hair, but I am not wrong.
Lady who?
If she has so much talent, why does she work so hard to hide it behind the skank?
Seriously — look at Sarah McLachlan. Brilliantly talented, doesn't feel the need to play "spot the pudenda". Tori Amos — at least equally talented, likely more so, and built her career with a stunning lack of lightning-shaped costumes. Alison Kraus. Neko Case. The gone-far-too-soon Katie Reider.
If someone has talent, they should showcase their talent. Not their willingness to be a strip clown.
Well, that's a convincing assertion.
She's a pop-idol. Her every move is scripted.
Uh, Steven, you undermine your point using Lady Gaga. She may get attention because of what you see in the magazines or TV, but she sells a gazillion records because of what you hear on the radio and in her concerts. The girl works very hard, and her musical talent is the real thing. The people denying this by pounding on her looks are the ones who look bad.
The intelligent side of Germanotta is her song writing and music composition. Most here realize that she needs to dumb it down in order to be popular with the lowest common denominator. The Roman Catholic private school girl knows how to squeeze every penny out of suckers like you and Ivana. Dress like an idiot but call it "fashion", compose foul language lyrics, show some skin and watch the money roll it.
Can we please drop the "Lady Gaga" moniker and refer to her by her real name: "Stefani Germanotta".
This is important. As the saying goes, "words mean things". So do names.
By referring to Ms. Germanotta by her self-selected moniker, we reduce the effectiveness of the public's condemnation of her actions (by instead placing it on a pseudo-entity that doesn't really exist). Instead, focus the criticism at the person behind the alias, and let it be known that we see through her ruse…
Vacuous? You're the idiot pretending to be a doctor.
Lady Gaga, etc, has little to do with any self-esteem issues in today's tweens. Self-esteem begins with good parenting. If you're raised right, you see Lady Gaga for who she is: a performance artist. If you're raised right, you don't emulate her, you just enjoy her music and move on.
You sound like a liberal: insisting that media provides role-models to raise your children.
Personally, I'm amazed that this young woman's defenders all seem to think that talent alone excuses someone from the rules of conventional morality. I suggest asking Roman Polanski how well that one flies.
Last time I saw this exact stuff, the girl wore a lot of lace and called herself Madonna…
Same $hit, different slot…
The fanbois are beating themselves to death, working on hairy palms…and thirty years from now, won't even admit to knowing who she was…
VH1 fodder for the future…
"If she weren’t acting like a dime-store floozie, the alphabet networks would pay her little attention, relegating her to a life of smoky bars and indie record labels instead of sold-out arenas and platinum album"
I seem to remember a certain Canadian putting out her first American-label album with zero sex appeal and exploding on the charts with five #1 singles and a multi-platinum album. 15 years is a while ago, but you can you forget Alanis Morriessette. You, being a Canadian, Oughta Know. And, I'm here to remind you of the mess … this column is.
"allows modern leftists to put on their introspective thinking caps and “examine the societal consequences” along with “what the video is truly meant to convey.”"
Please cite references, because I'm calling B.S.
Sorry, there's a difference between sex appeal and skank appeal.
Lady Gaga, talented or otherwise, uses the basest form of sexuality to sell her music.
If she had any confidence, or credibility, she could tone down the lascivious image she presents and let her music sell by its own merits.
Like real artists do.
Nor does she have a 'cool factor' because she whores herself up to move product. That's banal.
Since theatricality isn't limited solely to hyper-sexual displays, her real life needn't be a sanctuary to escape that freakshow she performs.
hope you don't have a daughter who is pudgy and brown haired.
Exhibit number 21,355 of "How Obama got Elected".
If you bet on that, you will lose.
Steven, I do enjoy your commentary, and generally agree with the main points and enjoy your work on PJTV and I've seen you on RedEye….but, please, please, please can we begin to drop the "douche" . It's tired and pretty soon we'll be hearing it out of the mouths of every other 10 year old.
No thanks for reminding me of that skank. She blew chunks too. When her garbage started selling big, it was well past time to turn off music radio.
Rock and Roll went missing around 1995 and is presumed dead.
In Quebec is simply means "shower."
Yeah. Who could forget that melodious voice? [heavy sarcasm]
Look, let's end something right now…
All the fanbois just love to beat this horse about Juilliard, a prestigious arts school, how marvelous a talent she is, age four, etc. etc….
And with all that, she didn't get even out the gate until she stepped down to "exotic strip club dancer without pole" level…
So, fanbois, here's the deal…what are you REALLY paying attention to…?
Music, or slattern…?
(For the record, I happen to like the music…and I liked Madonna's way back then, too…but if you gotta sell it by waving your giblets around like a cat in heat, you really need to re-assess your priorities…)
Hey Joe, forgive my ignorance, but aren't you a character in public information films from the early 40s? In fact, didn't the actor portraying you die in 1945?
Hmm. I find your comment shallow and pedantic.
Lady GaGa is empowering. Using sex by any half-way attractive woman IS empowering. Because sex is power.
BUT … and there is always a but. There is a catch. It does not last.
Look at Madonna, old, sinewy, like a chewed up piece of gristle. Compare her to say, Betty White, or Bea Arthur, or other classy, professional actresses with real talent beyond just passing beauty or even physical sensuality.
Women and girls are predisposed to take the short-cut, the cheat, of using just their bodies and sensuality like men and boys find testosterone dominance a short cut. But like all short-cuts, it does not last. Look at Warren Beatty, or the sad wreck of Robert Redford, old men desperately trying to look thirty years younger than their geezer status.
Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus pole-dancing at the Disney Kids Choice awards, all that, its an expression of transient physical power over almost as soon as it began.
Normally, this would not be a problem if our culture understood, that yes beauty exists but soon passes. Women's quicker than mens, but both age and become less than what they were. That to be a human being, fully exorcising their potential, they must be more than just sex personified.
Thanks. Now I don't have to say it.
From what little I have unpurposely seen of her, that tells me she was wearing lettuce with a tomato for a hat.
I've never stuck around, when I've inadvertantly seen a photo of her, other than to wonder why she wears such goofy outfits.
I'm sure her behavior makes her alma mater proud…
Don't bring up George Rockwell's racist trash.
Hucbald, I'll take your opinion on her talent. I have never heard her, and don't plan to. However, as a musician, I am sure you can spot true talent.
That said, I sure hope that Conservatives stop patronizing the performers who feel they must delve into the "seamy underbelly of our society" in order to sell music.
Besides which, her behavior shows she's no lady.
Ugh..My husband just asked me tonight if I wanted to go see this skank when she comes to our city..I said "HELLo NO". I like to dance to some of her songs but that's as far as she gets with me.
In France it means "cleanse" or something to that effect.
Funny comment, considering Marilyn Manson released an album, "The High End Of Low', and headlined a major summer tour, Mayhem Festival, last year. Seems like his career is still lasting.
You are making an error in assuming I find her attractive. I don't. In fact, she's just about the opposite of, "my type." I simply have the objectivity to recognize that a Julliard bound musician who can create the image she has is brilliant, and I also understand why others like her. I own none of her music, for example, which I can also say about every other female pop star. I just find the phenomenon fascinating. I'm a guitarist. I listen to guitar music. Eric Johnson, Steve Vai, Pat Metheny, Preston Reed – that kind of stuff.
It's not empowering, it's sleazy.
Exhibit number 21,358 of "How Obama Got Elected".
Exhibit number 21,359 of "How Obama Got Elected".
I love fashion based performance artsiness alot…what I do not like and refuse to like is debased, immoral, sleezy, drug infested, murderous, utterly disgusting behaviour , all dressed up and " sexy", People who live the life that attends those kinds of choices suffer terribly in the long run. It is not doing anyone a favor to lie about it.
Ouch! Fell outta my chair again………………..Funny stuff Jake…………………………………..
What do ya know………It's even funnier the second time around……………………
To get a fair & balanced view of prison, watch MSNBC on weekends. But, of course, keep watching Cinemax!
They don't call it Skinemax for nothing!
Crowder argued that the only way a female singer achieves enormous success is by acting like a floozie.
I cited Alanis Morrissette as a counter-example.
My point wasn't about the quality of Morrisette's work. It was that Crowder was making generalizations that were evidently false.
It's not complicated logic. It's pretty straight-forward.
I wasn't arguing for or against her talent. Read what Crowder said and then how I responded.
In a perfect world, Stevie Ryan would be a huge star and Lady GaGa would be some freaky nobody that scrapes a living off Google AdWords checks from a YouTube channel…
I saw the video. I thought: "She makes Madonna look like…………well, a Madonna!"
Oh! I also have to say……………Sex (and racism, and death squads for the unwanted in society, sell!!!! Dont'cha know!)
Whoa, you think there's "deep meaning" in Lady HaHa's productions? And you accuse the critics of being vacuous? Don't look now, but there's a little boy pointing and laughing at your "intellect" which has turned out be entirely imaginary…On your part.
LOL, Lady HaHa has no idea who SHE is, much less has or even understands that concept of integrity to your principles. If she were true to who she was, she would be doing precisely NOT what she's doing – which is to be attempting to be the universal sex obsession. NOBODY wants to be that, save the terminally narcissistic, who have a one track mind – and we all know what track that is. Funny, I've seen fully and modestly dressed women who engendered fantastically more sex appeal without the slightest hint of being "slutty". Given that, Lady HaHa may yet find a soul and some principles and get on with life. However, whatever she is now… isn't it.
She is truly repulsive. The fact that she's so popular just proves how low our culture and standards have fallen. Sad.
After fast forwarding TO THE MUSIC PART I discover that the faaabulous fans wasted my time with an Elton-John-in-drag pole-dancing into Madonna's face one phony-note show.
No wonder Lady Gaga desperately needs to be seen in her underwear; her talent is as big as her string bikini.
So beside the fact that it is a non- provocative, pole-dancing, cheesy imitation of has-beens from the last 20 years I have to ask….where is the music in all that cliched, used-up, has-been crap?
I gather the MD stands for mentally deficient…..
And she's so fashionable too………….
I believe it's Lincoln Rockwell's racist trash.
Darling, a degree from Julliard is worth as much as a degree from Harvard.
I heard the same thing…'hired guns' manufactured crap.
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