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http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/13613-keep-it-goin-louder-ft-nina-sky-and-ricky-blaze/

Tony Ousler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aqIk_ynVak

The art world might like to make fashion as art but that doesn’t make it so. Making work about fashion is hard because people just see fashion. Mathew Barney has the look and feel of fashion (and is thus familiar in a sense) but is “edgier” - instead of oiled or painted bodies we get latex faces, rotting horse flesh, blood and anal seepage. Instead of Euro dance music we get hardcore bands from Connecticut.

But there does seem to be a trend to make Barneyesque work - that is, fashion tries to have meaning - where Barney was picked up too young (and started relatively late) to have created a cosmology, created one on the fly under well funded fire. The fashion world co-opts cosmologies - throwaway paper dresses without ideological or deep idiosyncratic
But the superficial similarities are what fashion is all about - and that’s kind of interesting.

Lady Gaga, apparently, is a gay icon (like madonna) which hardly makes here original, but no one says that about vaudeville or football. It is what it is. You can do it well and add something along he way.

I mean really, art is a kind of sport to most people who play in public.

What I mean to say is, there is a lot of repetition in the art world as well as the fashion world - i see it more as a matter of timing and nuance (individual style) than a question of originality - something that seems to worry people here concerned with dates - the linear progress of art has been pretty well discredited except in the market place where Regina Hacket already wrote this article (this angle as they say) for money (before she was layed off).

heres a list of tropes off the top:

Decorated guns/guns made out of stuff
Found objects used in multiple to create larger structures (pipe cleaners, cigarettes, coins, straws, cups, wood squares)
People dancing in unison or performing some ritual (may pole, digging a hole, moshing, square dancing, running down the street)
large heads as floor sculpture

So become a tranny, learn to sing, if only badly, be a dj, and make soem art. Your fame awaits!

You can call a mistake in labeling careless, but it negates the act of finding and taking the screenshots, both of which took a bit of time. And if no earlier precedent than Longo’s Men in the Cities is offered up in a criticism about influences, than the comment is meaningless. Thus far, critics of this post have offered none.

The point of these forums is not to prove that what’s been written is fallible, but to add to the knowledge base that’s already there. Comments that serve no other purpose that to demoralize the writers of this blog will no longer be published. There’s been far too much of that on this blog as of late, and it’s stopping as of now.

Sorry, I don’t mean to nit-pick. These simple dating accuracies cannot just be held to high art or trendy art, and then carelessly applied to a pop music video — particularly when you are comparing the two.

I’m afraid that your flippant labeling reveals a certain ‘rush to judgment’ on your part, and I’m not convinced that these art references that you suggest “influence” current pop imagery can be said to represent an origin either. However, I appreciate your writing on the matter, if for no other reason than that it highlights “similarities” as opposed to naive riffings of high art. I too thought of Matthew Barney when I watched the “Bad Romance” video for the first time…