The [temporary] power of gaga….

Lady Gaga is hot now, with huge following, and an idol to many youths because of her messages….

So was Elvis Presley for his fans, Marilyn Monroe for her fans, Michael Jackson for his fans, Madonna for hers….

Do notice the short life of several influential entertainment idols…..short and impactful entrance, and great following, and then gone just as quickly…[Madonna is still around, I know]

Contrast that with:

• Florence Nightingale died at 90
• Thomas Edison, at 84
• Mother Theresa at 87
• Thomas Edison at 84
• Einstein at 76
• Andrew Carnegie at 84

Another blazing star is around the corner waiting to replace the memory of gaga…So what legacy would gaga leave? We know what Mother Theresa and Florence Nightingale left behind.

But for now, we cannot deny the power of gaga’s influence on today’s youth. Self expression or rebellion are nothing unique to today’s youth, every generation had its own version. The question is who were the role models then and now. What values were promoted back then compared to now.

Many credit gaga for the notion that love and acceptance, compassion etc will preserve freedom. Yet many had been preaching this long before gaga. Jesus himself said this 2000 years ago and demonstrated with His own life and yet wars, family breakdown, children abuse and murder their parents / vice versa….continue.

Gaga’s existence and her antics are not a surprise to God…..the question is ‘what are the youths attracted to?’ Her singing talent? her looks? her body? her foul mouth? her messages? Or simply her audacity to challenge the existing? I don’t think the fans consciously think about it….the power of the masses has a mind of its own.

I saw a video of gaga’s message at the concert she gave in Singapore. A10-15 minutes speech had so many ‘f’ word that i lost count, she regaled every moment of it. The headiness of the power she commanded in that performance hall, which she obviously enjoyed, gave her even more oomph to challenge the young people to be rebellious. She talked like she is god. Actually it is not gaga who is scary but the audience’s revelry that is scary….

So it is said in the last days “..people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power..”