Earlier this month, the reigning queen of pop music crossed one threshold and appeared headed over another. Her feats were noted on Wired.com with this snarky headline: "Sign of the Apocalypse: Lady Gaga heads for 10 million Facebook fans."That 10 million mark, Wired reported, has been crossed only twice: by the late Michael Jackson (14 million) and by the online game "Texas Hold ’Em Poker" (20 million). So Gaga would be the first living person to crack 10 million. And, by the way, the living person she passed on her way to social-networking history was President Barack Obama (9.4 million).
The writers at Wired aren’t the only ones dubious about her profuse popularity and what it signifies. If Gaga is second to anyone at anything in our pop culture, it is only to Sarah Palin in the "why are you famous?" department. When I told a friend I was writing about her, he texted back: "Can the headline be, ‘The face of what’s wrong with the music industry/America?’ "
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