This obsession with Lady Gaga makes me want to gag gag

Artifice, not music, is her chosen art form

If there’s one thing that the Brit Awards showed us, it’s that sisters are doing it for themselves in the music scene. Florence and the Machine won best album for Lungs, Lily Allen picked up the award for British female solo artist, Cheryl Cole gave a performance that everyone saw as a calculated two-fingers up to testosterone.

There in the audience was Krissi Murison, the 27-year-old editor of NME magazine, who has clawed her way up from a lowly internship seven years ago to become, in July, the first female editor of a music magazine — once so uniformly male that one rock critic compared her appointment to the Anglican Church letting in women priests.

And then there was Lady Gaga, who arrived at