Post-modernism of Lady Gaga.

Hyper-reality:
Lady Gaga is a stage name which allows her to get away with controversial & shocking outfits and stunts e.g. wearing the meat dress. 
 
Mixing genres:
Incorporates a variety of genres in her work. The Fame/Fame Monster influenced by 70's disco but made modern by using faders and heavy beats which makes it possible to be played in a club. An example of making 70's disco popular to a present day mainstream audience. 





Unconventional popstar:
She doesn't mime and plays instruments in her performances as well as dances and putting on a show. 


Intertextual references:



In her music video for Telephone she uses a lot of intertextual references from various sources:

• References to Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill by using the exact same truck - the Pussy Wagon borrowed from Tarantino
• Title of the video is a reference to Tarantino's Jackie Brown film title
• Diet coke cans as curlers are a reference to Andy Warhol's work including famous Marilyn Monroe picture with blond curls and coke can prints.
• There is a Michael Jackson reference when she leaves the prison she makes a dance move similar to MJ in his video for 
• She makes reference to herself with her Monster-beats headphones, the comment by prison guards about rumors of her being a hermaphrodite and her song Paper Gangsta being played on the radio in the prison
• The kitchen scene is a bricolage of the typical 50's housewife, taking the typical role of a woman in the kitchen and turning it into something sinister by adding poison to the food
• The crime in the diner scene is a reference to Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels