I M Who I M: The Diary of a Participant in Pop Culture

"I am obssesively opposed to the typical";Lady Gaga 

My theory on pop culture?? There are two kinds of people: people who love pop culture, because everybody else loves it (hence the term pop: short for popular)and the people who hate pop culture because everybody else likes it. My problem? I don't really fit into either of my own categories. See...I am very much an individual and strive to like whatever I like despite pop culture...but if I'm being honest with myself...I am absolutely obsessed with both Lady Gaga and Ke$ha. Sure...I also love to read classical Brit Lit, and am obsessed with the Beatles and Brand New. But if you like pop music, you like pop music. It doesn't make you a "conformist". In fact, sometimes not conforming just to not conform, is actually just conforming to the nonconformist movement. ha. For me...I'm going to like what I like...and if everyone else likes it, I suppose I have good taste then. So what if Ke$ha can't sing? I understand there are plenty of talented [and not so talented] people out there. And that somebody else rights her music and edits her sound...blah blah. But to be honest, when I'm having a dance party in my dorm room- I don't really care if "We R Who We R" is autotuned and lyrically on a kindergarden level. And as for Lady Gaga haters...Lady Gaga just so happens to be abundantly talented. Whether she uses that talent while sporting meat dresses and confusing the names of her multiple...italian?...lovers...I cannot say for sure. However, all you unbelievers, Lady Gaga just so happened to be accepted as one of 20 students to her incoming class of Tisch School of the Arts at NYU...only one of the most selective performing art schools in the country, where a struggling theatric like myself can only dream of attending. To further prove my point, any lingering skeptics can feel free to watch one of her acoustics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3R3KqrJAI4. 

So moral of the story? Pop music is called pop for a reason, rap sucks, but I do confess that I take guilty pleasure in both Lady Gaga and Ke$ha, despite my musical background.