"Golden Voice, Charlie Sheen, Glenn Beck... America is currently obsessed with crackheads."
Of course she's referring to the homeless man with the radio-God voice who exploded on YouTube and then disappeared back into oblivion exactly fifteen minutes of fame later, Charlie Sheen's recent self-committing antics and interviews, and Glenn Beck being Glenn Beck.
While I'm not trying to legitimize any of the three's actions, it's interesting what context can lend to someone's seemingly crazy talk.
For example:
(Warning: vagina allusions.)
I'm not suggesting that Lady Gaga is crazy or a crackhead. But the fact that she can say,
"On G.O.A.T, a Government Owned Alien Territory in space, a birth of magnificent and magical proportions took place. But the birth was not finite, but infinite. As the wombs numbered, and the mitosis of the future began, it was perceived that this infamous moment in life is not temporal...it is eternal,"...and not be labeled a kook says a lot about context. (Not just not labeled a kook - heralded as a visionary artist.)
(Side note - this might be a whole other post, but there seems to be a trend in music videos of the celebration of ugliness. That is, pretty singers making themselves look uglier for art's sake. The above is a good example, as is Britney Spears' latest, which also feels like one long commercial. Product placement abounds.)
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