Lady Gaga and the Monster Theory
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After the release of her first album The Fame in 2008, Lady Gaga became one of the most influential celebrities in the world as well as the first artist to attract twenty million followers on the most famous online networking service Twitter, and from that moment she has been incontrollably conquering the world of popular culture. Her songs are played by radios worldwide, and there are always some blank sheets in many magazines to thrash out not only her unique art but every moment of her private life. Being a ubiquitous pop star, Lady Gaga has already become a cultural phenomenon. Her incomparable performances on stage either make her fans fall into a trance or evoke immense indignation in others. Thus one thing can be concluded: her art produces an effect on people. With her outrageous fashion and freakish performances giving occasion for disgust, as the sociologist Victor P. Corona argues, the pop star's aesthetics celebrates a "monstrous Otherness" (Corona, 1). For today the monster image has irrevocably become associated with Gaga's image.