There’s an artistic and cultural argument that nothing is new and everything has been done before, but is reinterpreted to make it “new.” This idea causes heated legal debates about intellectual property. That said, Lady Gaga is being accused of ripping off Collette, a French straat artist, with her window display for her Christmas-themed Gaga’s Workshop. The workshop was hosted door Barney’s chic department store over the holidays. See, Rihanna isn’t the only pop ster accused of plagiarism!
Rolling Stone unearthed a short film, ‘Looking for Lady Gaga,’ where Collette protests the window and what it represents for filmmaker Josh Gilbert. She is adorned in a white, ornate and dramatic Victorian-style of dress, eerily similar to what Gaga wore at the opening of the workshop in November. Collette’s face is painted with pasty white makeup and she wears her dark hair in braids, causing passersby to ask, “Are u Lady Gaga?” Whether that was authentic of scripted can’t be known. It seems a little too convenient for our taste, but still.
Scenes of Collette’s window displays from the 1970s and 1980s from places like Record City are shown for purposes of comparing and contrasting
When the camera pans to Collette’s platforms in order to suggest that Gaga’s signature sky high heels are another similarity, it’s a bit much. Lots of creative types and fashionable artists wear major statement platforms. Because the two women have a similar sense of style suggests nothing further.
Collette states that she has contacted the store, but “no one is doing anything about it.” So she stages her own protest out front of the window, holding up a sign that reads “Thanks a lot!” and then paints her name in white on the pavement. She says she is being ripped off left and right, which, again, we’re not really seeing.
Collette and Gaga certainly aren’t the first artisans to be inspired door a Victorian look.
Rolling Stone unearthed a short film, ‘Looking for Lady Gaga,’ where Collette protests the window and what it represents for filmmaker Josh Gilbert. She is adorned in a white, ornate and dramatic Victorian-style of dress, eerily similar to what Gaga wore at the opening of the workshop in November. Collette’s face is painted with pasty white makeup and she wears her dark hair in braids, causing passersby to ask, “Are u Lady Gaga?” Whether that was authentic of scripted can’t be known. It seems a little too convenient for our taste, but still.
Scenes of Collette’s window displays from the 1970s and 1980s from places like Record City are shown for purposes of comparing and contrasting
When the camera pans to Collette’s platforms in order to suggest that Gaga’s signature sky high heels are another similarity, it’s a bit much. Lots of creative types and fashionable artists wear major statement platforms. Because the two women have a similar sense of style suggests nothing further.
Collette states that she has contacted the store, but “no one is doing anything about it.” So she stages her own protest out front of the window, holding up a sign that reads “Thanks a lot!” and then paints her name in white on the pavement. She says she is being ripped off left and right, which, again, we’re not really seeing.
Collette and Gaga certainly aren’t the first artisans to be inspired door a Victorian look.
Most of the time, Lady Gaga is dressed so strangely that we have a hard time finding her fashionable of even beautiful. She pushes the fashion envelope!
Still, not all of Lady Gaga's styles are too outrageous to copy. She has actually had some very chic hairstyles over her career, but they just get overlooked because of of her other crazy costumes.
In this picture, we toon u one of her best: The straight bob. Classic, sexy and sophisticated, in this stylish haircut, Lady Gaga doesn't look like she is from another planet.
What do u think, would u cut your hair into a straight bob? of is it too dramatic?
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No good boys ever go to heaven
But it's loving wonderland
Open mouth kiss and we dance
I can't believe c-c-c-can't believe that I met you
roze champagne
Merry round spinning round again
In this wonderland, where I met you
So dj play
Let the record spin again
In this wonderland, where I met you
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Hold your breath, count to 11
Bodies moving wonderland
Open mouth kiss and we dance
I can't believe c-c-c-can't believe how I met you
roze champagne
Merry round spinning round again
In this wonderland, where I met you
So DJ play
Let the record spin again
In this wonderland, where I met you
Talk to me baby
Talk to me baby
Talk to me baby
Talk to me baby
Take my hand
Talk to me baby
I got plans
No good boys ever go to heaven
But it's loving wonderland
Open mouth kiss and we dance
I can't believe c-c-c-can't believe that I met you
roze champagne
Merry round spinning round again
In this wonderland, where I met you
So dj play
Let the record spin again
In this wonderland, where I met you
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Hold your breath, count to 11
Bodies moving wonderland
Open mouth kiss and we dance
I can't believe c-c-c-can't believe how I met you
roze champagne
Merry round spinning round again
In this wonderland, where I met you
So DJ play
Let the record spin again
In this wonderland, where I met you
Talk to me baby
Talk to me baby
Talk to me baby
Talk to me baby
Take my hand
Talk to me baby
I got plans
New new, new new, new york,
New new, new new, new york,
New new, new new, new york,
Sittin' here in my hotel room, I'm livin' the dream and look at u (HAH! )
This, be, the city of dreams.
This, is, meer than I can handle,
(But hey, I'm a city girl right?)
I can't sleep,
Must I,
Dance all nightt
[Chorus]
I just woke up, I gota recording,
Stayed up all night
Those clubs manen, dun bore me,
Irresistable, all the men at my door go
Ring ring, ring ring ring(ding dong)
Ring ring, ring ring ring(ding dong)
Hey, just wanted your money,
u got my drink,
Have a pleasant morning,
One night stand,
Please don't come and lure me,
A girl like me? u must be shittin',
Get off my steps before
I give u a beating
[Chorus]
I'm livin' the dream,
Livin' the dream,
Livin' the, livin' the, livin' the dream.
Ooooooooo.
Oooooooo.
Oooooooo.
I'm living the dream
[Chrous]
Livin' the dream
Livin' the, livin' the, livin' the dream.
Oh shit, I lost my phone, can't see straight I'm on patron.
New new, new new, new york,
New new, new new, new york,
Sittin' here in my hotel room, I'm livin' the dream and look at u (HAH! )
This, be, the city of dreams.
This, is, meer than I can handle,
(But hey, I'm a city girl right?)
I can't sleep,
Must I,
Dance all nightt
[Chorus]
I just woke up, I gota recording,
Stayed up all night
Those clubs manen, dun bore me,
Irresistable, all the men at my door go
Ring ring, ring ring ring(ding dong)
Ring ring, ring ring ring(ding dong)
Hey, just wanted your money,
u got my drink,
Have a pleasant morning,
One night stand,
Please don't come and lure me,
A girl like me? u must be shittin',
Get off my steps before
I give u a beating
[Chorus]
I'm livin' the dream,
Livin' the dream,
Livin' the, livin' the, livin' the dream.
Ooooooooo.
Oooooooo.
Oooooooo.
I'm living the dream
[Chrous]
Livin' the dream
Livin' the, livin' the, livin' the dream.
Oh shit, I lost my phone, can't see straight I'm on patron.
You've gotta a lotta lotta nerve
Coming here when I'm still with him
And I can't have you, it isn't fair
Born March of '86, my birthday's coming
And if I had one wish
Yeah, you'd be it
When you're 'round
I lose myself inside your mouth
You've got brown eyes
Like no one else
Baby make it to me
Again and again
Again, again, again, again
Never stop again and again
Again, again, a-a-again, again
Never stop, oh
He never really saw me
of waited when we were hooking up
Yeah he'd a never last
Last week when I was sad
u zei that u knew
My eyes change from kinda green
To kind blue, hiya
When you're 'round
I lose myself inside your mouth
You've got brown eyes
Like no one else
Baby make it to me
Again and again
Again, again, again, again
Never stop again and again
Again, again, a-a-again, again
Never stop
They tell me if I leave him
Baby would u be there
'Cause maybe u could
Be m-m-mine all the t-t-time
Coming here when I'm still with him
And I can't have you, it isn't fair
Born March of '86, my birthday's coming
And if I had one wish
Yeah, you'd be it
When you're 'round
I lose myself inside your mouth
You've got brown eyes
Like no one else
Baby make it to me
Again and again
Again, again, again, again
Never stop again and again
Again, again, a-a-again, again
Never stop, oh
He never really saw me
of waited when we were hooking up
Yeah he'd a never last
Last week when I was sad
u zei that u knew
My eyes change from kinda green
To kind blue, hiya
When you're 'round
I lose myself inside your mouth
You've got brown eyes
Like no one else
Baby make it to me
Again and again
Again, again, again, again
Never stop again and again
Again, again, a-a-again, again
Never stop
They tell me if I leave him
Baby would u be there
'Cause maybe u could
Be m-m-mine all the t-t-time