<p>Yeah… it definitely takes more hype than talent to get into Julliard. ;)</p>
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[YouTube</a> - Vintage Lady Gaga Live at NYU - Captivated & Electric Kiss](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM51qOpwcIM]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM51qOpwcIM)</p>
<p>Apparently Steven Klein said the video is “about a woman’s desire to resurrect a dead love and who can not face the brutality of her present situation. The pain of living without your true love.” Seems like a lot of unnecessary stuff to mean just that >.<</p>
<p>The video is supposed to have a lot of symbols and things but I think it was just a confusing mix of random… stuff. The underwear scene was TOTALLY unnecessary and I’m curious as to why she was wearing those binocular things and why she kept opening and closing them one eye at a time.</p>
<p>Dressing like a nun and acting trampy? Meh. Madonna’s been there, done that, and it was hokey and cheap when she did it, too. I’m not quite sure why we continue to manufacture this so-called controversy again and again every time some two-bit “artist” combines religious and sexual imagery. The proper response to, “Hey, look, I peed on a crucifix and put it in a museum!” is to ignore it. “Look at me, I’m a nun who wants to have sex!” Who cares? The only reason performers keep using religious imagery to get a rise out of the public is that religious people (or those who wish to appear so) keeping making a big deal out of it, making themselves look like overly-sensitive, superstitious fools in the process.</p>
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<p>I don’t follow Lady Gaga and have not watched her videos. However, she attended the same program my D attended at Tisch…CAP21, the musical theater program. While Lady Gaga may have entered Tisch early (I read she was 17), I feel pretty certain she still got a high school diploma. My D entered Tisch at age 16. My D left high school early, and got a diploma after junior year. Before I let my D put her plan into action, I called every college on her list in tenth grade and to ask if they would take early graduates and all her BFA programs, including I recall the call to Tisch very well, said that they don’t care how many years she attended high school as long as she earned a diploma. So, while my D and Lady Gaga may have left high school early, they had to have a diploma in order to be accepted at NYU/Tisch. Gaga did leave the Tisch program after two years.</p>
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<p>[125</a> Minutes With Lady Gaga – New York Magazine](<a href=“http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/encounter/55653/]125”>125 Minutes With Lady Gaga -- New York Magazine - Nymag)</p>
<p>On this page is her senior year portrait with the other graduates:
<a href=“http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2010/02/07/2010-02-07_how_lady_gaga_took_stefani_germanotta_from_new_yorks_convent_of_the_sacred_heart.html[/url]”>http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2010/02/07/2010-02-07_how_lady_gaga_took_stefani_germanotta_from_new_yorks_convent_of_the_sacred_heart.html</a></p>
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<p>I think your daughter’s clone is in my daughter’s bedroom. If only we could get a hold of their iPods and compare artists.</p>
<p>D2 loves Lady GaGa. She and her hs friend are a room or two away from me at the moment. I asked her friend if she liked GaGa and she said she loved her. Both of these young ladies were more involved in the arts (theater, dance, chorus and band) in hs, rather than athletics. I have NO IDEA if this makes a difference. </p>
<p>I have traveled in a car w/ D2 and listened to GaGa a lot. I have to say, her music grows on me and MaDonna’s never did.</p>
<p>I also agree with those who have said if you do not like her, do not listen, turn off and out.</p>
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<p>Thank you for posting the YouTube video. My daughter was very friendly with Steph her freshman year at NYU and actually shared the practice room with her. Believe it or not Steph would play the piano while my daughter would sing. (This is a great story that my daughter tells her students.) Regarding the video, my daughter has been telling me that her earlier material is so beautiful and that she has used it for classroom demonstrations. Once she was randomly singing in her apartment and her friends had tears streaming down their faces because they felt the lyrics were so beautiful.</p>
<p>Funny that it has been mentioned that she did not graduate from NYU. Recently, we had an alumni update come to the house. It listed the accomplishments of the grads. Mentioned was the grammy that Steph won and it listed her as a 2009 grad. I was wondering if she really graduated.</p>
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<p>I wish CC had a like button. I like Lady Gaga enough – as I liked Madonna back in the day. She just seems like the 2010 version of an 1980’s Madonna. Always someone who will push the envelope.</p>
<p>klri, Steph did not graduate. I’m not sure why Tisch would have indicated that she had. </p>
<p>Susan is right. She did graduate from high school and was accepted Early Decision, like hundreds of other Tischies. As for the Juilliard comment, this was for weekend programs that Juilliard runs for talented young musicians. It’s not as though she was entering the Juilliard college conservatory program at age 11. </p>
<p>Although I’m not a big fan of her music, or her crazy costumes, she is an amazingly talented musician and, personally, I’d rather have kids emulating her and her talent than someone like Miley Cyrus and her lack of same.</p>
<p>Kiri, Lady Gaga did not graduate from Tisch. She left after her soph year. Not sure why they would have listed her as a graduate. Perhaps they were trying to list what class she was in, like the class of 2008 (it definitely wasn’t the class of 2009, my D’s class). However, NYU does tend to mention some other actors from time to time who have been on Broadway and such who are alum but who have never completed their degree (though many have truly graduated).</p>
<p>Oops, I just cross posted with AlwaysAMom! Same idea. </p>
<p>I also was gonna say same thing about Juilliard which had to be for a weekend program only. </p>
<p>And yes, in bios about Lady Gaga, it mentions getting into NYU “early” and I believe that means Early Decision, and not an early graduate of HS (my D was the latter).</p>
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Yep, those are the “false idols” that drag society down…their “gifts” are twisted and used for bad, and when time passes by, when they are not younger any more, this “type of twisted minds” will act in the lowest ways just for more and more money…mark my words. </p>
<p>Yes, her songs are like glue in the brain, but the baggage that comes with it is not worthy. Same as Madonna. …</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/942178-lady-gaga-alejandro.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/942178-lady-gaga-alejandro.html</a></p>
<p>She seems so weird & eccentric …and she doesn’t even seem like a real person sometimes.But I will admit that she’s very talented and creative…she knows how to grab people’s attention.</p>
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<p>So I guess you don’t visit any art museums, because a lot of them have pieces that you would probably deem as having been created by a twisted mind.</p>
<p>I like Lady Gaga. I don’t love all of her music, but I do like Bad Romance and Telephone, and I think her videos are creative and interesting. I don’t think she has a twisted mind, lol, but I do tend to appreciate the strange and unusual.</p>
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<p>Same here.</p>
<p>My daughter, age 10, likes to watch Hannah Montana but hates Miley Cyrus the musician. I think she has good taste. (I find the show fairly entertaining in that sterile, Disney sort of way.)</p>
<p>Is there some reason why female artists can’t perform in videos with all their clothes on?</p>
<p>I do think Lady Gaga is talented. And I’m sure if I wanted to analyze this video I could. But I feel like this video, like many others I’ve seen, just turn women into sexual objects. She’s in her underwear, having simulated sex – is that an orgy or a rape at the end? </p>
<p>If it were just one artist doing that, OK. But it seems to me that many music videos feature women who are almost naked. If not the artist, then the backup singers are wearing as little clothing as possible. This is not a new trend – it’s been happening ever since MTV started showing music videos in the 80s.</p>
<p>(Obviously I’m a prude. But this bugs me.)</p>
<p>I love Lady Gaga. My friends love Lady Gaga. My parents love Lady Gaga.</p>
<p>I think she’s just hilarious. She’s simultaneously making fun of the pop star and pop culture while creating pop culture and celebrating her fame. </p>
<p>And Gaga’s above portraying women as sex objects. If anything, the men in the Alejandro video are the desperate, manipulated ones under the spell of her whip.</p>
<p>^Same. 10 char.</p>