Interview - Sunday Times Culture

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Can someone PM it? Thank you! :-)

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1 hour ago, T E Anne said:

ikr. wonderful read.  

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.  

“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?”  The whole point of Born This Way was its call for acceptance  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. ’”

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.

thank you for highlighting these points, gave me more to think about when I read through it again.  i hope others that didn't understand will read this. 

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1 hour ago, Blake said:

Can someone PM me the full interview?  

https://imgur.com/a/cTcdf

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6 hours ago, Zakariah said:

I loved the 'Samantha Smith/other basic pop stars' shade

I dont, because it actually implies that Gaga had to become one of those basic pop stars to appeal to the gp

[mariomania1234 11,368]

That was a very well written piece. Great interview!

[Mason Knowles 119]

Best written Gaga interview ever!!! It explained everything so well, and it just feels right this time around. 

[Miel 15,009]

Why are we trying to assume what she meant what is equivalent to a sound bite?

edit: ok nice the whole interview is up.

[Miel 15,009]

Fantastic interview!

Everything Gaga does tries to mean more than first appears. She has talked about being inspired by Andy Warhol, but she's more MC Escher. You glaze over at the image, as it look as if it is just showing off- but when you take it in, you twig that the artist has unexpected depth.

I love this.

This new looks 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.

I love this writer.

[Luxe Ford 3,481]

I'm really glad she made that interview. I'm starting to *get* Joanne now. And I didn't get that she shaded her past. And I understand she wants to do something different right now. It must be so tiring being Gaga 24/7 for such a long time. And people can think what they want. No one can say being a Gaga fan isn't exciting and a bumpy, thrilling ride. 

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'dressed as a sofa'

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What a beautiful interview.

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12 hours ago, Roman said:

Oh great now I have to pay to read an interview??

It pays to have a good article honey

Spoiler

This article must be sh*t as

 

[gdawg 55]

Absolutely beautifully written article. I hope someone who isn't a fan of hers, or doesn't care, reads this and finds a new appreciation for her. 

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Those last few lines...chills

[mic 1,415]

So All Lady Gaga was a joke??