Most definitions of power emphasize the ability to influence others, their choices and their actions. Despite great fame and fortune, both manage to guard their privacy. Ranking the famous on that basis would require a very different methodology: we would need to determine which celebrities most influence — or could influence — things such as voting behaviour and attitudes about important social choices. By that criterion, Oprah Winfrey would still rate quite high. Certainly, money and power tend to coincide, but the connection between them is not a one-way street. Money can generate power, but it's also true that power gained through other means can be monetized and produce wealth. [Lady Gaga uses her]music and videos to raise this question and to confound the usual exploitative answers provided by “the media.” Copycats will surely follow, but to say Gaga is an innovator or trailblazer is to give her too much credit. Her elaborate performances and celebrations of outsiders, if anything, prove that she's a pop music history major, tapping into a glam-era cult of personality similar to David Bowie and Marilyn Manson. Having a deep understanding of how a product is made: its materials, its tooling, its purpose. Mostly, he focused on the need to care deeply about the work.
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