lady gaga being kawaii in japan
 

i am posting this bc i saw a lot of people saying she is being "culturally insensitive" by wearing the outfit she has on (which is lolita + ganguro make-up jsyk) and i would like to know how ahs feels about this :yes

omg she looks like a sunburned potato

:laugh x10. She does look kind of... bad.

I don't think it's insensitive, I just think she's wearing what she wants to wear. She's not known for dressing in low key outfits, right? So she probably saw some Japanese fashion and decided she'd try it out. *shrug*

wow. I think, she is one of Ayu's fan. I hope so :meditate

Culturally insensitive?
I don't think so :/

What is the argument for her being culturally insensitive? Being white and liking Japanese subcultures' styles? :S

What's with her creepy eye make-up? It resembled Ayu's ourselves look.:P Especially when she wore that traditional Japanese dress.

:rofl Especailly when she wore that white dress. Lol, when she took off her glasses I got freaked out O_o

LOL. My friend was like "eek she's so ugly here!"... :roflmao

Culturally insensitive?
Maybe people are saying that because combining Lolita with Manba make up is a thing japanese would never do. And she really looks like she has no clue what she's wearing in this video. :laugh
I wonder if she could explain what she's wearing but I doubt it.
Probably she just saw examples of Lolita and manba/gyaru and decide to wear them herself.

^yeah, but what did the lolitas and manbas do? Read up about it? Should someone have to be able to talk about the history of their style or just wear what they like?

When she took off her glasses, her eyes scared me. O.O

Well, I think that's the point for most people.
Probably Lady Gaga never wears one of this styles again, I'm sure she just wears them because she was in Japan. Lolita and Manba are typical japanese and there is a lot of background why it developed as it has... :shrug
I just wanna explain why I think people call her culturally insensitive.
It's kind of respecting a foreign culture not to wear any style you see because it looks nice.

Lady Gaga is so pretty.
But Ooh, her eye shadow so thick. But she looks cool.

Lady GaGa's fashion is always different to the norm, so I can see why she mixed two different styles. She won't just settle for the standard style. I can see why it can be considered insensitive to some people, but I just see it as her typical self. XD

Doesn't make the makeup any less ugly though. D:

Gross:no

I liked how the Japanese women backed up when Lady GaGa took off her glasses xDD

OMG, she looks like a panda! hehe :D

LOL about the cultural insensitive part! Manba's "Blacking up" is not "culturally insensitive" in the first place by that sort of thinking?

I think she looks great in the video. Her kimono is divine.

I don't think that she's culturally insensitive. I bet she doesn't really know that manba and lolita almost never mix, but even if she did, I doubt she actually trying to be either one of the styles, just experimenting while she is in Japan. As long as she doesn't try to pass it off as "Harajuku" or anything similar, like Gwen, I'm fine with it.

GYAA! panda mamba rori~
she so unique with that outfit + makeup

=_= its look the shopkeepers very surprise after rady gaga took her glasses off..@_@

i agree
i'm a huge fan of gwen stefani <3
she's very stylish yet classy

lady gaga is just......... :no

But, Lady Gaga isn't trying to pass this off as a real style in Japan. Gwen is, and she's wrong. Don't get me wrong, I love Gwen. I went to see her live for my birthday, but it bugs me the way she is trying to show off this Harajuku fashion, when it isn't Harajuku fashion. To me, if you are gonna act like you love it so much, you should at least get a little info on it.

LOL @ The frightened lady when Gaga took off her glasses!

I personally dislike Lady Gaga shes flipping ugly!

I don't she is doing anything but trying some new local style... not wrong with this... jpop fans just should be less defensive about Japan stuff... It's not like she is kicking a japanese sacred thing or talking bad about them, it's just a dress and make-up...

About Gwen... that was not harajuku fashion, that's why her own heird fashion with references of harajuku fashion... and this is pretty common when talking about design...

You don't need to shut up. It's interesting to hear other people's opinions.

I think that if she wanted to "portray them right" she could have hired real girls dressing in Harajuku fashions. I guess what bugs me the most is that she isn't calling a spade a spade, you know? If she wants to say it's Harajuku inspired fashion, that is totally fine, but she makes it seem, to me at least, like she is trying to pass them off as real Harajuku fashion. If I had to give them a Japanese sub-culture, I'd say these girls are B-Kei. And they hang out in a totally different district of Tokyo. Type Harajuku into Google images, and the stuff you get looks nothing like the girls dancing around Gwen.

gwen said once that she got inspired by the japanese fashion and wanted to combine it with western fashion. =o

she described her fashion as harajuku meets christian dior.

i know i do. i used to be such a big no doubt fan back in the day. and i still am! ND was my first big love <3

^As long as she says she's just inspired, than I'm okay with that, I really love her and her music. Although, I must say that this is good thing for Japan, because it does spark interest in the country for more than just Anime, and a lot of Western high-fashion looks start out in Japan.

Although, I do think that Lady Gaga is just as good, and despite that her manba make-up looks horrible, I think she looks really good in lolita. Better than most foreigners.

She looks like a raccoon :laugh


And here's more of her in Japan

:( Why she just can't keep her old style in Japan too.. I mean I bet her fans in Japan would like to see her in her personal style more than using Japanese styles...

LOL. Okay, so if every western person that dresses in a japanese fashion is being culturally insensitive, then there would be a lot of lame otaku from america that would be threw into the melting pot with her.

and, hell, we all might be culturally insensitive if japanese isnt our first language and we are listening to their music. i mean, its a japanese thing right? >w>

LMFAOOOOOOOOO ! That video made my day XDDDD ! When she took off her shades, I threw up XDDDD !

aw I don't see how she's being insensitive.. she's just trying out their outfits right ? x_x

this is pretty much the exact reason why i saw people calling her culturally insensitive.. and then some flaming weeaboos obsessed with lolita fashion said you have to follow rules and they don't want people to think this is what lolita is, ect.

she didn't say what she's wearing is lolita, and it's just clothes.. she looks ridiculous but imo she should be able to wear w/e she wants.

I'll watch the video, thx for posting it.

omg...she looks like a panda/raccoon...XD

Lady Gaga needs to not appear on film in anything but sunglasses that covers up two thirds of her face....honestly, she's great but this appearance was just an embarrassing fail...I wonder how the Japanese feel about her....*points and go OMGOSH ugly american people. thats what they all look like*

Lady Gaga makes me
:puke

actually in the video she's signing autographs and stuff in japan and there are a lot of people around her.. there's people cosplaying as her too lol.

paris hilton is also popular in japan tho.. :shrug

i was wondering why she was wearing sunglasses, but now i know. please put them back on lol sike she looks cute WITHOUT the makeup would be so much better.

Way too much eye make up.

OMG! What happened? She looks like she've been punched by her boyfriend on her eyes for a million times!. LOL! Cute choice of Kimono though. Lady gaga should meet AYU!

Oh man...it's just bad bad bad isn't it...

I mean...I don't really expect anyone to look good when mixing lolita with ganguro or whatever she's mixing...but...uh...damn...

I personally would have preferred her to do hime-kei or something...

It's just a little too much, and she looks awful and sounds like she's ignorant...

but i dont know whatever.

I like it all, but not the makeup xDD

I completely share your opinion. It's silly to say a fashion can only be worn by certain people with certain knowledge and in a certain unchanged way... it's just fashion for gosh sakes... it's art. There shouldn't be rules, no? You can't 'do it wrong'...

I don't think there's ever really been a time where GaGa's looked good. It all sorta seems like varying degrees of "WTF?" But like, WTF? in the sense that she's intentionally being provocative with her fashion, or WTF? as in "did she leave the house/dressing room without looking into a mirror?" I think these outfits are the latter D:

i think she is being culturally insensitive by looking like a burnt potato

You know, exactly this is the reason that it's called a LOLITA DOLLY

I LOVE lolita style, but I also HATE people who use it like this TO DEATH! Then it's like.. the worst style IN THE WORLD! I think I seriously prefer EVERYTHING to this!

I thought she was creepy with the glasses.. oh how wrong I was..

I don´t get all the big fuss about this, people take things way too seriously, no one is going to die from seeing Lady Gaga in Japan xD

In my opinion, when she is wearing the kimono, she looks like a horse xDDDDDDDD

those damn otakus xD

LOL!!!!!!

Gaga's make up (in general) reminds me of Japanese Visual Kei artists to be honest. Her clothes are a hit or miss to me. But besides the intense make up here, she doesn't look that bad as a lolita.

I thought you'd guys enjoy this :laugh

http://i39.tinypic.com/2ym65vs.jpg

ONTD is good for something~

LOL Omg I've been trolling that site for ages (and I hope trolling means reading everything but not joining lol). ONTD is so outrageous! xD;

what ever happened to her?

^
Japan has worse, much worse.

Lady Gaga=Idiot who thinks she looks good
:no

True
:P
Near to some v-kei bands, Lady Gaga still looks like a christian mom

That gif image scares me. o_O

The Japanese lady looks pretty freaked out to me.

the title was a joke.. :shrug

XD lol i love the way that woman backed up :roflmao

though i like her dress...only if she didn't do that makeup XD

hmmm....umm....how should i put this gently....




WHAT THE **** DID YOU DO TO YOUR FACE WOMAN?!??!

i understand we're talking about lady gaga, and therefore she can sometimes go crazy, but SERIOUSLY. that eyeshadow's how thick again? and then the shiny stuff underneath the black eyeshadow? yeah, drawing attention to your panda eyes are NOT helping.

the dress was cute. the skin was eh. the eyeshadow was BLEGH

she looked cuter in the hello kitty outfit. i don't think she's culturally whatever. and what the hell does that mean anyway?? she's being racist? she's trashing the look? (ignore the horrid makeup for one sec here) i think it's probably more that she's culturally aware, noticing the cute outfits that she can't normally find in america.

just my 2 cents. feel free to dissect and torture however you like ^_^

doesn't the make up go with the look though?

Are there "rules" or something to looking as awful as those japanese girls do?

ugh I HATE that fashion with passion.

i think there might be "rules". the girls who were angry that she was wearing the outfit said you should never mix different styles together, like lolita and ganguro.. but i doubt any of them have been near a japanese person let alone been to japan so idk how true it is.

LOL!!! I totally agree with you ... And besides it's just clothes, It's not like you have to follow whatever she wears. I personally dont like what she's wearing,but as long as she likes it... who am I to care.Fashion is just someones opinion on "style" that a lot of people tend to follow.Another addition of rules that only the brave like to break ;)

I was like, "Woah .-." Shes pretty but all orangy and looked like a panda with her glasses xDD And then had a plain colored kimono of white and pink made her look scarier....

emiko: eh, who knows. those crazy japanese people :P

seriously lol

I wouldn't say she's culturally insensitive, she just looks like an idiot.

ICK! I can't believe people actually cosplay her in Japan. :tired

it isn't just japan

http://i42.tinypic.com/4zw1mp.jpg

lol korea

OMG LOL Lady Gaga is really everywhere!

Oh....My....Gosh.... :thud








It's like Gaga version of "Where's Waldo?"

^ Wouldn't be as fun though. You'd be able to find the real GaGa with her fashion sense.

Lol @ the lady gaga in korea pic, there's so many of them. o_O

oh, so THAT'S what she meant when she twittered "i love korea!"

.....that is scary as ******* X______X

Btw the blond (not platinum blond) "Lady Gaga" in that photo looks like a man.