Lady Gaga and the Bolshoi Ballet: If The Who can do Ballet then why not?

From BlackBook:

Last night, Her Highness of Unexpected Pop Conquest unveiled “Speechless” off The Fame Monster, while dancers from the Bolshoi Ballet pliéd along. The whole to-do celebrated the 30th anniversary of L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
In addition to being joined by the Bolshoi Ballet, Gaga was also joined by artist Francesco Vezzoli, who masterminded the unlikely pairing.

Looking back over the years we’ve seen worse ideas.  Strange bedfellows have been around for decades. Some have proved successful as was the case with the great progressive rock groups of the sixties and seventies ranging from Jethro Tull’s Thick as a Brick to the Moody Blues’ orchestrated Threshold of a Dream that  gave us the classic  Nights in White Satin. However things started going overboard when big bucks were at stake. Take the late Rick Wakeman for example. He started out as the organist for Yes, then left the group for a solo career and  recorded the  Six Wives of Henry the Eighth and Journey to the Center of the Earth. But what does one say about his rendition of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table On Ice? I kid you not, I was actually present at one of the concerts performed in Wembley Stadium and still bear the scars. Want more proof look here.

If you are the forgiving type, then what do you say to Tommy -  the Ballet? Luckily the ballet, performed by a Canadian company called Les Grands Ballets Canadien, was short lived and is long since forgotten, though of course the prove still exists on Youtube.

If we can accept a Reggae Pink Floyd cover called the Dub Side of the Moon why shouldn’t  fusion be the way to go. I hear rumor that Britney is to star as Mimi in an upcoming movie update of Puccini’s La Boheme (who says I can’t start a rumor?)