The Scene and Herd

Lady Gaga is interesting, evidently.

Sometimes she walks around with no pants on. She wears funny make-up and dies her hair and says raunchy things. And Marilyn Manson has a crush on her, which proves that she’s interesting. So why am I so bored by her all the time? When she was obsessed with that purple teacup and carrying it around all the time, I thought to myself, “fascinating,” but my mind forgot that it was interesting two seconds later.

I got bored in spite of myself.

I purchased The Velvet Underground and Nico one short year ago and really listened to it for the first time. I was overwhelmed by a feeling of peace and gratitude, like going back in time to the motherland to thank your ancestors for some solid culture building. But there was nothing interesting about the album. The Velvet Underground is too pervasive to be interesting, practically in our blood. I was born in 1982 and this glorious artistic movement is inherently known. Praise God. That’s cool, right?

The best part about being born after the 1960s is getting to be born after the 1960s.

Lady Gaga doesn’t get that, which is why she bores me. “Warhol said art should be meaningful in the most shallow way,” she told Maxim. “He was able to make commercial art that was taken seriously as fine art… [and] that’s what I’m doing too.” She let the cat out of the bag.

Lady Gaga’s antics are boring because they were interesting. She is contemporary but her art is not. Don’t worry if she does not immediately compute. She’s confusing, right? And don’t worry if you get bored in spite of yourself.