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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLady Gaga and R. Kelly Send Up JFK and Marilyn at AMAs
At Sunday nights American Music Awards, pop superstar Lady Gaga once again courted controversy with her performance of Do What U Want, from her recently-released ARTPOP album. Just days after the nation marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Gaga donned a Marilyn Monroe wig for her duet with President R. Kelly, who summons her to the Oval Office for some hot moves atop the Resolute Desk. Although brief homage is also paid to former President Bill Clinton, the JFK theme is unmistakable.
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don't know what's worse, Carrie Underwood mocking Obamacare or Lady Gaga pulling this sh*t the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination
KT2000
(20,583 posts)just the thing young impressionable girls need to hear - "do what you want with my body"
For the younger people, maybe the assassination is just an abstraction. It wasn't their experience.
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(8,155 posts)MinM
(2,650 posts)was right.
eissa
(4,238 posts)I've grown tired of these shows. If the objective is simply to one-up the previous year's most controversial act by doing something "outrageous" to ensure you're in the headlines, then forget it. I'm pretty sure we're eventually going to see a live birth on stage, if not the actual conceivement.