--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra <no_reply@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra <no_reply@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > No one hasto universal consensusdecoded the context of > > > LG's artor even personality. I don't think it it a > > > matter of whether you 'get it' or don't 'get it'. I myself > > > do not pretend to have understood exactly what is going on > > > when LG performsor just speaks in her normal person. But > > > one thing is certain: she is more isolated from the world > > > than anyone I have ever knownnot such as to make her > > > naive or removed; but in terms of a certain aestheticI > > > would even say metaphysicalautonomy. It does not seem fake > > > to me. There is no unmasking the mask. And besides this, > > > she is able to ride on her sincerity without experiencing > > > any falseness in this. > > > > No falseness, but maybe some loneliness at times? I'm > > guessing that's what was behind her weeping on the > > interview video raunchy posted. That was painful to > > watch. > > RESPONSE: I think she knows she has to suffer like this, Judy. And I think > her loneliness is more or less unconsciousif one can say such a thing. She > has been swept up in some kind of drama that, for me at least, entails losing > control of everything. But the weeping, it is all part of her context I > think. She has a profound trustexplicitin providence. For me she is the > proof that life containseven after Monte Cassino(!)some intrinsic meaning. > I understand your take on her, though, and I am hardly in a position to say I > am right. > >
IMO her tears are more about injustice than loneliness. From the school yard bully to the teacher she mentioned at the Monster Ball who told her she would never make it in show business because she was too "ethnic", to which she replied, "What about Liza Minnelli?" she fought back at the injustice of being told she was less than or could not be who she believed she could be. She believed in herself when no one else would. Her tears were about fighting against feeling the injustice of being beaten by those wishing to destroy her free spirit. This is why she sympathizes with so strongly with gays. How can you be anyone but who you are unless you accept defeat and disown your truth? She kept her truth but still fights the shadow of those who tried to tell her, "You cannot be you." > > <snip> > > > I have never known any woman who seems to contain a more > > > interesting secret than Gaga does. And I am able to > > > appreciate the truth of not entirely being sure what is > > > finally behind her shtick. I think underneath it allI > > > have said this beforeis a lovely good girl. > > > > That's my sense. I just hope her enormous generosity > > doesn't consume her, that she's not *so* isolated from > > the world that she can't take something back for herself. > > > RESPONSE: I think she likes the sacrifice of herself (to her destiny) such > that in a sense she feels honoured that "she can't take something back for > herself". Besides, I have a feeling that were you pose this in the form of a > question to her, you would get an answer that would surprise you. She is > unpredictable, but in a way that suggests a coherent integrity behind her > lovely strangeness and originality. I think, Judy, she relishes being > "consumed" by her "enormous personality". She loves her fate. >
