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crisTEAne
2 hours ago, Cerny said:

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can you please PM me the whole article? i really want to read it.

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11 minutes ago, T E Anne said:

can you please PM me the whole article? i really want to read it.

It says that you can't receive messages. :duck:

Maybe your inbox is full, try deleting some messages.

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crisTEAne
1 minute ago, Cerny said:

It says that you can't receive messages. :duck:

Maybe your inbox is full, try deleting some messages.

i deleted some. can you please try sending it again? :nick: 

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I loved this interview, got a bit emotional too. 

I hope everyone read it through and note that she isn't "shading" her past at all. She's doing something new and putting the emphasis on her music for once, and I think that Joanne will be an important album for her. 

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Won't be sending PM's, I realized that it's no fair, the guy who interviewed her and wrote this piece worked hard for it. you just need to register and log in with an email to see the whole thing, it's free. Sorry.

Also, I feel like I'm doing some illegal thing.

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״The first time I was in the same room as Lady Gaga, she was dressed as a sofa״

 

I can't breathe omg :sharon:

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58 minutes ago, Dolce Vita said:

I loved this interview, got a bit emotional too. 

I hope everyone read it through and note that she isn't "shading" her past at all. She's doing something new and putting the emphasis on her music for once, and I think that Joanne will be an important album for her. 

ikr. wonderful read. :flutter: 

idk if it's against the rules or counts as posting parts of copyrighted material, but i must draw your attention to the following segments: 

Joanne, an artist, died at 19; Gaga dropped out of college to become an artist at 19.

Outside, her fans — known as Little Monsters — huddle from the pouring rain under scaffolding, wearing sodden shoes. They are the most devoted around, but are in for a surprise.

If you don’t fit a mould, there’s more to pick at

None of this is what anybody expects, so they react. Just wait until they hear Joanne.

Isn’t this the point? Gaga is the last big misfit, and her eyes water again at a mention of David Bowie. 

“I was always moved by his ability to be comforted by his absurdity.” It’s a bold stance for a woman who once turned up on German television dressed in Kermit the Frogs, but it makes sense and is appealing in an industry full of Sam Smiths. :derpga: 

“It’s why I’ve been so defiant about people commenting on my performances, as that was always the point,” she says. “The point was to bemuse. But then you go to the rest of Bowie, and you see he was even more brilliant as a musician than as someone we remember for his fantastic magical presence.”

Everything Gaga does tries to mean more than first appears. She has talked of being inspired by Andy Warhol, but she’s really more MC Escher. You glaze over at the image, as it looks as if it is just showing off — but when you take it in, you twig that the artist has unexpected depth. She has always stood for tolerance, even speaking against her Catholic roots, yet lives in a world that’s far less tolerant than when she set out. The opening line on the gorgeous, melancholy album closer, Angel Down, is “I confess I am lost”, before the song asks: “Where are our leaders?” :giveup: The whole point of Born This Way was its call for acceptance :unicorn: so, as a sworn Hillary Clinton supporter, in an election close to choosing the other guy, is she defeated or, at least, discouraged?

“No, I wouldn’t say I’m discouraged,” she says. “I would just say I’m older and in a strong state of reality, trying, with statements about positivity and love, to speak in a way that is not too naive, perhaps, in a way where people who live in this world can relate to what I’m saying, as opposed to feeling it’s la-di-da... It’s about using words and allowing the pain I feel to exist on the record, and not to hide it with anything. I’ll say that. My mother cried when I started recording [this]. I asked ‘What’s wrong?’, and she said, ‘There’s so much pain in your voice now. :ohno:’”

We hug at the end, and she is tiny. Someone who carried the world on her shoulders for a while, but now feels them sag. :(  (That final song also includes the line, “Angel down, why do people just stand around?”) For an artist aware of a rise in anti-liberalism in her country and beyond, she knows it’s completely the wrong time to bring out a pop album existing in a club bubble and full of optimistic bangers. This new look of hers is deliberately American, but the America that wears stetsons, hates Manhattan, listens to Garth Brooks and votes Donald Trump. She is from a world they hate, but is now making a style of music they love. She is, loftily, trying to bridge the divide.

“But the most happy and authentic I ever feel is when I am who I was as a child.”

She walks off slowly into the night.

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4 hours ago, ViviLittleM said:

"I confess I am lost, where are our leaders?" - Angel Down

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"(That final song also includes the line, “Angel down, why do people just stand around?”) For an artist aware of a rise in anti-liberalism in her country and beyond, she knows it’s completely the wrong time to bring out a pop album existing in a club bubble and full of optimistic bangers. This new look of hers is deliberately American..."

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REALITY

Some of you guys are doing exactly what she didn't want us to do.

I don't see this as shade to her past self at all, what she's saying is that she just want to listen to the music and focus on the music, being in avant-garde outfits and clothing sometimes didn't help that, but instead hindered it. It's an objective and true statement, some of y'all get too emotional when making assumptions and if you read the article, you know that she loves and adores art and this isn't in anyway trying to "shade her past self".

This time, she wants it to be about the music, which, honestly we should have been looking at in the beginning. We get so caught up with materialistic things that we forget some things and consciously or subconsciously block out what the music's really trying to say. 

I think she's really trying to accept and bring in this "Music Not The Bling" mentality that people sometimes mock, but, hey, it's the truth.  

 

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