Camille Paglia had an article in The Sunday Times yesterday (subscription required) about pop icon Lady Gaga and -- to put it mildly -- Paglia is not a fan. She calls the singer the first major star of the digital age, but believes she's a charlatan, a "manufactured personality," and unsexy.  Furthermore, despite showing acres of [...]

Admittedly, I like Lady Gaga, or used to like her. She reminds me of a type of a younger Madonna - someone who is theatrical, a rule breaker, line crosser but talented and able to reinvent herself.   Lately, however, her theatrics have become  increasingly bizarre in a way that is following the trend toward [...]