Katie14 4,828 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 Lady Gaga under the microscope: 'Joanne' reveals all Saturday, December 17, 2016 Darryl Pinckney According to Darryl Pinckney, with ‘Joanne’, the inscrutable Lady Gaga reveals her most arresting character yet: herself. One afternoon this past July, in the West Village, in Electric Lady Studios, Jimi Hendrix’s old dream, I met Lady Gaga. She came up a flight of steps and was through the door almost before I could stand up, hugging me. She wore a black Mary Quant hat, and was dressed in a white T-shirt and crisp black jeans. The 30-year-old performer was in New York, in this temple of music, recording her new album, Joanne. She said we might as well begin by listening to some songs from it and led the way into an inner studio of large electronic boards and glass. She sat on a stool by one of the boards and plugged in her iPhone. A cameraman — she is making a documentary about the new project — filmed the whole time. The first song she played, the lead single, ‘Perfect Illusion’, is a driving, flat-out, dance-a-mess tune. A ballad followed, a tribute to her aunt Joanne, whom she never knew, but was named for (She was born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta.) Joanne died at age 19, of complications from lupus, and Gaga said, tears in her eyes as the touching song hung in the air, that her family never stopped grieving the loss. To snap us out of it, she selected another upbeat number. Right off, she turned toward me and hit the air guitar, lip-syncing, rocking her shoulders. At one point, she was up on her Doc Martens, bopping, then thrashing around, a woman possessed. It is impossible to resist Gaga churning it up, maxing out, only a few feet away — and why would you want to? As with, it seems, every room she walks into, Gaga came into this one and put it all on the line. In her work, her trust is as vivid as the risks she takes. Gaga, who grew up in New York, on the Upper West Side, was 13 years old and trying on clothes at a neighbourhood boutique when the guy who ran the shop heard her singing to herself. He thought she had an amazing voice and suggested she reach out to his uncle, Don Lawrence, a vocal coach who’d worked with Christina Aguilera, Mick Jagger, and Billy Joel. Gaga said she was shaking when they first spoke. Lawrence gave her an appointment. She sang Mariah Carey’s ‘Hero’ for him, and he told her that he would make room in his schedule for her, and give her a special rate, if she practised every day. She promised she would. They met on Wednesdays at 6 o’clock. At the end of each lesson, her voice was so warm, not just high in her throat, she recalled, but low and deep in her body. She would leave his studio and sing in the rotunda of his building because of the acoustics. On the walk home, she said, she was still “singing at the top of my lungs. I didn’t care who could hear me, just singing, singing, singing, couldn’t believe how good it felt. It was the most healing feeling in the world.” Seventeen years later, Lawrence is still putting her through her scales “like an army”. He trained her for the Oscars; he was there for her ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ at Super Bowl 50; he was listening to her downstairs at Electric Lady Studios only two days before. Family is the most important thing in the world to Gaga, and Lawrence is family. Global fame at the age of 22 is early, but not sudden, not if the will to get there possessed you as a child and had you standing at the top of the stairs singing the same song over and over, trying the patience of your family, who nevertheless understood and supported you. “I remember so clearly being just enamored and overwhelmed by the mystery of Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz, and her voice and her power as a performer,” she said. “It used to make me cry, and even when I was really little I always wanted to be an actress.” As if fated, Gaga will star in Bradley Cooper’s remake of A Star Is Born, in the role previously played by Garland. To perform is not a need for her, it is a must: “My whole life is a theatre piece.” She doesn’t remember herself as being different from her classmates, though she will concede that they may have felt it in her eagerness to practise, in her willingness to miss out on the fun, to be in almost every school show, the jazz band, to study piano, take ballet and tap classes. Her career answered them. New York’s various undergrounds can make for a disciplined apprenticeship, and Gaga takes pride in her earliest fan base of art, fashion, and music students. (“My ARTPOP could mean anything,” a song of hers goes.) Her eclectic music videos are theatrical: Full of depth, volume, costume and colour, every move thought out to the edges of the frame. Read the rest: http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/lady-gaga-under-the-microscope-joanne-reveals-all-435464.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioIsOurs 13,876 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 Let me guess she's really nice she hates fame Joanne is about being her life's story she is more confident... Did I get anything correct? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroglamx 5,177 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 Why do I feel like I've read this before??? Pink flamingos always fascinated me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeyerJ 2,170 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 This is taken from her NY Times article... the one that came out before Joanne was released. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/t-magazine/lady-gaga-joanne.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonsterOfficial 11,079 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 2 minutes ago, RainbowBlonde said: Let me guess she's really nice she hates fame Joanne is about being her life's story she is more confident... Did I get anything correct? none actually exorcise my mind Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop 15,354 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 6 minutes ago, Katie14 said: The first song she played, the lead single, ‘Perfect Illusion’, is a driving, flat-out mess. Fixed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borislshere 53,080 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 When's the documentary coming out ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
holy scheisse 22,274 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 2 minutes ago, Devyn said: When's the documentary coming out ? December 24th the truth is in her nude lipstick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yASSsss 35,510 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 8 minutes ago, Coop said: Fixed I thought u loved PI Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zilla 13,384 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 Can you guys please stop being so negative towards her? It's ridiculous and excessive. i like reading these articles, her mind fascinates me. Her thought processes..... 𝙸'𝚖 𝚊 𝚓𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚓𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚐𝚒𝚛𝚕. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katie14 4,828 Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 11 minutes ago, retroglamx said: Why do I feel like I've read this before??? 10 minutes ago, BeyerJ said: This is taken from her NY Times article... the one that came out before Joanne was released. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/t-magazine/lady-gaga-joanne.html Some of it is old, some is new. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yASSsss 35,510 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 This is from her nytimes interview which came out 2 months ago Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
yASSsss 35,510 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 5 minutes ago, Devyn said: When's the documentary coming out ? I've been asking the same question for the past 5 months Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neight Shayde 7,925 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 19 minutes ago, RainbowBlonde said: Let me guess she's really nice she hates fame Joanne is about being her life's story she is more confident... Did I get anything correct? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillionReasons 402 Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 3 minutes ago, yASSsss said: I've been asking the same question for the past 5 months 10 minutes ago, Devyn said: When's the documentary coming out ? Lol u guys She obviously wants to record her SB rehearsals and stuff like that. Itll come out after the Superbowl and tour announcement. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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