(My 200th post!)
Lady Gaga is one of the most successful pop stars ever. She’s accomplished a hell of a lot in a short time. She’s got chart-topping hits and albums, she’s got a whole fashion design workshop churning out some of the most gorgeous, hideous and outrageous fashions imaginable, she has over-the-top, sold-out tours, and she’s inspiring more YouTube fan homages and sing-alongs than perhaps anyone else ever has or ever will. She also helped get the “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy withdrawn by attracting a lot of attention to it. She’s done all of this and more, but it’s nowhere near being her greatest accomplishment!
Lady Gaga is one of the most successful pop stars ever. She’s accomplished a hell of a lot in a short time. She’s got chart-topping hits and albums, she’s got a whole fashion design workshop churning out some of the most gorgeous, hideous and outrageous fashions imaginable, she has over-the-top, sold-out tours, and she’s inspiring more YouTube fan homages and sing-alongs than perhaps anyone else ever has or ever will. She also helped get the “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy withdrawn by attracting a lot of attention to it. She’s done all of this and more, but it’s nowhere near being her greatest accomplishment!
That’s right: her greatest accomplishment is being able to perform her two-hour-long concerts night after night in a collection of various stiletto spike-heeled boots without busting her ass! We’ve all seen it: videos of runway models slipping and tripping and crashing on the runway in fashion shows all the time. It’s amazing it doesn’t happen more often! But they’re just walking in a straight line out and back with all the house lights on. That’s not even that hard. But Lady Gaga, have you seen what she’s wearing on her feet during her concerts? Amazing! She’s got all these 6-inch spike-heeled boots and some other crazy boots that have Lucite connecting the toes and spiked heels into a little upside-down triangle-shaped thingy that leaves her just a little teensy point on the bottom to step on, and what does she do in them? She's running, dancing, skipping, sliding, bouncing, etc., all over the place on a multi-leveled slick and grated surface that’s covered by a layer of solid, impenetrable and undulating smoke-machine fog, while she’s blinded by bright multi-colored spotlights shining directly into her eyes, or else she’s wearing completely opaque-lensed sunglasses and essentially flying blind! And yet she never slips, trips, staggers, falls, or crashes at all! If this is not her most amazing achievement to date, then I don’t know what it is!
And if this doesn’t sound all that amazing to you: then you try it! (I hope you have good medical insurance!)
