In this weeks NME, a magazine I’ve never heard of and I have subscriptions to everything including “Seventeen,” Lady Gaga has a massive chip on her shoulder boner. Every other word is “Fuck” before she crosses a line and calls criticism of her music “retarded.”
You can download your digital copy of NME Magazine on their website, but let me break it down for you:
“In our cover story, ‘Freak or Fraud,’ we take a running jump into the world of Lady Gaga, as we try to find out if she’s the real deal or just another contrived pop attention-seeker, she opens up, spits out abuse, and even bursts into tears…”
Let me tell you something,” she began. “If you fucking rip my hairbow and my wig off my fucking head, my shoes, my bra, every single thing on my body, and you throw me on a piano with a microphone, I will fucking make you cry.” “I feel I have been probed endlessly about who the fuck I am,” Gaga continued. “I have been quite open about it. And still nobody seems to have a clue.” Last month at Google, a fan asked Gaga (real name: Stefani Germanotta), “How do you find time for Stefani?” “I love this question. Who are you looking for? I’m right here,” she answered. “Stefani is also who I am. Gaga is my nickname. It’s like when you’re a kid and your mom calls you ‘Skip.’ I really make no separation between Stefani and Gaga.” Of the infamously divisive lead single from her upcoming third album, she says: “The worst mistake I could have made was not putting out ‘Born This Way’ as the first record. It’s completely balls-to-the-wall, love-it-or-hate-it… Get in or get off the fucking boat. I gained a lot of new fans.” Still, she adds, “I am perpetually unhappy with what I create. Even though I might tell you that ‘Edge of Glory’ is a pop masterpiece, when it’s all said and finished there will be things I dread.”
She compares herself to John Lennon before addressing those pesky Madonna rumors:
NME: A bit of ['Born This Way'] sounds quite a lot like ‘Express Yourself’, though, doesn’t it? The reference seemed so obvious that it had to be intentional because, as you say, you’re not stupid …
Gaga: “No, listen to me. Why the fuck …? I’m a songwriter. I’ve written loads of music. Why would I try and put out a song that and think I’m getting one over on everybody? That’s retarded. What a ridiculous thing to even question about me. I will look you in your eyes and and tell you that I am not dumb enough or moronic enough to think that you are dumb enough or moronic enough not to see that I would have stolen a melody.
To recap: If you think Gaga’s image is contrived or fake, that’s she’s copying Madonna or that she’ll be making an appearance at The Special Olympics anytime soon: “Fuck off.”
As an added bonus: I’m posting her video blog, Gagavision 43, where she discusses the recent leak of her single “Judas” and compares the creative process to “vomiting” which will only feed those eating disorder rumors.
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Honor Your Vomit.
“(Starts crying) I feel like honestly that God sent me those lyrics and that melody. When you feel a message to give to the world and people are shooting arrows through it … there’s no way for something that pure to be wrong. (Reaches for Marilyn Monroe lighter) I need a cigarette.” –Lady Gaga
I couldn’t care less either way about Lady Gaga, but you’ve never heard of NME??? This has got to be a joke that I’m not getting.
Sam, I’m obsessed with Hollywood, so I’m more EW than NME. I still love me some Gaga, though I fear she’s becoming the Sarah Palin of Pop: put on a pedestal one minute, just so we (society, mostly my mother) can knock her down. But I’m dubious of any artist who appears on “Now That’s What I Call Music!” at WalMart.