Lady GaGa...Cthulhu High Priestess?

[Brother Voodoo]

Judge for yourself mortals...

http://fingersdownthethroatoflove.blogspot.com/2009/12/lady-gaga-cthulhu-high-priestess.html

Brother Voo Doo

[DMcCool]

lol

If the cultists LeGrasse's raid had looked like that video, I think the story would have gone very differently, indeed.

[Kaelestes]

No! That woman is an entirely different kind of evil and I won't have her spoiling my treasured literature!

[JulieH]

There's an argument to be made that everything has an opposite, and that perhaps the "white lady" is the inverse of the "dark man" aspect of Nyarlathotep.

[DMcCool]

Honestly, the video brings more Clive Barker stuff to mind than Lovecraft, though I suppose you could just say that Barker adapted his stuff from Lovecraft.

[JulieH]

While I think Barker definitely has his own vision, he does have one thing in common with gaga that is definitely NOT Lovecraftian - the sexuality.  Polar opposites, really, from the sterility of Lovecraft's writing.  Which is so odd, really, when "things" are pretty constantly begetting children on human woman, but always offscreen.  The closest he ever seems to get to describing the naughty bits is the word "mingle".

[Christian O.]

Somewhat unrelated but I really want Lady Gaga to turn into my generation's fucked up version of David Bowie. There's potential!

I'm kind of surprised given her usage of esoteric iconography, like the Illuminati stuff, she hasn't pulled some Lovecraft in yet.

[Kaelestes]

Somewhat unrelated but I really want Lady Gaga to turn into my generation's fucked up version of David Bowie. There's potential!

Except that Bowie has talent. Gaga'd be hard pressed to pull that one off.

[DMcCool]

Talent is observer opinion.  I'll just leave it at Bowie having had a career in the spotlight for over 30 years.  We'll see if she can hang with that.

[Christian O.]

Except that Bowie has talent. Gaga'd be hard pressed to pull that one off.

I kind of don't want to defend Lady Gaga, because I like Bowie so much more, however the discussion will become boring, if I back down now. So...


She's a Julliard alumni! She's talented! It... It just doesn't show. There's something admirable about the artifice of her entire act. Clearly she can sing and she is very good at staging herself. For better or worse her songs are catchy. I see potential, if she can dump the fuck and party motif for an album.

Before she got famous.

EDIT:

But really as long as she doesn't end up like Madonna, a fifty year old woman who still tries to portray herself as a twenty year old and sings about nothing but sex and partying, I wouldn't be disappointed.

[Kaelestes]

I kind of don't want to defend Lady Gaga, because I like Bowie so much more, however the discussion will become boring, if I back down now. So...

She's a Julliard alumni! She's talented! It... It just doesn't show. There's something admirable about the artifice of her entire act. Clearly she can sing and she is very good at staging herself. For better or worse her songs are catchy. I see potential, if she can dump the fuck and party motif for an album.

Before she got famous.

Wow . . . ok, I retract the "talentless" statement, but she doesn't take advantage of that talent anymore. Her current fame is built more on shock and awe . . . and I still don't want her crazy crotch-crushing stage outfits in my Lovecraft mythos!!

[Christian O.]

Wow . . . ok, I retract the "talentless" statement, but she doesn't take advantage of that talent anymore. Her current fame is built more on shock and awe . . . and I still don't want her crazy crotch-crushing stage outfits in my Lovecraft mythos!!

Haha understandable. I do however think she's terrifying enough to be part of the Cthulhu (god, when did I stop having to check the spelling on this?) mythos. I always thought Lovecraft missed a prime opportunity after "The Loved Dead" to start using sexuality in his stories. I don't mean as a desirable thing but as something to horrify and disgust his readers. Like with the necrophilia.

And now I have a mental image of the Old Ones having sex. Goddammit. Why do I do this to myself?

[Kaelestes]

Haha understandable. I do however think she's terrifying enough to be part of the Cthulhu (god, when did I stop having to check the spelling on this?) mythos. I always thought Lovecraft missed a prime opportunity after "The Loved Dead" to start using sexuality in his stories. I don't mean as a desirable thing but as something to horrify and disgust his readers. Like with the necrophilia.

And now I have a mental image of the Old Ones having sex. Goddammit. Why do I do this to myself?

Oooo, messy . . . I always got the impression that sex with his wife had repulsed Lovecraft so much that writing about the act, or even about women in general, turned his stomach. I also assumed this was more his fault than his wife's because he was such a pompous prude. Maybe he was like Clyde, just oddly averse to sexual interactions with his beloved Bonnie. Or maybe he was just as much of a sexist chauvinist as he was a racist, but wasn't terribly vocal about it (Now that I think about it though, he probably would have been very vocal about it. Anyone know of any evidence to this thought?).

And it's ok, the neat thing about the nature of the word "Cthsakouldhighu" is that you can spell or misspell it however you want. Sometimes I like to just ram my fist into the keyboard and call it the proper pronunciation or proclaim to an empty and thoroughly unimpressed room that I've discovered the unspeakable true name of Azathoth.

[Teak]

Actually, no. Gloria Estefan is the High Priestess and clearly has headed the Great Old See since the eighties. Need proof? Listen to Rhythm Is Gonna Get You and substitute Cthulhu each time the rhythm comes up.

At night when you turn off all the lights
There's no place that you can hide
No, no the rhythm Cthulhu is gonna get you

In bed throw the covers on your head
You pretend like you are dead
But I know it, the rhythm Cthulhu is gonna get you

the rhythm Cthulhu is gonna get you
the rhythm Cthulhu is gonna get you
the rhythm Cthulhu is gonna get you
the rhythm Cthulhu is gonna get you tonight

No way you can fight it every day
No matter what you say
You know it, the rhythm Cthulhu is gonna get you

No clue of what's happening to you
And before this night is through
Ooh, baby, the rhythm Cthulhu is gonna get you

 

As much as i hate to admit it, I've grown fond Lady Gaga but its mostly because I see a lot of Jim Steinman in her music and performances (Steinman is best known for collaborating with Meat Loaf on the first two Bat out of Hell albums). As to the question of whether or not she has talent, of course she has some (she can at least carry a tune) but success in the entertainment industry is more about the package and how hard one is willing to work than how much talent a performer has.

I should also say hello as this is my first post. 

-Teak

[old book]

Hmm, Marilyn Monroe was a talented actress as well.

Lady Gaga could cash in on the high priestess of Cthulhu perception if her producers or handlers become aware of it, otherwise I doubt she's a fan.

Lovecraft's wife Sonia apparently complained he didn't put out on their wedding night. Were there more sleepless nights of shameful frustration, or was it ever consumated? Gentlemen wouldn't say.

I think Lovecraft's best take on the late 20th century/early 21st century club scene is from He:

And as he snarled the phrase under his breath he gestured anew bringing to the sky a flash more blinding than either which had come before. For full three seconds I could glimpse that pandemoniac sight, and in those seconds I saw a vista which will ever afterward torment me in dreams. I saw the heavens verminous with strange flying things, and beneath them a hellish black city of giant stone terraces with impious pyramids flung savagely to the moon, and devil-lights burning from unnumbered windows. And swarming loathsomely on aerial galleries I saw the yellow, squint-eyed people of that city, robed horribly in orange and red, and dancing insanely to the pounding of fevered kettle-drums, the clatter of obscene crotala, and the maniacal moaning of muted horns whose ceaseless dirges rose and fell undulantly like the wave of an unhallowed ocean of bitumen.

"Aerial galleries" means catwalks I suppose. Fevered kettle drums like ceaseless dirges of an unhallowed ocean of bitumen is a pretty good description of techno/rave or whatever you want to call it. Goa trance? I am not qualified to know the names of the genres, but there is some pretty awful music lately.