Camille Paglia has blasted Lady GaGa for her provocative image and insisted that she "isn't sexy at all".
In an article for The Sunday Times, the social critic and author said that GaGa's "artificial" nature makes her difficult to like or relate to.
"Despite showing acres of pallid flesh in the fetish-bondage garb of urban prostitution, GaGa isn’t sexy at all – she’s like a gangly marionette or plasticised android," she wrote.
"How could a figure so calculated and artificial, so clinical and strangely antiseptic, so stripped of genuine eroticism have become the icon of her generation? Can it be that GaGa represents the exhausted end of the sexual revolution? In GaGa’s manic miming of persona after persona, over-conceptualised and claustrophobic, we may have reached the limit of an era."
She also criticised GaGa's famous relationship with her fans, to whom she refers as her 'little monsters'.
"She constantly touts her symbiotic bond with her fans, the 'little monsters', who she inspires to 'love themselves' as if they are damaged goods in need of her therapeutic repair. 'You’re a superstar, no matter who you are!' She earnestly tells them from the stage, while their cash ends up in her pockets," Paglia ranted.
"She told a magazine with messianic fervour, 'I love my fans more than any artist who has ever lived'. She claims to have changed the lives of the disabled, thrilled by her jewelled parody crutches in the 'Paparazzi' video."
It was recently reported that GaGa receives messages from the late artist Andy Warhol in her dreams.
