Very scary to look at, but also intriguing, our fresh meatball from Japan: Lady Gaga. Always looking for controversies as she found another one now, posing covered in meat for Vogue Japan Homme shot by Terry Richardson (who else, seriously). Meat as high art, placed on the body gracefully as a bikini, what on earth should we think of it?
My first reaction is that I kind of really like it. Not only the shocking value of meat, but also the esthetics, having the red meat flowing over her body, only the skin a separation of her own meat. In so many ways this could be portrayed as wrong. It certainly is boundary pushing, as we would expect from Gaga. But why the Japanese Vogue? And why the Vogue Homme? To choose a more demure society with an excessive amount of expressive subcultures is I guess, still hitting the target group, if that is, men who like meat served in a different way. And Lady Gaga of course. Having such a popular icon pose this way, disrespectful towards animals, but aren’t we all when we chew on it? Having meat exposed like this shouldn’t be a big deal then, except that it’s hanging over the body of one of the upcoming and greatest artist of the past years. Makes me wonder if it may be disrespectful towards her what Terry Richardson tries to portray there, women as a piece of meat?
