“I like to liberate myself with my ability to change. Behind every ensemble, she insists, is the message to fight for your beliefs, your right to be. Attention-seeking aside, she defends her perma-morphing persona as an unchanging statement about discrimination. The musician has linked the first time she appreciated “the shock art potential of what could create” to the time she stripped naked during a rowdy gig during her early days as a struggling singer in her native New York City. As she states on the title track of her debut album The Fame, Gaga is “obsessively opposed to the typical.” While her closest contemporaries, Katy Perry and Rihanna, enact good girl/bad girl variations of male fantasies, 27-year-old Gaga scuppers all preconceptions of how a female pop star should look and act. Other crazy outfits include a bodysuit honed from plastic bubbles and a voluminous head-to-toe outfit made from human hair. (Time named it the top fashion statement of that year it has its own Wikipedia page.) How to up the ante? The following year, Gaga – real name Stefani Germanotta – performed in full drag at the VMAs as male alter-ego Jo Calderone and was carried down the red carpet at the Grammys in an egg from which she hatched, on stage, to perform Born This Way – the ludicrous lovechild of Björk and Spinal Tap. She presented herself as a half-human, half-motorcycle hybrid on the cover of her last album, Born This Way, hissing red-lipped at the lens like a vampire, while her provocative barrage of otherworldly costumes has included the notorious ‘meat dress’ she wore to the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) in 2010, crafted from flank steak. It’s an intriguing sign of the times that the ‘we-can-do-anything’ millennial generation has chosen shape-shifting performance artist Lady Gaga as its pop princess.
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