Sunday, May 9, 2010

Sam on Lady Gaga

Background Information of research subject

The topic I have chosen to research is Lady Gaga. Born as Stephanie Germanotta on 28th March 1986, Lady Gaga is at it again with the launch of her new music video ‘Telephone’ featuring vocal powerhouse Beyonce. What just became a recent video of her happened to be one of the most dissected evaluated video up to date.

She is known for either her catchy infectious music that branches out through electro/dance/pop music or because of her insane looks from makeup and hair-dos, wearing those bizarrely made glamorous outfits.

With her powerful vocals and overflowing controversial charismatic bisexual feminism, her first no.1 US Billboard hit single 'Just Dance' shoved her into the spotlight and she has been making hits smashing pop-charts around the world ever since. There is not one club not playing her music at the wee hours in the morning.

This lady is known for controversially wearing whatever she feels when she likes, which is usually the notoriously eye-popping mouth opening out of this world custom-designed costumes often seen in her music videos, appearances at events and performances.

The audience her music is targeted to are usually teenagers. However if we take a look at a larger scope, she has been affecting the fashion and music industry, research groups and the dressing trends of children.


Objective

Lady Gaga is a musical phenomenon on the rise, the desired outcome of the research is to study they way Lady Gaga influences the attitudes and change of behaviour of her listeners with her music and way of dressing both at the same time in the free countries. This research will also study the impact of breaking down the unequal rights of the participating populations in the freedom-exercising countries, and religious countries taught by cultures.

In a fictional scenario, let’s take a 16-year old teenage girl from California who was born into a rich well-known family and has everything she wants by freely spending her pocket money from her father. Her so-called friends from school are always around her because of her money which influences her popularity around her peers.

Eventually comes to realise that her followers are not really her friends and they are leeching off both her wealth and fame. Feeling betrayal, she starts to believe that no one loves her and she alienates her peers and goes into depression with no sense of life direction.

She then one day catches Lady Gaga on television and is impressed by how she. Naturally, she wants to replicate the feeling by spending her time and money on dressing differently and has find decides she has influenced to follow and dress the way Lady Gaga does to feel different and ‘alive’.

How would this affect her parents? Would she have instead resorted to drugs in order to curb her depression? Would she face ridicule among her parents and relatives? How much higher would the intensity of the objection and ridicule be if this scenario happened in a religious country such as Malaysia? Would she be prosecuted by Malaysian law for being ‘obscene’ in public?

Here we shall narrow down and take a look at the impact of Lady Gaga in a muslim country and compare it to a western country.


~Sam Insanity Sunshine


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