Indonesia, Lady Gaga and the FPI's street theatrics...

To this old rock and roller, Lady Gaga is so much rehashed packaging — decent looks, music I can’t distinguish from most current pop and a veneer of outrageousness that sells records and concert tickets and leads legions of people to identify themselves as her “Little Monsters.”

Fair enough. Madonna did it, Michael Jackson did it and now Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, 26, from New York City, does it as Lady Gaga. That’s show business. But the current flap over her June 3 concert in Indonesia, which apparently won’t happen because the National Police caved in to the even greater outrageousness of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), exposes deep problems in the country.

Lady Gaga may be the current queen of the pop music world but the FPI acts as king of an entire country simply on the basis of threats and bluster. It makes me think Lady Gaga and the FPI have something in common — they are both masters of grand theater. Full story...

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