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Lady Gaga Hit With Class Action Racketeering Suit

It appears that plummeting record sales aren't Lady Gaga's only concerns this week.

The pop star was hit yesterday with a class action lawsuit which alleges she and her affiliates may have violated racketeering laws in promoting Japan Earthquake Relief wristbands according to a press release by the law firm which filed the case in a Michigan federal court.

The lawsuit alleges that Lady Gaga promised "all proceeds go directly to Japan relief efforts" but an undisclosed portion of the $5 charged for each wristband is retained, and the portion of the $3.99 shipping charges in excess of actual shipping costs is retained.

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Court Rules Lap Dances Are No Art Form

A five-member panel of a New York appellate court has ruled in a unanimous opinion that exotic dances at strip clubs do not qualify as "dramatic or musical arts performances," and accordingly the receipts for their performance are subject to the state sales tax as reported by Carol DeMare for the Times Union.

Heck, if ugly strippers gyrating to awful music aren't considered meaningful artists, how are we to characterize Lady Gaga?

Mexican State Bans Narco Corridos

The Mexican state of Chihuahua has banned from airplay narco corridos or "drug ballads" which glamorize the drug cartels as reported by Marisela Ortega Lozano for the El Paso Times:  "It is still unclear how the new legislation will be enforced."

The drug ballads are popular in America too as reported by Time magazine in "The Rise of Narco Culture":

Meanwhile, yesterday at a press conference in Mexico City Lady Gaga came out against what she characterized as "unjust immigration laws" in the United States, and declared her "strong relationship to Mexican culture" as reported by The Associated Press.

The Lady Gaga Fad Is Over

All bad things must come to an end, and it appears that Lady Gaga's 15 minutes of fame may be over.

There's rumblings that her latest offering "Born This Way" sounds an awful lot like Madonna's "Express Yourself."  The self-righteous poseur calls critics "retarded" which is about as ugly as the "n" word.  Her self-anointing as the "queen of gay culture" offends most gays and lesbians who don't consider themselves as freaks.  Plus she just stinks.

Lady Gaga may have won the grubby dollars of pudgy tween girls -- her so-called "little monsters" -- but the rest of us understood the disco shtick as little more than a fad that would pass much like Vanilla Ice.

Lady Gaga Is Now Lady Caca

Last Friday the iconic Charo said in a tv interview that "Lady Gaga like Madonna with diarrhea":

"The voice is gifted because she is so powerful with the voice...but why does she have to remind people of Madonna? Why don't she go her own self? I never copy nobody," Charo said in her choppy English.

What's worse:  accused of being sh*t or accused of being derivative?  Of course, Lady Caca is crapping all the way to the bank.