Granted, she's unconventional and strange to start with, but her "Born This Way" video looks to have some clear DMT influences. I'm not one to particularly listen to top 40/pop music but my g/f was watching this video.
When I saw it I could only wonder what our society is coming to. Not a bad thing in the sense, but every now and then I see things that have similar DMT themes.

Thoughts?

Lady Gaga Rocks!

I was actually listening to "Dance in the dark" just before I checked this thread

This subject comes up a lot concerning psychedelics in pop culture.

Just don't forget the 60's. Pop culture will always be at the ultimate influence of the psychedelics scene as will any area of creativity, especially when it comes to the visual arts.

odd. sync

i also watched some lady gaga video just before checking this thread earlier

i'd heard of her mentioned in some comments in another video and wanted to see what all this hype was about

i was actually disappointed though..i like the weird and unconventional aspect of it. But the music is not my thing

Wow! I had not seen that video. There were two parts in that intro sequence that actually put butterflies in my stomach, and shot adrenaline through my veins because they were so reminiscent of DMT experiences that I have had.

Any idea who conceptualized / produced that video? I would agree that it looks highly DMT inspired. I have heard that Lady Gaga hangs out with some underground metal bands, so perhaps she pulled some underground talent to develop an otherwise dry pop song (sorry, I had to interject my humble opinion there) into something more dramatic. This does give me new respect for her artistic capacity however! It also rekindles my faith that even pop culture will continue to push against the status quo. I'm sure that video must piss a lot of uptight people off. Good for Gaga! Wait, isn't that what babies say?


Peace,
-idt

I agree with everything in the above statement. Though maybe she googled herself, came across this article and eventually worked her way into a new found enlightenment of consciousness just out of curiosity of what DMT was. I never got the flashback from this video, pertaining to my experiences. My good friend and I got a "flashback" when we heard Shpongle for the 1st time, however.

http://thegatewayonline....res-his-love-dmt-masses

Soulfood,
It's no doubt the psychadelic influences from the 60s and early 70s were everywhere. I think we're reaching another period of change in pop culture in so many ways, but in what direction it's going, I have no clue. I think more and more people are tired of hearing BS. In today's information age, people are becoming more informed (about anything in general) through the internet and are becoming better BS filters. Because of the internet, I went from being a blanket anti-drug nazi to a much more informed person about drugs and why some of them got such a bad rap unnecessarily.

I don't think it was dmt inspired. It looked like old school sci fi effects. And the talk of good and evil and freedom and heaven and is an archetype that has been talked about forever. It's just interesting that dmt hits those buttons.

There is nothing revolutionary about lady gaga. The reason why some people seem to think she is 'different' is that everything she does is as mainstream as it can get; technically her music is undistinguishable from what kylie minoque, madonna and other plastic people have done before. While at the same time she introduces vulgarities to the mainstream public simmilar to those of marillyn manson. But at the end it's only a concept repeated over and over.
She definately has never done DMT.

http://vigilantcitizen.c...-the-illuminati-puppet/

Lady gaga creeps me out. Sorry. 0.0

Plastic people indeed. You want funky shit that pushes the envelope listen to some Zappa. That's some great stuff.

Zappa can be very difficult to listen to, but also very enthralling.

Yeah. I was kinda thinking the same thing as I started watching it, but it just kept hitting so many "buttons" as you state. It wasn't until I read your last sentence above Apoc, that it clicked. Perhaps I'm "filtering and filling" as I like to call it. i.e. making things fit because I want them to because they "hit buttons".


I agree with this. I don't think anyone is claiming Lady Gaga to be revolutionary either, are they? I certainly hope not.
Funny that you mention Marilyn Manson... Several months ago my wife asked me "What's your opinion of Lady Gaga?" My response was something to the effect of "She's basically copying Madonna and taking on an ambiguous multi-personality character like Marilyn Manson, but she doesn't have the talent of either of them. She's recycling and hybridizing former successes."

That being said, I still believe that video could be DMT inspired, but probably not by Lady Gaga. I'm pretty confident she had little to nothing to do with the production of that intro sequence. Pop artists today have very little to do with the production of their own music, let alone their own videos.

Ugh! I just wrote WAY too much about Lady Gaga! Fuck, I hate myself!

Peace,
-idt