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Lady Gaga performs in Costa Rica’s new stadium tomorrow night (I’m soooo…. NOT excited) but, can anyone explain to me or, perhaps make an educated guess at what this full page promotional photograph in Costa Rica’s largest newspaper is supposed to represent?
Lady Gaga’s torso is smeared with a substance which is clearly meant to look like blood and one of the kneeling black men has his right hand also covered in blood…
Is this art? Entertainment? Does it make you want to go and see her concert?
Any ideas?
The person hanging (I can’t see that this even looks like Lady Gaga – looks more like a man in female dress) clearly represents a figure on the cross with mourners scattered below.
I think it is a very sacrilegious ad.
I can’t imagine how this ad would make any normal self-respecting Costa Rican want to attend the concert.
It appears to be aimed at a more sinister “alternative” segment of the population whoever that might be.
Equating Lady Gaga or any other person with the martyrdom of Christ for the purpose of entertainment is crude and offensive.
That’s what I was thinking ….
Costa Rica is a predominantly Catholic country and I would have thought that this would have been a very risky and offensive strategy, but maybe that’s the point….
I think you guys are way, way off base. Actually, it’s a late-breaking ad by the Romney campaign showing how the privileged few will be lifted yet further while the majority are left behind to grovel in the mire. The substance on Lady Gaga’s front is caviar which she can afford to squander. The substance on the black man is a mix of his own sweat and the dust he’s been left in.
If there was some kind of a Academy Award for the Discussion Forum’s shortest, most amusing post David – you just won it!
Once again, I would like to thank you for A: All of the incredibly useful information you have posted on WeLoveCostaRica.com over the past years (nearly seven years, right?) and B: Your truly magnificent sense of humour ….
Scott
Give me a f”#?ing break!!! Never before on this site have I read such trash. David, you have won the WLCR grand prize for progressive thought. FORWARD If the majotity would stop groveling in the mire maybe there would be change.
[quote=”DavidCMurray”]I think you guys are way, way off base. Actually, it’s a late-breaking ad by the Romney campaign showing how the privileged few will be lifted yet further while the majority are left behind to grovel in the mire. The substance on Lady Gaga’s front is caviar which she can afford to squander. The substance on the black man is a mix of his own sweat and the dust he’s been left in.
[/quote]remember Madonna and all her catholic angst she decided to work out on stage? personally, i wouldn’t pay to see her OR Lady GooGoo — would rather read a book!
[quote=”Scott”]That’s what I was thinking ….
Costa Rica is a predominantly Catholic country and I would have thought that this would have been a very risky and offensive strategy, but maybe that’s the point….[/quote]
People like Gaga like to offend, as opposed to use talents to entertain, which unlike many, she does have talent.
Most Catholics-and I find this in any culture-do not translate their faith to everyday practice. Their is a disconnect and that is why the world usually trumps over the Catholic faithful.
In most Latin countries, the people seem less open to abortion and contraception for example, they are more open to having children and extended families. This, for me a traditional minded Catholic, is great and good, but then it seems most women are having children and there is no real, strong connect about getting married. Most CR women, seemingly, have children out of wedlock. For them and other latin peoples, thier is a disconnect between faith and sex after marriage, not before and reproduction too. It is just assumed, wrongly, that “well hey, we cant help it” as if we are non-intellectual animals or something.
Converse, in the states, women-and I should add at this point, yes, [u]most definately men too, often we are worse then the ladies[/u], seem not constrained to sexual morals, but there is the contraception and “back up plan” of abortion-families are less united, more spread out and so forth.
Hence, the average Catholic, far from struggling to live a truly Catholic life, often has compartmentalized their lives between practice-and various levels of this-and actions…..they go to church on Sundays, then live the rest of their week as a worlding, their faith plays no role and hence, they have no effect on the world.
A truly Catholci society, hence, would be one that is not uptight and “everything fun is evil”-that is a strain of Calvinist/Fundamentalist/Jansenism-but one where stricter morals would play a role. hence, if Lady Gaga was even able to get a gig on CR, it would be low to no turn out……..one could ban her from performing for public morals issues……I know the PETA people were not happy and calling for actions against her……..why not Catholics or others……
[quote=”maravilla”]remember Madonna and all her catholic angst she decided to work out on stage? personally, i wouldn’t pay to see her OR Lady GooGoo — would rather read a book![/quote]
Your time and mind, well being would be much better with a book……..:D
[quote=”orcas0606 FORWARD If the majotity would stop groveling in the mire maybe there would be change.[/quote]
Change for what? to what? for what reason? purpose? Change to whose idea of progress? Who gets to decide what is change and to what? Progress to what stage? what end?[quote=”DavidCMurray”]I think you guys are way, way off base. Actually, it’s a late-breaking ad by the Romney campaign showing how the privileged few will be lifted yet further while the majority are left behind to grovel in the mire. The substance on Lady Gaga’s front is caviar which she can afford to squander. The substance on the black man is a mix of his own sweat and the dust he’s been left in.
[/quote]Good insights, I think the imagery is telling-like Madonna’s at the awards the other month or so, she is trying to revamp her career and being best for outrageous by Gaga and others…..her imagery was very telling as well, a lot of clearly recognized occultic, masonic imagery and in the end, these people, whatever religion, race, political bend, are clear-we are rich, powerful and you are not, we rise above you…..so grovel, serf…….
Gaga has talent, she does nto need the gimmicks and crappola….actually, w/o the makeup and clothes, not a bad looking lady either……apparently, these days, talent, singing ability,etc is “passe” I guess……Gaga does a GREAT concert and I believe that this one at the National Stadium is close to sold out. Gaga focuses her concerts and music on disenfranchised young(er) people. The blood has nothing to do with anti-Catholic imagery.
Often her songs speak directly to young people who don’t fit the norm of commercialized “beauty”, are often bullied and ridiculed. Those folks have responded to her music by the millions worldwide and are happy to call themselves “Little Monsters”.
[quote=”sueandchris”]Gaga does a GREAT concert and I believe that this one at the National Stadium is close to sold out. Gaga focuses her concerts and music on disenfranchised young(er) people. The blood has nothing to do with anti-Catholic imagery.
Often her songs speak directly to young people who don’t fit the norm of commercialized “beauty”, are often bullied and ridiculed. Those folks have responded to her music by the millions worldwide and are happy to call themselves “Little Monsters”.[/quote]
We have to look beyond gimmics, though and often, these groups and performers have a more subtle and hidden imagery and symbols……many times, worked within….One has to look, critically, beyond the obvious and yes, sometimes, pople do see things not there or look at things distorted, we all do….I know of a priest that, prior to his coming back to Church and ordination, was in studios when the groups had open occult ceremonies and “blessing” said albums to Satan or other “dieties”. madonna not long ago had a concert and there as a great deal of pagan, masonic and demonic imagery, not a coincidence at all. Sometimes things are as they are, sometimes, there are more hidden…..one has to discern and not go off deep end either way, where “the devil is under every rock and bed” or gaga over some thing/one and not seeing behind the mask.
As noted previous, Gaga has real talent, she chooses to do bizarre things instead, which clouds her real gifts….some, all they have is cheap and shocking theatrics……she could easily do more…..a shame….
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