Lady Gaga has a negative impact on not only the music Industry, but on the music community itself

Music only? First off, my opponents title for this debate contradicts what he is saying. It is entitled, "LADY GAGA has a negative impact..." so therefore making a reference to LADY GAGA and not Lady Gaga's music. As he says the actions she does outside of her music writing do not change her message in the song, well, of course it doesn't, but that would be true only if one had the right interpretation of the song. Her intention is NOT to harm the lives of others or to influence others to ruin their lives with drugs, alcohol, and potential STD's. The way that she writes her music is affected by her life experience and she has had sex before, quite obviously she enjoyed it and so it influences her music. She also, being a bisexual, had to discover her sexuality and so it became a significant part of her life. She HAD a cocaine addiction but early after debuting, quite the drug. (http://anythinghollywood.com...) Lastly, she enjoys an occasional drink but however is not a heavy drinker, and actually, the fact that she became uncomfortable in the club scene inspired her song "So Happy I Could Die" Her music is her way of expressing herself and so falls under the constitutional right to people's freedom of speech. So Gaga has the lawful right to be writing what she does. Obviously, it is well appreciated as she is a very well selling artist and all of her singles became number ones, making a new record on the charts. She is also the first artist in 30 years (since Michael Jackson) to have five number one hits on a debut album. Her music is well known and widely listened to so I ask, if it had such a drastically negative affect on the human population as my opponent so boldly states, on his theory, wouldn't someone have gotten to the media by now? Shouldn't there be some sort of lawsuit? A court case maybe? The fact is there isn't but what there is a record of are plenty of notable charities that she ran leaving her with a rather positive affect instead of the negative one my opponent seeks to prove. The purpose of Bad Romance was to have a song about falling in love with your best friend knowing that the relationship wouldn't work. All people have bad relationships, the purpose was to make a song out of one. Lady Gaga as a person has the right to be able to dress as she wishes, and as her outfits might show her stomach or legs, they are things that would be allowed in some public places. It'd be like going to the beach. Lady Gaga writes music so that people can relate her songs to things in their lives, if it just so happens to be memories of an extreme drug addiction and wild nights of partying and unprotected sex that people find in her music, so be it. She isn't looking to TELL people to do these things at all. Her music, compared to mounds of other pop songs, is actually quite mild. Lady Gaga doesn't look to conform to the boundaries society places on people, and as my opponent stated, "She should know not go go there" on the topic of suicides, one of her goals in her music is to make us reconsider what we think is "taboo" and to make people have more open minds. She fought with Virgin Mobile to get homeless children off the streets and against domestic violence. She definitely does not support it. My point in listing other artists was to state that there are many other artists that are much more explicit than she is in her lyrics and others that should be focused on over her. It's like the common belief that Germany and Japan were the most affected countries in WWII while China and Russia lost the most civilians and soldiers. There are so many other artists who are much more explicit than her and so you can't blame her for destroying society. Lady Gaga has the right to live her life as she pleases. She has the right to write what she pleases. If people disagree with her, than they have the right to not listen to her music and keep their children from it. There is no proof that after listening to Just Dance that children run out and get drunk and have sex, while plenty of charitable and awareness programs done by Gaga herself to keep just that from happening. The music is up to the listeners interpretation and if they don't like it, they don't have to listen to it. Her music lyrics are not meant to make people make bad choices, and she influences the world in a good way through her charities.