Task 2 Research and understanding

Lady Gaga


First impression


Lady Gaga is a pop artist who has created an illusion that she is very weird and strange. In her music videos from day one show her as a very unique and eccentric woman. She shows that she is powerful and not afraid to be herself. She is seen as quite an animated character  as she is very made up by her costumes, hair, make up and accessories which makes her different from anyone else.





Costume


She has very strange, weird costumes. They are costumes that no one has ever seen before, very unique. This helps her to be noticed and talked about. When i did research on her concerts her set is amazing, it looks like she has spent a lot of time thinking and working on them to please her audience, this is a small aspect of why her fans love her. Although she wears weird clothes they are also quite short and sexy so her look makes the male population notice her. 

















Album covers


Here is an example of some of her album covers. There is quite a few album covers that are similar. The image that is given off in the one above is quite scary and powerful. The way her make up is done stands out first as it is very dark around her eyes and her lips are red compared to the black and white theme which gives off a sign of evil. Her expression is of her mouth open and eyes slightly closed makes her look quite evil too.





Album covers


Here is another example of her shown as a different sort of person.  Her body language makes her seem very sexy by the way she has them up and pushing her breasts out. She also is hardly dressed in anything, in one she is covering her breats with her hands and in the other she is covered by newspaper cuttings. This shows her as a sex symbol, firstly the first picture because the red lips and the second because she is being carried by a man and also has red lipstick on.
 This shows that she is quite abnormal not a typical pop star like her music sounds. From her body language straight away shows she is confident and wants people to see her as a sex symbol. By the way she is looking at us with her mouth open and hands in her hair shows her to be a bit rebellious.