Poker Face
“There was no thread connecting her life three years ago to her life now as a super-high-concept, demographic-smashing global pop icon. This is deliberate; she doesn’t study the lightweights.
The small details Gaga has doled out—she was a waitress, a working musician, a burlesque dancer, a coke addict, a wild young denizen of the Lower East Side—aren’t wholly false, but they’re well chosen ones that bolster her new persona, one that has wholly subsumed the girl formerly known as Stefani Joanne A...ngelina Germanotta, the girl who today only answers to Lady Gaga. “I think she’s got this Prince thing [happening now],” her former producer Rob Fusari said to the New York Post. “It’s changed. She’s Gaga now.”
“When she says in interviews, ‘I live and breathe fashion’—she may be fooling other people, but she’s not fooling me,” says Jon Sheldrick, a moon-faced twenty-four-year-old who knew her at New York University and whose friends were members of the Stefani Germanotta Band.MoreLess
The small details Gaga has doled out—she was a waitress, a working musician, a burlesque dancer, a coke addict, a wild young denizen of the Lower East Side—aren’t wholly false, but they’re well chosen ones that bolster her new persona, one that has wholly subsumed the girl formerly known as Stefani Joanne A...ngelina Germanotta, the girl who today only answers to Lady Gaga. “I think she’s got this Prince thing [happening now],” her former producer Rob Fusari said to the New York Post. “It’s changed. She’s Gaga now.”
“When she says in interviews, ‘I live and breathe fashion’—she may be fooling other people, but she’s not fooling me,” says Jon Sheldrick, a moon-faced twenty-four-year-old who knew her at New York University and whose friends were members of the Stefani Germanotta Band.MoreLess
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