Lady Gaga Will Perform on Stage Decorated with Human Corpses
June 27th, 2010Vigilant Citizen has done several reports on Illuminati symbolism and Lady Gaga.
Also, don’t miss their Sinister Sites series.
Via: MTV:
Will Lady Gaga be working with the dead on the upcoming leg of her Monster Ball Tour?
In a story published Wednesday (June 23) in British tabloid The Sun,, the newspaper reported that Gaga has reached out to Gunther von Hagens, a controversial anatomist who invented a technique for preserving cadavers called plastination and is responsible for the popular traveling exhibition “Body Worlds.”
The Sun quoted “a friend” of Gaga as saying “she is fascinated by Gunther’s work and life … [Gaga] sees a kindred spirit and is hoping to meet him in New York. They have spoken over e-mail and it’s gone well. She is keen to have some Body Worlds element in one of her shows.”
The source went on to say that Gaga is aiming to incorporate von Hagens’ work into her tour by the time it gets to Las Vegas, which doesn’t happen until March of 2011.
“It would be good to top this tour — which is already out-there — with something nobody has done before, using dead bodies as part of a gig,” the source said.
The corpse thing, while disgusting, is merely just a raising of the shock factor necessary to perpetuate the spectacle.
The exegesis of the Lady Gaga video on that site is ridiculous. Who cares? She’s not the first to put provocative “Satanic” imagery in her videos.
And then there is the “Holy shit, Freemasons helped found the U.S.A and are in our buildings hacking our architecture” factor. As if the Christians have the moral high ground to point any fingers…. sheesh.
ltcol-nemo, with all due respect, are you denying that existence of the “culture bomb”? It surrounds you until you can’t see it.
Anyway, for some levity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBE3CTcNa8I
@ltcolonelnemo
Nobody said she was the first to use those symbols, but she would be the first to get human remains in on the act, as far as I know.
But with regard to ridiculous sites, maybe you should go pollute the subreddit with more BoingBoing links. *sigh*
I look upon this as further debasement of the dignity of human beings. We (our bodies and our essence), are reduced to being nothing but props in a mundane performance. This reminds me very much of The Matrix, where it is revealed we are nothing but batteries.
I don’t think anything should be banned because it is distasteful, it would be much better if there wasn’t are market for the kind of so-called ‘art’.
Some of the time I am pretty sure ‘I have a fundamental grasp of the obvious’. Sorry if this post comes across as a ‘Me too’
It just boggles my mind that we are entering the second stage of this great recession/depression/etc and people are distracted by this crap!!
Where I am people are talking about nothing but football ALL day EVERY day. When I hear this in the office I sit there thinking to myself: The world is mad. Theres just no other way to describe it.
Does anyone ever get told they are “different” or “strange” here for being normal?
@sw – i agree, it’s as if ALL is designed to distract us from the horribly grim realities surrounding us… there is an anime series called “ergo proxy” in which bulletin screens constantly broadcast the line ‘fellow citizens, now is the time to consume more…’ *shudder*
as for lady gaga herself, i just don’t understand these fads–her music is garbage. she’s not THAT hot. we’ve already had a marilyn manson to shock us all. so wtf?
I think it will only work if they can do the plastination in funky colours, maybe dayglo 🙂
I wonder how those who signed their remains over to von Hagens would feel about them becoming props in the service of a commercial venture, perhaps ending up stacked amongst the backdrops at the end of the tour or being nicked by roadies to serve as souvenirs to decorate their pad or sell to Gaga fans on ebay, maybe even cutting those cross-section slices up to make jewellery for the fans.
@all: everybody here has some good points.
Marilyn was first, but that was the first big success with pseudo-disgusting stuff.
I suspect that most readers here confuse lady gaga with a big commercial success. not everything on CNN ist important anymore. There are more gentlemen NOT watching mainstream TV than the social strata watching Big Brother. Yes, it is being watched by a huge number and this number has power over the rest. But I watch TV as a open and unencrypted channel from the entertainment elites, just made for me to see what they want.
Besides all critique: What is it about Hagens corpses? They wanted it and its just plastic! Only the form itself survived. The process replaces all fleshly material with plastics, except the bones. And the bones would survive for centuries anyway. I laugh at this “shocking” performance. How gullible have you to be to look at it in disgust? There are crimes right now against human _living_ beings and we watch out for some crooked “illuminati” symbolism.
As long as we care about symbols and meanings, we are going to eat crap like this salmon.
Of course I’m aware of mass “culture” as a means of social control. But, I think the messages are less relevant than the habitual spectatorship and spending that takes place. Is there really any functional difference between going to a Britney Spears concert and going to a Death Metal concert? For both audiences, its is a quasi-mystical event where they lose themselves and become one with something larger. They then go back to their routines after the event ends and look forward to the next one. In fact, a significant part of their labor goes towards attending these events and purchasing relics related to them. Music, in many ways, has supplanted religious experiences for people.
Part of the appeal of religious experiences comes with decoding the ritual. The creators and performers encode a message in a ritual, the audience decodes it. More importantly, the audience spends large amounts of time decoding the message. Then they argue about it and debate it online.
The artist Gaga is collaborating with has already publicly displayed his works in museums around the world. In any case, medical students and scientists make use of cadavers all the time, and often the ends are less than altruistic. But in any case, I already stated that I thought it was tasteless and done for shock value, like biting the head off a defenseless animal.
As for boingboing, here are some recent examples of “pollution”:
EU secretly pushing to put kids in jail for sharing music: ACTA leak
New Apple terms allow them to collect and share your “precise, real-time location” .
I don’t understand how these would be irrelevant to a Cryptogon reader, please explain it to me.
It’s just a website, and most of what it posts is irrelevant, but oh wait, that’s true of just about every media conduit out there.
the religion of pre-agricultural societies tend to only focus on people’s relationship with and position within nature, including the afterlife/life cycles.
after agriculture created a divide between the powerful/rulers and the powerless/ruled, focus shifted toward communication with deities through rituals that reinforced existing power relationships.
it seems to me that the currently dominant religion worldwide is consumption, consumption and more consumption. do MTV and Gaga exploit many people’s apparent yearning to be shocked? yes. what does this “mean”? hmmm, it means anything is fair game. anything, as long as consumption that enriches Them is the primary goal. nothing is sacred or private or beyond desecration. anything and everything is justified if the end is more consumption. killing kids in their beds with missiles, deep-water petroleum wells spewing ancient gunk into the ocean, dead bodies as backdrop to vaudeville song and dance shows. it’s all part of the service, sir. would you like fries with that order?