Musical Personae

Lady Gaga is not a person.

A figment of our imaginations.

This is not an insult. Stefani Germanotta is a person. But Lady Gaga is obviously a sort of persona of Stefani’s; an act she puts on; a kind of character she plays. If there was no other evidence, there would still be the

What Is There to Talk About?

The Paragon of Animals is pouring this coffee.

In “The Good, the True, and The Beautiful”, I mentioned that the line between artist and audience isn’t that dark when they both strive towards the titular ideals. That’s a nice sounding, vague sort of thing to say, but it bears a lot more thought. If pop-culture is a big conversation about goodness, truth, and beauty (or, at least, if it is forced to be by me) what is there really to say?