Daily Archives May 13, 2011

Lady Gaga: Not that Controversial

Lady Gaga, singing Speechless

When I was a kid, as I said in my blog yesterday Frozen in Time, I was big-time into music. I played piano, was in the school band, fiddled around with a garage band in high school and would hang out with the audio visual guys at the college radio station when I went to Odessa College. AV geeks are awesome, and in the radio studio, several of them were very cute too. Trust me, geeks are good.

I don’t mean to pull an “I’m-older-than-dirt-and-everything-was-better-in-my-day” type of commentary here today, but… well, it was better, or worse, or at least different. Hell, I’m only 40-mumble… (actually, I AM 40). Shoot, seems like just last year I was 30-mumble.

So I’ve been reading commentary about how controversial Lady Gaga is, how cutting edge, how in-your-face, and how she flies in the face of establishment!

Are you freaking kidding me? Lady Gaga IS the establishment.

You have Lady Gaga today. WE had Ozzy Osbourne...

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