“I’m a pretty soft person,” Lady Gaga muses. “But my music’s not.” Indeed, for an artist who has come to represent all that is maximalist, fantastical, prurient, and potent about celebrity, Lady Gaga seems, smiling in a black beanie and twin blonde braids, almost disarmingly warm. “I don’t really know where it comes from,” the artist born Stefani Germanotta tells Stereogum of her imminent seventh album, Mayhem. “I often ask myself, ‘Why?'” Why — when she has found su...
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“I’m a pretty soft person,” Lady Gaga muses. “But my music’s not.” Indeed, for an artist who has come to represent all that is maximalist, fantastical, pru... more info