After the horrendous Single Ladies seven-year-olds scandal of a few weeks back – which can never be expunged from our brains – we bring you more news of children being inappropriate.
Today’s scandal is brought to you by someone who isn’t old enough to know poop isn’t a food stuff, and yet they’ve racked up over one million views with their YouTube video. The video in question is from Baby Gaga, better known to those getting a visit from the social as three-year-old baby girl Keira Ladrow. The child was filmed as she sang along to Lady Gaga’s Telephone single. She does very little in her video, except smile at the camera and scrunch her little nose, and yet her video is still causing outrage. Oh, the adorable horror – when will it end?
Keira is the subject of a new debate over whether videos like these are crossing a line – a line that usually involves inch-thick make-up and clothes that mimic those of the original adult singer. This has gotten (fellow) armchair commentators in a right stink: “How dare children sing to innocuous and arguably mediocre pop songs… it’s nonsense like this that’s pushing down house prices and pushing up oil prices and we won’t stand for it!” (to be clear, we’re making up that quote from a faceless critic, but let’s just admit it’s pretty accurate).
From Pop Crunch:
There's an online debate brewing over the web?s newest viral star: Baby Gaga. In just five days, a toddler-driven video spoof of Lady Gaga and Beyonce?s controversial short film has garnered more than 1 million views on YouTube. But child psychologists and some parents fear that the parody ? which features 3-year-old Keira Ladrow in heavy makeup, dancing, while wearing handcuffs ? is just the latest in a string of racy virals vids heating up the web. Nearly 5,000 YouTube subscribers are weighing in on the debate One called the video ?The cutest thing ever.? Another wrote, ?So what? She's in handcuffs, (it) makes it more theatrical.? But many Gaga fans are put off by this latest tribute to one of music?s brightest stars: ?There are no excuses for using a child this young for a parody.?
Here is the video as featured on CBS, that also features the child’s mother and the director, Jake Wilson. Enjoy it, weirdos.
This was a guest post by Amy Grindhouse, who couldn’t be more marvellous.