To decide what is cool seems very
difficult and a boundary between cool and weird seems very subtle. From the articles,
being different can be considered as cool. However, at the same time, it can be
risky to be different, because those who are different can be also hated.
However, I think this is also related to their ideas or beliefs behind the
surfaces.
For example, a singer Lady Gaga has been
considered both good role model and just weird. Her outfits were often very different
from majority. Someone might say she is cool, because she is different from others.
On the other hand, someone might say she is weird, because she is different
from others. People react what they are not familiar with. Being different can
be cool, but if people are “too different”, they might be discriminated or
segregated. People who are with her way of expression seem to argue over not
how her outfits look nice or good, but what she expresses by outfits. Her
thought or belief captures some people’s mind, and they support her. I think this
seems just like branding. People act for something or someone because of “the
ideas rather than the products”. I think people also tend to praise her courage
that she is not afraid of being different from others, because probably they
know being minority is hard to be in our society.
It is interesting that many icons in
media have perspectives of what we have talked about in class. We might not be
so surprised even if people copy her outfits because of her belief and it
becomes main stream.
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