Has Gaga Backed Herself Into A Conceptual Corner?

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Lady Gaga has been all the rage the last couple years, and probably for good reason: she plays piano, sings well, designs her own clothes and writes her own music. Oh yeah, and she spends copious amounts of time being as weird as she possibly can. But, over the last few months, it’s starting to look like she’s gradually painted herself into a corner. This culminated a few weeks ago at the GRAMMY’s when she showed up in a giant egg carried in by four men and then hatched on stage. This may be the latest episode in the Gaga saga, but the constant one-upping of her strangeness has been going on for a long time now. The question is, where can she go from here?

Let’s face it, Gaga goes out of her way to be different for the sake of being different. Consider the raw meat dress she wore to the VMAs. Supposedly it was a retaliatory symbol against gays being discharged from the military, but wearing a meat dress hardly seems an effective medium for protest. And it doesn’t make any sense. And of course there was her see-through beekeeper costume that she wore to her sister’s high school graduation, and her “Alejandro” video that even Katy Perry called blasphemous. Is she beginning to plateau, though? More recently she has been sporting shoulder and face horns in public and gave birth to evil in her latest video (literally). It may be getting a bit stale at this point, but she did bring home $62 million in 2010, according to Forbes, which makes it tough to criticize her life choices.

Another point of Gaga controversy of late has been over her alleged rip off of Madonna. Idolator has a complete breakdown of the possible similarities, so we’ll let you make the call for yourself. One thing is for certain, however: more and more people are starting to question Lady Gaga and her longevity. Her much anticipated Born This Way will drop in late May through Interscope, so we’ll soon find out if they’re onto something. Let us know what you think in the comment space below!