Bricolage.

Today in our Television Genre lecture, Ms. Lecturer showed us examples of bricolage in the post-modern moment.This refers to the way in which cultural entities today appropriate and rearticulate signs from former movements.

In greater English sense, taking a whole bunch of popular culture and sticking it all over yourself. Examples of this phenomenom are Lady Gaga, the punk movement, MacGyver and the modern-day hipster.

I couldn't help smiling to myself. When hipster was mentioned, the audience began to murmur almost knowingly, and most of us bowed our heads in shame. We all know how the saying goes - if the  dress shirt fits , wear it.


                            Or something like that.

JUDAS

Lady Gaga, you're pissing off the Catholic Church just like Madonna did in 1989. The question is, who's more powerful? The Mother Monster or the Pope?

Gaga's single JUDAS has been slated by religious groups as 'boring', 'mundane' and 'talentless' idolatry. But what do her little monsters have to say about this pop-culure sacrilege, just in time for Easter?

Her Facebook commentary received mixed reactions. Among a mish-mash of webcam spam, desperate pleas of 'add me i need friends' and 'Gaga you're my idol <##3!,' many followers were disappointed in Gaga's attention-whoring attempt to shock her adoring public with dark imagery.

Quite jump from her previous dance-disco tracks of The Fame Monster.

Firstly, do your homework. Gaga attended a Catholic school for much of her schooling career. The song is not about Judas persay, but refers to the historic figure of the betrayer as a symbol of the men who have deceived her in the past.

Is Gaga selling her soul to the evils of mass media, or is this something a little more sinister?

carcass

i wonder what PETA had to say about this...?