Lady Gaga’s The Fame:

I recently read an interview conducted with Lady Gaga, a young artist whose visual sampling reminds me of the best of early Madonna.  In her videos, she samples everyone from David Bowie and Grace Jones, to Madonna to Paris Hilton, to a scene from Bertolucci’s The Conformist.  She tours and works with a group of collaborators, that she calls the Haus of Gaga.  Some are engineers, some are sculptors, all are young, and together they create the look that is Lady Gaga:

Perhaps it is because she is still on the cusp of stardom, but I can’t recall an artist who talked so humbly about herself, her fans, her collaborators, and her . . . meditation practice.  That’s right, while she’s on tour, and she’s not clipping magazines, watching films and using those as inspiration to design her next tour, she spends her time meditating.

It seems to have paid off. There was a controversy earlier this month where Christina Aguilera, who’s been accused of stealing Lady Gaga’s look, said:

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