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Friday, March 12, 2010

Lady Gaga And Beyonce - "Telephone"



Oh, good grief! Great and just awful, simultaneously! A bit of an oxymoron - high-talent decadence! Completely toxic!

(I posted this last year too with reference to Lady Gaga): And what is decadence? From Wikipedia:

Used to describe a person's lifestyle, it describes a lack of moral and intellectual discipline, or in the Concise Oxford Dictionary: "a luxurious self-indulgence"

....Applied to the arts, decadence implies an elevation of self-indulgence and pretension over effort and talent; when applied to science and the professions, it describes an erosion of professional ethics

....In literature ..."decadents" relished artifice over the earlier Romantics' naive view of nature (see Jean-Jacques Rousseau). Some of these writers were influenced by the tradition of the Gothic novel and by the poetry and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe.

Oscar Wilde gave a curious definition: "Classicism is the subordination of the parts to the whole; decadence is the subordination of the whole to the parts."
I bet Oscar Wilde never thought of great product placement like these two did, but I'm sure he would have known how to characterize it.

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