Lady Gaga's wild ways have earned her an enemy.
After using prop pistols during her live stage shows and waving around faux firearms with Beyoncé in the video for their hit single "Video Phone," gun safety group the Brady Campaign is taking on the pop star.
"The music was fine, but I wonder why they went out of their way to glorify guns in their production," the campaign's president, Paul Helmke, wrote on its website. "Beyond the sexual stereotype of guns in general, it's hard to understand why they are in the video at all."
But why the sudden interest in the not-so-recently-released music video and its stars?
The twosome, as well as soon-to-be-jailed-on-gun-charges rapper Lil Wayne, are set to take the stage at Sunday's Grammy Awards, and the activists are looking for the broadcast to be held accountable for the message it is allegedly sending.
"I can hear people say, 'Hey, it's just show business,' and that Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Lil Wayne each put on a good show. I understand that," explained Helmke.
"Yet it is difficult to deny the influence that these entertainers have on our popular culture and the young people who absorb it," he continued. "Guns aren't toys, even when they're made with pretty colors or sung about in rap songs, and it is dangerous to treat them that way.
"It is a deadly problem that more of us—including celebrities—should take seriously."
Neither CBS nor a rep for the Grammys has yet responded to the criticism.
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