I like a girl who can summarize her feelings in one line.

Confetti nails really are a good start. Gold glitter shoes don’t hurt though.

If you were a dumbo? Do you plan on sprouting outlandishly large ears and flying around a circus tent?

Thanks for thinking I’m so smart. I now have one more person in the world fooled…bwah ha ha ha!

Good one. 🙂

I’ve never been to any sort of camp-away-from-home as a kid, so I appreciate your take on that whole “come as you are” vibe. Always wondered what it was like.

I also wonder if Ms Gaga is doing just what you said: a little self-protection and deflection. I’ve had the experience of receiving a negative review, and even though the reviewer was way off base on my intention within my work, I did end up feeling a bit publicly flayed. It’s almost protectively easier to let people believe their assumptions–and maybe even play into them–than to protest, lest we protest too much and someone decides to remove yet another layer of the epidermis.

Both Madonna and Lady Gaga are iconic women and work to center their reputations as being wholly different from everyone else, entirely individual and cutting-edge for their time, even as it marches onward. Both women change their images as needed and play to the audience, and I don’t get anything more than a fleeting wink at sincerity from either one. They have both taken their ‘selves’ and turned them into creations, extrapolations of self. Who they really are is of no concern to most people and they seem content to let us believe in who we think they are. Brilliant armor to face the fickle world entertainment world with.

I love a trip down memory lane too (if you can’t tell by my Madonna ensemble description). So happy you like the camp stuff, there will be more, I”m sure since I’m here all summer. So happy to have you as a reader. Thank you, Suzanne!!!