I wrote an essay a few weeks back about Lady GaGa’s taking over from Madonna and becoming the numero uno gay pop icon. And any gay with a Facebook account can attest to this with a simple look at their status update bar from this week. The gays are going gaga over Bad Romance, the new video from Ms. G. Every homosexual I know, and I know a lot, are freaking out.
The video is epic. Costumes, pyrotechnics, McQueen shoes, and murder all combine with some fierce choreography (nods to MJ) and a dress train made from a white bear pelt. A dress made from a bear! Watch and learn ladies. Watch and learn.
Unless you have been living under a rock then assuredly you have witnessed the pop culture tipping point and subsequent freaky-deaky takeover of the world by one Miss Lady Gaga. It should be noted that she’s not your typical Madonna-wannabe. She’s the heir apparent.
Gays across the globe are anxiously awaiting (yet another) Madonna greatest hits package. The album, Celebration, also features two new songs, one of which, the title track, finds Madge back in the 90s amid a pulsing electro beat created by Paul Oakenfold. Madonna’s an artist who usually collaborates with cutting edge producers so it seems a little odd she’s embracing this sound now. But I guess the 90s are back and I just don’t know about it.
When you pay $180 a month to work out a gym you expect more than just some clean towels and a working sauna. Thankfully, Equinox knows this and is doing some pretty interesting things to keep their patrons pumped up and energized.
This Fall Equinox has partnered with an eclectic mix of musical artists-Dave Navarro, Michael Buble, Stevie Nicks-to create custom iTunes workout mixes. Those mixes, called EQ Sessions, will be released monthly and available via the iTunes music store to download. And Equinox surely knows its customer: gay icons Cher, Madonna, and Cyndi Lauper have all agreed to create a playlist for the chain. And I certainly wouldn’t mind knowing the songs that motivate Madonna in the gym. Most men would kill for her arms.
Madonna was friends with Andy Warhol. He and Keith Haring gave her a collaborative painting for her wedding to Sean Penn in 1985. But, due most likely to Warhol’s untimely death, the pop princess was never one of his portrait subjects. Until now.
In an homage to Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, and her own iconic status the cover of Madge’s new album, her last for Warner Brothers, is pretty fierce. It is done by the Los Angeles street artist Mr. Brainwash. And while I think it’s pretty appropriate, not everyone’s buying the hype. Blackbook says of the image “even the album art, designed by Mr. Brainwash hearkens back to East Village street art. Though troublingly enough, it seems like imitation of street art, like the Urban Outfitters-ization of a Warholian prototype.”
Tonight lesbian icon Sandra Bernhard will perform her classic show Without You I’m Nothingat New York City’s Town Hall. The one woman show played off-Broadway as the 80s died down and it was her creative, critical and commercial peak. She’s not danced with mainstream crossover possibilities since. Roseanne doesn’t count.
