We start from a premise: in the pop / rock image is at least as important as the music content, always has been, and today we can safely say that it is even more.
This was perfectly understood by Lady Gaga, who's last name is actually Germanotta, a boy from the immense musical talent but not the great cunning, who has staked everything on or near a building-based image copy with incredible determination and precision, and look attitudes of other singers, Madonna, Kelis, Kylie Minogue through, and even Queen and David Bowie on expensive video and art to create the scandals, most recently the declared intention of performing on stage with corpses.
In fact it is better to copy the look others piuttoso not the music, which can give you just scratching your head, that's all the usual basic Tazuma sampled and cross-country and the rest will be the image.
L'ultima (per il momento) sua trovata è stata quella di farsi immortalare, ovviamente poco vestita, mentre suona il pianoforte.
E fino a qui niente di strano. Il punto è che quello non è un pianoforte qualsiasi ma il pianoforte di John Lennon, leggenda del rock che si vuole serio (ancora mi devono convincere che Obladi obladà sia qualcosa di serio, ma non vorrei sembrare blasfemo).
Il risultato è quello voluto dalla signorina Germanotta, evidentemente più intelligente di molti suoi critici (anche in questo simile a Madonna): grida di scandalo che si levano manco qualcuno avesse mangiato del maiale all'interno di una moschea e conseguente cancellazione dal blog di Julian, figlio di John, evidentemente complice more or less aware of the "crime" of the offending photo (which was advertised as superior to that which would have been if the had got away with a wry smile, how much would probabilmnete John).
The irony in all this is that the followers of one who said "we Beatles are more famous than Jesus Christ" and who wrote (and sang) "Imagine that there is no heaven, above us only sky, nothing to die "are of such an event a kind of blasphemous desecration, as if the rock is not an art form (ie, hobbies) pop or commercial, in which, as Andy Warhol said, all (or most) would have the Their fifteen minutes celebrity, but a religion with its martyrs, its altars, its dogmas, its requirements, and perhaps its courts of the Inquisition.
A little ridiculous, let's say, maybe even more of the claims of Lady Gaga to be an artist with a capital.
