Two weeks ago at Citi Field, Lady Gaga flipped the bird to a crowd of approximately 41,800 people and one Mr. Met. A bunch of paparazzi noticed and took offense, which is weird because one would think Jack Nicholson and James Gandolfini had already made them acquainted with it. Gaga was originally seated behind the dugout, and was probably giving the finger because of how much attention she was getting. She was reseated in Jerry Seinfeld‘s unoccupied box seat to try and keep a low profile. But once elevated, Gaga continued using one finger more than the other nine.
Seinfeld heard of the ruckus Gaga caused in his seat and WAS. NOT. PLEASED. During a WFAN radio interview this past Monday, he said
“This woman is a jerk. I hate her. I can’t believe they put her in my box, which I paid for.” He continued: “I don’t know what these young people think or how they promote their careers. I’m older. I’m 56. I look at Lady Gaga the way Keith Hernandez watches these kids when they pull the pocket out, they wear the inside-out pocket…Do you think he understands that? He can’t understand that. That’s a new game, that’s kids.”
Citi Field apologized for handing over Seinfeld’s seats to Gaga, but only because Seinfeld is the dog that tears another dog’s ear in half just for sniffing “his” hydrant. Gaga tweeted “A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I’d die for my fans.”
Today, it appears as though the feud might be dying down — Seinfeld’s willing to forget the whole thing if Gaga issues a real apologizes to Mets fans. She can even wear her fishnets.
In a way, Seinfeld’s right: HE’S OLDER THAN ICE! He doesn’t understand how Gaga’s on every magazine cover and winning every music award so early in her career, whereas it took him until 1989 to achieve comparable notoriety for his role on The Seinfeld Chronicles (a.k.a. Seinfeld). Why is he wasting his time bashing Lady Gaga when he could be doing something useful, like coming up with why The Marriage Ref got a second season? Or how about figuring out why people have the urge to take the pressure off their knees? Because that’s what this is about! Gaga took the pressure off her knees where Seinfeld takes the pressure off his knees!
Seinfeld’s doing a great job arguing Gaga is a hateful and self-absorbed pop star. But that’s his schtick: elongating things (this dispute is two weeks old!) that are otherwise insignificant. In addition to all this, we should be aware how Seinfeld’s at the place in his life where he has two choices: the first is to try and keep up with the people, customs and pop culture news around him at the risk of looking like he’s clinging to his youth. The second choice is to reject everything new, which will allow him to keep doing exactly what he likes to do, which is complain about the size of pennies and their “spots” in loafers. And since it’s clear he’s made his choice, as it’s been two weeks and he’s still ranting about how betrayed he feels…it’s just a shame he’s not filming new episodes of Seinfeld because this conflict is straight outta that league.
Source: Celebitchy
