The preformance of Freak

While we discussed good ol' MJ in class, as well Gaga. Here is one of the critical articles I read regarding Gaga's videos:


http://onlywordstoplaywith.blogspot.com/2010/03/lady-gagas-telephone-observations-and.html

It's an interesting read, that's for sure.
Now though, I'd like to explore the preformance of Freak - as well as the average person's prefomance of normality.

Now Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga are extreme examples, and they carry the argument of Freak quite far. MJ looked like a strange creature - a white woman with a bad nose job. However, his calcualted actions and the ways in which he appealed to the entertainment industry via his oddities is at once magnetic and repulsive.

All people preform though. We change the ways in which we talk, walk, and interact with others based on our situation - and thus we preform normality.
What is normal with our grandparents is not quite normal with our friends or significant others. What we talk about to our professors is not the same things we would discuss with a barista at a coffee shop.
We all preform - it's part of our nature.

What is interesting, what is the most intriguing - is that these two preformers chose to act opposite to how we would act - and that makes them freaks.