Lady Gaga says her main aim with the new album is to make her dad proud. Gaga told KIIS FM's Jo Jo Wright that Joanne, named in memory of her late aunt, is her most personal record yet because it was inspired by the most classic story of her life and helped her understand her father.
"I never met her, she died when she was 19," Gaga said of her dad's sister. "I saw letters between my father and her. It was heartbreaking because I have a sister and I thought, 'Man if I just came home from college one day and my parents told she was dead.' I can't even… I thought to myself, 'Am I ever gonna know my real dad?' I feel like like my dad probably died that day. When you go through something like that it changes you forever."
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"I just want to make my dad proud," she added. "The truth is, when you turn to your dad and you wrote The Fame and The Fame Monster, which are great records, it's awesome, you know. You do this whole thing in the world, it explodes. Your dad's so proud. Great. Then you do Born This Way and my father was mostly proud of me for its message. And then you do ARTPOP and you do something for yourself and your dad's proud of that. But then you do something that's connected to your whole family history and to the world."
Gaga continued: "When I wrote this record I wanted for my fans and the people that weren't to be friends. Somebody that loves that kind of music thinks, 'I would never get along with that person. I wouldn't be cool with that person. I don't hang with people that like country music. I don't hang with people that like pop music. I don't hang with people who like dance or funk or soul or electronic.' I just put it all together in her spirit hoping that it would bring people together. And now I look at my dad it's like now he's really proud. Because it's the most classic story of my life. He just said to me, 'I don't know how you need like knew what I would have said if I had a chance to say goodbye.'"
Listen to Gaga's very honest and emotional interview with JoJo on KIIS FM below...