Autore
Brabon, Benjamin A.

Titolo
Gaga Gothic
Periodico
Textus
Anno: 2012 - Volume: 25 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 161 - Pagina finale: 174

In this article I examine Lady Gaga's fusion of Gothic and pop. Focusingon her provocative performances and 'dark' lyrics - from the infamous'meat dress' to her debut album The Fame Monster (2009) - I explore LadyGaga's use of Gothic tropes and her creative concerns for "what keepsus up at night and what keeps us afraid" (Gaga quoted in Dinh 2009).Within this context, I argue that Lady Gaga deploys and commodifies theGothic - perhaps most strikingly in The Monster Ball Tour when she was'bitten' vampire-like, causing blood to dramatically spurt from her neck,before 'dying' in a pool of blood - in order to craft the performative subjectposition and musical persona that is Lady Gaga. I contend that LadyGaga can be located within a 'Postfeminist Gothic' tradition as she is thepersonification of a 'sexual subject' who harnesses the trappings of Gothichorror to express her postfeminist subjectivity. Existing within a domain ofrisk, she seemingly subverts expectation while at the same time conformingto it. In this way, Lady Gaga's Gothic pop/self provides expressions of thetensions of subject formation in a postfeminist era. For Lady Gaga, Gothic(per)forms a self that individuates as well as others.



SICI: 1824-3967(2012)25:3<161:GG>2.0.ZU;2-O
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