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

Obviously, you misread portions of my argument and so have some misconceptions on what I was trying to say. Firstly, I stated that the personal image of Lady Gaga puts out good messages in the world and shows her true colors rather than the ones you think you see through her music videos. The Lady herself is running a campaign against the AIDS virus by selling lipstick. The purpose is to give the lipstick as a gift to a mother or a daughter (or a lipstick-wearing friend of any sort) and it will be a reminder to them as they put it on before they go out for a date to be sure to have their partner to "wrap it up" in an attempt to stop the spread of the AIDS virus. How could this woman be the same one who supposedly encourages children to have "mindless sex"? Additionally, she worked to fight domestic violence by donating money to charities, donated an entire show's revenue to Haiti relief, sold merchandise for Haiti, and speaks out against hateful actions in the music industry. Again, how is this the same woman who supposedly "kills boyfriends and what-not" while she fights with a passion against suffering in the world? The point is, it most certainly ISN'T and my opponent here has mistakenly assumed these things by only taking a very shallow look at her lyrics. Therefore, hating a woman who fights with a passion to expel violence and hatred from the world and rid the world of a virus that kills countless numbers of people. Since the shallow and judgmental view of my opponent threw the image of Gaga's "Paparazzi" video very far out of the truth, why don't we re-evaluate the video: Firstly, the first several minutes were skipped. They showed a boyfriend kissing Gaga on a railing for a camera, trying to gain publicity. Gaga became upset from being forced into it and held down by the boyfriend and so smashed a whine bottle over the pigs perverted head, leaving herself to be thrown off of a balcony to the clutches of the paparazzi below her. If you listen closely, you'll notice that there are stabbing noises incorporated into the camera clicks and a person saying "Beautiful! Beautiful!". The purpose was a reference to the Princess Diana incident and illustrated the paparazzi stabbing Gaga in order to take more violent pictures for a good story and better headlines. The sexuality in the video brings a reference to the shallower meaning of the song; chasing a boy until he loves her. But, those lyrics "Baby you'll be famous, chase you down until you love me" are also a reference to Princess Diana where the paparazzi followed her car until it crashed and left her dead, which is why Lady Gaga poisons her boyfriend in the end and why all the murder scenes (especially the suicides) were portrayed because Gaga's point was that "Fame kills" and also whether someone has to chose between fame and love. This was not to encourage children to harm themselves or others or to have raunchy gatherings on a couch, rather, to artistically portray a pop culture event that inspired Gaga. My point in saying that the sexuality and drug references in songs were widely used was that you can't debate solely on Lady Gaga in that issue since there are swarms of other artists who have the exact same shallowly noted theme in their lyrics. If these lyrics are so damaging to people, then you might want to tackle artists like Jeffree Star, Ke$ha, and Flo Rida because they are all much much more explicit in their lyrics and have a much shallower and sexual message and so therefore, would potentially be exponentially much more damaging to people than Lady Gaga. You don't have a good point in debating Gaga on this issue while there are others who make so many more references to sex, drugs, alcohol and prostitution than her. She is very very far from explicit in the pop industry. Jeffree Star's "Lollipop Luxary", Kesha's "Take It Off" and "Tik Tok" and Flo Rida's "Sugar" are all strong examples of this and not even one of Gaga's songs even compare to the references made in these songs. I also said that a child is NOT going to take in the lyrics and make lifestyle choices out of them. Their parents have a much stronger influence over them than music lyrics, and most people don't even listen to what the lyrics are saying either, they just enjoy the beat or the sound of the song. Besides, there are countless other songs that would be much more badly influential than Lady Gaga's music. Why should she be reprimanded for saying she wants your "Bad Romance" while Jeffree Star screams "F**k me!" ever single verse? While there may be recurring trends to the lyrics of her songs, all of them have deeper meanings. Again, there also is that same recurring trend in mostly EVERY SINGLE POP SONG IN EXISTENCE. And, these "trends" are incredibly more explicit than Gaga's music. Additionally, Gaga's audience is not necessarily children, she writes to an older and more understanding crowd, most of which also are sexually active and drink. Children would not understand these parts of life and if Gaga's music led them to binging and orgies, that would mean that there is an incredibly absent parent and there should be some action from social services. I would not argue the same point for other artists however, because they are much more explicit in their lyrics as I have to state yet again to dispel your ignorance to the rest of the music industry. Lady Gaga has been out in the music world for 2 years now, and if someone were to be influenced by it, they would most likely have done something bizarre and crazy by now. I challenge you to find one single legitimate criminal case were a child became involved in something due to Lady Gaga's music to prove that she actually is a problem and that you might have a scrap of an argument in this debate.