For a singer who first found fame synthesizing elements from Latin and American forms, the fusion was as natural as it was welcome.
Conscious as she was of the vagaries of fame and the element of chance in any fortune, she would have viewed that with a certain irony, but she would also have found it deeply pleasing.
But of course, that normality must now include an element of fame.
The audience filtering in to Lady Gaga's celebrity-worshipping hit song Paparrazi from her 2008 debut album, THE FAME, is the Third element in the conversion, thereby completing the picture.
Kulash was keenly interested, especially since OK Go's unique, one-take music videos have gained fame for incorporating engineering elements.
You wonder whether her surgeries, these strange creative heart-to-hearts with the rich and fragile, are her own kind of therapy; a way of constantly facing the worst elements of fame and, in teasing them out of other people, mastering them somehow.
They were desperate to find a good script, and yet when they found it they took it over and fed into it what they thought were important elements like the fame of the actors".He worked for years on the 1991 film American Friends which, he says ruefully, "was probably seen by about three people on the planet".
The former is well summarized in the latest collection by none other than the man himself -- "You can remove words that are unnecessary and tighten your prose," he writes, a sentiment that Strunk and White of The Elements of Style fame would wholeheartedly endorse.
(Bert the Turtle, of "Duck and Cover" fame, might feel out of his element there, but he'd feel at home filling the screen at 16 Across).
(A persistent coolness to Johns overseas points up the nationalist element in his initial fame as a herald of American culture in its moment of global triumph).
