Lady Gaga (again)

I'm almost embarrassed to admit that I read an article from Cosmopolitan. Okay, not almost; I'm incredibly embarrassed to admit that I read an article from Cosmopolitan. I couldn't help it, though! Lady Gaga was on the cover!

And isn't that pretty much how everybody reacts to the sight or mention of Gaga? Love her or hate her, she interests you. I don't even have much of an opinion of her one way or another; I could do without her music, but I don't mind singing and moving along to it when I hear it on the radio or in a club. But there's no doubt she interests me.

So I was in Barnes and Noble and my boyfriend Dennis wanted to check out the magazines. He usually reads GQ and (occasionally) Vogue. I don't read any magazines regularly, and I'm positive neither of us have ever considered opening up an issue of Cosmo, but when we saw Gaga on the cover of a magazine, it didn't matter to us which one it was; we were going to read that article.

The interview is all about getting to know her. And that must be a challenge. I feel like if I ever met Lady Gaga, I would still feel unsure that she was being genuine with me. She's just so wild and mysterious that I feel like she might not even have a personality. She's some alien robot zombie who controls every situation and has an evil diabolical plan to take over the world. And even if she did go evil and take over the world, everyone would thoroughly enjoy that because her beat-heavy ultrapopmusic would convince us that there is no better way to live than we would in Gagaworld. Right? Anyone else feel that way?

A man focus of the interview is Lady Gaga's addiction to the spotlight. “'My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage,' she says. 'I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.'" There was a quiz she filled out that came after the interview (I assume every celebrity who gets a Cosmopolitan interview takes this quiz). One of the prompts was, "When the spotlight isn't on me..." leaving her the option to finish the sentence. I'd guess most celebrities put something like "I dance in my underwear like Tom Cruise in Risky Business" or "I sleep all day." How did Lady Gaga finish the sentence? "When the spotlight isn't on me... I wish it were." From her fashion to her isolationism to her refusal to answer to her birth name, Lady Gaga is an elusive and thoroughly intriguing woman.

Here's a pretty dece* cover of Lady Gaga's recent single "Telephone (ft. Beyoncé)" just for a little bit of semi-related music video watching pleasure.



*dece (DEES) adj. - abbreviation of "decent"