On stage she is a chameleon-like icon of potent and powerful feminine imagery, channeling the voguish and decadent sexual aesthetic of the 20th century with an ironic sensibility appropriated from "the gay community."
But backstage, once the slap has been scraped off and dropped in a bucket, it's a different story for the pop legend. Behold the work of the ugly stick in all its vicious brutality!
Could any young and tender soul, dealt such a cruel hand by fate, emerge unsullied by a dark craving to be "accepted"? Is this the psychological source of Lady G's demonic drive to gain the promiscuous love of the anonymous crowd, a love she must forever be denied in private?
But backstage, once the slap has been scraped off and dropped in a bucket, it's a different story for the pop legend. Behold the work of the ugly stick in all its vicious brutality!
Could any young and tender soul, dealt such a cruel hand by fate, emerge unsullied by a dark craving to be "accepted"? Is this the psychological source of Lady G's demonic drive to gain the promiscuous love of the anonymous crowd, a love she must forever be denied in private?
The Fly
The Revenge of Riff Raff
22nd December, 2016
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