Actually, the concept of failure seems necessary. Gaga must fail. She must fail, she must go away, hang out with some normal people for a while, switch off her Little Monsters website, tell Terry Richardson to leave her alone for five minutes, listen to something other than the din of late-night post-show European clubs, forget about art, jesters, performance technique, forget fame, expectation, pursuit, success and the notion that time is never on her side. Then maybe, just maybe she will learn to laugh on her own again. And then we'll all laugh in turn. Because Gaga was funny once. She sang about "bluffin'" with her "muffin". And she wore an outfit made of Kermit The Frogs. And she seemed to know that it was all a bit ridiculous.
