The Gaga Rapture 'And Dana Stevens Born This Way'

Compare and Contrast Movies and music affect what we do, what we think, and how we view various topics every day. They allow us to see an outside perspective of issues and events we may never think about or think deeply about. Jody Rosen, author of The Gaga Rapture, and Dana Stevens, author of The Help: A feel-good movie that feels kind of icky, both write with many similarities and many differences. Jody Rosen is an experienced writer who is ecstatic about Lady Gaga’s album Born This Way and believes that this album is one for the books. Dana Stevens is an experienced writer who believes that the movie The Help sent a message that was a bit “icky”. Both these authors have a contradicting point on a similar topic of entertainment. Jody gives

Dana evaluated The Help and it does seem that she really cared too much for this movie. Dana states, “ If The Help contained more moments in which Sskeeter’s goodwill wasn’t enough- in which, despite her best intentions, she blundered by unintentionally patronizing one of her interview subjects and had to confront her own received ideas about race- contemporary viewers might recognize a moment we’ve actually lived through, rather than being encouraged to congratulate ourselves on how far we’ve come” (Stevens 777). Essentially Stevens is trying to say that this movie was less unrelatable and more meant to make you feel better about the progress in modern society. Dana believes that this movie need to contain more relatable content that the reader can understand so that they have the ability to put themselves into that position. Instead this movie is essentially just showing us that we used to be bad and now we are better. Although in my opinion The Help was a fantastic movie, I do understand exactly where Dana is coming from and I must say she has changed my entire perspective when it comes to this