Lady Gaga came to prominence following the release of her debut studio album The Fame (2008), which included the hits ‘Just Dance,’ ‘Poker Face,’ ‘Bad Romance’ and sold over 15 million copies worldwide. The album earned her six Grammy nominations and two wins as well as a slew of other awards recognition, including a record setting thirteen MTV Video Music Award nominations. Gaga is the first artist in history to claim four #1 hits from a debut album (ladygaga.com).
However what makes her so special in comparison to other artists? It could be argued that it’s her creative innovation of what a pop star is that has given her the fame that she has. Despite her musical talents, it is her appearance that has really made her who she is. Her performances are described as ‘highly entertaining and innovative’ (Wikipedia.com). Her constantly changing and ever evolving image is an example of her innovativeness. Starting as a perfectly normal catholic girl in New York
Many of her outfits have been extraordinarily creative and some have even caused controversy with the likes of animal rights. Such as the meat dress that she wore to the MTV video music awards.
It has to be questioned, what lies behind the ideas for all of these bizarre outfits? Is it the designs of others or does it all come from lady gaga herself?
On some of her less outrageous days, Lady Gaga’s outfits resemble the catwalk designs of the likes of Yves Saint Laurent, Fendi or Alexander McQueen (gagafashionland.com). However on the more noticeable days it appears that Gaga herself is behind the ideas. Some examples of her weird yet wonderful ideas for outfits are the likes of her latex dresses. The woman herself stated that the inspiration for her outfit was ‘latex condoms’ (mtv.com) as the event she was attending was to do with safe sex. Another is her Diana inspired outfits in her music video for the song ‘Paparazzi’, she states that she uses Diana as a fashion inspiration because she was ‘the most iconic martyr of fame’ (mtv.com) these examples suggest that Lady Gaga takes an idea or a situation or another style, and then creatively innovates it to make it into something that means something to her.
Despite where or how she comes up with the innovations that she does whether it is music or clothing, she still remains one of the most famous icons on the planet. She obviously does not lack creativity and has the ability to take ideas and create them into something that as of yet no one else seems to be able to come up with. Lady Gaga I think is a prime example of creative innovation.
References
MTV (2011) [online]. Available from: http://www.mtv.co.uk/news/lady-gaga/258794-lady-gaga-condom-born-this-way-aids-safe-sex [Accessed: 13 November 2011].
Gaga Fashion Land (2011) [online]. Available from: http://gagafashionland.com/ [Accessed: 13 November 2011].
MTV (2011) [online]. Available from: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1620578/lady-gaga-inspired-by-princess-diana.jhtml [Accessed: 13 November 2011].
Wikidedia (2011) [online]. Lady Gaga Lets It Bleed During Eye-Popping VMA Performance Available from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Gaga [Accessed: 13 November 2011].
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