Before we get into our V Magazine/ Lady Gaga want we wanted to share this pic from google of Gaga playing in Carlisle. Alex Ferguson don’t look too happy about it.
We though we’re excited. We’re big Lady Gaga defenders. She’s managed the almost impossible task of being everywhere while maintaining a sense of mystery about herself and without becoming over exposed. She’s never gone in for the normal celebrity outrageous quotes to get attention (that reminds us, did you know Rihanna likes to have sex?). Her recent interview with Google showed her to be totally humble in a way few fellow superstars manage.
Her latest move to become a columnist for V has us scratching out chins a bit and here’s why:
She’s built up a huge fan base, at the core of which is an almost cultish set of followers who she refers to as “Monsters”. She embraces the outcasts, the self doubters and the people who never really had friends at school. V magazine does the opposite. It is the painfully cool kid in school. It’s a big glossy fuck off type publication that gives hipster koodos to anyone walking around Shoreditch with it.
We just had a look at the last issue – you can find the latest edition online here. Now we’d never slag off another publications editorial…those in glass houses and all that. However, just flicking through the problem becomes self evident. You get three pages of pictures. Then 16 pages of ads. Then an index page. Then a whopping 50 pages of ads. Now that’s fine, so long as the ads aren’t of ridiculously good looking people with more than a bit of airbrushing going on….and here this is exactly what you do get.
It’s this sort of “ooo look how young, attractive and alive with pleasure those people are” ads that makes people feel alienated. Their well trodden psychology is to make you feel a bit inferior then sell you a solution.
Lady Gaga has preached the opposite – be who you are and ignore the bullshit. It’s for this reason it seems a little bit odd that she would choose this publication to be where she dispenses her fashion advice.
