Lady GaGa review

In the review written by Jon Pareles, “Lavish Worlds, and the Headwear to Match”, he addresses an audience who are familiar to her work, almost as a friendly reminder to what Lady GaGa is all about. He captures their attention by using fun phrases.

Such as in his first sentence. He begins with, "thumping, strobing, razzle-dazzle dance numbers," to describe GaGa's music. The usage of her famous song quotes, "pa-pa-pa-pa-paperazzi," and "p-p-p-poker face," allows the, most likely younger generation, audience to quickly recognize the most known lyrics of her songs, if not be reintroduced to them. It sparks not only recognition right off of the first paragraph, but also puts the reader in an excited and eager to read more mind set.

Then in GaGa's description, Pareles describes her as, "freaky (in a fascinating way)", he softens the scary notation of the word freaky with the word fascinating to explain the reason of her growing fame. To fully capture her scarily unique facade, Pareles has added a picture of Lady GaGa in one of her many recognizable costumes. GaGa wears a meat dress proudly and confidently by the way she holds her head high and struts down the MTV red carpet, which many of the young readers would remember from her unforgettable 2009 performance.

Referring to the well known David Bowie, Elton John, and Madonna, all artists my middle aged parents were well familiar with in their youth, gives Pareles audience a reference point to Lady GaGa's artistic and musical platform.

Then Pareles goes on to explain the relationship between GaGa's albums "The Fame Monster" and "The Fame" to his audience that wouldn't know much about them.

He goes on to describe her stage set up, which fully encompasses her extent of lavish performance art, especially her costumes, and back up dancers. The description is descriptive and colorful, as if the reader is at one of her concerts. This allows someone who is unfamiliar with her performances become more adept to what they would encounter at one of her unforgettable shows.

After exposing the reader to GaGa's loud, exciting, and sometimes provocative performance, Pareles mentions that GaGa her January 24th show would be donated to a Haiti relief. He does this is show her caring side. The audience gets a full spectrum of whom GaGa loves her performance art as much as making music and never leaving her audience unsatisfied.