Possible Explanations for Lady Gaga

Joke within a joke. Like all those campy ‘it was all a dream’ endings to teen shows like Saved by the Bell, maybe Lady G’s big reveal will be that it was all a joke. She was actually  self-aware (not just pretending to be) while she got the quotes of famous writers tattooed on her body and followed the most conservative (controversy, not too much) path to fame possible.

Avant-avant-garde runway collection. Similarly, maybe some way-ahead-of-her-time fashion designer wanted the ultimate venue to show their couture. Karl Lagerfeld is an authentic philolzopher, I can imagine him saying ‘culture is my runway.’

Cornell West, in drag (sort of), making a commentary about the socio-sexual politics of white women or something boring like that.

Skynet. Just responsible for everything awful.

Tao Lin and Megan Boyle conceive a child equally fond of gimmicks and proficient in newsmaking, rips a hole in space/ time to demonstrate that alt lit is useless in the future.

Aaron Spelling feels bad for Tori Spelling and paid a Chinese lab a million dollars to make a would-be famous blonde girl with a more unfortunately proportioned face. It was so hard it took them thirty years.