Girl Pop’s Lady Gaga Makeover

It’s Halloween-costume empowerment, sure, but Lady Gaga’s fingerprints are all over the revised images of Christina Aguilera, Rihanna, Katy Perry and Beyoncé; and on new artists like Kesha, Janelle Monáe and Nicki Minaj.

These performers might not cite Lady Gaga as a direct influence, but the work she’s done since her 2008 debut album, “The Fame,” has nudged loose conventional boundaries.

The space for women in pop to try out new aesthetic identities hasn’t been this vast in some time …

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