I often feel that Lady Gaga is fundamentally different from the current pop stars.
It's not uncommon for a star to feel full of insecurity in private. But Gaga is the star I've seen the most entangled in his sexuality, which is a bit special.
She had a very short interview with Porter Magazine during Artpop's 14 years, and I regarded it as the essential interview of her artistic personality. she says:
"Sexual things have never taken up too much in my life. It is more like a pure sensory experience to me, and I have been working hard to understand my own sex all my life, because I always feel that I have a relationship with male artists and rock and roll. , Is more connected with the gorgeous rock culture. In the general sense of the female image, I am always uncomfortable when I put it on myself, so far. Wigs and other things make me look more feminine and beautiful, but I feel uncomfortable because I My music is not like that in my eyes. There is no pretentiousness on sexual orientation and gender, which has its own power. For me, the artist as a canvas should not have gender. As a channel, you should erase all preconceived things. Gender view. Although for some people sex is really an important part of them, it’s just not for me. Being a woman is just a secondary aspect of my way of being. What I care more about is the level of consciousness; it’s me who is the fan. And the fan is me, the person and I are one; all human beings are connected to each other, and the suffering of one person is the suffering of the world; it is compassion and love."
did you see it? She lives very seriously and is very self-conscious, which is against the personality of a pop star.
The above paragraph of self-report is also easy to sneer: your lyrics are full of sensuality in the MV, which part of your body has not been exposed before, and you are embarrassed to say that you are not sexual? You are probably the most sexual person!
But if you listen to her music carefully, you will find that the parts that involve sex have a desperate background.
Don't forget that she was sexually assaulted by a producer at the age of nineteen, and then struggled with psychological trauma all her life.
In my opinion, this is the origin of Gaga's complex image. A weak female posture will put her in a position that is more open to men’s threats, so she strives to de-gender or transgender her artistic image; and her works and performances have a lot of erotic expressions, and she is exposed in dress The upper limit of is more like a preemptive self-protection, so that her sex and body can no longer be a means for others to harm her.
Starting from Bad Romance, the conflict between "a body accessible to others" and "a desperate and sober soul" has become a motif in Gaga's works (see Do What U Want, Government Hooker and Alexandro), and "prostitute" is also Become an important image in the lyrics.
During The Fame, she was no different from other stars who sang to death. But then suddenly began to show sadness in the works, telling stories about disabled women, and parted ways with the previous self. You can see her step by step to regain control of the work-from the moment she stopped selling laughter in the MV and turned to tears.
Emotions of anger and pain also entered her music. You can hear sad passages in many of her songs, which are also rare in popular circles.
In fact, many people listen to Lady Gaga not just to use her music as a good medicine. Her courage to show her wounds and hard-hearted experiences, and her talent to use her own wounds as the soil to inspire others, contains something more sincere than pop music.
So what's strange about the vulnerability exposed in "Five Chi Two", that is everything she has revealed in the music for a long time.
In this documentary, she really didn't surprise me in any way. The only thing that triggered my above feelings was her two confessions. A paragraph at the beginning:
"I think I'm at a new stage in my life. All the bad things about men are gone. I just don't care. I don't know if it's because I'm 30 years old. Anyway, I feel better than I have ever been. The sense of security has disappeared. I no longer feel uneasy about my identity as a woman, and I am no longer ashamed of what I have. Now I feel more sexy and more sexual. Anyway, that kind of bird is the same. It's better."
Do you believe it? Anyway, I don't believe it.
In my opinion, behind every affirmation in her words, there is a greater denial that she wants to cover. As long as you watch the film next, you will find that her remarks are completely slapped.
The second paragraph is when she chats with people during work breaks:
"Every time I walk into a production room, in all likelihood, I will be classified as soon as I come up. People expect me to do what'my kind of girl' would do, but I didn't fit that at all. This kind of expectation. I did this not to meet your expectations, not to let you vent your pain on me. Do you understand? I am not an open space where you want to come in. Everything I have done in the past is private. Following a principle, when they want to make me sexy and want to make me popular, I want to add some weird and twisted things, so that I at least feel that I am in control of my work. So they let me be on the VMA When I sang Paparazzi more sexy, I had to bleed to death while singing, because I want you to remember how fame hurt Marilyn Monroe who was Norma Jane, Anna Nicole Smith, and... Do you know anyone else?...This paragraph is not allowed to be cut into the movie."
Later, she will shine in the Super Bowl, and the movie will end here. It seems that everything is getting better as she said.
But what if it's not good, what if it's strong, she will still be honest in the next album. I never doubted this.
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