The Rev Gaga, Transubtantiatrix?

At age 11, she was set to join Juilliard School in Manhattan,^[8] but instead attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private Roman Catholic school.^[9]...At age 17, she gained early admission to the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. There, she studied music and improved her songwriting skills by composing essays and analytical papers focusing on topics such as art, religion and socio-political order.^[10][1

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I knew nothing about the subject of the above Wikipedia article until recently; hadn't even heard of her, the one who says she is "so blessed, I thank God every day.." (see video interview below), one Lady Gaga (Who did you think the bio was about, having read the above excerpt?)

Well, like her stuff or not (not my cup of tea, but kind of like watching the Gaithers on crack, which eventually be the point here) she is now (for a year or so in the sun) a pop culture icon, and an image to be wrestled with. She may come off as a Madonna Domiatrix-era wanna-be, but something else is also afoot. And since God has in some sense allowed her platform, what would be her redemptive gift? What is her method/message? Some of her theatrics remind of early Alice Cooper, and you know what a brilliant and prophetic Kingdom person he was and became (no, I'm not kidding, read up on him). I even get the sense she may be trying to (or eventually be called to) subvert simulacra (and or/subvert such subversion...Mind you, this is no ZOO TV, but it is TV)or, in the phrase coined for a classic article about Andy Warhol, transubstantiate the culture (a little trick she may have learned in the convent).

Funny, when i first saw the title of the interview below, I thought, "No way! She was on TEDS?
Then I realized the other TEDs was The Ellen DeGeneres Show. But could it be that she'll eventually be the first one to speak on both. A stretch? Sure..but she is a cultural thermometer, and maybe even thermostat. Funkier things have happened in church and culture.






Bonus: David Sessions is even Christian enough to admit liking Taylor Swift