Chances that the television company paid any royalty at all on using her song?  Zero.  This is a lot of fun.  Would any other culture have old people willing to climb up into that rickety thing?

I watched more of this than I have watched of any actual Lady Gaga videos.

I was reading last night an essay on Algernon Charles Swinburne by G.K.Chesterton.  Yes, him again.  I don’t agree with everything he writes, there are one or two things on which I categorically disagree with him.
 
However, the following extract seems to fit Lady Gaga to a T.

Now much of the wilder part of Poems and Ballads is not meant to describe merely a rush towards the antics of animal love, but a reaction from the tragedy of true love. The poet, in a morbid mood of mockery, is bitterly professing (we might say pretending) to prefer the gutter to the palaces of ideal enchantment, from which he has been cast forth by fickleness or pride. It is not a nice state of mind. It is a very nasty state of mind; but it is that state of mind and no other, and not the state of one who always preferred gutters because he was a gutter-snipe.

And this bit of the poem cited does seem to fit the presence that Lady G. projects in her stage persona and the words of her songs:

Of languors rekindled and rallied,
Of barren delights and unclean;
Things monstrous and fruitless; a pallid
And poisonous queen.