Lady Gaga Does ‘Rolling Stone’ Magazine
Lady Gaga is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine. She graces the cover of the annual Hot List issue and was photographed by David LaChapelle … which totally makes sense since they both seem to have the same aesthetic for inventive, colorful and eye-catching images. Here is Gaga’s cover and a portion of her coverstory interview:
Watch out, Katy Perry: there’s a new princess of pop who kisses girls (for real), claims Marilyn Manson and Madonna as fans and is on the verge of becoming the defining pop star of the year. Lady Gaga struts the streets pants-less, has everyone from Weezer to Justin Timberlake singing her songs and has moved nearly 10 million digital singles — and now she’s on the cover of Rolling Stone’s annual Hot List. “I don’t feel like I look like the other perfect little pop singers,” she tells RS‘ Brian Hiatt in our new feature, on newsstands today. “I think I’m changing what people think is sexy.” Gaga is also changing what it means to be a 21st century pop star, and she’s doing it through 24 hours a day of work — she’s a walking Gaga art project known as much for her outrageous fashion sense as her Eighties-flavored dance hits. “The truth is, the psychotic woman that I truly am comes out when I’m not working,” she says (during Hiatt’s time with the star, she rocks a massive radio concert, takes advice from Cyndi Lauper at a photo shoot and suffers a brief breakdown at a Walmart.com taping). “When I’m not working, I go crazy” … “When they called and told me about [my cover], I nearly cried,” she tells us on the set. Lady Gaga’s devotion to being a star drove her to order bags of cocaine and spend hours perfecting her hair and makeup in a tiny Lower East Side apartment after she dropped out of NYU several years ago — well before she was actually famous. “It was quite sick,” she admits. “I suppose that’s where the vanity of the album came from.” Her debut, The Fame, was almost entirely inspired by her relationship with a heavy-metal drummer named Luke, and their breakup profoundly changed Gaga. She tells Hiatt she’s bisexual, but her attraction to women is purely physical. It’s an aspect of her sexuality that makes boyfriends “uncomfortable,” she says. Her sexuality proclivities don’t seem to offend Marilyn Manson, however, who lobbed a series of awful pickup lines at his new friend at our cover shoot (grab the issue to hear his worst). “She knows exactly what she’s doing,” he tells RS. “She’s very smart, she’s not selling out, she’s a great musician, she’s a great singer, and she’s laughing when she’s doing it, the same way that I am.” The savvy Gaga reveals her real musical goals are serious, though: “My true legacy will be the test of time, and whether I can sustain a space in pop culture and really make stuff that will have a genuine impact.”
I suppose it can finally be said that Lady Gaga has made it … that is, if you consider landing the cover of Rolling Stone magazine “making it” anymore. I, personally, am not the biggest fan. While I like some of her songs, I really do not like her album The Fame. She deffo has the skillz to write amazing pop songs (as she has done for other artists) but the songs she chose for her album aren’t that great, IMHO. I’m really looking forward to hearing what her second album is like … that will be the determiner for me if she really has the chops to have a serious career. I admire her need to look “different” but I feel that she tries way too hard to look “out there”. It doesn’t seem cool to me to be trying so hard. But, it’s her thing and she is running with it … good for her. Click HERE to watch a short behind-the-scenes video from her Rolling Stone photoshoot. As I said, I find Lady Gaga to be very talented … but, thus far, those talents have yet to speak to me in order to make me go ga-ga. What do you think … should Lady Gaga be the covergirl for Rolling Stone’s Hot Issue this year?
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May 27th, 2009 at 10:02 am
She looks like Dee Snider from Twisted Sister in this pic.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:03 am
She looks gross…
May 27th, 2009 at 10:04 am
“I admire her need to look “different” but I feel that she tries way too hard to look “out there”. It doesn’t seem cool to me to be trying so hard. ” – I TOTALLY AGREE!! I’m just not a fan at all..
May 27th, 2009 at 10:05 am
i totally agree trent. she tries way too hard. not cute. im so over this chick.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:05 am
I love Lady Gaga. She tries a little too hard to be different (i.e. get noticed), but I can’t help but love her songs.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Quintessential but’erface.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:11 am
I agree with you Trent, 100%. Her CD was a bit disappointing. I only enjoy a few of the songs (which are the ones that have made her famous) and that’s it. I expected a lot more from her. And the whole being different thing- It’s nice that she’s trying to stand out and be different but she DOES try so hard. Like, we get it, she’s not like Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera. Plus, I don’t really like how she sounds live.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:15 am
That is fucking hideous. She tries way too hard to be different, she seriously needs to get the fuck over her self she’s not special she’s not unique, she’s not different, she’s not misunderstood, she’s not shocking. She makes main stream cookie cutter pop music and swagger jacks other ppl style from the 60’s 70’s 80’s……..Who thinks she’s sexy who??
May 27th, 2009 at 10:16 am
how ugly can someone look on a cover? i guess, she’ll be the winner.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:18 am
i definitely agree with you. she may have talent but she comes off as an arrogant twat. i doubt that she will have the longevity of other musical stars; she is just a flash in the pan, trying to sell records.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:19 am
I like her music alright, but she’s pretty much one of the dumbest people ever. And I am basing that off of an interview she did with Paris Hilton where she said that “Stars Are Blind” was one of the greatest pop songz ever.
Yeah…about that…
May 27th, 2009 at 10:22 am
What pisses me off the most is like we all know she’s trying to get to the Britney Spear’s status and it’s definitely not going at all… she’s thinking wayyy too big and this is her first album. She had a good response but she’s like over doing it!!
May 27th, 2009 at 10:23 am
i find her to be very over rated. he’s horrrrible live, she tries to hard for her “wow” factor & half the things that come out of her mouth make me wanna hit her. and a part of me still thinks shes a man.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:26 am
I enjoy listening to a couple of her songs on the radio but that’s it. I agree, she rubs me the wrong way b/c she comes off too arrogant. Rich New York princess wants to rebel so she drops out of school, strips, does cocaine, wha wha wha… becomes oh so original. Please. No doubt she is talented but I think she could gain more true fans if she toned down the “i’m redefining sexy” and if she stopped trying so hard to be so different. It comes of desperate.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:29 am
sometimes i think she’s overdoing it. sometimes i think her overdoing it is awesome because that’s what pop stars should do.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:35 am
It just seems like a total rehash of Dale Bozzio’s fashion sense from the Missing Persons days. There is nothing unique about Lady Ga-ga except for she is the only one trying that hard. It all seems forced to me.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:38 am
I really enjoyed her album back when it leaked online last summer, but found that the songs got old really fast. I still listen to the album from time to time, but never listen to the whole thing all the way through, just 2 or 3 of the songs. I agree with how Trent is saying that he will wait until her sophomore album to really judge what kind of an artist she is.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:42 am
She is overrated and tries too hard to be unique. She looks like she belongs in American Apparel. I can’t stand her and I really hope she disappears…soon.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:02 am
YUCK! Hot tranny mess.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Awesome cover! I dig it.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Gross. I was wondering what the fascination with her was… I still have no idea… Maybe it’s just people trying to watch long enough to see if she might actually have a penis under her skirt?
Where’s the sexy? I don’t see it.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:23 am
I love GaGa, but I agree that this picture is not at all attractive. She IS unique and talented and, unlike most pop stars, writes her own music. He album is fun and full of hits and that is proven by two #1s right of the bat with “Lovegame” climbing the charts fast. She is weird, wacky, tacky, wild….but so was Cyndi Lauper and she has had a long career. So she still has to prove her staying power, but so far, so good. But I do agree, this picture has GOT TO GO! Ha!
May 27th, 2009 at 11:29 am
She is sooooo weird. So weird tht I can’t help but like her and that makes me hate myself a little bit. Poker Face is so catchy it just annoys the hell out of me
May 27th, 2009 at 11:30 am
@ wendell what’s unique about her????
May 27th, 2009 at 11:43 am
I’m relieved to read your opinion. Only a couple times have I heard her song “Just Dance” and was not blown away immediately. (The only reason I heard it was because Michael Scott on The Office drove up with it playing in his car) She isn’t impressing me and it was confusing to hear so many people talk about her ‘fierceness’.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:43 am
@ Jadedkitten – Well, let’s see: She wrote all of the songs on “The Fame” by herself which made critics thoroughly impressed. She sings LIVE which no one hardly does anymore while dancing at the same time. She just has it. I will agree that lately she has been trying a wee bit too hard to stand out and before it was just her. I definitely do think she’s treading in the water of overexposure and needs to do something smart about it. I think “The Fame” is an all right CD; there’s like 5 songs I like but it’s a little bit repetitive for my taste.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:59 am
@ chase which part of any of that is suppose to be unique do you know how many Artist do that?
May 27th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
I can’t stand her…and I had such high hopes of her…I like 3 songs…which are the singles she’s releasing…I previewed the album with the intention of buying but God does it suck….and now the cover…Can ya say: Hello Xtina
May 27th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I agree with Lana ‘She is overrated and tries too hard to be unique’
May 27th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
I think the cover looks good mainly because it was shot by David Lachapelle, but really dislike her music and she is shit live.
May 27th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
her album took time to grow on me, but i like it. i do agree that she tries too hard to be so unique and different. she needs to let her talent speak for itself and not be so concerned with the theatrics. i think everything but the face is cute on that cover. she’s actually not ugly but her stupid tranny image makes her look like a butterface.
May 27th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
I like her and yea she tries too hard but I rather look at someone that tries rather than someone that just puts on a short skirt and struts around. The cover is a little insane…but it’s Rolling Stone…it’s supposed to be a little crazy.
May 27th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
She won’t last long, I love the two popular songs (to listen to when i am working out) but other than that, she is a flash in the pan. Her voice live is horrendous……..
May 27th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
meh. too much effort put forth that ain’t gonna get her anywhere. can’t stand her music that she sings. maybe she should stick to writing. she’s just a strange duck.
May 27th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Maybe it’s just me but I’ve read the lyrics to some of Lady Gaga’s songs, and they don’t make any fucking sense. So if anything is unique and talented about her, it’s the fact that she can make noisy, gibberish songs and have people buy it.
May 27th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
i love lady gaga!!
i love every song on the album!!!
seriously… it’s great. listen to it again!
May 27th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I agree, I’m not that impressed. Her songs are just OK. Some are catchy, without being really great, but she doesn’t have charisma as a performer to me. She just tries too hard and still falls flat, she just doesn’t have that star quality IMO.
May 27th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
im so over this broad. she acts like she reinvented the wheel. so you made 2 songs that people liked. ur not the princess a pop.. come out with another cd before ur head blows up as big as ur nose.
its not like she could sell out arenas or the madison sq garden 3 nights in a row like madonna or britney. give me a break. can you say overexposed??!
May 27th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
thats funny, in the beginning she was kissing britneys ass..
May 27th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Oh, and I would also like to point out that it makes me mad that people are even putting her in the same sentence with the title of Princess of Pop; that belongs to Britney my dear friend.
May 27th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
ewww she looks horrible
she has a beautifull voice but she its to freak and that distracts from her talent
May 27th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
@ MaxFever – I said the same thing to my friend, that the songs really dont make sense – she told me i didnt know what i was talking about haha
May 27th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
So many Gaga haters – I love it. Means she’ll be around for a while. She’s already had TWO back to back #1s, which ties Britney – who’s only had TWO #1s in her entire career. Lady Gaga can also sing and sing LIVE. She’s amazing, and fresh and I’m excited for her 2nd album too. That will be the true test, but I have a feeling we’ll be seeing much more of her.
May 27th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
ps – this reminds me of all the hate around a certain artist when she first burst onto the scene….MADONNA! You all better check yourselves, okaaay?
May 27th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
she does overdo it…however, she IS successful. And I give her props for that.
May 27th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
She is atrocious.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
She is wholly ridic.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:34 pm
it’s really sad that people aren’t accepting and commending of her bing different. shes so accepting of her fans and of equality and getting down to the true rooted people that become a fan of pop music. she absolutley without a doubt caters so nicely to the gay audience and truly appreciates them for what they are to an artist. Noone ever commends her for being as innovative as she is. She had people saying that Christina was coping her from the second she stepped on the scene. Nor has she compromised herself in the process, it’s obvious be the fact that she fully embraces her physical appearance as lacking as some of it may be whether you talk about her nose or her breasts, she could easily fix those things about her to please others and she doesnt because she seems happhy with herself and thats what should be truly commendable. As far as her cd is concerned, it was her first cd, as a new artist, did you expect that it would all be magic, I’m sure she was just happy to have any of her music recorded on a cd at all. Don’t even get me started on talking about other pop princesses first cds and how “good” those are, specifically Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears, the song soda pop anyone? and I love me some Britney but def. Cut her some slack, shes obviously ambitious and just wants to mae great pop music and as far as myself and alot of other people, shes succeeded!
May 28th, 2009 at 5:02 am
I kinda like her. She *does* have talent, even if it doesn’t show so much through the pop releases. The live shows highlight more of it as far as her musical talent. I think she’s trying to make her mark in the industry world by fusing a bit of Madge, a bit of Kylie and a bit of Xtina… they are all three very VERY talented in their own rights. I think she may be able to pull a P!nk and develop herself as a respectable bona fide solo artist after going through her first run of trying to get into the scene. I’m looking forward to some more fun stuff as well as more musical issues from miss GAGA.
May 28th, 2009 at 7:41 am
I see a Gwen Stefani wannabee but taking it to the extreme.
May 28th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
I love her … people can’t handle originality these days.
May 28th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
While not a fan of her fashion or need to be “unique”, I can respect someone who writes their own songs with catchy beats. I personally love The Fame and have had it playing in my car for the last couple of months at least. As with every artist, there are people who love ‘em and those who don’t.
May 29th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
haha i think you’re the first gay male i’ve encountered who ISN’T a huge fan of lady gaga. gay males are her largest fan demographic. it was pretty apparent when i went to her concert… haha.
May 31st, 2009 at 7:23 pm
What Alex and Janelle said..
Glad to know that I’m not the only one who is not going GA-GA over her…
I don’t hate her, I just don’t like her. But I do admit that i like – Just Dance, for awhile…
June 9th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Funny YouTube video comparing the looks of Lady Gaga with Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_KC2Pm8vNM