Yesterday
we were streaming a tv show and a Lady Gaga advertisement came up. Now I don’t
know much about Lady Gaga other than her meat dress, which was really gross and
mortally offended all my veggie friends. I mean seriously—wearing meat? No
wonder no one wanted to sit next to her. Anyway, this isn’t about her clothing.
She had some kind of Tweet going about all her little monsters and she was Mama
monster, etc. It was a Gaga celebration of life thing, but it got me thinking
about monsters, especially since the show we were streaming was Grimm.
One
of the things I like about Grimm is
that the monsters are really monster-y. Monsters should be scary. That’s kind
of the point. In Grimm, even the
beautiful women who turn out to be monsters are hideous looking—the pretty
blonde is an uber-creepy hexabeast. Have you ever noticed that many times gorgeous
men/women become attractive monsters? A kind of that Disney Beauty and the Beast approach. The beast
isn’t ugly; his only negative features are his animal ears (which are cute in a
puppyish way) and long fingernails. His grotesquery is something that a good
shave, mani/pedi, and, okay, a nose/snout plastic surgery session could cure.
Maybe
handsome/beautiful monsters are supposed to appeal to the rebel in us, who
wants to fall in love with the bad boy/bad girl monster. (The bad boy never
appealed to me, I’m too much of a realist—can you see a bad boy rocking a
puking baby at 2am?) At any rate, the handsome bad boy could be a marketing
thing, or maybe it’s a vanity thing and the actor/actress said, “I’m not going
on stage looking like that.” In any case, I prefer my monsters scary. What
about you?
