Lady Gaga has written some mildly catchy pop songs and made a few interesting looking videos, but her most notable achievement is a display of single-minded lust for pop stardom the likes of which has not been seen since Madonna’s career took off back in the Eisenhower Administration. And, like the Material Girl, at times she takes herself a wee bit too seriously. Consider, for instance, her desire for a one-woman exhibition at the Louvre. This might be dismissed as a bit of off-the-top-of-her-head pop star idiocy, had she not made the same claim last year:

I want to have an exhibition at the Louvre with all my fashions and technology…But not as a Madonna-through-the-years-type fashion exhibit. I would want it to be like art pieces with explanations and inspirational references in modern block.”

The chief stumbling block to this cunning plan is the Louvre’s collection policy, which is limited to works created before 1848 (scroll to the bottom of the page). So: either Lady G. is planning to project herself back into Napoleonic France( where she would probably have had what’s known as une vie brève mais intense), or she’s planning to push the rest of us into some alternative reality where she’s been dead for at least a century. Then again, she might just be completely full of hooey. Of course, GaGa might yet score an exhibit at the Centre Pompidou. The French, let us not forget, also thought highly of Jerry Lewis.