THE ACTIVIST MELINDA TANKARD REIST When Lady Gaga toured here last year with Monster Ball, young girls were treated to a video clip of the star being vomited on and greedily eating something akin to a human heart. Her face and body were covered in blood. The same girls saw highly sexualised and porn-themed dance […]
Give me Adele any day I should probably declare an interest before I post these two articles which I’ve wanted to share with you for awhile. I love Adele. I only discovered her recently. Her song ‘Someone like you’ did me in. Have a listen. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qemWRToNYJY[/youtube] And her cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘Make You Feel […]
Girls’ Mag Watch: More Stereotyped and Limiting Messages for Girls This is the second installment of my review of magazines for girls and young women, published by Generation Next. For many girls, the magazines they read are their lifestyle bibles. How should they look, dress, act and relate? What’s important in life? Who should they look up […]
Nice to know I’m not the only one with a negative critique (also published in On Line Opinion Friday)of the Lady Gaga machine. Here’s an extract from a piece by Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin titled ‘What’s Next From Lady Gaga: A snuff film?’ recently published on Huffington Post: What if glitzy Lady Gaga is exactly […]
US pop juggernaut Lady Gaga is bursting on to Australian stages this week. The much hyped tour began in Sydney last night with the first of 13 all but sold-out concerts. The 24-year-old New Yorker, christened Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, has sold eight million albums. While she’s here, we’ll hear all about how she’s avant-garde. […]
