Easy Answers To Pretensiouly Inane Questions
By Shorter verbatim Camille Paglia*: “However, the main point is that the young Madonna was on fire. She was indeed the imperious Marlene Dietrich’s true heir. For Gaga, sex is mainly decor and surface; she’s like a laminated piece of ersatz rococo furniture. Alarmingly, Generation Gaga can’t tell the difference. Is it the death of sex?”
No. This has been…
*For you youngsters out there, Camille Paglia is a silly Sarah Palin fan who had a very brief period in which she was inexplicably considered relevant, and then for some reason Salon decided that 1997 was going to come back again. And, yes, she does seem to consider Madonna not a decent purveyor of shallow, catchy pop singles but the peak of Western art.