"A Very Tame Fame Monster, Decidedly Un-Freakish" - The American Spectator

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“A Very Tame Fame Monster, Decidedly Un-Freakish”

by Shawn Macomber

November 30, 2009, 2:49 PM

The Weekly Standard‘s Katherine Eastland, fresh from delving into the divergent doggy christening styles of Jimmy Stewart and Barack Obama, now sets about unpacking the relative merits of the marriage of imagery, pop, and second-rate performance art the strange cultural phenomenon known as Lady Gaga is currently presiding over.

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