Poker Face -- (AKA) Toucan Sam

By now we've all seen or heard of the new fashionable singer with the shocking lyrics and risque videos: Lady GaGa.

It no longer amazes me that folks like these are emerging from schools like Julliard, and they can't sing. Money talks people. If she ever could actually sing, we'll never really know. She'd much rather be muttering something about a poker face while wearing geometrically cut clothing and jerking about with asexual dancers. I can't understand a word of anything she is saying. However, I do find it amusing that her nose and song are pretty synonymous.  Funny thing, the song unlikely has anything to do with her big nose but rather some connotation associated with a deadpan expression-- a face of which never hints at what's going on inside the head.  Need we bother with guessing that anything at all is morphing around in that skull?

Some of us may not have heard of this stage wonder until her recent performance at the MTV music video awards.  Dressed like a pornographic Goldilocks, Ms. GaGa ended her Paparazzi song with her poker and a drivelling blueberry juice face that shocked the (ever-so-intelligent) audience into the idea that she was displaying an original work of art.  The fact is, like a lot us, the audience didn't know what was going on with her circus menagerie.

What's so "gaga" about this sort of entertainment? 

The answer to the question is very typical. She doesn't wear a lot of clothing. Though, the clothing she is wearing is fashionably shocking (so we're told). Her fashion statements are sprinkled with well-trained vocals that robotically bleat her crass lyrics, and there you have it-- gaga. Starting a video by emerging from a pool of water and a black dog means what? Sexy?  Dark and glamorous?  Simply put, here comes the yellow submarine heralded by Fido to lend us some sort of helping hand to the understanding of a contemporary artsy feeling. Darling...it's sooooo...you're so...gaga.

Though most runway models look like Jack Skellington, Lady GaGa is a pygmy wearing outfits that hardly flatter her short and stalky figure.  She would make a better Diva on the flying trapeze or while wearing one of those strange outfits, demonstrate her knowledge of the best golf clubs at Dick's Sporting Goods.

No doubt she fits the definition of gaga with silly, excessive, and foolish. She is a spectacle whether she believes she is glamorous or not. Either way, there is definitely some narcissism there. She does a good job of representing the nature of excessive wealth, it's grotesqueness and mundanity. 

I know I've missed something very important here.  I don't understand all the insider connotations, metaphors, double meanings and general nature of "performance art". This is all Lady GaGa's secret, inside joke as she skips along to cash in the money, her poker leading the way.