My good friend, Dawen, suggests that "ga ga" might be a way to say "elder" in some form of Chinese dialect, and that the song itself is nowhere near a direct translation of Lady Gaga's song, and the song might be some sort of elder people showing of solidarity through song, a common commiseration. Why don't my kids pay attention to me? Poignant?
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Bizarre Gaga video
This video of old folks dancing to Lady Gaga's Bad Romance has gotten a lot of circulation on the interwebs, and has been made fun of a lot. I'll spare you the expected rants about Othering Asians by making fun of them, although I think that is a pervading element of it - by not understanding, it is easier to make fun, and make inferior another racial/ethnic group. Blah blah.
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