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2:15 pm - 06/13/2009

Elle Magazine - Women in Music: Lady Gaga!




Though born as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, you know her as pop’s avant-garde It Girl Lady Gaga, whose debut record, The Fame, is still blasting out of car windows and underground clubs after being released last year. Here, the leotard-loving 23-year-old talks fashion, her next album, and why she has nothing to hide.

ELLE: You dropped out of NYU at 19. Why didn’t you want to finish?

Lady Gaga: I loved NYU, but I thought I could teach myself about art better than the school could. I really felt New York was my teacher and that I needed to bite the bullet and go it alone. I wasn’t interested in going to frat parties and doing those sorts of collegiate things. I was really interested in the music scene and waitressing and cleaning toilets, or whatever the fuck it was I was doing.

ELLE: What experiences did you draw from to create The Fame?

LG: I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn’t an expert in what I write about? And the album itself is the story of me and my friends, and, again, our lives in New York—and you either want to know about it and be a part of it or you don’t. I am completely 100 percent honest in what I do and who I am, and I’ve got nothing to hide.



ELLE: What can we can expect from your next album?

LG: Well, let’s just say that right now I’m quite obsessed with 1950s sci-fi monster movies.…

ELLE: Good tease. Obviously, fashion plays a huge part in your live performance. How do you approach it in regard to your music?

LG: I think they’re in tandem. Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I’m making music.

ELLE: If you had to perform in one outfit for the rest of your career, what would it be?

LG: Oh! Curse you! I wouldn’t want to hurt all of my other outfits’ feelings. It would probably be a black catsuit. Even though that’s very difficult to dance in. Or maybe my Hussein Chalayan bubble dress. That’s even more difficult to dance in.

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LG: I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn’t an expert in what I write about?



I wonder if she made a porno/sex tape :\

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[info]preciosatt 13th-Jun-2009 10:01 pm (UTC)
I hate when people are all,"Oh I can teach myself _____ better than college can," and then 9 times out of 10, that is woefully not the case.
[info]skeet_skeet 13th-Jun-2009 10:04 pm (UTC)
Advanced theoretical physics?
[info]thelookofarebel 13th-Jun-2009 10:17 pm (UTC)
like how to spell going?
[info]preciosatt 13th-Jun-2009 11:38 pm (UTC)
WRONG!

Finished college and grad school and guess what? Turns out that I couldn't do my job without it! SHOCK!
[info]jesustolemybike 13th-Jun-2009 10:04 pm (UTC)
normally this is true buuut idk, i have a feeling if gaga stayed at nyu she wouldn't be where she is today
[info]alexahhh 13th-Jun-2009 10:07 pm (UTC)
lol seriously wtf?
[info]volksjager 13th-Jun-2009 10:11 pm (UTC)
sounds like someone is jealous...
[info]mysticmaestoso 13th-Jun-2009 10:18 pm (UTC)
in the US, more than any other country I think, having an education can benefit you, but there's no barring forces to stop those who are really driven to get where they want if college isn't explicitly required.
[info]onruecambon 13th-Jun-2009 11:00 pm (UTC)
lol shutup
[info]misscrystal25 14th-Jun-2009 12:24 am (UTC)
My uncle had that same attitude and dropped out of college. Now he's very well known in the art business and owns his own successful estate auction house in LA. So, I guess it just depends on the person.
[info]lovecallinearth 14th-Jun-2009 12:30 am (UTC)
In her case...I completely agree. You can't teach yourself how to be a biochemist, but teaching yourself how to make connections and actively participate in something like the music business...completely possible. I went to NYU too and I sure as hell could of never taught myself something like advanced Italian dialogue...but I by junior year I spent more time working in a music PR company then I did in school. And that job, and those people, taught me a TON more then NYU's Clive Davis school of music business could have.
[info]megisthesex 14th-Jun-2009 01:20 am (UTC)
for the arts, college is kinda pointless tbh. you need a foundation but you can get that after your freshman year. then college interferes with your ability to do/make art.
[info]ex_partyhar 13th-Jun-2009 10:01 pm (UTC)
with her legs spread wiiiide open
of course
[info]xzackb 13th-Jun-2009 10:04 pm (UTC)
ma'am.
oh, and I'm wondering, whats in your icon?
[info]ex_partyhar 13th-Jun-2009 10:05 pm (UTC)
i'm not a ma'am
i am a sir

it is hunter s. thompson playing dunk hunt
[info]osnapitsrj 13th-Jun-2009 10:01 pm (UTC)
[info]schrutebucks 13th-Jun-2009 10:02 pm (UTC)
omg
[info]touchofmyhand_1 14th-Jun-2009 12:00 am (UTC)
your icon is kind of adorable
[info]xzackb 13th-Jun-2009 10:04 pm (UTC)
lmfao
[info]oatess 13th-Jun-2009 10:07 pm (UTC)
lol she's a mess
[info]juanitatequila 13th-Jun-2009 10:09 pm (UTC)
OMG LOLOLOL.
[info]theswanhatch 13th-Jun-2009 10:09 pm (UTC)
sexy
[info]beck_rocks 13th-Jun-2009 10:11 pm (UTC)
that's disgusting.
[info]thelookofarebel 13th-Jun-2009 10:16 pm (UTC)
yuck she looks like donatella versace

[info]crazyfruitlady 13th-Jun-2009 10:56 pm (UTC)
I don't know how it happens but her body looks so hot when she's in Gaga-mode, then when she takes the sunglasses off it's like her body goes with them? Eh.
[info]ex_lovergir 14th-Jun-2009 02:03 am (UTC)
Jesus Christ. No wonder her face is always covered.
[info]immaddrad 13th-Jun-2009 10:01 pm (UTC)
Does she have a sex tape yet?
[info]xzackb 13th-Jun-2009 10:04 pm (UTC)
No.
[info]schrutebucks 13th-Jun-2009 10:02 pm (UTC)
how soon is everyone going to be over her? uuuuugh
[info]likegunfire 13th-Jun-2009 10:05 pm (UTC)
never, sorry.
[info]xzackb 13th-Jun-2009 10:08 pm (UTC)
never :)
[info]liddlebins 14th-Jun-2009 04:59 am (UTC)
on the twelfth of never, i think.
[info]jesustolemybike 13th-Jun-2009 10:04 pm (UTC)
"Well, let’s just say that right now I’m quite obsessed with 1950s sci-fi monster movies.…"

WAT
i fucking love her
[info]stellar_dream 13th-Jun-2009 10:04 pm (UTC)
i feel kinda bad for her because shes not the most photogenic person of all time, like myself...but she's got a really bangin' body
[info]xzackb 13th-Jun-2009 10:05 pm (UTC)
aww, you seem sweet.
[info]oatess 13th-Jun-2009 10:08 pm (UTC)
i like her music, she puts me off though..
[info]xzackb 13th-Jun-2009 10:09 pm (UTC)
lmfao
[info]oatess 13th-Jun-2009 10:09 pm (UTC)
i'm sorry!

...you seem nice for a gaga stan though.
[info]ceruleansun 13th-Jun-2009 10:10 pm (UTC)
Never because she knows it'll hurt her career.
And I can't wait for the hot messes coming from this photoshoot. Lord I hate that hair.
[info]theswanhatch 13th-Jun-2009 10:10 pm (UTC)
fugly
tranny
tries too hard
pretentious
when will she go away
her music sucks
overrated
butterface

am i missing anything?
[info]ceruleansun 13th-Jun-2009 10:12 pm (UTC)
batshit

there we go
[info]jesustolemybike 13th-Jun-2009 10:12 pm (UTC)
slut , whore, fake
-__-
[info]xzackb 13th-Jun-2009 10:13 pm (UTC)
lmfao, ilu.
[info]baruchel 13th-Jun-2009 10:15 pm (UTC)
slut
disgusting
despicable
annoying
over exposed
over played
tired
has a penis.
[info]jesustolemybike 13th-Jun-2009 10:17 pm (UTC)
lol @ tired
[info]ceruleansun 13th-Jun-2009 10:19 pm (UTC)
lmfao "has a penis"
[info]xzackb 13th-Jun-2009 10:22 pm (UTC)
lmfao.
[info]au_revoir 13th-Jun-2009 11:30 pm (UTC)
The fact that people feel all of those crazy things about her makes me love her even more. ♥
[info]acesxwild 14th-Jun-2009 02:26 am (UTC)
thisthisthisthisthisthisthis.

A thousand times this.
[info]liddlebins 14th-Jun-2009 05:00 am (UTC)
and you have an icon of her why?
[info]juanitatequila 13th-Jun-2009 10:11 pm (UTC)
TBQH, I wouldn't be surprised if she had a sex tape. LOL
[info]xzackb 13th-Jun-2009 10:12 pm (UTC)
OMG, MTE!
[info]juanitatequila 13th-Jun-2009 10:13 pm (UTC)
hayyy bb!! how's it going?! :D
[info]thelookofarebel 13th-Jun-2009 10:14 pm (UTC)
lol @ the one boot.
[info]pensarelove 14th-Jun-2009 02:49 am (UTC)
I thought the same thing. Is Gaga taking to the next level?
[info]babydiego 13th-Jun-2009 10:14 pm (UTC)
id watch her sex tape.
[info]xzackb 13th-Jun-2009 10:16 pm (UTC)
I'd download it, show my school, parents, and brothers.
[info]babydiego 13th-Jun-2009 10:17 pm (UTC)
oh you know she'd get buck wild. none of that boring ass kim kardashian shit.
[info]prophecypro 13th-Jun-2009 10:16 pm (UTC)
Me too
[info]mysticmaestoso 13th-Jun-2009 10:25 pm (UTC)
same. god knows I've downloaded much worse. >__>
[info]theswanhatch 13th-Jun-2009 11:32 pm (UTC)
me too...and i would use my vibrator
[info]baruchel 13th-Jun-2009 10:15 pm (UTC)
LG: I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn’t an expert in what I write about?

lol. lord what a sad, sad person.
[info]tiddlywinks103 13th-Jun-2009 11:16 pm (UTC)
IKR?
[info]ayashii 13th-Jun-2009 10:15 pm (UTC)
You don't need a sex tape from Lady Gaga to see so much sex, just watch her music videos and go to her concerts.
[info]jesustolemybike 13th-Jun-2009 10:18 pm (UTC)
aw i love your icon
[info]ayashii 13th-Jun-2009 10:19 pm (UTC)
lol @ yours XD
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