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Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga Maureen Callahan. New York: Hyperion, 2010.
Pulitzer-nominated journalist Maureen Callahan delivers few surprises in Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga, her new biography of skyrocketing twenty-four-year-old pop star Lady Gaga.
The enigmatic New York native, Stefani Germanotta turned fashion freak, hero to gays, and modern-day Madonna literally in mere months, and now answers only to her alias. Lady Gaga is a corporate media creation and cleverly marketed commodity, who has been more than happy to play this capitalist-love game. So much so that when listening to Gaga's own words, one gets the sense she has bought into her own lore.
Like an action-packed trailer for a summer blockbuster, the quotations and blurbs used to promote Poker Face are, by far, the most interesting part of the book, which includes fewer than two hundred pages of text. Gaga...