Lady GaGa
OK. You were born Stefani Germanotta—how did…Why did you change your—how did you come up with Lady Gaga? Well, it was actually a nickname that some of my friends called me in New York. I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song “Radio Gaga.”
At what age growing up, Gaga, did you know that you wanted to be a performer? in the womb, Larry. In my mother’s warm womb. At your birth. Yes, at my birth. I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer. I uesd to perform even just in restaurants with my family or in the living room. But it’s been really a very exciting transition now that I get to do this for a living. And I just refuse to stop. I probably should take a break and go on vacation. But I’d rather die on stage. Not under a plam tree.
Before you were a performer, didi you have any other jobs? Yes, well, I was a waitress for many years. And a bartender. And I was a go-go dancer briefly as well. I used to make a lot of maney to pay for demos and flyers that I used to post up all around the NYU area on the lower east side to get people to come see my shows. I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up. And I used to take all the money I made waitressing so that I could go watch jazz downtown.
Wow. You said that people use the word icon carelessly. Do you consider yourself an icon? No, I do not. I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though. Who are your icons? Who does Lady Gaga look up to? Who do I look up to? My mother. My grandmother. I love princess Diana. So much. She has-- was an enormous influence on me when I was younger because my mother worshipped her so much.
come up with 想出 demos 演出 post up 张贴 icon 偶像 worship 崇拜
引自 扇贝听力美文