Lady Gaga is such a uniquely positioned figure in music, and you have to give her all the credit for that. What she has been able to do with her image would be

Lady Gaga is such a uniquely positioned figure in music, and you have to give her all the credit for that. What she has been able to do with her image would be a remarkable accomplishment for a career of effort; to do the same in such a short span of time with really just one album (counting The Fame Monster as part of The Fame) is goddamn ridiculous. Hell, just look at her Google trending: http://www.google.com/trends?q=lady+gaga http://www.google.com/trends?q=lady+gaga She just really is that different from anyone we've seen before, so much so that she's remarkably undefinable-- an extremely difficult quality to obtain, convince, and especially to exude, yet she made it look more than effortless. She made it look natural. To attempt to sort through her persona, list and categorize everything about her, and draw a concrete explanation for how exactly she did it seems...strangely pointless. You just get the feeling your chosen descriptors would always be slightly off the mark, that the right words would always be on the tip of your tongue but never appear, that you'd always be missing something about her. So I'll just end like this: Maybe you're not the hugest fan of Gaga or her genre, maybe you think her lyrics are too severely lacking in depth to take her music seriously, maybe you don't find her to be all that noteworthy, maybe you even think she's just a passing fad and don't understand what all the hype is about. I couldn't completely dismiss any one of those sentiments. But let me ask you this: the last time you heard one of her songs the whole way through...was your foot tapping? That's what all the hype is about. That's why she can go anywhere she wants with this.