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Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lady Gaga feels 'fully integrated' with herself
Lady Gaga finally feels herself and "full integrated" with her alter ego. The 'Poker Face' hitmaker - whose real name is Stefani Germanotta - is much more "comfortable" with herself than she used to be and no longer regards her pop persona as an entirely different person. She told Rolling Stone magazine: "I would say 2025 Lady Gaga is really inside of her artistry. I'm a lot more relaxed. I feel more comfortable in my own skin. "I've fully integrated, I'm both Lady Gaga and Stefani at the same time. And that's a different feeling. "I used to always feel like I was playing two different people, and I would crash when I was doing either. "Now, I really feel like myself. I went down to this bar in New York the other day, and I used to write music on napkins in the middle of the day there when I was like 19 or 20 years old, which I know is too young to be in a bar, but I was. "I used to go back and visit, and I would feel sad and almost far away from my community and what I built there. And it would almost just feel like lifetimes ago. This last week when I went, it was the most intact that I had felt in a long time, and that was really nice. It was nice to be there. When I feel creatively fulfilled, that's when I feel most myself." The 38-year-old star - who is engaged to Michael Polansky - thinks she has more of a "full life" these days, which has helped her to feel more settled. Asked about reclaiming who she used to be, she added: "For sure, and also having a full life. I have a full life with my partner and my family. And all of those things are just, they made the experience of going back really positive instead of just feeling like a different world." Meanwhile, Gaga has just released her new album 'Mayhem' and she revealed one of the tracks, 'Blade of Grass', was a love song she wrote after Michael proposed while reflecting on the sad times that have also happened in her home. She said: "I wrote it after Michael proposed to me. But the song was about a memory that I had of us standing in the backyard and he said, 'When I propose to you, what am I supposed to do?' "And I said, 'You can just wrap a blade of grass around my finger in the backyard.' And I said, 'I'll say yes.' "But in that backyard, in our home, so many things have happened. It was the memory of the past haunting me and the loss of friends, the loss of loved ones. I had a friend that got married in my backyard who died of cancer. "So I was remembering that this happy moment and this happy thing in my life also was happening in a place where it was a bittersweet moment where I was reflecting on that, too."
BBC News
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Lady Gaga: My biggest fear? Being alone
No-one wants to be alone, and no job is more isolating than being a pop star. Just ask Lady rise to fame in 2009-10 was unlike anything we'd seen before. One of the first pop stars to harness the power of the internet, she seemed to exist in a permanent onslaught of TMZ photos and gossip appetite was voracious. She wore through so many looks and sounds in the space of three years that one critic wrote she was "speed-running Madonna's entire career".And as her fame grew, the headlines became more unhinged. She staged a satanic ritual in a London hotel... She was secretly a hermaphrodite... She planned to saw her own leg off "for fashion".When she attended the 2010 MTV Awards in a dress made entirely of meat, nobody seemed to get the joke: Gaga was presenting herself as fodder for the tabloids, there to be stage, she was an object of worship for her fans, the Little Monsters. But anyone who isn't a megalomaniac knows that that sort of adulation is a distant illusion."I'm alone, Brandon. Every night," Gaga told her stylist in the 2017 documentary, Five Foot Two. "I go from everyone touching me all day and talking at me all day to total silence."Now 38, and happily engaged to tech entrepreneur Michael Polansky, Gaga admits that those years of solitude scared her."I think my biggest fear was doing this by myself - doing life on my own," she tells the BBC."And I think that the greatest gift has been meeting my partner, Michael, and being in the mayhem with him." The couple have been together since 2020, and revealed their engagement at the Venice Film Festival last September - where Gaga wore her million-dollar engagement ring in public for the first person, it's dazzling, with a huge, oval-cut diamond set on a 18-karat white and rose gold diamond pavé on her other hand, Gaga sports a smaller, more understated ring, featuring a few blades of grass set in resin. It turns out that this is the really special one."Michael actually proposed to me with these blades of grass," she reveals."A long time ago, we were in the back yard, and he asked me, 'If I ever proposed to you, like, how do I do that?'"And I just said, 'Just get a blade of grass from the back yard and wrap it around my finger and that will make me so happy'."It was a deeply romantic gesture that came tinged with sadness. Gaga's back yard in Malibu had previously played host to the wedding of her close friend, Sonja Durham, shortly before she died of cancer in 2017."There was so much loss, but this happy thing was happening for me," she recalls of Polansky's proposal. "To get engaged at 38... I was thinking about what it took to get to this moment." Those feelings ultimately informed a song on her new album, Mayhem. Called (naturally) Blade of Grass, it finds the star singing about a "lovers' kiss in a garden made of thorns", and the promise of love in a time of calls it a "thank you" to her partner. And fans might have a reason to thank him, marks Gaga's full throttle return to pop, after a period where she'd been preoccupied with her film career, and spin-off albums that dabbled in jazz and the classic American to Vogue last year, the singer revealed it was her fiancé who'd nudged her in that direction."He was like, 'Babe. I love you. You need to make pop music'," she said."On the Chromatica tour, I saw a fire in her," Polansky added. "I wanted to help her keep that alive all the time and just start making music that made her happy." 'Angriest song' With that approach, the album goes right back to the sucker-punch sound of Gaga's early hits like Poker Face, Just Dance and Born This the latest single, Abracadabra, she even revisits the "roma-ma-ma" gibberish of Bad Romance – although this time there's a reference to death, as she sings, "morta-ooh-Gaga".In the album's artwork, her face is reflected in a broken mirror. In the videos, she squares off against earlier versions of an overwhelming sense that the artist Stefani Germanotta is reckoning with the stage persona she created. It all comes to a head on a track called Perfect Celebrity where she sings, "I became a notorious being" – a lyric that, like the meat dress before it, strips away her humanity."That's probably the most angry song about fame I've ever written," she says."I'd created this public persona that I was truly becoming in every way - and holding the duality of that, knowing where I begin and Lady Gaga ends, was really a challenge."It kind of took me down." How did she reconcile the public and private sides of her life?"I think what I actually realised is that it's healthier to not have a dividing line and to integrate those two things into one whole human being," she says."The healthiest thing for me was owning that I'm a female artist and that living an artistic life was my choice."I am a lover of songwriting. I'm a lover of making music, of rehearsing, choreography, stage production, costumes, lighting, putting on a show."That is what it means to be Lady Gaga. It's the artist behind it all." In previous interviews, the musician has spoken of how she dissociated from Lady Gaga. For a time, she believed the character was responsible for all her success, and she had contributed marks the moment where she reclaims ownership of her music, not just from "Lady Gaga" but from other producers and writers in her orbit."When I was younger, people tried take credit for my sound, or my image [but] all of my references, all of my imagination of what pop music could be, came from me."So I really wanted to revisit my earlier inspirations and my career and own it as my invention, for once and for all." From the outset, it was obvious that Gaga was excited about this new phase. Last summer, after performing at the Olympics opening ceremony, she took to the streets of Paris and played early demos of her new music to fans who'd gathered outside her was a spur of the moment decision, yet it marked another effort to restore the spontaneity of her early career."This has been something I've done for almost 20 years, where I played my fans my music way before it came out," she says."I used to, after my shows, invite fans backstage, and we'd hang out and I'd play them demos and see what they thought of the music."I'm sure you can imagine that after 20 years, you don't expect that people are still going to show up to hear your music and be excited to see you. So, I just wanted to share it with them, because I was excited that they were there." As an interviewer, this is a full-circle moment for me, too. I last interviewed Lady Gaga in 2009, as Just Dance hit number one in the then, she was giddy with excitement, chatting enthusiastically about her love of John Lennon, calling herself a "heroin addict" for English tea, and promising to email me an MP3 of Blueberry Kisses – an unreleased song that is, quite brilliantly, about performing a sex act while your breath smells of blueberry flavoured the years, I've seen her interviews become more guarded. She'd wear outrageous costumes or jet-black sunglasses, deliberately putting a barrier between her and the the Gaga I meet in New York is the same one I spoke to 16 years ago: comfortable with herself, and brimming with puts that ease down to "growing up and living a full life"."Being there for my friends, being there for my family, meeting my amazing fiancé - all of these things made me a whole person, instead of the most important thing being my stage persona."With an air of finality, she adds: "I wanted Mayhem to have an ending. I wanted the chaos to stop. "I stepped away from the icon. It ends with love."
Yahoo
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lady Gaga Says Michael Polansky Inspired Her Song Blade of Grass
revealed in a recent interview how her fiance Michael Polansky inspired one of the tracks in her latest album Mayhem, 'Blade of Grass.' Blade of Grass is the 13th track of her new album. This is not the first time Gaga spoke of Polansky's impact on her work. Last year in an interview, the 38-year-old musician mentioned that Polansky had convinced her to make pop music. Mayhem is currently scheduled for release on March 7, 2025. This new album is expected to have 14 songs. The album's lead single, Disease, dropped in October 2024, while its second track, Abracadabra, arrived in February 2025. Lady Gaga recently gave an interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, where she discussed the development of her latest album. Here, she also discussed other aspects of her career and life. During this interview, she spoke of Michael Polansky's influence on her song Blade of Grass. 'As a songwriter, you need life to inspire your writing,' The Poker Face artist told Lowe in the Apple Music interview. 'And if everything is promotion, then I'll write about promotion, and I won't write about that special moment I shared with you where Michael asked me how I would want to propose to me one day.' Gaga then explained the special proposal interaction between her and Polansky. The couple were at their backyard, and she asked him to take a blade of grass and wrap it around her finger. The House of Gucci star then noted how she wrote Blade of Grass, because she remembered Polansky's facial expression and the grass in the backyard. She also recalled how her fiance had to use the long grass situated in the center of their backyard. Polansky proposed to Gaga shortly after her birthday in 2024, which the latter confirmed in an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The Joker: Folie a Deux actress also revealed how Polansky once gave her an incredible and touching compliment. Lady Gaga quoted Polansky saying 'You who you are is that you're an artist. That's the thing that makes you most happy, so we need to nurture that part of you.' Moreover, she recalled how he sparked a realization in her that other things in her life were bothersome and difficult and how it kept her away from her passion. The post Lady Gaga Says Michael Polansky Inspired Her Song Blade of Grass appeared first on - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.
Express Tribune
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Lady Gaga reveals how fiancé Michael Polanksy inspired the song 'Blade of Grass'
Lady Gaga has revealed how her fiancé Michael Polansky's unorthodox proposal inspired a track on her upcoming album Mayhem, set for release on Friday. The 38-year-old pop icon has been in a relationship with Polansky, a venture capitalist, since 2019. In April 2024, he proposed in a way Gaga had once jokingly suggested—by wrapping a blade of grass around her finger. 'He asked me how I would want him to propose,' Gaga shared in an Apple Music interview. 'We were in our backyard, and I said: 'Just take a blade of grass and wrap it around my finger,' and then I wrote 'Blade of Grass.'' Although the proposal happened on April Fool's Day, Gaga initially thought Polansky was joking. However, along with the symbolic grass ring, he also presented her with an eight-carat oval-cut diamond. Photo: WireImage Their engagement became public in July 2024, when Gaga introduced Polansky as "my fiancé" to France's Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, ahead of her Paris Olympics performance. Gaga credited Polansky with bringing stability into her life, admitting she once felt lonely before their relationship. 'My home used to only be the stage. It was so lonely,' she said. Polansky is also actively involved in Gaga's musical journey, co-writing seven tracks on Mayhem, which includes hit singles like "Abracadabra". The album marks Gaga's first full-length pop project since Chromatica in 2020. Fans eagerly await the full tracklist reveal this Friday.
